Letter from Tehran

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From our correspondent in Tehran (priv eye)
Iran has been elected to the UN commission on the status of woman for a 4 year term meaning that our country one of the most prolific oppressors of woman is joining forces with a committee dedicated to

Er the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of woman

The UN operates in mysterious ways Iran had consistently failed to ratify its convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against woman

Ali Khamenei our supreme leader has called gender equality one of the biggest mistakes of western thought

for obvious reasons the author of said letter ( an entire page) cannot be disclosed
 
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She go’s on to say

with Iran on board which laws denying woman even the most basic rights will be up disscusion

raising the minimum age of marriage currently 13

with courts declaring girls as young as 9 mature enough to marry

Iran registers up to 600000 child marriages every year
 
Lol...

You can't make this stuff up really.

I feel for the women of Iran having such a lack of freedom and rights... In the 21st century aswell, you'd have thought the entire world would have moved on.

The UN do make some barmy decisions, I wonder if they are even still fit for purpose, it appears to me to be just a bunch of fat cats sitting on a committee doing essentially nothing.

On the flip side at least the husband's have a quiet life....... (This sentence is a joke, for those on here that are inept at understanding humor, you 2 know who you are)
 
They received the support of 43 out of the 54 members of the UNs economic and social council in a secret ballot :confused:
 
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sxturbo said:
I feel for the women of Iran having such a lack of freedom and rights... In the 21st century aswell, you'd have thought the entire world would have moved on.
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How long ago was it that the Married Womens Property Act became law in England? It allowed married women to be the legal owners of the money they earned and to inherit property.

About fifty years earlier than working men in England got the vote.

So not a very long time ago.

Most of the men who marched off to war in 1914 did not have the vote.
 
She states that

over 100 woman have been executed in the past 8 years

a womam who kills a man she was forced to marry will be sentenced to death but a father who says beheads his daughter will receive a 10 year sentence

this is because fathers are exempt from capital punishment for murdering their children

mothers are not
 
JohnD said:
How long ago was it that the Married Womens Property Act became law in England? It allowed married women to be the legal owners of the money they earned and to inherit property.

About fifty years earlier than working men in England got the vote.

So not a very long time ago.
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We are denied autonomy in every aspect of life
Men decide who and when we can marry where we live whether we can travel or if our occupations are in line with family values

marital rape is not a crime
Domestic violence is a private matter
The law fails to recognise woman as entire persons
 
Rape of a wife by her husband only became a crime in England in 1991.

What a primitive country.
 
Woman and girls continue to be treated as 2nd class citizens in Iran

thundered a UN press release to mark international woman’s day

but our confidence in foreigners lobbying for change is not great our governments most vigorous opponents in the region are in some aspects even more conservative than us and it seems there are limits to our western freinds
 
Our testimonies are worth half those of men so rape must be witnessed by 4 men
 
In 2016 Italy covered up a nude statues to avoid offending our president

while feminist Swedish ministers a year later showed there progressive credentials by donning head scarves in a trade trip to Tehran
 
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