Condoms or Water?
Here is a great new add for a group that is helping provide potable water to children. The Gates Foundation and UNFPA who are asking for 8B USD a year to give condoms to subsaharan women should take the cue…
Melinda’s Message to Dying Mothers: “Sorry, You Should Have Used a Condom”
The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health is telling mothers that die because they choose to have children that using condoms could have prevented their complications in pregnancy. In an article published in Lancet, “Maternal deaths averted by contraceptive use: an analysis of 172 countries”, the Gates funded institute concludes that contraception is a [...]
Lancet’s Push for Contraception Falls Flat
The Lancet medical journal launched its series on contraception today with a rah-rah introduction at an event held in conjunction with the Summit on Family Planning in London. “The link between contraception and the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals] was missing,” announced the emcee. “Now we have the evidence needed in the Lancet papers. This will [...]
Rio + 20: Holy See Shines Light in the Midst of Darkness
If you are reading this, you are probably afraid that what is going on in Rio de Janeiro right now during the UN Conference on Sustainable Development is nothing other than the proverbial “blind leading the blind”. As countries hurry to make politically expedient and alarmist statements about climate change, the green economy and reproductive [...]
Rio + 20: Brazil Takes Control of Document
It was almost expected, and everyone here in Rio is taking it on the chin. Late Friday night it became inevitable. The outcome document of the Rio + 20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development will not be the result of multilateral negotiations carried out under the rules of the United Nations, but will be controlled by Brazil, the host [...]
“Elders” come out in support of the Sustainable Development Goals”
Henrique Cardoso, the former president of Brazil responsible for the country’s miraculous economic recovery in the 1990s, and Gro Harlem Brundtland, the chairman of the UN’s famous Bruntdland commission, have come out in support of the SDG’s this week. We believe setting “sustainable development goals” that address the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of development [...]
Extra Negotiations lead to limited Success for UN Environmental Conference
After more than a week of extra negotiations on the final outcome document for the UN’s upcoming environmental conference in Rio de Janiero, little progress has been made. The UN commission charged with providing a negotiated document countries can agree upon during the Rio +20 conference at the end of this month was still a [...]
Ban in Vogue
Ban Ki-Moon made the cover of a fashion magazine. In an issue dedicated to “Rebranding Africa,” the Italian edition of Vogue magazine profiles the UN Secretary General in an interview conducted by the editor that could be mistaken for a high-school journalism paper. Pundits speculate that Vogue focused on Africa in a scramble to [...]
UK Government Funds Forced Sterilizations in India
The British government gave $268 million to the government of India for a program that forcibly sterilizes poor women and men, according to the Guardian newspaper. This news comes as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation prepares to co-host a family planning summit with the British government in London this July. Melinda Gates recently dismissed [...]
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 [...]
The Problem with Climate Scientists, Politicans and Car Salesmen…
… Is that none of them know what they are talking about most of the time, and when they do, they are usually lying. It’s a well documented fact. Politicians are among the least trusted professionals (if we can call them that) together with lobbyists and car sales people, according to the most recent Gallup [...]
UNICEF and Rio+20
UNICEF briefed UN delegates yesterday on its approach to Rio+20, the upcoming global green conference. If anyone doubts the importance UN agencies are placing on Rio+20, Richard Morgan, UNICEF’s director for Policy and Practice, made clear: “The outcomes of Rio will feed into the entire international development agenda, including the Millennium Development Goals and the [...]
UN Elites’ Secret Plans for Global Green Summit
Top UN chiefs recently met to scheme how to use an upcoming Summit on sustainable development to gain control of the global green economy, expand its reach on social policies, and build more UN institutions. But a huge stumbling block is a lack of agreement among countries on the definition of a “green economy,” the [...]
How Much “Green” Does it Take to Make the Green Economy? G77 Derailing the Green Agenda at the UN
Are you wondering how many businesses have to become “green” before the dream of the “green economy” becomes a reality? It seems like everything has to be green nowadays, whether its green jobs, green energy, or green skills. Now there is even green dry cleaning. Duh! If you feel like this is going to far, [...]
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 [...]
Rio +20: States cry foul over bureaucratic challenge to sovereignty
Member states are expressing concern this week that the Secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) is overstepping its boundaries in the Rio negotiation process by championing its own bureaucratic goals over those of member states in the Rio +20 process. Over the past three days, the UNCSD has held a series [...]
100 Days to Rio Conference on Sustainable Development
Today UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (SG) spoke at a High Level meeting in the ECOSOC Chamber of UN Headquarters, organized by the Economic and Social Council with the Breton Woods Institutions to outline strategies in financing for development. The SG used the opportunity to make his Rio + 20 pitch. “now is the moment [...]
The End of the MDGs?
This morning the Secretary General, and Rebeca Grynspan, Associate Administrator of UNDP, and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Special Adviser on the MDGs, held a press conference to report on the progress towards achieving the MDG’s. The SG described Sachs and Grynspan as his “top development experts and senior advisers.” They cited a report issued this week [...]
Social Development UN Deliberations Plagued by Reductive Paradigms on Human Person
This morning the 50th session of the UN Commission for Social Development is beginning its work at UN headquarters. The Commission will meet over the next two weeks to discuss social development and related issues. The priority theme of the session is “poverty eradication”. The agenda of the 50th session can be found here. The [...]
New WHO study on abortion–or is it?
The Lancet published a joint WHO/Guttmacher Institute study which, predictably, concludes that nations must legalize abortion to make childbearing safer. Here is the report’s bottom line: “The substantial decline in the abortion rate observed earlier has stalled, and the proportion of all abortions that are unsafe has increased. Restrictive abortion laws are not associated with lower [...]