The United Nations on Wednesday voted to kick Iran out of the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) over their reaction to protests by women.
Women in Iran have been protesting for freedom to dress as they wish following the killing of Mahsa Amini in police custody in Tehran for not using the hijab.
To show their disapproval, women in the country have been burning their Hijabs and calling for justice for Mahsa Amini.
Rather than provide justice, the government had chosen to brutally crack down on the protests resulting in the death of some and leaving many others injured.
In the vote cast on Wednesday, eight countries voted for Iran to remain in the commission, 29 voted for their removal and 16 were absent.
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In a statement from the White House, signed by the National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, the White House said the vote is a sign of growing demand for accountability in Iran.
The statement revealed that the United States had issued three separate sets of sections targeting Iran’s financing of terror, and protest-related human rights violations among others over the last week.
Sullivan revealed that “the recent horrifying executions in Tehran only strengthened our resolve to expand the growing consensus and pursue all possible mechanisms of accountability against the Iranian regime”.
