Trump sends letter asking Bolsonaro for help against abortion, sexual education and genderism
23. 9. 2019 / Fabiano Golgo
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In
a letter confirmed by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the
White House asks president Jair Bolsonaro, who will make the speech that
opens the UN General Assembly on the 23rd of September, to join an
alliance to impose an ultra-conservative agenda at the UN next week.
President
Donald Trump's letter was addressed also a group of other conservative
governments that include Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, Phillipines,
Hungary and Poland. He asks those countries to establish an alliance at
the UN General Assembly. The goal is to veto any attempt to pass
resolutions that seek to extend sexual rights or implement sex
education. The text was also co-signed by Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of
State, and US Secretary of Health Alex Azar. In it, the Americans urge
Brazil to join a joint statement, to be released in New York, with the
aim of adopting an attitude contrary to terms such as "sexual and
reproductive health".
According
to the letter, the goal is also to ensure that "our shared values"
prevail at the United Nations. In the correspondence, America calls on
the Brazilian government to "join the United States to ensure that each
sovereign state has the ability to determine the best way to protect the
unborn and to defend the family as the fundamental unit of a vital
society for children to thrive and to have a healthy life ".
Washington
also says that they are "seriously concerned about aggressive efforts
to reinterpret international instruments to create a new international
right to abortion and to promote international policies that weaken the
Family, which have advanced through some UN forums."
Later,
it is written that "Evidence of this is found in references in many
multilateral global health policy documents interpret comprehensive sex
education and sexual and reproductive health rights in a way that seeks
"to diminish the role of parents". The US assessment is that such terms
have been manipulated to lead to the "promotion of abortion".
The
White House also denounces "pressure on countries to abandon the
religious principles and cultural norms enshrined in the law that
protect unborn life." (...) "Efforts to advance these harmful policies
in multilateral contexts where global health policy is debated and
defined, such as the United Nations and affiliated bodies as the World
Health Organization, are disturbing and must be challenged," they argue.
"They take the focus off real health issues and import policy debates
that need to be addressed at the national, subnational or community
levels," it is argued.
In
May, the Brazilian government had already joined the Americans during
the World Health Assembly in presenting a "joint statement calling on
nations to promote positive women's health programs and initiatives in
line with sustainable development goals, but stating unambiguously that
some terms and expressions are confusing and associated with anti-family
and pro-abortion policies."
At
the UN Human Rights Council, Brazil has also taken a stance contrary to
any reference to the terms of sexual and reproductive rights, while
rejecting the reference to "gender equality".
United
with the US, Russia, India, Turkey, Arab and African countries, plus
former communist bloc countries, Brazil is certain that human rights
will go back to the times when only White heterosexual males had a
voice.
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