Chrystia Freeland, Melanie Joly among signatories to letter on Iranian women’s rights
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly are among the key signatories to an open letter decrying Iran’s record on women’s rights.
Former prime minister Kim Campbell and human rights activist and author Nazanin Afshin-Jam are the other Canadians on a list of “key signatures” to the letter.The letter says Iran should have been disqualified for its long-standing, systemic oppression of women, as well as its recent brutality towards human-rights protesters.
For every day that Iran remains a member of the UN commission, the letter says, the body loses credibility. The list also features the European Central Bank’s president, Christine Lagarde, ex-Australian prime minister Julia Gillard and former presidents of Liberia and Lithuania.