Belém, Brazil, Nov 19, 2025 (AFP) - COP30 dragged into clash over gender language

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2025-11-19
Conservative delegations from the Vatican to Iran are pushing to narrow the definition of "gender" at UN climate talks in Brazil -- a move aimed at excluding trans and non-binary people and threatening to complicate the summit's outcome. The effort, which seeks to use footnotes of key texts to attach country-specific interpretations, would set a "harmful precedent" that could seep into other shared decisions taken by the UN's climate body, oppone......
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