The latest example is the election last week of Iran as a member of the Commission on the Status of Women, part of the UN’s economic and social council.
Women are so overwhelmingly discriminated against in Iran that they'd have to make considerable progress just to claim second-rate status. As the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran pointed out, “women lack the ability to choose their husbands, have no independent right to education after marriage, no right to divorce, no right to child custody, have no protection from violent treatment in public spaces, are restricted by quotas for women’s admission at universities, and are arrested, beaten, and imprisoned for peacefully seeking change of such laws.”
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