Signatories of the U.S.-Led Artemis Accords Meet in Person for the First Time

the resolution] that multilateral environmental agreements are implemented ‘under the principles of international environmental law’ or have any bearing on any State’s international legal obligations. There is no single set of principles under which multilateral environmental agreements operate, and such agreements are each implemented in accordance with their own provisions and are applicable only to those States that have joined them.”36 U.S. support for Resolution 76/300 is in marked contrast to its usual attitude toward the recognition of new human rights. The United States was alone in its vote against the 1986 resolution recognizing the right to development, a position that it reiterated as recently as 2020.37 It voted against the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, although it later reversed its position.38 It abstained on the resolution recognizing the human right to water and sanitation in 2010.39 It is one of six states that have not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and it is the only state that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child.40