The Aspen Ministers Forum (AMF) called, on Tuesday, for the immediate removal of the Islamic Republic of Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
In a letter to President of the UN General Assembly Csaba Kőrösi, AMF members appealed to UN member states to vote “YES” on the resolution being considered at the Economic and Social Council to immediately remove the Islamic Republic of Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women.
The AMF members stressed, in this document, the Iranian regime’s systematic oppression of women and its brutal crackdown on peaceful protestors who are raising their voices for women’s rights, underlining that a broad coalition of Iranian women and citizens, backed by civil society organizations, have led the campaign for Iran’s removal from the Commission.
It recalled that the UN body is the world’s principal intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment.
The AMF, which met in Prague for urgent consultations on threats to human freedom globally, brings together former foreign ministers of El Salvador, Canada, Morocco, USA, Belgium, Australia, Germany, Portugal, Estonia, S. Korea, Israel, Argentina, New Zealand, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Luxembourg, UK, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.