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U.S. Rejects U.N. Plan for Women
The Associated Press via Truthout
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-populate14oct14,1,84268.story
Thursday 14 October 2004
United Nations - The United States has refused to join 85 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, healthcare and choice about having children.
The Bush administration said it withheld its signature because the statement
included a reference to "sexual rights."
Kelly Ryan, deputy assistant secretary of State, wrote to backers of the plan
that the United States was committed "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. At previous U.N. meetings, U.S. representatives have
spoken out against abortion, gay rights and what they see as the promotion of
promiscuity by distributing condoms to prevent AIDS.
The statement was signed by leaders of 85 nations, including those in the
European Union, China, Japan, Indonesia, Pakistan and more than a dozen African
countries, as well as 22 former world leaders.
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