Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
  • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
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    8 days ago

    Looks like the US is intent on starting this year with a bang.

    The list is HUGE and spans across so many agencies and so many disciplines it’s absurd.

    I mean FFS does Donny J actually mean to tell us that the “Science and Technology Center in Ukraine” runs contrary to US interests?

    If that’s actually true - that doesn’t spell good things for the US’s future intentions for Ukraine.

    Also a few of these are rather telling of the current trajectory of the US’s policies:

    • Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development;

    • Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services;

    • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    • International Renewable Energy Agency;

    • International Union for Conservation of Nature;

    • UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries;

    For starters this is a metric fuck tonne of environmental initiatives to pull out of, and shows the Republican-led US is going to be making a generational push towards screwing over the environment.

    … And then some other notable initiatives:

    • Freedom Online Coalition;

    • Global Forum on Migration and Development;

    • Global Counterterrorism Forum;

    • International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property;

    • International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance;

    • International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law;

    • UN International Law Commission;

    • UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals;

    • UN International Trade Centre;

    • UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict; Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict; and Secretary-General on Violence Against Children;

    • UN Democracy Fund;

    • UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women;

    It’s rather concerning how many of the councils the US is pulling out from relate to international law, upholding democracy, and to human rights in general.