Posted on 05/03/2010 8:19:05 AM PDT by Patriot1259
The United Nations has elected Iran to the Commission on the Status of Women. According to their own website, the Commission is "dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women.” If so, Iran would seem beyond just a curious choice as a member.
Current legal code in Iran actually defines the sexes as unequal. Men’s rights are codified as superior to women. According to Nobel Peace Laureate Shrin Ebadi, the first women judge in Iran before the 1979 revolution and imposition of the current Islamic law, "The criminal laws adopted after the revolution unfortunately took away a woman's human identity and turned her into a second-class being who is incapable and mentally-deranged." Ebadi laments the fact that in today’s Iran, the “law still considers a woman's life and her testimony worth half a man's.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecypresstimes.com ...
Iran is anti-America, that is all that NOW worries about.
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