Under a directive from President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell reviewed 55 “special offices” within the State Department, deciding to abolish 21 of them. Powell provisionally kept 25 special offices, but the State Department announced that six of them will be reviewed in the near future, among them the interagency council on women. The abolishment of this office would be detrimental to women’s human rights, and would limit the U.S.’s ability to respond to humanitarian crises that affect women worldwide. The position was established under former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
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