Laura Dowling

diplomats, policymakers like myself around the table saying, I can agree to this, but I can't agree to this.

Can we just change that wording a little bit?

Because culturally it won't pass in my country or it won't pass in my government.

And that's the type of flow.

Now, seven years ago when I first got elected, this was all new to me.

So I'm always conscious when I'm explaining, people are like, what is she talking about?

But

At the level of the United Nations, to think that the process was then deemed, you know, the United States started really pushing out this content to say the process was flawed.

We didn't have time.

This is unjust.

Our comments weren't taken on board.

But if you look at the entire process from start to finish, they were nowhere to be seen.

And then all of a sudden created chaos in the last decade.

in the last 24 hours.

And they work in blocks.

So the Netherlands called for a vote.

And the reason they had to do that was because if they left it any longer, the likes of the Trump administration would have sadly probably rallied a few more countries under pressure.

And then you would have saw more countries vote against.

Now, in all fairness to it, 84% voted in favour, so that's a positive.

But to think in 2026, when gender-based violence, as I said, is on a rise, when the likes of deepfake, so AI-generated content, when we have FGM, female genital mutilation, on the rise, when AIDS is on the rise, when you're seeing wars throughout the world, famine, drought, and again...