In response to the suppression of women's rights, Islamic regime in Iran was expelled from the United Nations Committee on the Status of women.
Islamic Republic of Iran from the Commission on Women. This action, which is happening for the first time in the history of this United Nations committee, was a reaction from the international community to the suppression of women's protests in Iran over the past three months, which began with the death of Mehsa (Gina) Amini.
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women is the main global institution for defending women's rights and eliminating discrimination, which operates as a subsidiary of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Iran was elected a member of this organization last year. The term of membership in the United Nations Women's Commission is four years. This council has 55 members.
This is the first time that a member of this commission is fired.
Following the recent protests in Iran, when Mahsa (Zina) Amini was killed after being arrested by the Irshad patrol, about a month ago, the United States prepared a resolution to expel Iran from the Women's Authority Commission, which was voted on Wednesday, December 22-14. became.
In this meeting, Russia tried to prevent the voting and expulsion of Iran, which was stopped by the majority of the country's members.
However, in addition to Russia, the representatives of China, Venezuela, Syria and Pakistan spoke against the expulsion of Iran.
Russia, China, Nicaragua, Kazakhstan, Bolivia, Nigeria, Oman and Zimbabwe were the countries that voted against the expulsion of Iran.
On the other hand, except for the United States and its allied Western countries such as the European Union and Canada, Argentina and Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru and Panama also voted in favor of expelling Iran.
Mexico, Thailand and Tunisia were among the countries that abstained from expelling Iran.