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Bush AWOL As 250 World Leaders Reaffirm Women's Rights
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Published on Thursday, October 14, 2004 by the OneWorld.net
Bush AWOL As 250 World Leaders Reaffirm Women's Rights
by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON With the notable exception of U.S. President George W. Bush, more than 250 global leaders, including former President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, reaffirmed their commitment to a ten-year-old UN plan to ensure the rights of women around the world.
In an unprecedented statement, the former and current leaders, including 85 heads of state and government, also called for the fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted by the UN in 2000, that call for greater efforts to sharply reduce global poverty and achieve universal access to education and health by the year 2015.
This statement is the good news the world is looking for in these troubled times, said CNN founder Ted Turner, one of the business leaders and philanthropists who signed the statement, in presenting it to Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the executive director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), and Deputy Secretary General, Louise Frechette.
It underscores the need for cooperation across every sector and country, to realize our shared dream for a world that is equitable, peaceful, and healthy, he said.
The statement came on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo where representatives of 179 governments adopted a plan of action that affirmed the fundamental rights of women, including their sexual and reproductive rights, and set specific targets for their achievement.
The targets included universal access to family planning, safe motherhood, treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), such as HIV/AIDS, basic education and greater opportunities for social and economic advancement.
But the Bush administration, which has cut off funding of UNFPA and repeatedly voiced reservations about the ICPDs commitment to sexual and reproductive rights, declined to sign on to the statement.
In a letter to the organizers, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kelly Ryan said Washington was committed to goals and objectives of the ICPD, but that it was unable to endorse the statement. The statement includes the concept of sexual rights, a term that has no agreed definition in the international community, goes beyond what was agreed to at Cairo, and is not a component of the ICPD, the letter asserted.
The United States, which helped draft and strongly supported the Cairo plan of action, as well as the UN women s conference in Beijing in 1995, abruptly changed course after Bush became president six years later.
It has not only refused to spend over US$70 million in contributions approved by Congress to UNFPA, but has also sought to weaken international support for the ICPD and the Beijing platform of action by lobbying so far, unsuccessfully other countries to back its efforts to exclude references to sexual and reproductive health services in regional conferences in Latin America and Asia.
Last spring, senior officials even threatened to withhold U.S. contributions to other UN and private agencies, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children s Fund (UNICEF), if they failed to break their links to UNFPA, despite its active role in the global fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Bush has charged that the UNFPA, by providing support to Chinas Health Ministry, indirectly supports a program of forcible abortion and sterilization in several countries in China, although the State Department and a series of investigations by other private groups have concluded that the agencys work in China has actually encouraged its government to abandon coercive practices in its population program.
As one of his first acts in office, Bush also reinstated the so-called global gag rule first decreed by former President Ronald Reagan.
Under it, foreign family planning agencies may not receive any U.S. foreign aid if they provide any abortion-related services, including counseling or referrals on abortion, or even lobbying to relax anti-abortion laws in their own country, even if they use their own money for that purpose.
Some U.S. lawmakers and a number of feminist groups have accused the administration of waging a war against women in its international population policies.
Indeed, Washington teamed up this week with the Vatican, a staunch ally in its opposition to sexual and reproductive health rights, and some conservative Islamic countries in order to prevent a formal review of progress toward achieving the goals of the ICPD by the General Assembly in addition to marking its 10th anniversary that would result in a final communique.
The head of the UN Foundation, former Sen. Tim Wirth, noted that Washingtons position on the reproductive rights, and its abdication of its leadership on the issue, created a lot of disappointment at the UN. As undersecretary of state for global issues, Wirth played a major role at both the Cairo and Beijing conferences.
Washingtons isolation was made clear by the leaders who signed the statement, among them Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, Mexican President Vicente Fox, all of the heads of government of the European Union (EU), Botswanas president Festus Mogae, as well as a more than a dozen other African leaders, and the leaders of China, Japan, Indonesia, and Pakistan.
In addition to Clinton, former President Jimmy Carter also signed the statement, as well as former WHO chief and Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland.
In addition to Carter, more than two dozen Nobel laureates were also listed as signatories, including the Rev. Bishop Desmond Tutu and former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias.
The statement noted that global contributions to the achievement of the MDGs were lagging. For 2005, some $18 billion was to have been devoted achieving universal health care and sharp reductions in infant and maternal mortality rates, but that current contributions were running about $3 billion short. The rapid spread of HIV/AIDS also required more funding than originally anticipated.
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Eighty-Five Nations Back Population Agenda
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Eighty-Five Nations Back Population Agenda
Wed Oct 13, 8:04 PM ET
By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS - The United States has refused to join 85 other heads of state and government in signing a statement that endorsed a 10-year-old U.N. plan to ensure every woman's right to education, health care, and choice about having children.
President Bush (news - web sites)'s administration withheld its signature because the statement included a reference to "sexual rights."
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kelly Ryan wrote to organizers of the statement that that the United States was committed to the Cairo plan of 1994 and "to the empowerment of women and the need to promote women's fullest enjoyment of universal human rights."
"The United States is unable, however, to endorse the world leaders' statement," Ryan said, because it "includes the concept of `sexual rights,' a term that has no agreed definition in the international community."
Ryan did not elaborate on the Bush administration's objections to the phrase "sexual rights," but at past U.N. meetings U.S. representatives have spoken out against abortion, gay rights and what they see as the promotion of promiscuity by giving condoms to young people to prevent AIDS (news - web sites).
