by Fletch » Thu Apr 25, 2019 10:06 pm
‘Morally Despicable’: Trump Administration Threatens to Veto UN Resolution Combating Rape as Weapon of WarIn what critics denounced as the Trump administration’s latest attack on women’s rights across the globe, U.S. officials are reportedly threatening to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution seeking to end the use of rape as a weapon of war over its language on reproductive health.
According to the Guardian—which first reported on U.S. opposition to the measure late Monday—Trump officials are objecting to the resolution’s “language on victims’ support from family planning clinics.”
“In recent months, the Trump administration has taken a hard line, refusing to agree to any U.N. documents that refer to sexual or reproductive health, on grounds that such language implies support for abortions,” the Guardian reported. “It has also opposed the use of the word ‘gender,’ seeing it as a cover for liberal promotion of transgender rights.”The Trump administration’s opposition to the measure, proposed by Germany, quickly sparked international outrage.
“If we let the Americans do this and take out this language, it will be watered down for a long time,” an anonymous European diplomat told the Guardian. “It is, at its heart, an attack on the progressive normative framework established over the past 25 years.”Heather Barr, acting co-director of the women’s rights division at Human Rights Watch, tweeted:
“In the latest step in Trump’s war on women, U.S. opposes healthcare for survivors of rape during war. Yes, you read that right.”
Others also took to Twitter to condemn the Trump administration’s efforts:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-adm ... pe/5675487He'll do anything to keep the support of the rabid fundamental Christians (not just the bible belt)
[b]‘Morally Despicable’: Trump Administration Threatens to Veto UN Resolution Combating Rape as Weapon of War[/b]
In what critics denounced as the Trump administration’s latest attack on women’s rights across the globe, U.S. officials are reportedly threatening to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution seeking to end the use of rape as a weapon of war over its language on reproductive health.
According to the Guardian—which first reported on U.S. opposition to the measure late Monday—Trump officials are objecting to the resolution’s “language on victims’ support from family planning clinics.”
[i]“In recent months, the Trump administration has taken a hard line, refusing to agree to any U.N. documents that refer to sexual or reproductive health, on grounds that such language implies support for abortions,” the Guardian reported. “It has also opposed the use of the word ‘gender,’ seeing it as a cover for liberal promotion of transgender rights.”[/i]
The Trump administration’s opposition to the measure, proposed by Germany, quickly sparked international outrage.
[i]“If we let the Americans do this and take out this language, it will be watered down for a long time,” an anonymous European diplomat told the Guardian. “It is, at its heart, an attack on the progressive normative framework established over the past 25 years.”[/i]
Heather Barr, acting co-director of the women’s rights division at Human Rights Watch, tweeted:
“In the latest step in Trump’s war on women, U.S. opposes healthcare for survivors of rape during war. Yes, you read that right.”
Others also took to Twitter to condemn the Trump administration’s efforts:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-administration-threatens-veto-un-resolution-combating-rape/5675487
He'll do anything to keep the support of the rabid fundamental Christians (not just the bible belt) :roll: