US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that the United States was renewing its membership in an international agreement that critics say aims to limit access to abortion for millions of women and girls around the world. of the world.
“Today, the United States informed the signatories of the Geneva Consensus Declaration of our intention to rejoin immediately,” it said in a statement.
The Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD) was co-sponsored by the United States, Brazil, Uganda, Egypt, Hungary and Indonesia in 2020.
In January 2021, former US President Joe Biden chose to remove the United States from the article.
Brazil’s participation
In January 2023, created by Donald Trump with the support of then-president Jair Bolsonaro.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the document has “a limiting understanding of sexual and reproductive rights and the concept of family and may compromise the full implementation of national legislation on the matter, including the principles of the Unified Health System (SUS)”.
