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INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
MISSING: US Support for Women at the Annual Commission on the Status of Women Meetings
March 17, 2005
The United Nations’ annual Commission on the Status of Women meetings wrapped up on March 11. This year’s Commission meetings also marked the 10 th Anniversary of the Beijing Conference on Women and resulting Beijing Platform for Action. The US delegation spent much of the two-week long meetings opposing a statement which reaffirmed the Platform for Action, arguing for a sentence declaring that the Beijing Platform “does not include the right to abortion.”
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MISSING: ACCURATE INFORMATION ON WOMEN AND THE ELECTION… IN AFGHANISTAN
October 1, 2004
In the first presidential debate of the 2004 election season, President Bush made claim to “victory” in Afghanistan, stating that: “Ten million citizens have registered to vote.” He went on to say: “Forty-one percent of those 10 million are women.” Bush neglected to mention that those statistics have recently come into serious doubt. Research conducted by Human Rights Watch found that Bush’s claim that 40% of women are registered “ignores the likelihood that tens of thousands of women have been registered more than once (some believing their voting card would entitle them to benefits or food rations), and masks regional variation in the figures, including data from some southern provinces showing that less than 10% of those registered are women.”
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UPDATE - "America's Commitment" to International Agreements on Women's Rights
Recently, the U.S. government has been distancing itself from its international obligations, leaving the health, economic security, and rights of women in jeopardy. Geeta Rao Gupta, head of the International Center for Research on Women (NCRW Member Center), says of these actions: "Prioritizing political agendas and ideological opinions that grow out of the misguided morality of a few over scientific evidence and public health imperatives is not just wrong - it is fatal. It can cost tens of millions of lives."
UPDATE: On July 16, 2004, the Bush Administration decided, for the third year in a row, to withhold $34 million dollars from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), a move which puts the lives of women around the world in danger.
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