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) [...]
Making a Wrong Turn at the Intersection
The Youth Coalition – a youth sexual rights advocacy group – is looking to use the High-Level Meeting on Youth for sex rights, and is looking to combine their advocacy work with environmental, sustainable development, and other movements. They produce a publication called The Watchdog, and will be using it to advocate for sexual and [...]
US To Support Prostitution Advocates?
The Washington Post reports A federal appeals court has ruled that the United States cannot force partners in its international fight against AIDS to denounce prostitution as a condition for receiving funding. The 2-to-1 ruling by the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Wednesday upheld a lower court decision that found [...]
Top abortion advocate says pro-lifers won at 2 UN conferences
In this week’s interview in the Huffington Post, Adrienne Germain says abortion advocates lost ground at two recent UN meetings. I met Germain at the Commission on Population and Development where she was a delegate for the US. Based upon my own observations, she has the important role of some of the pro-life/pro-family delegations correct [...]
All Teens Think About Is Sex
A new website launched by UNFPA, with contributors from a range of youth activists and non-profit organizations, claims to connect young people to promote a “better world.” Conversations for a Better World is a youth community for raising global issues and finding solutions. Conversations is all about ‘the power of we’ as well a forum [...]
Guttmacher Going After Catholics and Protestants
The Guttmacher Institute has recently published a new report claiming to provide a new perspective on religion (i.e. Christianity) and contraceptive use in the United States. The report is titled Countering Conventional Wisdom: New Evidence on Religion and Contraceptive Use and can be summed up in its concluding remarks: This research suggests that the perception [...]
Non-binding “recommendations” on abortion do not make hard law
The abortion advocacy group, Ipas, has released a new publication cataloguing the numerous recommendations of UN experts who promote legalization of abortion and “comprehensive sexuality education” as maternal mortality reduction strategies. Dismissing the argument that no UN treaty even mentions abortion and that committees lack jurisdiction on abortion, Ipas argues that experts: …received a mandate [...]
US State Department Advancing the LGBT Agenda
In their recently released General NGO Guidelines for Overseas Assistance, the US State Department opens the door for LGBT NGOs to receive US aid money meant for refugees and migrants. The Guidelines are for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) and list the policy priorities of the Bureau. As the guidelines describe, PRM [...]
Amnesty International has paid more than £500,000 in a secret pay-off to its former chief, and £300,000 to its deputy leader
In my view, the main reason not to support Amnesty International is that the organisation has given up defending human rights some years ago, when it began – first clandestinely, then overtly – to advocate abortion. Nonetheless, if one were still in doubt about the sad development this organisation has taken, here is the latest [...]
US-Funded Marie Stopes’ Video Promotes Anal Sex to Avoid Pregnancy
Abortion giant Marie Stopes International, which is funded by UNFPA and USAID, sponsors a website called “Have a LARC” (for Long Acting Reversible Contraception). Prominent on the homepage of the website is the deplorable video “Use Ya Head”, by some outfit called The Midnight Beast. The graphic video features simulated sex with a naked blow-up [...]