TEHRAN –The Zionist regime should be excluded from the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in the United Nations, the vice president for women and family affairs has said.

“The most brutal violence ever is being committed in Gaza and there is no safe place left for women and children,” IRNA quoted Ensieh Khazali as saying on Wednesday in a webinar named "Voice of Women in Al-Aqsa Storm".

On October 7, following Hamas’s Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the usurping entity, Israel launched its brutal war on Gaza which has left thousands dead and injured so far. 

Additionally, it has established a complete siege on the coastal sliver, depriving the more than two million Palestinian residents of their water, food, fuel, and power supplies.

Khazali added that the occupying regime insists on bombing houses, schools, hospitals, and other safe places. How can the fragile children and infants withstand this ongoing violence being deprived of food and water?

She called for the expulsion of the Zionist regime from the Commission on the Status of Women in the United Nations, as well as, the reopening of the Rafah crossing and dispatching peacekeeping forces and their presence to prevent the closure of this vital crossing, the immediate sending of health and medical aid to mothers, children and teenagers, and the recognition of the legitimacy of Palestinians resistance right.

An immediate cease-fire, helping those trapped under the rubble, and preventing the forced migration of the homeless Palestinians are among her other requests.

The Commission on the Status of Women

The CSW is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.

A functional commission of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), it was established by ECOSOC resolution 11(II) on June 21, 1946.

The CSW is instrumental in promoting women’s rights, documenting the reality of women’s lives throughout the world, and shaping global standards on gender equality and the empowerment of women

During the Commission’s annual two-week session, representatives of UN Member States, civil society organizations, and UN entities gather at UN headquarters in New York.

They discuss progress and gaps in the implementation of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the key global policy document on gender equality, and the 23rd special session of the General Assembly held in 2000 (Beijing+5), as well as emerging issues that affect gender equality and the empowerment of women.

This year’s priority theme was "Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls."

It also reviewed Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls (agreed conclusions of the sixty-second session).

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