The state-run Mehr news agency published a report this morning expressing concern over the challenges the Iranian regime will face at the UN Women’s summit for world leaders in September.
While the summit is going to urge further commitment by member states to women’s equality and empowerment in the world’s development agenda for the next 15 years based on the Beijing Platform of Action and the Convention on the Elimination of All Discriminations against Women in the world, Mehr expressed concern about how Tehran should plan for this summit.
The concern is omnipresent within the regime’s government circles particularly that it has not yet signed the CEDAW and as Mehr wrote, some issues including “women’s choice in controlling reproduction” and “reforms in the laws to provide women’s equality in all affairs” are contrary to the official views of the religious fascist hierarchy ruling the country.
(State-run Mehr news agency, Aug. 29)
