The effort to evict Iran from the commission comes as the Iranian government has tried to suppress nationwide protests following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of that nation’s so-called morality police.
The effort to evict Iran form the 45-member intergovernmental body comes as the Iranian government has tried to suppress nationwide protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of that nation’s so-called morality police. “The United States believes that no nation that systematically abuses the rights of women and girls should play a role in any international or United Nations body charged with protecting these very same rights,” Harris said in a statement.
And let us do everything in our power to ensure that Mahsa’s death was not in vain,” Thomas-Greenfield said. “Change in Iran should only come from within Iran,” the ambassador said. “But that does not absolve the world of the obligation to stand with the Iranian people as they protest for women, for life, and for freedom.
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