Uproar after Iran named vice-chair of UN body promoting democracy, women’s rights

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伊朗被任命为联合国促进民主和妇女权利机构的副主席，引发联合国强烈抗议

。批评人士称，德黑兰担任社会发展委员会副主席与其残害妇女和屠杀平民的记录相矛盾。
埃弗拉特·拉赫特（Efrat Lachter）撰稿，福克斯新闻，
2026年2月12日发布。下午 21:21

伊朗当选联合国社会发展委员会副主席。
伊朗伊斯兰共和国毫无异议地获得了这一职位，该委员会正准备重点关注民主、性别平等、宽容和非暴力。主席：“我没有听到任何反对意见”（图片来源：联合国电视台）。

联合国：伊朗当选联合国社会发展委员会副主席一事遭到人权倡导者和政策分析人士的强烈抨击，他们谴责联合国在对待非民主政权问题上的虚伪。

在委员会的一次会议上，这一领导职位获得一致通过，与会代表以协商一致的方式通过了议程项目和组织决定。

联合国因其对伊朗政权在去年12月和今年1月暴力镇压抗议者的不作为而持续受到批评。周三，联合国秘书长安东尼奥·古特雷斯因祝贺伊朗庆祝1979年伊斯兰革命周年纪念日而受到批评。

美国常驻联合国代表迈克·沃尔兹批评了这一事态发展，他在X网站上写道：“这又是一个我们不加入也不参与这个荒谬的‘社会发展委员会’的理由。”


《伊朗威胁》一书的作者、伊朗全国抵抗委员会美国办事处副主任阿里雷扎·贾法尔扎德也批评了这一决定。贾法尔扎德说：“让伊朗政权领导一个旨在促进民主、性别平等、宽容和非暴力的联合国机构，这令人震惊，简直是狐狸看守鸡舍。”他还说：“绝大多数伊朗人民呼吁政权更迭，因为伊朗的毛拉是世界上最严重的人权侵犯者，骨子里就是厌女者，他们屠杀了成千上万的异议人士。”

他认为，伊朗应该接受审查，而不是获得制度上的进步。 “相反，伊朗政权必须成为联合国所有机构深入调查和追究其反人类罪和种族灭绝罪责任的对象，调查范围从上世纪80年代到2026年1月的起义，”贾法尔扎德说。“西方政府数十年的不作为助长了该政权的气焰。这种情况必须立即停止。”


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“联合国选举伊朗来领导一个致力于民主、妇女权利和非暴力的委员会，这简直是自取其辱，”联合国观察组织执行主任希勒尔·诺伊尔说。“这是一个会因为妇女不戴头巾而对她们施以暴行，并且在短短两天内屠杀了数万名本国平民的政权。”

诺伊尔认为，各国政府有能力阻止这项任命，但却选择了不作为。“欧盟成员国知道如何阻止滥用权力的政权获得这些席位——他们最近就曾阻止过俄罗斯获得这些席位——但这一次，面对伊朗，他们却选择了沉默和纵容，”他说。“联合国在伊朗毛拉政权屠杀无辜民众之后立即给予奖励，这无疑向德黑兰发出了一个极其危险的信号。”

伊朗问题专家丽莎·达夫塔里表示，伊朗在一个以社会发展和人权为中心的委员会中担任领导角色，其观感令人深感不安。

伊朗抗议者
于2026年1月9日在伊朗德黑兰举行抗议活动，封锁了一条街道。（MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images）

“对于那些仅仅因为摘下头巾就可能面临牢狱之灾甚至更糟处境的伊朗女性来说，看到德黑兰在联合国社会发展委员会中获得一个副主席职位，简直是对她们的当头一棒。”

她补充说，联合国投票和决议的更广泛模式加剧了人们对偏见的感知。

“过去十年，同一个联合国系统通过了大约170多项针对以色列的决议，而针对其他所有国家的决议加起来只有80多项左右，这无需博士学位也能看出存在偏见问题，”达夫塔里说。“近年来，联合国炮制了一百多项反以色列决议，而针对世界上最糟糕的独裁政权的决议数量却只有其一小部分，这看起来与其说是道德领导，不如说是政治作秀。”

