US threatens to veto UN resolution on rape as weapon of war, officials say

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/22/us-un-resolution-rape-weapon-of-war-veto

Exclusive: US warns it will reject measure over language on sexual health in latest example of hardline abortion stance

Julian Borger in Washington
Mon 22 Apr 2019 16.24 EDT

The US is threatening to veto a United Nations resolution on combatting the use of rape as a weapon of war because of its language on reproductive and sexual health, according to a senior UN official and European diplomats.

The German mission hopes the resolution will be adopted at a special UN security council session on Tuesday on sexual violence in conflict.

But the draft resolution has already been stripped of one of its most important elements, the establishment of a formal mechanism to monitor and report atrocities, because of opposition from the US, Russia and China, which opposed creating a new monitoring body.

Even after the formal monitoring mechanism was stripped from the resolution, the US was still threatening to veto the watered-down version, because it includes language on victims’ support from family planning clinics. In recent months, the Trump administration has taken a hard line, refusing to agree to any UN documents that refer to sexual or reproductive health, on grounds that such language implies support for abortions. It has also opposed the use of the word “gender”, seeing it as a cover for liberal promotion of transgender rights.

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1. UGH

t-rump administration truly sucks.