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Caylee Cunningham 10-22-08 Period 0 Since the year 1893, 42 of 195 contries have had womens rights movements. This is horrible because women and men should be considered equal. It is not fair what kind of sex you are interfear with becoming employed. This year the World Economic Forum hosted a survey on sexual equality. Sweden is number one this year, with Yemen being the worst.
 * 1. Brief Background of the Topic:**

The United Nations passed resolution number 62/218 in Febuary 12 2008 of last year. This resilution title was, "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women." The U.N. approves of gender equality, "Affirming that women and men should participate equally in social, economic, and political development, should contribute equally to such development and should share equally in improved conditions of life,"
 * 2. United Nations Involvement:**

Iran is pretty bad in this economic paritcipation and oppurtunity, educational attianment and politaicla empowerment as well as health and survival. There has just been a resolution adopted anout human rights for women 62/168 "Situation of Human Rights in th Islamic Republic of Iran (2e) "Arrests, violent repression and sentencing of women exercizing thier right to peaceful assembly, a campaign of intimidatio agianst women's human rights defenders, and continueing discrimination agianst women and girls in law and practice;" Also, (3e) "to eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of discrimiation and other human rights violations against women and girls;" This resolution was passed. We are working towards obeying it. However we do let women vote. We are proud to say that iranian women play a huge role in selecting a president.
 * 3. Country Policy and Involvement:**

Iran would like to see that all nations comply with the resolutions passed in Feb. 12, 2008. We also think that we should pay special attention to Yemen since their Gender equalization does not seen to get any better. We would like to introduce a new idea called the "Hope for Gender Equalization" This commitee would meet annually and discuss what they have been doing to make their country more gender equal. Also, we would like to bring attention to Indonesia. One woman said, "politics is always conceived as cruel and dirty, so not many women want to get involved, they think it is just for men." Iran undersands that Indonesia, "have passed a law about affirmative action and achieving 30% female representation, but we won't see if it is implemented until after 2009 elections." Iran beleives that is a good start, but the UN should make sure that the precentage moves up.
 * 4. Solutions:**

Citations http://www.ishr.ch/hrm/hrm2007/human_rights_monitor_2007.pdf http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6167486.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7215272.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7689897.stm?lsm