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Stewart argues such a treaty would be unverifiable and unenforceable because it ignores ground-based, electronic, cyber, and dual-use on-orbit capabilities, and fails to define a \"space weapon.\"","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000170#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The U.S. and its partners successfully led an effort in the UN First Committee in October 2022 to prohibit direct ascent destructive antisatellite (ASAT) tests, which resulted in 155 countries in the General Assembly agreeing to the prohibition in December 2022, despite opposition from Russia and China.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000170#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"U.S. interagency coordination on space security has become more difficult since the cancellation of the White House Space Council under the current Trump Administration, as diplomatic roles are now divided across the Defense, Commerce, and State Departments.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000170#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The U.S. State Department should restart bilateral and multilateral space security dialogues, including engagement with China, to share threat perceptions, understand partner perspectives, and avoid miscalculation.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000170#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["international law"],"geography_discussed":["People's Republic of China","Russia"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy recommendation","testimony"]},{"id":"foei-001089","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/foei-001089","title":"les femmes et la souverainete alimentaire : les voix des femmes rurales du sud","publisher":{"name":"Friends of the Earth International","organization":"friends-of-the-earth-international"},"document_type":"report","language":"fr","date_published":"2011-07","source_url":"https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/les-femmes-et-la-souverainete-alimentaire.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document argues that the dominant agro-industrial model, driven by profit and export, marginalizes rural women by ignoring their role in social reproduction and denying them land rights. 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