Trump and Women’s rights
The Trump administration is determined to please its Talevangelical base, who like their Vorbild (role model), the Taliban, want to see women only in the home, meekly supporting their men, cooking and cleaning and washing up. So at a UN meeting on women’s rights this week in New York, it reversed decades of US policy, calling on other countries to join a coalition pushing the elimination of what it calls “ambiguous” terms and expressions, such as sexual and reproductive health, from U.N. documents. Alarmed by the US push, EU countries organized their own coalition to push for their understanding of women’s rights. I won’t go into the details of the 2 documents issued by the duelling coalitions, but only on the list of countries supporting each document. The US statement was supported by 19 countries, and thus started like this: We are pleased to speak on behalf of the United States of America, Bahrain, Belarus, Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Guatemala...