Dear Secretary Clinton:We write as women leaders from across America and from organizations concerned with women’s human rights representing oppressed women and minorities. We call on you, Secretary Clinton, to denounce Iran’s election to a four-year seat on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women as an appointment that shocks the conscience of civilized societies.
We also wish to express our utter astonishment that Iran was “elected by acclamation,” which means that none of the United Nations’ member states – including the United States of America – requested or required an open vote on Iran’s election to the Commission. Why did the United States fail to request an open vote?
Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney of New York said she “believed that you spoke from personal conviction.” Therefore, we are puzzled and deeply troubled that, as Secretary, you have remained silent regarding human rights abuses under the brutal Islamic Republic of Iran regime...
Read the rest of this open letter at the Institute for Religion and Democracy.
By the way, signatories include Nazanin Afshin-Jam (International Human Rights Activist, President and Co-Founder of Stop Child Executions), Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Joy Brighton (Stop Shariah Now), Bernadette Brady (Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights), Mona Charen, Michelle Easton (President, Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute), Danielle Frum, Laura Ingraham, Sheryl Longin (Pajamas Media), Faith McDonnell (Director, Religious Liberty Programs, Institute on Religion and Democracy), Penny Nance (CEO, Concerned Women for America), Kate O’Beirne (President, National Review Institute), Mary Rose Rybak (Managing Editor, First Things), Nina Shea, Christina Hoff Sommers, Diana West, and many others.
