If there is any news of late that shows just what a joke and worthless body the United Nations is (and has been), this should do. I would hope that even liberals would make no attempt to defend the UN on this one
Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged “immodest.”
Just days after Iran abandoned a high-profile bid for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, it began a covert campaign to claim a seat on the Commission on the Status of Women, which is “dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women,” according to its website.
Buried 2,000 words deep in a U.N. press release distributed Wednesday on the filling of “vacancies in subsidiary bodies,” was the stark announcement: Iran, along with representatives from 10 other nations, was “elected by acclamation,” meaning that no open vote was requested or required by any member states — including the United States.
A country that systematically abuses women (not too mention a good chunk of their population), and they get a seat on this council? Can we, finally, please kick the UN out of America already and stop giving them money? Oh, wait, I forgot, Obama’s UN representatives didn’t bother even asking for a vote on this. As Fausta writes, two days after Boobquake…..shame.
