UN council ousts Iran from UN commission backing women

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Iran was elected from the Asian region with 43 votes.
49% :"Iran said in the meeting that these were antics by the U.S. government, but we got 29 people to support this one effort to show that the world was behind the people and the women in particular in Iran," Thomas-Greenfield said.
44% : The vote in the 54-member council known as ECOSOC to remove Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women for the remainder of its 2022-2026 term was 29-8 with 16 abstentions.
41% :"It's significant in the sense that it sends a message to the government of Iran that what you're doing is unacceptable to the world -- we're not going to stand by and buy it," she said.
38% : At least 488 people have been killed since the demonstrations began, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that's been monitoring the protests, while another 18,200 people have been detained by authorities.
38% : He then cited efforts by the U.S. and its allies to topple "multiple legitimate governments," implying that it is also trying to topple Iran's.
34% : TANZANIA - The U.N. Economic and Social Council voted Wednesday to immediately oust Iran from the U.N.'s premiere global body fighting for gender equality because of its systematic violation of the rights of women and girls, a decision the United States hailed as "historic" and Iran claimed was based on "fabricated allegations."
31% : After the vote, Iran's deputy ambassador Zahra Ershadi categorically rejected the resolution and what she called "the baseless and fabricated allegations" made against Iran.
29% : Before Wednesday's vote, Iran's U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani accused the United States of using its "longstanding hostility toward the Iranian people" under "the guise of human rights" to remove Iran from the commission.
25% : U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the vote shows a growing consensus among the United States and its allies and partners around the world that Iran must be held accountable for "atrocities" such as the recent "horrifying executions" of protesters in Tehran.

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