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United Nations staff, aware that the joke about electing Libya to chair the Human Rights Council a few years back has become bit stale, have come up with a new one.
This one starts, 'Have you heard the one about Iran’s election to the UN Women Rights Council?’
Iran, having lost the battle for a place on the Human Rights Council, managed instead this week to get onto the 'Commission on the Status of Women'(CSW ) a body dedicated ‘exclusively to promote gender equality and advancement of women'.
Iran was 'elected' by acclaim (http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2010/ecosoc6419.doc.htm), meaning no-one voted, but no-one opposed membership in a classic UN stitch up by the Asian bloc. A campaign by women's rights champions inside (http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2010/04/letter-economic-social-council/)and outside Iran calling on the UN not to take this step fell on deaf ears.
Theoretically Iran will now join other enthusiastic upkeepers of human rights such as China and Congo, tirelessly working to ensure the safety and equality of women around the world, naming and shaming countries without fear or prejudice.
In practice the CSW has only ever issued one resolution condemning a country, and that country was ..….Israel.
So a resolution drawing attention to some of Iran’s laws (http://mehr.org/Islamic_Penal_Code_of_Iran.pdf), germane to women, cannot be expected anytime soon. Instead the body charged with promoting women rights can be expected to tirelessly ignore some of the more interesting Iranian legal practices.
For example, Article 1133 of the Civil Code: A man can divorce his wife whenever he so chooses and does not have to give her advance notice. There are numerous others, laws requiring a women to have her husbands permission to get a passport, laws enforcing segregation in health care which results in too few women doctors being available to treat women etc.
A stand out law is Article 102 of the Penal code. Whoever wrote it appears to have been influenced by Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’ as it stipulates that a male adultery be buried up to his waist before being stoned to death, but a women be buried up to her neck. It continues - if the man escapes during the stoning, that’s the end of the matter, but if the women escapes, she must be arrested and killed by firing squad.
However, all is not lost for the women of Iran,. The penal code also states that if a man falsely accuses his wife of not being a virgin when they marry, he can receive 75 lashes. Of course she’d have to prove he accused her, and a women’s testimony is worth half a mans….
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Iran has serious internal problems and those problems are not getting any better.There is open labor strife. Every major holiday is an occasion for the anti-mullahocracy forces to demonstrate their utter disdain for Khamenei, Ahmadinejad and the rest of the Yadzi millennialists whose goal is to bring forth the Hidden Imam. That, according to Shiite theology, requires a condition of utter chaos. What better chaos than a major theater war in the Middle East?
Khomeini’s Iran tried to conquer Iraq. Why? Because the major Shiite shrines are in Iraq not Iran, especially the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf and the Imam Hussein Shrine in Karbala. It is from the well that is in the center of the Imam Hussein Shrine that the Hidden Imam of the Shiites is supposed to reappear and lead them to victory over all the World. This is one of the major reasons that the Coalition did not go to Baghdad during Desert Storm and why George Bush was warned not to conquer Iraq in 2003.
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The desperate economic situation in Iran is causing workers to lose their jobs or go without pay. International Labor Day May 1, Iranians are demanding freedom and better treatment of workers while the regime’s cronies live rich and comfortable, took to the streets. With the exception of the Los Angeles Times, Iranians also have to fight an inattentive Western media unwilling to help them by providing coverage. Recent protests, including the ones on May 1, have failed to reach the levels seen after Ahmadinejad’s election “victory” as the Iranian regime is taking aggressive measures to prevent the opposition from organizing and the protestors from linking together into one mass. The Internet was dramatically slowed down, as has been done during previous times of unrest in an attempt to limit the amount of video, pictures and news leaving the country(http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/03/may-day-in-iran/)
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Tim,
Can you help me with something as I cannot find the information anywhere, Can you say what the expenditure is for this "dept", Or what their annual budget is.
I have trawled the UN site but they do not seem t be very transparent when it comes to money spent and budgets
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Tim, thank you for this and what a perfect title for the piece. This is indeed the joke of the century.
Membership of Iran's misogynous regime to the UN commission is a bitter irony and a dagger to the hearts of all freedom-seeking women and equality advocates across the world. In the past three decades, this regime has executed and brutally tortured thousands of women political prisoners. It has stoned many women to death on bogus charges and arrested, persecuted and harassed thousands of women for improper veiling. In the meantime, the regime has been condemned 56 times by various UN bodies for its violations of human rights.
Women in Iran are the leading force of the uprising which started last year and will continue until the brutal mullahs are overthrown.
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LeeSouthend, no doubt in the eyes of some we are both practically nazi's.
Sharia law makes the westboro baptist church look almost inviting. (obviously im joking there but you know what I mean ).
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Yep Tim what your talking about is Shria law as practiced by that funney old religion of peace.
Oh deary me have I just become an extreame right wing bigot for pointing that out?
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The really funny joke is the large media company that campaigns for more help for British troops whist avoiding pay taxes on a scale that would make even Al Capone blush.
You couldn't make this up even if you were smoking Waki Baki. or could you ?
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United Nations staff, aware that the joke about electing Libya to chair the Human Rights Council a few years back has become bit stale, have come up with a new one.
This one starts, 'Have you heard the one about Iran’s election to the UN Women Rights Council?’
