Women Deliver: The Next Push to Get Abortion into Development Goals
One of the final announcements at Women Deliver, the global conference on family planning, was the launch of a social network campaign to demand countries include reproductive and sexual health and rights in the UN’s new development goals. These new development goals will take over when the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015. UN [...]
Groups Ask U.S. to Back Off Demand for Abortion at UN
Over 20 groups are asking U.S. Secretary of State to end the U.S. obstruction over abortion at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Here is the letter sent today: Dear Secretary Kerry, This week the United States has an opportunity to advance international efforts to prevent violence against women and girls through the [...]
The Latest Excuse for Population Control: Terrorists
Here it is again. That nasty theory that certain populations (i.e. people of color) need to be culled at any cost, using “drastic” measures, is being touted on the webpages of the respected journal Foreign Policy. The excuse this time is to reduce terrorists. And the target is people in Mali – the very people [...]
Former Prostituted Woman to Speak on UN Panel
Within the CEDAW Committee’s hall of shame, telling China to decriminalize prostitution holds a prize spot. In a promising turn of events, UN Women, the two-year old agency tasked with handling all-things-women at the UN, will highlight a woman who escaped from prostitution. The “Survivors Forum” is a panel discussion hosted by UN Women this [...]
Post-Family Planning Summit: Pressure Governments Despite What Women Want
Now that the London Family Planning Summit is a memory and world leaders have gone home, what comes next? Melinda Gates is keeping the spotlight on her priority of encouraging women not to have children by writing articles from her travels that are posted on partner organizations’ websites. Partner organizations are hiring consultants and holding [...]
EU: Courageous NGO exposes hypocrisy of LGBT Agenda (III)
This is the newest sequel of the European Dignity Watch mini-series in which the propaganda of the homosexualist lobby group ILGA Europe is systematically unmasked. This part of the series deals with the preposterous assertion that homosexuals and lesbians are being discriminated in the EU with regard to their freedom of movement: The poster’s text [...]
Does Marriage or Sex Create Babies?
When is the one – and only – time that abortion and family planning advocates acknowledge the procreative aspect of marriage? Not in the debate over same-sex marriage, where they scoff at such notions. Nor in conversations on the sanctity of marriage. There is one time, however, in a twisted fashion they link marriage as [...]
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 [...]
Guttmacher Inflates Abortion Numbers in Latin America
A recent article in a medical journal in Mexico completely debunks the Guttmacher Institute numbers on “unsafe” abortions in several latin american countries. The study found that the Guttmacher methodology is not only unsound scientifically, but unprofessional. According to the authors Guttamcher did not only obtain estimates that are empirically impossible through unsound methodology, but [...]
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 [...]
Grotesque: EU Fundamental Rights Agency fabricates data on “LGBT discrimination”
Allegedly it was Winston Churchill who said: “Never believe statistics you haven’t made up yourself.” The EU Fundamental Rights Agency provides us these days with a brilliant example how to use bogus surveys and statistics in order to manipulate the public opinion. And while doing so, they provide the 70%-government-owned bogus NGO “ILGA Europe” with [...]
Addressing the sexual and reproductive health of youth at the United Nations “just can’t wait”
At yesterday’s briefing for the Commission on Population and Development’s upcoming conference (CPD), the chair presented its proposed agenda and outlined the rules and procedures governing negotiations. The theme of the conference this year is “Adolescents and Youth”, and given the UN bureaucracy’s fixation with sexual health and rights, the agenda included discussion about the [...]
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 [...]
The Salvation Army Loses Its Sight
From the time of its founding by William Booth, the Salvation Army sought to help the poor, homeless, destitute and outcast. Booth endured beatings and humiliation for fearlessly proclaiming Christ, Who was born into the world through a poor, homeless teenager. The Salvation Army loves the unlovely. Which makes the latest news about the Salvation [...]
Red Cross promoting abortion as a human right? Shame on WHO
The latest report on maternal health from the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) will leave some readers thinking IFRC endorses abortion as a human right. That’s because it quotes, in a section on human rights (p.23), a highly controversial report from a UN staff saying all nations must legalize abortion because of women’s [...]
The ECJ’s judgment on stem cell patents: a tremendous pro-life victory
As readers of this blog have learned from a previous posting, the European Court of Justice (ECJ, the EU’s supreme judiciary instance) yesterday issued a judgment (C=34/10, Brüstle vs. Greenpeace) clarifying that (1) no patents can be issued for inventions involving “the use for human embryos for industrial or commercial purposes” as this would be [...]
Women Deliver Disappointed with Youth Document
Women Deliver is disappointed with only one reference to SRHR in the outcome document of the High-Level Meeting on Youth that took place from July 25-26, 2011. Here’s what they said: The draft outcome document to be submitted by the President of the General Assembly at the High Level Meeting is available here and will [...]
Youthful Fresh Air @UN
Starting next weekend, there will be a different narrative to the UN Youth story. In the past, the narrative has gone “the UN is up to radical, corrupting, negative youth projects, and nobody is doing anything about it.” This time it will be different, and good youth are to blame. The International Youth Coalition (IYc) [...]