US tried to block UN declaration supporting women's rights on International Women's Day

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Well, isn't that special.

US tried to block UN declaration supporting women's rights on International Women's Day - TAG24 News via MSN The US failed on Monday in a LONE bid to block a joint UN declaration supporting women's rights on International Women's Day.

In the end, 37 of the 44 countries voting in the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York backed a compromise text, while the US was the only country to vote against it, with six abstaining.

The US representative had objected to the draft, arguing it contained "ambiguous language promoting gender ideology."

The text also included commitments related to sexual and reproductive health that the US considered too vague, as well as passages that it claimed could lead to censorship, referring to potential measures against hate speech. There was also opposition to reparations for victims of sexual violence.

and we sure as hell can't have 'potential measures against hate speech, can we??

The US initially tried to block or delay the adoption of the text. After that effort failed, the US representative proposed amendments.

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1. Oh, and the article goes on to say this was the FIRST time in EIGHTY years a vote even HAD to be taken.

But hey, we're *NOT* living under a hate-peddling, woman hating, war mongering, predator defending fascist MONARCHY. nahhhhhhh.

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2. Correct and really despicable

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6. I'm betting the rest of the Democracy loving

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World finds the Nazi bad witch as Despicable as we DO.

Mahalo, Vapor

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3. Oh FO Whiny Misogynist US rep... Malignant is suppose to

speak at the UN about "Women and Children"... or so I read.

Or did it already happen?.. Pure Gaslighting Bullshit.

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8. Yes, it did.

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4. Can you tell us who the news source is please?

Your link goes to MSM. The article has no apparent attribution. TIA

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9. TAG 24. The attribution is right there in the link, and on the page when you

open the link. Based in Germany and the US

Media Bias Check,lists them as "mostly factual, left-leaning".

I don't know if that is what the company had in mind, but the German word "tag" is "day", so they cover the news 24 hours a day is what the name says to me. Perhaps one of our DU'ers who lives in Germany can tell me if I am reading it correctly.

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10. Thanks for replying. And yes,

I did run the name by Media Bias fact check (my go-to source) before posting it.

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17. Thank you for sharing them. I looked at their wiki and web pages,

very interesting, including the description of their editorial prrocesses.

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16. I think the ultimate source is DPA, the German equivalent of AP

There's a slightly longer version here (it has quotes from the German representative), crediting dpa.

https://www.qatar-tribune.com/article/223578/world/us-fails-to-block-joint-un-declaration-on-womens-rights

Another report:

But the US, after initially abstaining from negotiations on the outcome document to be adopted by CSW, changed tack in the past few days and urged the removal of “controversial social issues” from the document, Devex reports.

The US wants references to climate change and a gender-responsive justice sector removed, and does not support the proposed reparations fund for survivors of violence, for example.

However, the entire purpose of the CSW’s 70th session is to chart a path to eliminating gender discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, as well as structural barriers to justice – and the outcome document due to be adopted by the end of Monday was supposed to guide this.

However, the US stance is similar to last year, when it refused to endorse the CSW’s final declaration last year, rejecting references to the UN’s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and dismissing gender quotas, climate policies and even the Sustainable Development Goals as “globalist overreach”.

https://healthpolicy-watch.news/as-womens-rights-falter-globally-us-moves-to-weaken-un-support-for-gender-equality/

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5. Under the "leadership" of Trumpigula, the U.S. has assumed a new national identity:

Jerk of the World. And damned proud of it.

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7. More materially

The US pulled financing of family planning funding:

https://populationconnection.org/article/washington-view-june-2025/

Feds Freeze Family Planning Funding
Written by Brian Dixon, Senior Vice President for Governmental and Political Affairs | Published: June 16, 2025

Global health funding freeze cuts contraceptive access for millions

On Inauguration Day, Donald Trump and Elon Musk issued an executive action freezing all new foreign assistance grants for 90 days, while the administration assessed whether funded projects aligned with the administration’s values. Four days later, they also issued a “stop work” order for existing global health grants.

The impact was immediate and catastrophic. According to the Guttmacher Institute, during the 90-day freeze, since extended by at least 30 days, 11.7 million women and girls lost access to contraceptives and family planning services. This resulted in an estimated 4.2 million unintended pregnancies and more than 8,000 maternal deaths.

The United States has long been the leading donor to international family planning programs, providing close to 40% of overall donor funding. In 2024, US family planning assistance helped nearly 48 million women and couples get contraceptive supplies and reproductive health care services. It prevented over 17 million unintended pregnancies, more than 5 million unsafe abortions, and 34,000 maternal deaths.

In short, US family planning aid has been among the most successful investments in terms of improving health, expanding educational and economic opportunities for girls and women, protecting and conserving natural resources, and reducing poverty.

In addition to the freeze on bilateral aid, the administration also ended all grants to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). As the world’s largest multilateral provider of reproductive health care, UNFPA works in over 150 countries and is the lead agency when it comes to meeting these critical needs in the aftermath of disasters and in ongoing humanitarian settings.

This is odd behavior in a country that aims to reduce an influx of people desperate to leave overpopulated foreign countries.

One could even speculate that such rushes are sought with moves like these.

Financing family planning education and access to contraception would be the one thing the US could do sanely rather than build creepy mass deportation centres and jail 90,000 people.

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11. PRECISELY. But for Trump and his MAGA GOP

CRUELTY is the POINT.

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12. It is not just cruel, it is illogical

I set a lot of store on common humanity, but this is not logical either.

To the average american of any race, either gender or political orientation as time goes on, even where people (rightly imo, as a lefty feminist who came back to India permanently, prepared only to ever again visit other countries, never migrate) see pragmatically that US immigration is broken, it doesn’t carry water to accelerate climate change, defund family planning.
It looks like an agenda that a bot that was fed the Turner Diaries and asked to design an optimization program based on that came up with.
Where the calculation is that inflaming the racial, religious and cultural tensions caused by refugee crises due to overpopulation in the poorer parts of the world coupled with climate change is more worth it if some demagogue’s agenda is met than allowing stability anywhere.

I empathize deeply with anyone in shitty conditions, but it is common sense left or right that the finiteness of resources cannot be wished away.

But if you look beyond the most cursory, in no way is the GOP with its past of Cato/Aei humping and constant defunding of birth control (birth control is the one thing that can stabilize most parts of the world where non coercive and part of a sane education agenda..) helping with making immigration saner.

There is never a sane conversation and it is a cruel or at least uncomfortable conversation and so rather than forcing it..
This is insane..war, mass deportation centers, defunding birth control, firing scientists.. this ai push.
Even I know from what scientific training I have that were you to look at earth as a ubiquitous computer, they already have data. Collecting more and more data would make identifying meaningful patterns harder and harder.

You gotta have (god I sound so shrill) a smallish proof of concept that works elegantly and reproducibly before you.
Yeesh..

Christopher Ketcham gets it..One of the most relatable characters in The Good Place is a philosophy professor Chidi Anagonye..lol..and he said that his brain constantly makes the sound a fork in a garbage disposal makes..
I get that. Yasha Levine and Christopher Ketcham are two people I can read without that sensation:
https://www.christopherketcham.com/

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13. Shrill? Not at all.

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14. Oh..it is an old joke

Are you familiar with the left wing blogger Atrios? I forget the origins of the joke. But some conservative said something about shrill liberals..and it became one of those jokes where Atrios would talk about some liberal or other (Paul Krugman etc) attaining new levels of shrill..
I don’t remember the exact details, but it was along those lines.

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15. I see. Thanks.