The United States cast the only 'no' vote at the UN's premier women's rights body, triggering a standing ovation across the General Assembly Hall as 37 nations backed a landmark gender-equality document the Trump administration had fought to block.
The 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) opened at UN Headquarters in New York under the theme 'Ensuring and Strengthening Access to Justice for All Women and Girls.' It had been marked for weeks by an unusually combative US negotiating posture, and when the vote finally came, the result drew tears, applause, and near-universal condemnation of Washington's stance.
