US Under Trump Stands Alone Against UN Women's Rights Resolution As Vote Passes 37–1 To Cheers

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The United States cast the only 'no' vote at the UN's premier women's rights body, triggering a standing ovation across the General Assembly Hall as 37 nations backed a landmark gender-equality document the Trump administration had fought to block.

The 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) opened at UN Headquarters in New York under the theme 'Ensuring and Strengthening Access to Justice for All Women and Girls.' It had been marked for weeks by an unusually combative US negotiating posture, and when the vote finally came, the result drew tears, applause, and near-universal condemnation of Washington's stance.

Six nations abstained: Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Mali, Mauritania, and Saudi Arabia, while the United States stood entirely alone against the Agreed Conclusions, a document that, until this session, had always been adopted by consensus since that practice began in 1996.

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According to the official UN Meetings Coverage press release WOM/2249, the US delegation, led by Dan Negrea, an ambassador to the UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), first moved to defer consideration of the document, then called for the text to be withdrawn entirely, and finally tabled eight written amendments circulated the previous weekend.

Negrea opposed what he characterised as 'ambiguous language promoting gender ideology,' objected to references to sexual and reproductive health that he argued implied abortion rights, and took issue with proposed AI governance language, which he described as censorship. He also noted that the US had recently withdrawn from UN Women's Executive Board, stating the agency had 'recklessly promoted gender ideology and abortion.'

Full article https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-stands-alone-un-womens-rights-vote-1785321

The current US government is totally dysfunctional, so this comes as no surprise.

I’m more concerned about the abstention of Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Mali, Mauritania, and Saudi Arabia, seeing that all the other countries of the world seem to consider the resolution to be uncontroversial.

Interesting to see this get in:

6. The Commission expresses deep concern at discrimination faced by women and girls globally, which acts as a barrier to justice, including discriminatory laws and practices, gender stereotypes, negative social norms

Sorry but I’m not impressed. It’s a very wordy document that if fully implemented would cost a fortune; the cost would be very high for rich country’s, so there’s no way poor countries can afford any of it.

More meaningless virtue signalling from the UN. When they come up with something that is less words and more action, that has real world applications, that is effective and meaningful, then I’ll give them ‘a standing ovation’.

I’ve not been following this. Dare I ask how they define women?

Yes, I’m concerned about this too. It’s the one thing Trump is right about.

Humans can’t change sex, or be ‘born in the wrong body’. Men can dress as women and cosplay with their friends, that’s fine. But they have no right to demand anyone else colludes with their fantasy.

The so-called ‘rights’ demanded for trans-identifying people are actually privileges that negate women’s genuine rights.

Countries that allow self-ID are privileging men’s wishes above women’s needs. I’m hoping the CSW is not colluding with this.

But clearly they all don't.

And whatever their reasons, the nature of the UN is that if they draw up these things that can't achieve consensus, well maybe they might pass, but so what?

But that's a question in general really. All the countries that voted for it, presumably they would be happy to do whatever it says anyway? And the others won't do it despite it passing.

It looks like the USA had the same problem understanding what they meant by women, and probably why they voted against it.

"Prior to the adoption, the representative of the United States first proposed that its consideration be deferred, then that the text be withdrawn and then proposed eight amendments to the text.
“There is no Agreed Conclusions at this point”, he said, opposing “ambiguous language promoting gender ideology”, vague unqualified commitments to sexual and reproductive health that can be interpreted as implying abortion rights, and censorship language on regulating artificial intelligence. His country recently withdrew from UN-Women because it recklessly promoted gender ideology and abortion, he said.
“How do we entrust the women and girls of the world to an agency that denies the biological realities of a woman?” he asked. Among the amendments he proposed was the inclusion of a definition of “gender” in paragraph 1. The term “gender” should refer “only to men and women on the basis of biological sex, and not to subjective notions of gender identity”, he said.
However, Commission Chair Maritza Chan Valverde (Costa Rica) pointed out that “every effort has been made to listen to delegations and to reflect the diversity of views expressed”. “We are convinced that the text represents the most balanced outcome achievable at this stage,” she said, adding that her Bureau has decided to put the text to vote."

So I say it probably means anyone who 'identifies' as a women, if they had meant biological women then they wouldn't have had a problem with the ask for amendment. 🤬

When you find yourself agreeing with Trump you know the world has gone mad!