Laura Dowling
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Appearances Over Time
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It's just a cool city.
It's a great city.
Yeah.
So not to bore everybody, but there's a combination of what's happening in
That's being published and publicised, say, the Trump administration has pulled away from certain sectors of the United Nations.
They stayed involved in the UN Women and for the first time in 70 years of this commission, so in short CSW, that solely looks at women, young girls around the world for the first time in 70 years, they couldn't find a consensus on the final text.
And this is where all countries come together and say that the theme this year was access to justice.
So you would imagine all countries understanding where we are right now with women, 51% of the population, various issues between gender-based violence, lack of pay, health policy, what's happening online is spewing into offline.
You would imagine...
that there wouldn't be a need to have a vote.
But sadly, the United States administration tabled what we call eight amendments, the first being the definition of a woman, the second around misinformation and disinformation.
And in many ways, just there's nothing to see here.
Nothing needs to change.
And challenged a lot of the belief systems around women still need access to education.
There was language from this NGO called CFAM, which is a conservative right-wing group that is
for lack of better terminology, believes women's role are only in the home and not within wider society.
Body autonomy belongs to said husband versus thyself.
And you've seen a lot of the language from there.
But if you park that even, we spoke to the UN rapporteur for this file, right?
And she was a Chilean ambassador for,