The UN Commission on the Status of Women lost all credibility The UN Commission on the Status of Women lost all credibility This isn’t the first time that abusers of women’s rights have been elected to positions on councils specifically geared to end such abuse. (May 7, 2021 / JNS) The U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the “global champion for gender equality,” abandoned billions of women and girls, and lost all credibility when it elected Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, Lebanon, Mauritania and Tunisia to four-year terms on the council. Pakistan, the worst of these six offenders, is the ninth-worst out of 167 countries on Georgetown University’s Women, Peace and Security Index. Pakistani activists estimate that 1,000 honor killings still occur annually while 21 percent of girls are forced into marriage before their 18th birthday.