Thread by @didikins4life

This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: 🇺🇸 Democracy and Human Rights
🇺🇸 Only one party will make gender equality a key foreign policy priority and work to achieve gender parity across our national security team. 1/13

Around the world, democracy and human rights are under greater assault than they have been in a generation. 2/13 #DemPartyPlatform #HumanRights

Under President Trump, the United States has too often been part of the assault and too rarely engaged in the defense and promotion of universal values. 3/13 #DemPartyPlatform #HumanRights #HumanityFirst

#Democrats believe that the fight for universal values should start at home, but it can’t end there. Global democratic backsliding and the erosion of human rights put our interests and values at risk. 4/13 #DemPartyPlatform #ProtectDemocracy #HumanRights

That’s why the reinvention of American leadership demands we put democratic values at the core of our foreign policy, with renewed strategies and tools for a new era. 5/13 #DemPartyPlatform #AmericanLeadership #DemocraticValues

#Democrats will make gender equality a key foreign policy priority and work to achieve gender parity across our national security team. 6/13 #DemPartyPlatform #GenderEquality

We will implement the Women, Peace, and Security Act because advancing gender equality enhances stability and economic prosperity around the world. 7/13
#DemPartyPlatform #GenderEquality

Along with our diplomatic partners, #Democrats will incorporate more women into peace processes—where their participation can improve the odds of a peace agreement holding—and ensure women’s leadership in peace and security processes globally. 8/13 #DemPartyPlatform

#Democrats will lead international efforts to address the scourge of gender-based violence, and we will work to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. 9/13 #DemPartyPlatform #CEDAW

#Democrats will push for greater participation by women in the global workforce, which studies show can boost global GDP by 25 percent. 10/13 #DemPartyPlatform

#Democrats will always protect sexual and reproductive health and rights. We believe that comprehensive health services, including access to reproductive care and abortion services, are vital to the empowerment of women and girls. 11/13 #DemPartyPlatform #ReproductiveRights

#Democrats will support the repeal of the global gag rule (also known as the Mexico City Policy) and measures like the Helms Amendment, which limit safe access to abortion. 12/13 #DemPartyPlatform #RepealHelmsAmendment

#Democrats will also restore and expand American contributions to the United
Nations Population Fund to help guarantee access to health care for women and children around the world and eliminate child, early,and forced marriage. 13/13 #DemPartyPlatform #reproductivehealth #UNFPA