达夫塔里驳斥了联合国各委员会的程序性问题。

“一些外交官会把这当作程序形式而置之不理，但在联合国，任何事情都不是纯粹象征性的，”她说。“归根结底，把‘社会发展’的议事槌交给伊朗政权，再次证实了联合国存在偏见，而且极其虚伪。”

United Nations
Uproar after Iran named vice-chair of UN body promoting democracy, women’s rights

Critics say Tehran's vice-chair role on Commission for Social Development contradicts its record of brutalizing women and massacring civilians
Efrat Lachter By Efrat Lachter Fox News
Published February 12, 2026 4:21pm EST

Iran elected vice-chair of UN social development commission
The Islamic Republic secured the post without objection, as the commission prepares to focus on democracy, gender equality, tolerance and non-violence. Chair: "I hear no objection" (Credit: UNTV)

UNITED NATIONS: Iran’s election as vice-chair of the United Nations Commission for Social Development is being slammed by human rights advocates and policy analysts, who have condemned the U.N.'s hypocrisy when it comes to its treatment of undemocratic regimes.

The leadership role was approved without objection during a meeting of the commission, where delegates adopted agenda items and organizational decisions by consensus.

The United Nations has faced continued criticism over its inaction towards the regime's violent crackdown against protesters in December and January. On Wednesday, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres faced criticism for congratulating Iran on the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz criticized the development, writing on X: "Yet another reason why we are not a member of, nor do we participate in, this ridiculous ‘Commission for Social Development.’"


Alireza Jafarzadeh, author of The Iran Threat and deputy director of the U.S. office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, also criticized the decision. "Having the Iranian regime in the leadership of a U.N. body tasked with promoting democracy, gender equality, tolerance and non-violence is appalling and like fox guarding the hen house," Jafarzadeh said. "The vast majority of the Iranian people are calling for regime change because the mullahs are the world’s leading human rights violators, misogynist to the core, and they slaughter the voices of dissent by thousands."

He argued that Iran should face scrutiny rather than institutional advancement. "Instead, the Iranian regime must be a subject of intense investigation and accountability by all U.N. bodies for crimes against humanity and genocide, from the 1980s to January 2026 uprisings," Jafarzadeh said. "Decades of inaction by Western governments have emboldened the regime. This must stop now."


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People gather in Dag Hammerskjold Park across the street from the U.N. headquarters to protest Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who addressed the General Assembly on Wednesday. (Peter Aitken for Fox News Digital)

"By electing Iran to help lead a commission devoted to democracy, women’s rights and non-violence, the U.N. makes itself into a mockery," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. "This is a regime that brutalizes women for not covering their hair, and that just massacred tens of thousands of its own civilians in two days."

Neuer argued that governments had the ability to block the appointment but chose not to act. "The EU states know how to stop abusive regimes from winning these seats — they’ve done so in the recent past with Russia — but this time on Iran, they chose silence and complicity," he said. "By rewarding the Mullahs right after their slaughter of innocents, the U.N. has now sent a very dangerous message to Tehran."

Lisa Daftari, an Iran analyst, said the optics of Iran holding a leadership role in a commission centered on social development and rights were deeply troubling.

Iranian protesters
Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on Jan. 9, 2026. (MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

"For Iranian women who risk prison or worse just for taking off a headscarf, watching Tehran get a vice-chair on a U.N. social-development commission feels like a slap in the face."

She added that broader patterns in U.N. voting and resolutions contribute to perceptions of bias.

"When the same U.N. system has spent the last decade passing roughly 170-plus resolutions against Israel and only around 80 on all other countries combined, you don’t need a PhD to see there’s a bias problem," Daftari said. "When the U.N. has churned out well over a hundred anti-Israel resolutions in recent years while managing a fraction of that number on the world’s worst dictatorships, it looks less like moral leadership and more like political theater."

Daftari rejected that procedural nature of United Nations committees and committees.

"Some diplomats will wave this away as a procedural formality, but at the U.N. nothing is ever purely symbolic," she said. "The bottom line is that handing Iran’s regime a gavel on ‘social development’ confirms yet again that the place is biased and deeply hypocritical."