Two years ago, the OECD issued a damning report into the UK application of the convention, which Britain ratified in 2001, and made veiled reference to concerns over the Saudi case, which involved allegations of multi-million-pound payments to Saudi officials in an attempt to win orders for Tornado and Hawk jets made by BAE Systems.
Even if this internal resistance agrees with Trump's stepped-up deportations of longtime residents and thinly veiled Muslim ban out of genuine concern about immigration levels, does it object to this agenda's white-nationalist and Islamophobic foundation or to the administration's efforts to disguise it with fake policy rationales steeped in bottomless bad faith?
This isn't the first series that the Facebook-based group (which despite its lofty name, actually has just over 85,000 followers) has targeted with threats of boycotts that will ultimately fail, and thinly veiled bigotry wrapped up in supposed concern for America's children.
They also hint that if the country's academics are unable to stand up for free speech they risk being internationally marginalised – a veiled threat that will be of serious concern to the Saudi authorities, who have been keen to market the country as a burgeoning research hub.
Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights, who noted the high number of attacks on veiled women as an area of particular concern in his 2014 report on France, is critical of what he called the country's "preoccupation" with Muslim women's attire.
This time however, the buzz was missing, and his veiled threat to Iran seems of little concern to Ahmadinejad.
Colorado lawmakers debated enacting a fetal homicide law this spring, but the proposal failed, in part because of concerns that it was a veiled attempt to criminalize abortion.
In 2006, then leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw wrote of his "concerns" after a meeting with a veiled Muslim woman in his Blackburn constituency – he later apologised.
It was not clear whether the issue was discussed in depth between the two leaders, or whether May's remarks represented a concern for British citizens abroad, or a veiled threat to counterparts like Renzi who want to see ensure their citizens are not adversely affected.
(Yes, but that doesn't mean that concerns about "health" aren't also a veiled way of talking about children's looks).
