As Women’s Rights Falter Globally, US Moves to Weaken UN Support for Gender Equality
Source: Health Policy
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) began its 10-day session in New York on Monday, amid efforts by the United States to weaken women’s rights proposed in the draft outcome document.
The theme of the CSW, the world’s biggest global meeting on women’s rights, is “ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls.”
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.
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) began its 10-day session in New York on Monday, amid efforts by the United States to weaken women’s rights proposed in the draft outcome document.
The theme of the CSW, the world’s biggest global meeting on women’s rights, is “ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls.”
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.