No Comment, No Conscience: UN Women Delegates Hide Behind Silence as Hypocrisy Deepens

Geneva — Al Jazeera | Not a single response. Not a word from the people inside the chamber.

After today’s revelations exposing hypocrisy among delegates inside the UN Women Council — nations preaching transgender recognition abroad while erasing it at home — the silence has been absolute. Not one delegate from Canada, the United States, Peru, the Netherlands, Spain, or Croatia has addressed the allegations.

It is the kind of silence that reeks of guilt, not diplomacy.

These are the same countries that stood in the chamber, draped in the language of inclusion and justice. Yet when confronted with the realities of restricted healthcare in Canada, bans in the U.S., bureaucratic cruelty in Spain, and systemic neglect in Peru and Croatia, their microphones went mute.

Requests for comment were met with locked doors, blank stares, and rehearsed indifference. One delegate from a self-proclaimed “progressive” European state walked past journalists without a glance, muttering only, “No statement at this time.”

If silence could be measured in hypocrisy, Geneva would be deafening.

Behind the walls of the Palais des Nations, the council continues as if nothing has happened — resolutions are still being drafted, speeches still read from polished tablets, all while transgender and non-binary people continue to face legal invisibility in the very nations that claim to defend them.

This silence is not neutrality. It is complicity dressed in diplomacy.