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Iran Removed from UN Women’s Commission

Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad tweeted that the vote “is a victory for Iranian revolutionaries who have been facing guns & bullets as they fight this gender apartheid state.”
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December 14, 2022
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Iran was expelled from the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on December 14.

The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) voted with 29 nations favor, eight against and 16 abstentions to remove Iran from the commission. The United States, Israel and the United Kingdom were among those who voted in favor of removing Iran from the commission; Russia and China were among those who voted against it.

Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad tweeted that the vote “is a victory for Iranian revolutionaries who have been facing guns & bullets as they fight this gender apartheid state.”

Jewish groups also praised the move. “We welcome the vote to expel Iran from the UN’s Committee on the Status of Women, a decision that sends a message to the Iranian regime that its brutal treatment of women will not be tolerated,” Anti-Defamation League tweeted. “Other international orgs should take notice and take action.”

The American Jewish Committee similarly tweeted, “We applaud the 29 members of the UN’s ECOSOC who declared today that they will no longer allow Iran, a country that relentlessly persecutes women and girls, to serve as a member of the Commission on the Status of Women. Its removal from the @UN_CSW corrects a grave mistake.”

The European Leadership Network (ELNET) commended the various European countries that voted to expel Iran from the commission. “Iran should never have been on this panel,” they wrote.

UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer tweeted, “Make no mistake: this is just the beginning. We in the free world need to sanction the killers, expel their ambassadors, designate the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] as a terrorist entity, and do everything we can to help Iranians put an end to this child-killing, women-torturing regime.”

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