Already lambasted for a perceived anti-feminist stance, the Mexican government has been further criticized for abstaining in a United Nations resolution to remove Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women,
the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.
Women and activists in Iran appealed to the United Nations for support in the wake of a major crackdown on recent protests fueled by the custodial death of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish-Iranian woman arrested by the morality police for allegedly wearing her headscarf the wrong way. Since October, women, many of them high schoolers, have challenged the country’s authoritarian Islamic regime by brazenly flouting the “hijab and chastity” law, which requires women and girls over the age of nine to wear a veil or headscarf in public.
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