so iran, a country that literally and openly does some of the most barbaric government-mandated acts against women in the world, has won some sort of half-assed u.n. general assembly vote to retain (not acquire, see the link) it's seat, for another five years (until 2015), on the commission on the status of women, aka the women's rights commission. and when i say rights, i mean the idea that people deserve a standard of fair treatment from their government and society. does the iranian government even know what women's rights are? or rights in general? the worst part of this: they've had this seat since 1990. literally, for 20 years. no wonder this is a commission that seems to go nowhere. it's like the commission hired a driver who decided to take a baseball bat to the car.
there is a world of things wrong with this. for some reason, the u.s. could lobby to keep iran out of the human rights council, but not this one. not sure how that works. not sure why the u.s. even has to lobby to keep iran off of either council. the government of iran has a long, and well video-recorded history (and present) of using violence, prison, and execution to trap its citizens in a theocratic hell. but this is not the first time the u.s. has forgotten about women's rights, simply because it decided to take what it could get. remember the iraqi constitution? remember the revoking of secular family law? as right wingers pat themselves on the back for noticing the irony of this situation, one must ask: where the fuck were you when iraqi women were getting fucked?
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