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Commission on the Status of Women Unequivocally Reaffirms the Beijing
Platform for Action
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), News
Alert, 4 March 2005
US WITHDRAWS ITS ANTI-SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AMENDMENT!!!
Earlier today, the United States failed to break solid international
consensus supporting reaffirmation of the Beijing Platform for Action,
and withdrew its controversial proposed amendment to the Draft Declaration
of the Beijing +10 proceedings currently taking place in New York.
The US language sought to "reaffirm that the Beijing Platform
and the outcome of the 23rd Special Session of the General Assembly
(Beijing +5) "do not create new international human rights and
do not include the right to abortion." The US decision to withdraw
its anti-human rights amendment marks a significant victory in support
of women's human rights worldwide.
Although the US delegation did not have the public support of any
Member State, they had refused to join the consensus that had formed
in support of the Draft as it had been issued by the Bureau of the
Commission on the Status of Women. In a remarkable show of solidarity,
countries across all regions have resisted US pressure to break consensus,
and have stood together in support of the full range of women's human
rights as laid out in the Beijing Platform.
The Declaration, which reaffirms the Beijing Platform and the Beijing
+5 outcome document, was adopted at 5pm this afternoon at the Commission
on the Status of Women.
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