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(C-Fam – Geneva<\/a>) It was Iceland\u2019s turn to have its human rights record reviewed by other UN member states on Tuesday.\u00a0 The Nordic country, which has faced scrutiny for its extremely high rate of selective abortion of children with Down syndrome, was urged to combat this discrimination, and to increase support for all persons with disabilities.<\/p>\n

Iceland drew international headlines in 2017 when CBS News\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that Iceland had come close to \u201ceradicating Down syndrome births.\u201d\u00a0 The resulting outrage prompted the nation\u2019s government to issue a\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0clarifying that there was not a government policy to eliminate Down syndrome.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the evidence of a discriminatory cultural standard was clear from the stark data that showed nearly 100% of children with the diagnosis were aborted.<\/p>\n

At a UN human rights meeting on Tuesday in Geneva, only two governments criticized Iceland on the question of Down syndrome.\u00a0 The delegate from the Philippines said Iceland should \u201ctake immediate and effective steps to combat discrimination against persons with disabilities, particularly those with Down syndrome and strengthen public awareness campaigns to uphold their rights and provide comprehensive support and assistance to concerned persons and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Iran also specifically called on Iceland to address discrimination against persons with Down syndrome.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0criticism\u00a0<\/a>was part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a human rights mechanism in which every country in the UN system undergoes a human rights checkup by its fellow members and receives specific recommendations on how it can improve its record.\u00a0 These recommendations are not binding, and the recipient country subsequently responds to each in turn by either \u201csupporting\u201d or \u201cnoting\u201d it…<\/p>\n

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Editor\u2019s Note: Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.\u00a0writes for C-Fam. This article<\/a> first appeared in the Friday Fax, an internet report published weekly by C-Fam (Center for Family & Human Rights), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute (https:\/\/c-fam.org\/<\/a>). This article appears with permission.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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(C-Fam – Geneva) It was Iceland\u2019s turn to have its human rights record reviewed by other UN member states on Tuesday.\u00a0 The Nordic country, which has faced scrutiny for its extremely high rate of selective abortion of children with Down syndrome, was urged to combat this discrimination, and to increase support for all persons with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":202032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7077,7,5],"tags":[11267,1100,429,15512,1116,11476,738,450,15513],"yoast_head":"\nUN Human Rights review ignores Iceland's 100% Down syndrome abortion rate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"During a UN Human Rights review of Iceland, only two nations commented on the nation's discrimination against preborn children with Down syndrome.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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