By evading its U.N. human rights review, America ignores what the world sees clearly: Texans suffering under abortion bans.
By Irma L. Garcia
Nov 10, 2025
Last week, at the United Nations in Geneva, the United States was scheduled to undergo a human rights review that all U.N. member states participate in every four and a half years. Instead, the U.S. boycotted its mandatory review, a critically important mechanism for holding countries accountable for their human rights records.
If the review happened as it should, the U.S. reproductive rights crisis would be on full display. For almost 25 years, Jane’s Due Process has helped young Texans access reproductive health care, and since the fall of Roe, we’ve helped more than 300 teens travel out of state for abortion care.
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