Iran Ousted From U.N. Women's Rights Agency in U.S.-backed Vote

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : The resolution, backed by 29 members of the U.N. Economic and Social Council, was the strongest symbolic gesture so far by the United Nations in response to Iran's efforts to quell a women-led uprising that began in September.
48% : "First is to the government of Iran that we will hold them accountable," said Ms. Thomas Greenfield.
46% : Nationwide protests demanding the end of the Islamic Republic's rule have convulsed Iran for nearly three months.
42% : The U.S.-backed resolution, co-sponsored by more than a dozen allies, immediately removes Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women, a body tasked with protecting and promoting women's rights around the world, for the remainder of its four-year term.
39% : Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, told the chamber on Wednesday that the resolution amounted to a "hostile policy" by the United States against the Iranian people and "would be exceedingly dangerous to the U.N. system's integrity."
36% : Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said in an interview that the action against Iran sends a twofold message.
34% : Before the vote on Wednesday, a group of prominent Iranian women's rights activists, among them Narges Mohammadi, who is currently in prison, signed a letter asking the U.N. to remove Iran from the women's body.
32% :Iran was kicked out of the United Nations women's agency on Wednesday in a U.S.-led vote that comes months into Tehran's brutal crackdown on an uprising organized by women and young people demanding the end of the Islamic Republic's rule.

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