Iran, having lost the battle for a place on the Human Rights Council, managed instead this week to get onto the 'Commission on the Status of Women'(CSW ) a body dedicated ‘exclusively to promote gender equality and advancement of women'.
Iran was 'elected' by acclaim (http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2010/ecosoc6419.doc.htm), meaning no-one voted, but no-one opposed membership in a classic UN stitch up by the Asian bloc. A campaign by women's rights champions inside (http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2010/04/letter-economic-social-council/)and outside Iran calling on the UN not to take this step fell on deaf ears.
Theoretically Iran will now join other enthusiastic upkeepers of human rights such as China and Congo, tirelessly working to ensure the safety and equality of women around the world, naming and shaming countries without fear or prejudice.
In practice the CSW has only ever issued one resolution condemning a country, and that country was ..….Israel.
So a resolution drawing attention to some of Iran’s laws (http://mehr.org/Islamic_Penal_Code_of_Iran.pdf), germane to women, cannot be expected anytime soon. Instead the body charged with promoting women rights can be expected to tirelessly ignore some of the more interesting Iranian legal practices.
For example, Article 1133 of the Civil Code: A man can divorce his wife whenever he so chooses and does not have to give her advance notice. There are numerous others, laws requiring a women to have her husbands permission to get a passport, laws enforcing segregation in health care which results in too few women doctors being available to treat women etc.
A stand out law is Article 102 of the Penal code. Whoever wrote it appears to have been influenced by Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’ as it stipulates that a male adultery be buried up to his waist before being stoned to death, but a women be buried up to her neck. It continues - if the man escapes during the stoning, that’s the end of the matter, but if the women escapes, she must be arrested and killed by firing squad.
However, all is not lost for the women of Iran,. The penal code also states that if a man falsely accuses his wife of not being a virgin when they marry, he can receive 75 lashes. Of course she’d have to prove he accused her, and a women’s testimony is worth half a mans….
Many countries have similar laws, all of them are in the UN, and some of them are on women rights and human rights committees. Which says as much about the UN as it does about the offending states.
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Posted by: Caratacus10AD (http://blogs.news.sky.com/profile/Caratacus10AD) on May 4, 2010 3:27 PM
Iran has serious internal problems and those problems are not getting any better.There is open labor strife. Every major holiday is an occasion for the anti-mullahocracy forces to demonstrate their utter disdain for Khamenei, Ahmadinejad and the rest of the Yadzi millennialists whose goal is to bring forth the Hidden Imam. That, according to Shiite theology, requires a condition of utter chaos. What better chaos than a major theater war in the Middle East?
Khomeini’s Iran tried to conquer Iraq. Why? Because the major Shiite shrines are in Iraq not Iran, especially the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf and the Imam Hussein Shrine in Karbala. It is from the well that is in the center of the Imam Hussein Shrine that the Hidden Imam of the Shiites is supposed to reappear and lead them to victory over all the World. This is one of the major reasons that the Coalition did not go to Baghdad during Desert Storm and why George Bush was warned not to conquer Iraq in 2003.
Posted by: Caratacus10AD (http://blogs.news.sky.com/profile/Caratacus10AD) on May 4, 2010 3:19 PM
The desperate economic situation in Iran is causing workers to lose their jobs or go without pay. International Labor Day May 1, Iranians are demanding freedom and better treatment of workers while the regime’s cronies live rich and comfortable, took to the streets. With the exception of the Los Angeles Times, Iranians also have to fight an inattentive Western media unwilling to help them by providing coverage. Recent protests, including the ones on May 1, have failed to reach the levels seen after Ahmadinejad’s election “victory” as the Iranian regime is taking aggressive measures to prevent the opposition from organizing and the protestors from linking together into one mass. The Internet was dramatically slowed down, as has been done during previous times of unrest in an attempt to limit the amount of video, pictures and news leaving the country(http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/03/may-day-in-iran/)
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Tim,
Can you help me with something as I cannot find the information anywhere, Can you say what the expenditure is for this "dept", Or what their annual budget is.
I have trawled the UN site but they do not seem t be very transparent when it comes to money spent and budgets
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Tim, thank you for this and what a perfect title for the piece. This is indeed the joke of the century.
Membership of Iran's misogynous regime to the UN commission is a bitter irony and a dagger to the hearts of all freedom-seeking women and equality advocates across the world. In the past three decades, this regime has executed and brutally tortured thousands of women political prisoners. It has stoned many women to death on bogus charges and arrested, persecuted and harassed thousands of women for improper veiling. In the meantime, the regime has been condemned 56 times by various UN bodies for its violations of human rights.
Women in Iran are the leading force of the uprising which started last year and will continue until the brutal mullahs are overthrown.
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LeeSouthend, no doubt in the eyes of some we are both practically nazi's.
Sharia law makes the westboro baptist church look almost inviting. (obviously im joking there but you know what I mean ).
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Yep Tim what your talking about is Shria law as practiced by that funney old religion of peace.
Oh deary me have I just become an extreame right wing bigot for pointing that out?
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The really funny joke is the large media company that campaigns for more help for British troops whist avoiding pay taxes on a scale that would make even Al Capone blush.
You couldn't make this up even if you were smoking Waki Baki. or could you ?