Trump administration sends hate group members to UN for women's rights meeting
Source: LGBTQ Nation
By Dawn Ennis · Friday, March 17, 2017
For 61 years, the United States has taken part in an annual conference at the United Nations that focuses on women’s rights, anti-discrimination, education, family planning and economic empowerment. But a human rights advocacy group is accusing the Trump administration of stacking the deck with conservative, anti-LGBTQ and anti-feminist representatives of two far right-wing groups.
OutRight Action International is calling out the Center for Family and Human Rights and the Heritage Foundation for opposing the U.N. human rights system, LGBTQ rights, and women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. Those two groups were tapped by the State Department as part of its official delegation to the 61st annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
Executive Director Jessica Stern issued a statement on their inclusion as representatives of the United States:
In their Senate confirmation hearings, Secretary of State Tillerson and US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley repeatedly pledged to uphold the right to be free from discrimination as an American value. The appointment of these organizations to the official US delegation undermines their positions. I urge Secretary Tillerson and Ambassador Haley to ensure that the US delegation maintains non-discrimination at the CSW (United Nations Commission on the Status of Women) in the face of obvious pressure from these newly appointed members of the delegation.
Fundamentalist notions about how women and girls should behave should never be the basis of advising or negotiating US foreign policy.
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