NEW YORK — Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged "immodest."
Just days after Iran abandoned a high-profile bid for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, it began a covert campaign to claim a seat on the Commission on the Status of Women, which is "dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women," according to its website.
Buried 2,000 words deep in a U.N. press release distributed Wednesday on the filling of "vacancies in subsidiary bodies," was the stark announcement: Iran, along with representatives from 10 other nations, was "elected by acclamation," meaning that no open vote was requested or required by any member states — including the United States.
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When its term begins in 2011, Iran will be joined by 10 other countries: Belgium, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Estonia, Georgia, Jamaica, Iran, Liberia, the Netherlands, Spain, Thailand and Zimbabwe.
You ever watch "24" ?
Posted by SeekingFreedom on :
No. I don't watch much of anything that isn't on History or Discovery.
They have some scenario similar to this or just relating to the U.N.?
Posted by CashCowMoo on :
Why does nobody take a stand to this? I mean cmon, we going to let Iran do this crap?
Posted by glassman on :
quote:Originally posted by CashCowMoo: Why does nobody take a stand to this? I mean cmon, we going to let Iran do this crap?
well, theres an old GOP political philosophy that you sit down with people that you disagree with and talk, even promote freetrade with, until you are forced to war.
Nixon is the most famous but not the only one who did this.
the deals with China had people very hopeful for a long time, but now IMO as i've yelled over and over they are just taking advantage of US.
the UN is really only supposed to be a peacekeeping organistaion. not much they do has any kind of enforcement potential, but they do talk alot of bs
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