Russia: Why Wasn't US Membership on UN Women's Commission Challenged After Ashli Babbitt's Death?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : The push to expel Iran from "the world's leading intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women" gained momentum after protests erupted following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini in September.
44% : "Did ECOSOC question the U.S. membership on the Commission on the Status of Women after the death of the U.S. Air Force veteran, a young woman named Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by the U.S. Congress police during the political protests in January last year?" (The Department of Justice in April last year closed its investigation into the death of Babbitt, saying there was "insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution" of the officer who killed her.)
42% : In her statement before Wednesday's vote, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the case for removing Iran was straightforward: "The commission is the premier U.N. body for promoting gender equality and empowering women.
41% : Kuzmin said those sponsoring the resolution to expel Iran "should first and foremost focus on correcting their own violations of human rights." He fretted that the measure being voted upon would "create an undesirable and very dangerous precedent" - the removal "without any basis" of a member who was elected democratically under U.N. procedures.
40% : Russia was one of eight members of the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to vote in New York against a U.S.-sponsored resolution to eject Iran from the CSW.
35% : The ambassador also shrugged off those raising procedural objections to the bid to eject Iran, and said of Russian attempts to question its legality, "they always look for procedural issues to cause chaos and confuse members."
34% : Canadian Ambassador Bob Rae took issue with those who contended that Iran had been duly elected onto the CSW in line with U.N. procedures and that its removal was not appropriate.
33% : He also referred to the "brutal suppression" by the French and other European governments of street protests in those countries, implying that Western countries were employing double standards by wanting to remove Iran from the CSW.

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