A group of four countries — Saudi Arabia, the Vatican, Egypt and Russia — are leading a backlash against women’s rights at COP29, five negotiators told us.
🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/petro-patriarchy-pope-saudis-vatican-womens-rights-backlash-cop29-gender-equality-climate-change/
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The Vatican owes it statehood to Benito Mussolini, after the Italian kings abolished the Medieval papal states finally in 1870.
Without the fascists, the pope could not claim to be received as a head of state, nor have access to intergovernmental organisations like the COP