Power Line reported in April that U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on Women's Rights. Iran was elected to the Commission on Women's Rights after it had given up its bid to obtain a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
From the news report in April:
"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."
I find it amazing that no western country objected to this 'election' or demanded an open vote.
This month in Iran, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has been sentenced to stoning after being charged with adultery. The head of Human Rights Headquarters of Iran's Judiciary, Mohammad Javad Larijani slammed Western protests against stoning emphasizing that stoning exists in Iran's constitution and it is "legal." Mrs. Mohammadi Ashtiani has already received 99 lashes in the course of her imprisonment. There are some questions as to whether her sentence for adultery was just.
Meanwhile, the United States dues to the United Nations are assessed at $598,292,101 for last year. The United Nations may have started with noble goals and intentions, but that is not what it currently represents. I would like to see the United Nations moved out of New York City (and all its back parking tickets paid), and I would like to see the United States resign from the United Nations. We need to form a world organization that supports freedom and democracy for all people regardless of sex, race, or religion. The United Nations is not that organization.
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