United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

March 12, 2024 | |

Iranian Official Calls to Expel Israel From Women’s Rights Conference

A senior Iranian official on March 11 called for the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to expel Israel from its ranks. In a speech before the commission’s...

March 7, 2023 | Toby Dershowitz, Kaitlyn Romaine

March Is Women’s History Month, But Not in Iran

Hundreds of Iranian schoolgirls are falling ill from poisonings, suspected to be the work of extremist religious groups trying to instill fear and prevent participation in protests.

December 14, 2022 | |

UN Votes to Remove Iran From Women’s Rights Commission

The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) decided today by a vote of 29-8, with 16 abstentions, to remove Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The decision reflects women’s second-class status across the Islamic Republic. The rights of women have taken center stage in the protests now consuming Iran: The regime’s killing of 23-year-old Mahsa Amini, whom security forces had arrested for allegedly violating Tehran’s hijab laws, triggered the demonstrations now nearing their fourth month with no end in sight.

October 30, 2022 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Richard Goldberg, Tzvi Kahn, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Maximum Support for the Iranian People: A New Strategy

Introduction U.S. policy since the 2009 election-related uprising in Iran has gradually incorporated a variety of human rights related sanctions and designations to name, shame, penalize, and deter Iranian...

April 13, 2015 | Claudia Rosett |

And Now, Iran Wins a Seat on Governing Board of UN Agency for Women

It’s not only at the nuclear talks that Iran is goose-stepping right over those polite U.S. diplomats to grab all it can get. At the United Nations, Iran has just w...

July 25, 2014 | |

Bad Move to the U.N.

Having failed to produce a deal after six months of bargaining in Vienna, the Iran nuclear talks now appear headed for a venue even less auspicious for the U.S. and its allies: the United Nations...

April 1, 2013 | Claudia Rosett The Wall Street Journal |

At the U.N., Iran Is a Powerhouse, Not a Pariah

The world's leading state sponsor of terrorism heads the General Assembly's second-largest voting bloc.

June 30, 2011 | The Rosett Report |

Beyond Parody: North Korea Presiding at UN Disarmament Conference

Even for the United Nations, this is over the top. It’s stock stuff at the UN that the worst offenders periodically plonk themselves down in one or another of the presiding seats and bask i...

March 3, 2011 | Emanuele Ottolenghi Wall Street Journal Europe |

What About Iran?

While the world focuses on Libya's popular uprising and Moammar Gadhafi's murderous response, Iran has also—far from the international spotlight—been ratcheting up its repre...

September 27, 2010 | Claudia Rosett Pajamas Media |

Aliens, Schmaliens? But This We Know: Pakistan Now Chairs the UN’s IAEA

In the continuing tragicomedy of UN news, there are now reports that the director of the UN's Vienna-based Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Othman,...

September 24, 2010 | Claudia Rosett Pajamas Media

At the UN, America Pays, Ahmadinejad Plays

As long as America provides such toys as the United Nations, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might as well play with them - and this week, again, play he did. Ahmadinejad has just treate...

July 23, 2010 | |

Iran’s Mini-Empire At The U.N.

The United Nations has just created a new "entity" on women's rights, called U.N. Women. Elections to its governing board are now being organized. How long before Iran wins a seat?...

June 11, 2010 | Forbes |

Iran’s Arc Of Injustice

When huge protests broke out in Iran over last year's rigged reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, U.S. President Barack Obama had some cool, calm answers. The brutality of Iran'...

May 7, 2010 | Claudia Rosett Forbes.com

Revaluing Freedom

OSLO -- Too often in recent times Norway has embarrassed itself as a sanctimonious dispenser of devalued Nobel Peace Prizes, having more to do lately with Norway's left-leaning politics than...

April 29, 2010 | Claudia Rosett Pajamas Media

Enough Already ‘ Just Move the UN to Iran

Last week, when  Iran withdrew its candidacy for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, I got messages from a number of folks who were almost sorry to see Iran drop out of the ra...

October 27, 2004 |

FDD, AIC and IWF to Train Iraqi Women Leaders

 The American Islamic Congress is a nonprofit, nonpartisan social organization with extensive experience in Iraq.  As a mem...