Last week the United States threatened to veto a UN Security Council resolution aimed at ending sexual violence in conflict, forcing a last minute change to remove references to sexual and reproductive health services for survivors. The move represented a dangerous escalation of the Trump administration’s increasingly hardline stance at the United Nations by foisting its regressive agenda on the UN Security Council. The text in question, Resolution 2467, echoed previous UN Security Council resolutions on sexual violence in conflict, and included a specific reference to sexual and reproductive health services for survivors. The Trump administration objected to this language due to its aggressive anti-abortion stance and, after several weeks of negotiation, threatened to veto the resolution if commitments to providing sexual and reproductive health services to
From https://iwhc.org/2019/04/trump-administration-escalates-war-words-un/
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