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标题：Third attempt to weaken the Cairo consensus on women's rights
作者：Karen Ann Gajewski
期刊名称：Humanist
印刷版ISSN：0018-7399
电子版ISSN：2163-3576
出版年度：2004
卷号：May-June 2004
出版社：American Humanist Association

Third attempt to weaken the Cairo consensus on women's rights

Karen Ann Gajewski

* At the same time as the developing world moved toward enlightened women's rights attitudes, the Bush administration was working hard at its third attempt to weaken the Cairo consensus on women's rights--an effort that backfired at a regional conference on international women's health in Santiago, Chile. The U.S. delegation tried determinedly to edit the conference's boilerplate draft declaration of support for the Cairo consensus by deleting references to reproductive health, family planning services, sexual health, and condoms, among other changes. In the end, the United States was the lone dissenter.