United States will attempt to take away Iran from UN Fee on the Standing of Girls. (File)
Washington:
The US will attempt to take away Iran from the 45-member U.N. Fee on the Standing of Girls (CSW) over the federal government’s denial of girls’s rights and brutal crackdown on protests, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris stated on Wednesday.
Iran has simply began a four-year time period on the fee, which meets yearly each March and goals to advertise gender equality and the empowerment of girls.
“The US believes that no nation that systematically abuses the rights of girls and women ought to play a task in any worldwide or United Nations physique charged with defending these exact same rights,” Harris stated in a press release.
Iran has been gripped by protests for the reason that loss of life of 22-year-old Kurdish girl Mahsa Amini in police custody final month. The unrest has became a preferred revolt by Iranians from all layers of society, posing one of many boldest challenges to the clerical management for the reason that 1979 revolution.
Iran has blamed its overseas enemies and their brokers for the unrest.
“Iran has demonstrated by its denial of girls’s rights and brutal crackdown by itself those that it’s unfit to serve on this Fee,” Harris stated.
The US and Albania will maintain a casual U.N. Safety Council assembly on Wednesday, placing a highlight on protests in Iran sparked by the loss of life of a younger girl in police custody. The assembly goals to search for methods to advertise credible, impartial investigations into Iranian human rights abuses.
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi and Iranian-born actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi are set to transient.
Iran has accused the US and it allies of abusing their U.N. platform “to additional their political agenda” and urged international locations to not attend the assembly.
“The U.S. has no true and real concern concerning the human rights scenario in Iran or elsewhere,” Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani wrote within the letter to U.N. member states.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the U.S. bid to oust it from the CSW.
Members of the CSW are elected by the 54-member U.N. Financial and Social Council (ECOSOC), which promotes worldwide cooperation on financial, social, cultural, instructional, well being and associated points. Russia and the US are each ECOSOC members.
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