FILE PHOTO: Members of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) agency take photos of the logo as they arrive at ICAO headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, Canada October 1, 2022. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File Photo
MONTREAL (Reuters) -The United States wants to rename and defund a UN aviation agency's "gender" program that promotes participation by women in aviation, as President Donald Trump's administration takes on diversity policies ahead of a fall gathering of high-level aerospace regulators.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) should rename its Gender Equality Programme as the Empowerment Program for Women, "in order to remove the ideological term of 'gender,'", the U.S. wrote in a working paper ahead of the U.N. agency's triennial assembly which starts on September 23.
