Trump Officials Demand End to “DEI” Within UN Women’s and Children’s Programs
Originally published by Sharon Zhang for Truthout
U.S. officials are targeting programs for women’s and children’s rights within the United Nations, demanding that they end any supposed emphasis on “gender ideology” or diversity, equity and inclusion as they work to combat human rights violations and uplift violently oppressed populations.
Last Friday, U.S. officials offered amendments to routine UNICEF program documents, forcing a vote on their adoption for the first time in history.
The amendments pressured the agency, which focuses on children’s rights and providing protections for disadvantaged children, to erase language in the documents that “promotes gender ideology and diversity, equity, and inclusion and also objects to any UNICEF efforts to advance such programming in countries,” Devex reports.