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    Position Paper: Committee: General Assembly Third Committee (SOCHUM) Country: Iran Topic: Violence Against Women

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    This position paper from Iran discusses violence against women as a major problem both globally and within Iran. It summarizes definitions and statistics from the UN and WHO showing that about 1 in 3 women experience some form of sexual violence. Such violence can lead to physical and mental health issues for women and children. While Iran has taken some steps to address this issue, such as proposed legislation that was later weakened, more focus and international cooperation are needed to combat violence against women and ensure safety and freedom for all genders.

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    Position Paper: Committee: General Assembly Third Committee (SOCHUM) Country: Iran Topic: Violence Against Women

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    This position paper from Iran discusses violence against women as a major problem both globally and within Iran. It summarizes definitions and statistics from the UN and WHO showing that about 1 in 3 women experience some form of sexual violence. Such violence can lead to physical and mental health issues for women and children. While Iran has taken some steps to address this issue, such as proposed legislation that was later weakened, more focus and international cooperation are needed to combat violence against women and ensure safety and freedom for all genders.

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    This position paper from Iran discusses violence against women as a major problem both globally and within Iran. It summarizes definitions and statistics from the UN and WHO showing that about 1 in 3 women experience some form of sexual violence. Such violence can lead to physical and mental health issues for women and children. While Iran has taken some steps to address this issue, such as proposed legislation that was later weakened, more focus and international cooperation are needed to combat violence against women and ensure safety and freedom for all genders.

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    Position Paper: Committee: General Assembly Third Committee (SOCHUM) Country: Iran Topic: Violence Against Women

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    This position paper from Iran discusses violence against women as a major problem both globally and within Iran. It summarizes definitions and statistics from the UN and WHO showing that about 1 in 3 women experience some form of sexual violence. Such violence can lead to physical and mental health issues for women and children. While Iran has taken some steps to address this issue, such as proposed legislation that was later weakened, more focus and international cooperation are needed to combat violence against women and ensure safety and freedom for all genders.

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    Position Paper

    Committee: General Assembly Third Committee (SOCHUM)


    Country: Iran
    Topic: Violence Against Women

    The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based
    violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or
    suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of
    liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life." In 2013, the WHO conducted a
    worldwide analysis, in which they discovered the every 1 in 3 women have through some
    kind of sexual violence. Violence like this could lead to homicide or suicide, countless
    diseases and anxiety disorders. Children growing in a family which has been subject of
    violence may also suffer and could be subject of violent events themselves. This can also
    jolt a cycle of violence.

    This issue is a major problem in Iran as well, although the Rouhani administration
    had approved a bill that could have criminalized gender-based violence, which was
    sent to the judiciary for review and two years later the legislation was cleared after being
    heavily amended and weakened. In a five-year economic development plan in March
    2005, the Iranian government also issued a document called Iran’s 20-Year Economic
    Perspective, outlining a road map for the country’s economic, political, social and
    cultural developments during the next two decades. Not only does this document
    promises that by 2025, Iran would be a fully advanced country but it also introduces
    many newer and safer opportunities for women, in an attempt to give them freedom, a
    chance to thrive and to provide for themselves and their children.

    Advancing in this issue is of utmost importance and extremely critical to ensure


    the safety of the women of this world. This committee should focus on the hotspots of
    violence against women, countries like India, Yemen and Iraq. Every person who is
    religious must know, that their religions forbid any harm to women. Although these
    religions are different, they agree that no harm should be put upon women. This is why it
    is crucial that countries band together to combat violence against women, so that we
    together can create better and a peaceful world, which is safe for every single gender,
    minority, and race to live in.
    Let me tell the members of this committee what happens when we criminalize abortion, it
    doesn’t stop women from needing one. That’s why attempts to ban or restrict abortions do
    nothing to reduce the number of abortions, it only forces people to seek out unsafe abortions. In
    contrast to a legal abortion that is carried out by a trained medical provider, unsafe abortions can
    have fatal consequences. So much that according to the WHO unsafe abortions are the third leading
    cause of maternal deaths worldwide and lead to an additional five million largely preventable
    disabilities
    Deaths and injuries from unsafe abortions are preventable. Yet such deaths are common in
    countries where access to safe abortion is limited or prohibited entirely, as the majority of women
    and girls who need an abortion because of an unwanted pregnancy are not able to legally access
    one. This is an extremely important reason why legalizing abortionds are necessary and should be
    legal in every single country. Another important reason why abortion should be legal is that what if a
    mother just wants to protect her child from an abusive man or she has been abandoned and cant
    take care of a child, she just wants to genuinely protect her children

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