The Open Letter, Printed in Sunday’s New York Instances, Requires the Speedy Expulsion of the Islamic Republic of Iran from the UN Fee on the Standing of Girls
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The Open Letter
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The world’s preeminent girls leaders in enterprise, politics, advocacy and the humanities revealed an open letter in Sunday’s New York Instances calling for the instant elimination of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) from the United Nations Fee on the Standing of Girls (CSW).
Signatories of the letter embody Sec. Hillary Clinton, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, Media Chief & Philanthropist Oprah Winfrey, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate & Training Activist Malala Yousafzai, Financial & Political Chief Christine Lagarde, former First Woman of the US & Advocate of Women Training Michelle Obama, former Govt Director of UN Girls Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, former head of UN Local weather Change Conference Christiana Figueres DBE, former First Woman of the US & Training Advocate Laura Bush, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate & Human Rights Activist Nadia Murad and girls in management positions from 14 nations (and counting).
This international effort—a partnership between Very important Voices, For Freedoms and a coalition of Iranian girls leaders—comes amid greater than 40 days of worldwide protests launched and led by Iranian girls and women after the tragic demise of 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini. The protestors are demanding justice after Amini died on September 16, 2022 whereas in police custody. Amini was arrested by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s “morality police” for allegedly not complying with obligatory hijab legal guidelines.
Stories of maximum punishments and harsh crackdowns towards protestors by Iranian authorities have flooded worldwide headlines and social media feeds within the weeks since Amini’s demise, gaining worldwide consideration and scrutiny.
The group of girls leaders who signed on to the letter got here collectively in solidarity with Iranian girls and women with a transparent name to motion: the instant elimination of the Islamic Republic of Iran from the Fee on the Standing of Girls.
Inside the first few days of going reside, the letter obtained greater than 21,000 signatures and rising. Moreover, greater than 130,000 petitioners have additionally signed a letter asking for a similar consequence on Change.org.
The open letter states: “We condemn the brutal violence of safety forces towards peaceable protesters … Earlier this yr, to the dismay of girls’s rights advocates world wide, Iran started a 4–yr time period on the UN’s 45–member Fee on the Standing of Girls. This preeminent international physique is solely devoted to selling gender equality and girls’s empowerment. The Islamic Republic of Iran’s lengthy–standing, systematic oppression of girls ought to have disqualified them from election to the CSW.”
The letter additionally laments the Islamic Republic of Iran’s file on girls’s rights, citing gender inequality and legalized discrimination towards girls relating to marriage, divorce, inheritance, youngster custody instances and apparel. These restrictions embody the mandate that requires girls to put on head coverings on the onset of puberty.
The signatories of the letter warn that the violence and lack of life will proceed with out international intervention on the highest ranges, and that the Fee on the Standing of Girls will lose credibility every day the Islamic Republic of Iran stays a member.
“It is a essential second for leaders within the worldwide neighborhood to vocally and unequivocally reveal their help for girls’s rights by standing in solidarity with Iranian girls and women,” states the letter.
Members of the general public are invited to learn the complete letter right here. To affix the motion, signal on right here.
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Now celebrating 25 years, Very important Voices International Partnership has instantly invested in additional than 20,000 girls leaders throughout 184 nations and territories since its inception in 1997. Pushed by the common fact that girls are the important thing to progress of their communities and nations can not transfer ahead with out girls in management positions, Very important Voices has offered early help for leaders who went on to change into Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, U.S. Youth Poet Laureates, prime ministers, award-winning innovators, pioneering human rights defenders, and breakthrough social entrepreneurs, together with Amanda Gorman and Malala Yousafzai. In an effort to advance and broaden this work, in 2022 Very important Voices opened the doorways to the world’s first international embassy for girls, the Very important Voices International Headquarters for Girls’s Management. It’s a first-of-its-kind area that enables for convening, innovation, planning, and motion—all within the pursuit of serving girls leaders who’re taking over the world’s biggest challenges.
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By wielding the ability of artwork, we goal to deepen and broaden our capability to interrogate what’s and picture what may very well be.
Collectively, we search infinite growth.
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