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Iran failed yesterday to secure a seat on the board running the new UN super agency for women in the face of a fierce diplomatic onslaught against its rights record.
But Saudi Arabia, criticized for refusing even to let women drive, got an automatic seat and rights groups said they will now seek to throw the spotlight on the kingdom's record.
The United States organized a global diplomatic effort to block Iran from the board, with its ambassadors approaching dozens of foreign ministries to argue that the Islamic republic’s human rights record would send the wrong message about the new body.
Originally posted by Reaper2137
kinda funny... its really a non start tho for the us. I guess the way the us sees it is that it is the lesser of the two evils
Originally posted by oozyism
Iran blocked, but Saudis on women's agency at UN
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Iran failed yesterday to secure a seat on the board running the new UN super agency for women in the face of a fierce diplomatic onslaught against its rights record.
But Saudi Arabia, criticized for refusing even to let women drive, got an automatic seat and rights groups said they will now seek to throw the spotlight on the kingdom's record.
Africa: Angola, Cape Verde, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Lesotho, Libya, Nigeria and Tanzania
Asia: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Republic of Korea and Timor-Leste
Eastern Europe: Estonia, Hungary, Russian Federation and Ukraine
Latin America and the Caribbean: Argentina, Brazil, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada and Peru
Western Europe: Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg and Sweden
Contributing Countries: Mexico, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Spain, United Kingdom and United States
Originally posted by BobAthome
And Canada looses it seat on the SECURITY COUNCIL,, u know Canada, the one nation reverered for its Peace keeping military ideas, well after afganistan not so much peace keeper reputation, anymore but,, hey i can see where INDIA would be a much better Peace Keeper role on said SECURITY COUNCIL.
This happened just days before Iranian officials arrested five female lawyers. Three were returning from abroad when they were detained at the airport in Tehran.
Maryam Kianersi, Sara Sabaghian and Maryam Karbasi were called a threat to national security and accused of “violating the Islamic Republic’s moral standards while outside Iran.”
Three of them had also signed a petition calling for the release of another human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is now on a hunger strike in Iran.