News 05/03/10

 At this point you should be familiar with this http://www.payvand.com/news/10/apr/1293.html. On April 30, Iran won a seat on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. This was not after intense debate or objection from the United States or any other Western Nation. Silence from us, and Iran acclaimed this seat was all that was necessary. Iran will begin the four year term in 2011 under the mission “to evaluate progress on gender equality, identify challenges, set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote gender equality and advancement of women worldwide.” Are we asking this all from Iran? A country that still metes out extreme violence for minor violation of the hijab, and endorses religious leaders that make proclamations of seismic activity, we are not alone in our cynicism.
 Incensed by this mockery of poor decision and inaction? Good, but keep in mind that the United Nations CSW is compromised of a total of forty-five members. And while most are moving progressively still further to the first world, some are still dealing with extreme violence targeting women, rape, and human sex traffic. Iran will still be at the bottom as the worst on this list as they are also on human rights.
 To Iran this is not about the rights of its own people but a political play. It adds credentials for propaganda and as well as to promote an anti human rights agenda.  
 This is about human rights, the rights that we share together both men and women. In the United States we recently stripped the rights of one group through the vehicle of government. This is not equitable to the travesty of the Middle East, but it is patently horrific of the majority to restrict the rights of a group on whim in the land of the free.
 What ties both together is the ridiculous notions of theism. These credulous belief systems poison the well, a proven majority must consider what is appropriate for everyone according to their religion first. Unfortunate for the minority and unfortunate for reality. The government is not the vehicle of the people, but the vehicle of the majority, and in these cases used to dictate what the minority is allowed to do, regardless of non-difference.
 Not only are these non-difference between humans, they are a non-point to progression. Government is not the answer, the changing hands of who is the majority and the power that follows illustrates that there is no consistency in it.