Some countries have banned selective abortion based on the sex of the fetus. They mean well, but this is as bad as any other attack on abortion rights.

When women decide on abortion based on the sex of the fetus, that usually reflects bigotry against women, which we should oppose. However, the worldwide conservative assault against abortion rights (and, beyond that, contraception, homosexual rights, and more) must be opposed too. To support any plan to restrict abortions supports that assault and puts all sorts of sexual freedoms in danger. If intended as a way to oppose bigotry, it may backfire, since the religious groups that oppose abortion tend to be very sexist.

We should denounce and oppose sexist bigotry in other ways, not this way.

The US continues to protect right-wing murderers, including the man accused of murdering singer Victor Jara in Chile as part of the US-organized coup.

The US does not mention this when it criticizes countries that protect Edward Snowden.

In the Majuro declaration, Australia and New Zealand agreed to the need to end greenhouse gas emissions.

There is no way to eliminate them completely; we breathe out CO2. (The biosphere can absorb a certain rate of emissions.) However, the goal of eliminating the emissions is correct as a first approximation.

US citizens: support reform of the US mining law, to reduce pollution and make mining companies pay.

Genetically engineered rice, touted as a supposed solution to Vitamin A shortage in parts of the world, has not been tested enough to be sure it really helps, or even is safe.