15th Meeting 59th Session of Human Rights Council UN Web TV Description
– Item 3 – Interactive dialogue with the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls (Cont’d)
SPEAKERS: United Nations Association of China, Ms. Chan Wing Yan
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I remember when I was a child, I wrote a nonfiction piece in my English class on a question that really puzzled me.
Why did the US wage war on Iraq over some white powder? Today, similar questions can be asked as the US armed Israel’s war in Gaza and provocatively bombed Iran.
In Gaza , the US fused genocide by arming Israel with weapons of mass destruction, enabling slaughter of over 40,000 Palestinians, of which 70% are women and children. Yet, Washington has repeatedly vetoed ceasefire resolutions at the UN Security Council, causing what the International Court of Justice calls plausible genocide.
In Iran, the US provides diplomatic cover and military backing for Israel’s atrocities, cruelly tightening its illegal sanctions on Iran and deliberately blocking access to life-saving medicines and food supplies already amount to a blatant act of collective punishment against humanity and international law. While the US continues to hypocritically lecture the world on human rights, the era of American exceptionalism is over. We must call for immediate cessation of hostilities and the lifting of sanctions.
We ought not let another generation grow up asking, what is the war for? The credibility of this council depends on our ability to uphold its fundamental principles without exception.
The women and children in Iran and in Gaza deserve nothing less than commitment to their protection and dignity.
Thank you, Your Excellency.
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