Posted on 12/03/2022 4:18:53 AM PST by Olog-hai
As a United Nations body prepares to take an unprecedented vote on whether to expel Iran from the U.N.’s top gender equality body, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday the regime should “never” have been a member of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in the first place.
Noting that she recently joined “a group of women leaders” calling for Iran’s ousting from the CSW, Clinton told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that removing the regime from the U.N. body dealing with the advancement of women would be “the right thing to do.”
“They should never have been on there in the first place,” she said.
While Clinton was secretary of state 12 years ago, however, the Obama administration stood by as Iran was handed an earlier term on the 45-member CSW, “the world’s leading intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.”
The Obama administration did so again four years later — when John Kerry was secretary of state — once again allowing Iran to join the CSW without objecting.
In both 2010 and 2014, U.S. objections may not have succeeded in preventing Iran from being elected onto the commission. But the fact that the administration remained silent — as did other democracies — enabled the regime to get the seat “by acclamation,” that is, without a vote. …
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Well, her husband shouldn’t been on quite a few different women’s bodies. COME ON HEADLINE WRITERS... YOU HAVE TO BE SETTING THOSE UP!!!!
Never mind her herself.
I was thinking along the same lines, except I imagined that a woman working at the U.N. had a tattoo of Iran.
She’s planning on running for President because she sure has been vocal lately.
Death would become this old windbag.
Big mouth and big butt. She checks the boxes of a female commie.
Clinton has raised her profile recently. I agree she’s up to something
Iran being a member of the U.N. CSW tells you all you need to now about the U.N.
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