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Hungary formed an anti-abortion coalition with 31 other countries around the world at a virtual meeting in Washington, the US capital, on Thursday. Called the “Geneva Consensus Declaration,” the proclamation was supported not only by the Viktor Orbán government, but also by illiberal icons such as the president of the United States, Donald Trump, or the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. Additionally, Hungary, the United States, and Brazil, along with three other authoritarian countries, Egypt, Indonesia, and Uganda, co-sponsored the declaration, which was signed by countries not only known for their unfettered application of human rights, especially women’s rights, like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Sudan, South Sudan or Libya.
The Guardian described the extent to which signatories do not respect women’s rights, reporting in the news that “the majority of signatories are among the twenty worst in the world in terms of women’s rights according to the Women, Peace Index and Security “. Of the twenty countries that most respect women’s rights, only the United States has joined.
Only three countries in Europe have signed it. Outside of Hungary, one is Poland, where the Constitutional Court today has just essentially limited the possibility of a legal abortion to the two cases where the life of the mother is in danger or the child is conceived through rape. In the latter case, it will allow an abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy at the latest. The other is Belarus.
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