Catholic Bishops Question Girl Scouts Programs
The Girl Scouts have been criticized for years for its leadership pulling the wholesome organization into the trendy world of sexual and gender activism. The piecemeal flare-ups accumulated until, in 2010, revelation of one incident at the UN (in this Friday Fax, and this one) exposed the whole stinking mess. Now the U.S. Conference [...]
Pro-Abortion and Pro-Homosexual Youth Lobby Sent Home Empty-Handed from UN
By Timothy Herrmann NEW YORK, May 4 (C-FAM) Youth activists arrived at the UN in droves last week in an attempt to hijack the 45th session of the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) by promoting homosexual rights and abortion. However, countries rejected their demands and produced a fairly balanced outcome document that focuses on [...]
Abortion and Contraception More Important Than Maternal Health?
Last Friday UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, gave a talk at an event organized by the Women’s International Forum titled: “Women’s Rights are Human Rights: The Work of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights”. During the talk, Ms. Pillay, spoke of the creation of her office in 1993 as [...]
Abortion Advocates Provide “Tool Kit” to Advance Sexual Rights through UN Human Rights Council
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI), a coalition of international organizations that advocate for sexual and reproductive rights at the United Nations, released a “toolkit” to encourage advocates to document sexual and reproductive right abuses in their countries. It is their intention that these complaints be used in the Universal Periodic [...]
Gay Marriage is Not a Human Right. Says European Court of Human Rights
The European Convention on Human Rights does not require member states’ governments to grant same-sex couples access to marriage. The European Court of Human Rights repeated this ruling in the case of Gas and Dubois v. France, a judgment decided last week in Strasburg involving a french lesbian couple in a civil union. The lesbian [...]
Sovereignty in Action: Beating Back Beaurocratic Inertia at the UN
Sovereignty is a word that isn’t used within the UN superstructure, its bureaucracies, thousands of documents, reports and resolutions and frankly even UN member states. The UN system always tries to work towards achieving consensus, and to merely mention that each and every individual state has a the power and sovereign prerogative to undo consensus [...]
Beijing Women + 20
Women, get your marching boots on! The UN may hold an international women’s conference in 2015 — 20 years after the infamous Beijing Women’s Conference. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and Quatar Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz Al- Nasser introduced the proposal yesterday on International Women’s Day. It will go to the General Assembly for approval, which [...]
Evasive answers to critical questions: European Commission finds it difficult to explain its funding for homosexualist propaganda
It was of course never to be expected that the European Commission, as a reply to critical questions from the European Parliament with regard to the generous funding it is handing out to ILGA-Europe (a homosexual lobby group with links to pedohile networks), would openly acknowledge to have committed a misuse of budgetary funds. But [...]
Commissioner Reding’s gender quotas: have your say!
Rather than directly proposing controversial new regulation that would foresee compulsory fixed gender quotas for company boards, EU Commissioner Reding has now launched a public consultation on the issue. You can participate in it by filling in the questionnaire you find under this link. For your ease, we have prepared a standard reply: Proposed Reply [...]
The EU’s “Rights and Citizenship” Programme: fake “non-governmentals” want more money from taxpayers
For some time now, we are reporting about the European Commission’s strategy of pushing highly controversial social agendas with the help of fake “non-governmental organizations” that falsely pretend to represent “civil society”. In actual fact, those groups, which receive 70-80% of their respective operative budgets directly from the Commission, appear to be the European executive’s [...]
“Anti-Discrimination”: EU to legislate for compulsory gender quotas in board rooms?
In today’s edition of the Financial Times we read the following: The European Union’s executive is to press ahead with plans for quotas to increase the proportion of women on corporate boards, triggering a protracted fight between Brussels and national governments. Viviane Reding, justice commissioner, will on Monday announce the first step towards European-level legislation, [...]
2011: The year the LGBT agenda was officially adopted as US Foreign Policy by the US Department of State
OR: “The year the LGBTI lobby officially redefined Human Rights internationally” Here are the facts: March 22, 2011 – The United States co-chair’s a meeting of like minded countries that submit a statement titled “Ending Acts of Violence and Related Human Rights Violations Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity” at the United Nations Human [...]
Hillary and Homosexuals in Africa
Great piece by George Neumayer in the American Spectator on the Obama administration forcing the homosexual agenda on Africa.
The Wussification of American Men
Wendy Wright and I heard Bill Bennett pitching his new book last Thursday night in New York. Bennett’s thesis in The Book of Man is that men are becoming wimpier because society no longer teaches them what it is to be a man. Bennett says that unlike his last book, The Book of Virtues, this [...]
From Russia with Love: 126 non-governmental Organisations in Russia and Ukraine condemn UN attempts to manufacure false “human rights”
On 24 November 2011, representatives from 126 non-governmental organisations in Russia and Ukraine have adopted an impressive statement called the Saint-Petersburg-Resolution, calling the UN and its various organisations to order. The Resolution, which in unconpromising language condemns the “anti-family tendencies prevailing in the UN and various of its committees”, is built on the model of [...]
CEDAW Pushes Radical Abortion Agenda on Costa Rica
The CEDAW Committee Continues to Misrepresent the Convention on Discrimination Against Women and continues to impose its reproductive rights agenda on signatories.
War on Baby Girls: AEI event
Mara Hvistendahl and Nicholas Eberstadt discussed Hvistendahl’s new book, Unnatural Selection, on sex-selective abortion at an American Enterprise Institute event on 16 June. Even for those who have followed the issue closely, it is worth hearing Hvistendahl’s findings that the strongest link between sex selection in countries of diverse cultural practices–such as Azerbaijan and China–is [...]
Reducing women to their fertility
Here is a recent post by our friend from the Heritage Foundation, Grace Melton. Grace traces the way consideration of women has been reduced to their role as childbearers throughout the agenda of UNWomen and two recent UN commissions. If this entailed honor and respect for this noble role, their would be less to lament.
Brazil high court okays homosexual unions
Last Thursday, Brazil’s supreme court said homosexual partnerships are a matter of privacy and eqaulity before the law and deserve many of the same benefits that marriages are granted, according to Reuters. The country’s Catholic bishops weighed in against the ruling. Brazil has the world’s largest Catholic population (140 million of its 190 million citizens [...]
UN Women Land Grab
We have just learned that the controversial new super-agency, UN Women, is moving into 84,000 square feet of office space (3 whole floors) at 220 East 42nd Street in New York. The space was previously occupied by the UN Population Fund which is moving to 605 Third Avenue. 84,000 square feet is a lot of [...]