The team captain of the Iranian national football team did not take part in the Asian Games staged recently because her husband would not give his permission for her to leave the country. Although the law of the Islamic Republic was on his side, he apparently does not enjoy the support of all the men in his country. By Yalda Zarbakhch
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Demonstrators in the Netherlands rally outside the Iranian embassy in support of Nasrin Sotudeh, an Iranian lawyer who represented women charged for protesting the mandatory wearing of the hijab. She is serving a lengthy prison sentence for ‘security’ offenses. (Photo by Robin Utrecht/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – Advocates for Iranian women’s rights on Monday slammed the regime’s recent election onto a U.N. gender equality body, and challenged democracies who took part in the secret ballot vote in New York to make their voting record public.
They said elevating Iran onto the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was an travesty, at a time when women are serving lengthy prison terms for the “crime” of removing their hijab – longer sentences than a man would get for cutting off his daughter’s head in an “honor” killing – and when women on death row are raped by pr
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Oppressive Iran, Pakistan Elected to UN Body That Promotes ‘Gender Equality,’ ‘Empowerment of Women’ By Patrick Goodenough | April 22, 2021 | 4:17am EDT
Iranian women pray on Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, in western Tehran. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – In a secret ballot election, United Nations member-states have elected Iran and Pakistan to four-year terms on the world body’s top agency “dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.”
Three weeks earlier those two Muslim-majority countries ranked near the bottom of the World Economic Forum’s latest “Global Gender Gap,” an annual survey examining differences between men and women in four specific areas – political empowerment, economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, and health and survival.