U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on Women’s Rights
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”: buried 2,000 words deep in a UN 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.
via:[http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/04/29/elects-iran-commission-womens-rights/?test=latestnews]
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