More than 170 countries pledged Thursday October 1 at a virtual UN summit to do more for women's rights, Beijing releasing $ 10 million for the UN Women agency while the United States denounced the
"murder millions ”
of girls by China.
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The meeting was organized on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly to mark the 25th anniversary of the Beijing International Conference on Women held in 1995, which resulted in the adoption of a program of actions in various fields. .
Some fifty presidents and heads of government attended from more than 170 countries represented.
"Over the next five years, China will donate an additional $ 10 million to UN Women,"
Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a pre-recorded video.
“China is also proposing the convening in 2025 of another global leaders' meeting on gender equality and the empowerment of women,”
he added.
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In her also pre-recorded speech, United States Education Secretary Betsy DeVos strongly denounced the treatment of women in Venezuela, Cuba and Iran.
"But the worst offender, both in scope and scale, is hosting the conference we are commemorating today,"
she said, citing China.
“Since 1995, the Chinese Communist Party has been responsible for the murder of millions of baby girls through brutal demographic controls on an industrial scale, unfortunately with the support of UN agencies.
Today, it attacks the ethnic group of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities by applying these same population controls on these vulnerable minorities, subjecting women to compulsory sterilization, forced abortion and compulsory birth control ”
, did she say.
France has for its part confirmed that an international forum on women will be organized in Paris in June 2021 with the assistance of Mexico.
Due to the pandemic, the two countries had canceled this meeting scheduled for July in the French capital.
"In 2020, the Beijing declaration would have no chance of being adopted,"
said French President Emmanuel Macron, denouncing the decline in women's rights around the world.
"This decline, I cannot, we cannot resign ourselves to it
," he said.
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