Nigeria and 7 other countries including china vote to support Iran’s women right violation

29 countries voted in favor of expelling Iran, 8 countries, including Nigeria, Russia, and China, voted against it, and 16 countries did not participate in the vote.

Despite Iran’s breaches of women’s rights, Nigeria joined seven other countries on Wednesday in voting to keep Iran on the UN Women’s Rights Commission.

After Tehran intervened to violently put an end to protests that had erupted in response to the disputed death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, who died in detention, the United States demanded that Iran be overthrown.

The United States’ ongoing membership of Iran, according to Linda Thomas-Greenfield, ambassador to the UN, is a “ugly stain” on the commission’s integrity. She argued that if the U.N. is being undermined internally, it will be unable to carry out its important work of “promoting gender equality and empowering women.”

The U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), made up of 54 member states, accepted the resolution on Wednesday to “remove with immediate effect the Islamic Republic of Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) for the duration of its 2022-2026 term.”

After being detained for a few days on suspicion of breaking the Islamic country’s rigorous clothing standards, Ms. Amini unexpectedly passed away.

Global indignation over Ms Amini’s passing resulted in condemnation of Tehran from national and international human rights organizations. In Iran, women took to the streets to demonstrate against the passing of one of their own.

While distancing themselves from their government, which voted to keep Iran on the commission despite the mistreatment of women, some Nigerian people have resorted to social media to celebrate Iran’s removal from the committee.