US-led resolution removing Iran was expelled on Wednesday from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women by a majority vote, with a number of countries voicing alarm over the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the country’s morality police and the Islamic Republic’s violent crackdown on the ensuing rights protesters throughout the country.
The US-led resolution to remove Iran from the leading UN women’s rights body passed by a vote of 29 in favor, 8 against, and 16 abstentions.
It appears to be the first time a country was removed from the commission.
Israel, the UK, and several other countries signed onto the US resolution as co-sponsors. The resolution underlined Iran’s suppression of “the human rights of women and girls, including the right to freedom of expression and opinion, often with the use of excessive, lethal force resulting in the deaths of peaceful protestors, including women and girls.”
Source TOI/ Photo Yuki Iwamura