US Envoy: Iran Should Not Be Member of UN Commission on Women

TL;DR

In a post on Twitter on Sunday, Linda Thomas-Greenfield said, “The Iranian government should not be on the @UN_CSW – an international body dedicated to promoting gender equality and women's empowerment.A draft resolution proposed by the United States, regarding the removal of Iran from the commission, will be up for a vote at the U.N. later this month.“In our view, it cannot stand.”Thomas-Greenfield's comments in November were made at an informal gathering of Security Council members, known as an Arria meeting, focused on the mass protests that started in Iran on September 16, following the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, 22.The Kurdish woman was arrested in Tehran by so-called morality police for wearing her headscarf “improperly.”Police say she had a heart attack while in custody, but her family disputes that.Iranian authorities have rejected the family's request for a committee of independent doctors to investigate her death."

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