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Global: Committee postpones giving children a ‘right’ to abortion and transgender treatment

Global: Committee postpones giving children a ‘right’ to abortion and transgender treatment
Citizen Go campaigners
ET staff writer
ET staff writer
20 April, 2026 1 min read

CitizenGo has claimed an 'important disruption' after the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child postponed making a decision on 'dangerous' wording in General Comment No. 27.

General Comment 27 is a new interpretation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child that could influence courts, governments, schools, and hospitals around the world.

The wording in the 19-page draft document contained text that would have enshrined abortion for minors and gender transition as 'children's rights'.

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