Iran must be booted from UN Women's Rights Commission
American women leaders have become rightfully angry about the distasteful UN's appointment of Iran to the Women's Rights Commission:
A nationwide campaign has been launched in the United States to urge Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to denounce the election of Iran to the United Nations' commission on the Status of Women. International human rights and women’s rights leaders, attorneys, scholars, columnists, Iranian human rights activists, media figures, women in the arts, and other prominent women signed an open letter, quoted below. A partial list of signatories follows and additional names are to be publicized this week.Read the rest for the letter itself. But don't count on Hilary Clinton to be helpful.
The open letter to Secretary Clinton was released on Wednesday. The signatories express their profound concern that Iran was “elected by acclamation” to the women's rights seat. Election by acclamation may occur when no United Nations member state requests an open vote.
Alluding to reports by the U.S. State Department and international human rights organizations regarding the Iranian regime's record of barbaric human rights violations, the signatories are seeking answers from Secretary Clinton regarding the failure of the U.S. either to request or require an open vote on Iran’s election to the Commission.
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