It may not sound like much, but the attempted insertion of the word “recalls” in place of “reaffirms” about previous women’s rights agreements by the Holy See in the first line of the proposed draft document set the tone for much of the negotiations at this year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
Coming in a reference to the ground-breaking 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, it hinted that not all countries represented at the CSW viewed progress made in the past few decades on women’s rights as positive. Some had come to the negotiating table with the intention of trying to turn back the clock. The efforts of Iran, Russia, Syria and the Holy See were particularly passionate.
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