Iran Removed from UN Women's Commission

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The European Leadership Network (ELNET) commended the various European countries that voted to expel Iran from the commission.
41% : The American Jewish Committee similarly tweeted, "We applaud the 29 members of the UN's ECOSOC who declared today that they will no longer allow Iran, a country that relentlessly persecutes women and girls, to serve as a member of the Commission on the Status of Women.
39% : "Iran should never have been on this panel," they wrote.
36% : The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) voted with 29 nations favor, eight against and 16 abstentions to remove Iran from the commission.
36% : "We welcome the vote to expel Iran from the UN's Committee on the Status of Women, a decision that sends a message to the Iranian regime that its brutal treatment of women will not be tolerated," Anti-Defamation League tweeted.
35% : The United States, Israel and the United Kingdom were among those who voted in favor of removing Iran from the commission; Russia and China were among those who voted against it.
30% : Iran was expelled from the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on December 14.

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