Members rudywoofs (Pam) Posted June 10, 2010 Members Share Posted June 10, 2010 May 1, 2010 Iran wins seat on UN Commission on Status of Women Tehran Times Political Desk TEHRAN – Iran has won a four-year seat on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, an influential body committed to promoting gender equality. At a meeting at UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday, Iran was elected, through a vote of acclamation, as a member on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). Iran’s election to the commission came Just days after Iran announced it withdrew from a high-profile bid for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council. When its term begins in 2011, Iran will be joined by 10 other countries namely Belgium, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Estonia, Georgia, Jamaica, Liberia, the Netherlands, Spain, Thailand and Zimbabwe to help set UN policy on gender equality and advancement of women. The CSW, a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), is tasked with setting global standards and policies to promote gender equality, monitoring the implementation of measures for advancement of women, appraising progress made at the national, sub-regional, regional and global levels, and conducting review of cases of women rights violation across the globe Quote Pam Meddle Not In the Affairs of Dragons; for You Are Crunchy and Taste Good with Ketchup. If we all sang the same note in the choir, there'd never be any harmony. Funny, isn't it, how we accept Grace for ourselves and demand justice for others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members abelisle Posted June 10, 2010 Members Share Posted June 10, 2010 This is a joke, right? Alex (like having the foxes watch the hen house) Quote We are our worst enemy - sad but true. http://abelisle.blogspot.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators John317 Posted June 10, 2010 Moderators Share Posted June 10, 2010 Afraid it's no joke-- unless we admit that the UN itself is a joke. I'm in favor of the UN's existence, but sorry to say, I do find many of its decisions a joke. It has so much potential for good, yet it seems most of it is horribly wasted. Quote John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. [17] For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nan Posted June 10, 2010 Moderators Share Posted June 10, 2010 Just going through that list of member companies...there are quite a few of them in which I would not want to live as a woman (or a man either but that would be a different issue). Asia is a tad under represented though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug yowell Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Just going through that list of member companies...there are quite a few of them in which I would not want to live as a woman (or a man either but that would be a different issue). Asia is a tad under represented though. This could be a real positive for achieving gender equality. The Iranian contingent will now lobby for mandatory burkas for all men. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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