The statement of new global support for the Cairo plan was given Wednesday to Deputy Secretary-General Louise Frechette by media mogul Ted Turner, who has lent significant financial support to the world body through his United Nations (news - web sites) Foundation.
The 1994 Cairo program, signed by 179 countries, including the United States, says women have the "right to make decisions concerning reproduction, free of discrimination, coercion and violence as expressed in human rights documents."
The support statement notes that in 1994 "the world's governments and civil society committed to an action plan to ensure universal access to reproductive health information and services, uphold fundamental human rights including sexual and reproductive rights, alleviate poverty, secure gender equality, and protect the environment."
While progress has been made, the statement says the world is facing an exponential increase in HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS, a growing gap between rich and poor, persistently high death rates related to pregnancy and childbirth, and inadequate access to family planning services.
The Cairo support statement was signed by leaders of 85 nations including the entire European Union (news - web sites), China, Japan, Indonesia, Pakistan and more than a dozen African countries as well as 22 former world leaders, notably Presidents Carter and Clinton.
The Bush administration responded only on Tuesday to organizers who had asked for the president's support.
While refusing to sign the followup statement, the United States did endorse a platform that specifically mentioned reproductive rights a year after the Cairo plan was adopted. The endorsement came at the 1995 U.N. women's conference in Beijing.
The United States took a leading role in drafting the Beijing document, which states: "The human rights of women include their right to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence."
Bush has blocked $34 million in congressionally approved annual assistance to the United Nations Population Fund, alleging the U.N. agency helped China manage programs that involved forced abortions. China calls the charge baseless.
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"The human rights of women include their right to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence."
Anyone disagrees?
What else to add, really? That Bush is an asshole? A well-known fact, besides, that'd turn this thread into a political one, and we know the rules =)
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lisa, get me a beer.
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W stands for "Walker"
What does Kerry stand for ?
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| Chopinzee wrote: | W stands for "Walker"
What does Kerry stand for ? |
"Kerry" stands for "better than Bush" 
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A summary would have been nice 
I personally think the money and the discussion should cover all human rights and both sexes, forcing a distinction seems like discrimination (even though some may call positive discrimination it still is discrimination).
In the UK the rights of males are now under discussion, as discrimination has gone the other way. If the law would address the rights of the person, being blind to the sex it would make life a lot fairer and simpler.
And I also think there should be no tax on sanitary and shaving products. |
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| myuser wrote: | | I personally think the money and the discussion should cover all human rights and both sexes, forcing a distinction seems like discrimination (even though some may call positive discrimination it still is discrimination). |
It's just that there are some things which are sex-dependent. Or are you advocating abortion rights for males as well as females? =)
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>>> It's just that there are some things which are sex-dependent. Or are you advocating abortion rights for males as well as females? =)
that is an interesting dilemma. Should the Father have a right in the say of an abortion?
What if the child was grown in a test tube, would that make a difference? |
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| funny all the Bush supporters have to say is basically spin with comedy.. there\s no defence for this action.. |
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| SoLC wrote: | | funny all the Bush supporters have to say is basically spin with comedy.. there\s no defence for this action.. |
ever occur to you that he has more important things to do than show up at some useless summit ?
Like actually doing his job
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| Isn't that part of his job. Like going to at least one funeral of somebody that died in his war, which I recall hearing he didn't do . |
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He blocked 34 million over abortion, he is anti abortion.
And abortion is a tough one; when is human life achieved, when does abortion become murder. Should the rights of the parents outweigh the rights of the unborn, but possibly sentient child at week eight into gestation. |
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| It only follows that the best defense for a wankering low IQ buffon would be wankering low IQ on liners eh? |
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| duder wrote: | | lisa, get me a beer. |
Piss off, wait til you're of age, and buy one yourself.
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Clinton knew about women's rights, right between his legs.
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| stonent wrote: | | Clinton knew about women's rights, right between his legs. |
very clever <golf clap>
pfft... |
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| stonent wrote: | | Clinton knew about women's rights, right between his legs. |
That's like saying Bush would be an ideal candidate for those "This is your brain on drugs"-commercials 
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Why does everyone like clinton so much?
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| stonent wrote: | | Why does everyone like clinton so much? |
Dunno (I'm personally much more to the left) 
Why does everyone like Bush so much?
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| Would you PLEASE use the OFFICIAL political thread. Jesus. |
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| Peter_G wrote: | | stonent wrote: | | Clinton knew about women's rights, right between his legs. |
That's like saying Bush would be an ideal candidate for those "This is your brain on drugs"-commercials |
Yeah, snorting all those lines of sweet uncut columbian coke sure makes him an ideal choice. And damn, even his nervous system got baked, look at his crooked mouth/lip, permanantly fuxored. Even then he did not understand the concept of moderation. Imagine that. The way he responds to questions, taking like a minute to think of that run-on sentence responce he's about to give, leads me to believe his brain must be that very same egg in the frying pan that they'd show us all the time. |
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| Slyde wrote: | | Would you PLEASE use the OFFICIAL political thread. Jesus. |
Point taken.
Backpedalling onto women's rights
Yes, abortion should be a woman's own descision.
But what happens when she wants the baby and he doesn't?
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| Peter_G wrote: | | But what happens when she wants the baby and he doesn't? |
Divorce.
Hint for men: think before you fuck!
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| Slyde wrote: | | Would you PLEASE use the OFFICIAL political thread. Jesus. |
You give women a few rights and they think they can just go off and break all the rules... Sheesh.. 
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