{"id":8153,"date":"2011-03-07T10:11:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8153"},"modified":"2011-03-07T12:15:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T16:15:35","slug":"un-shows-true-colours-again-on-eve-of-international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/07\/un-shows-true-colours-again-on-eve-of-international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"UN shows true colours again on eve of International Women&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a self-parody, the UN can&#8217;t possibly go <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2011\/03\/07\/national-post-editorial-board-the-uns-latest-insult-to-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">much lower than this<\/a>, can they?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On the eve of International Women\u2019s Day, which celebrates its 100th anniversary on March 8, the United Nations has delivered a serious insult to women around the world: On March 4, the UN appointed Iran to its Commission for the Status of Women.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has an abysmal record on women\u2019s rights. Its police can arrest women for getting a suntan, wearing too much makeup, or dressing \u201cimmodestly.\u201d One of its religious leaders made headlines around the world last year when he blamed women\u2019s immodesty for causing a series of earthquakes. In 2003, Iranian state thugs raped, tortured and killed Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi because she photographed a Tehran prison.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As a sign of its relative unimportance, I only just realized that I didn&#8217;t even <em>have<\/em> a tag for the UN. That&#8217;s a pretty strong indication that they&#8217;ve lapsed from view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a self-parody, the UN can&#8217;t possibly go much lower than this, can they? On the eve of International Women\u2019s Day, which celebrates its 100th anniversary on March 8, the United Nations has delivered a serious insult to women around the world: On March 4, the UN appointed Iran to its Commission for the Status [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,370,53],"tags":[287,691,43],"class_list":["post-8153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-middle-east","category-politics","tag-iran","tag-unitednations","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-27v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8154,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions\/8154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}