Growing Problems with Women Rights in Iran

Madeline Moton

In recent news, Iran reportedly executed a 23-year old woman under convictions of murder without the consent of her lawyer or family. The problem with this execution is that she committed the murder when she was a minor, but the Iranian government does not consider those implications. The article also said that Iran executes more juvenile defendants than eny other country in the world. Even though the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Iran has signed, bans capital punishment for offenders who committed crimes before their 18th birthday, the country acted as if this argeement never existed. The intersting fact of this is that Iran is denying that it executes juviniles, and also does it secretly.
With means to international relations, this issue does not help Iran in the global world at all. The secrecy of these actions and violations of U.N agreements gives countries like the U.S more reasons to speculate foul behavior out of the Iranian government. The govenrment denyed this young woman of her legal rights and the reasoning can be drawn to the simple fact that she is a woman. As many people know, in many Middle Eastern countries women are struggling for rights. Iran as a country is for some reason not aware, or uncaring to the fact that they are not gettting a repreable reputation for their recent actions. Several other country's leaders agree that Iran violated the U.N agreement and see the faults in the government once again. The question now that derives is what will happen with Iran's international relationships and will the country and government ever make the necessary drastic changes.