Nordics Launder LGBT Advocacy through UN Human Rights Office
The UN human rights office is desperate for funding. Navi Pillay, the head of the office, is in New York this week to report on her agency’s work to UN diplomats. Overwhelming her presentation is an unabashed plea for money. The Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights has more work assigned to it [...]
Putting the Right Back into Human Rights
This Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), which serves as the hub for much of the United Nations’ various human rights activities – and, indeed, a good deal of its mischief too – recently sent out a request to civil society organizations for submissions on what concerns it should put on its [...]
Human Rights Official Riles Up UN Delegates, Fire Alarm Goes Off
Yesterday was UN Day. A day to celebrate the accomplishments of the world’s only universal international organization, and the progress of the world’s nations towards a brighter more peaceful future. But UN delegates at the third committee meeting of the 67th plenary session of the General Assembly were more concerned with highlighting overreaching by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. [...]
Non-Aligned Movement Meeting in Egpyt this Week to discuss UN Reform
The Ministerial Coordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is meeting in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm-el-Sheik, Egypt this week in preparation for the 16th annual NAM Summit Conference to be held in Tehran in November later this year. The coordinating bureau has announced that it will discuss the following: A review international law; promotion [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Human Rights “Cloud” Obscures Development vs. Human Rights Debate
Today C-FAM attended a panel discussion on “People at the center: Human rights in global economics and development”. The event commemorated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, and was organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The Panel included several prominent professors including Joseph Stiglitz [...]
Regulating “Hate Speech” Part II –the Yogyakarta Agenda Advances at the Expense of Fundamental Freedoms at UN Conference in Chile
In a previous posting I called attention to red flags over free speech raised at the first Expert Workshop on the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred, sponsored by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Indeed, the entire project, ostensibly intended to aid the Human Rights Committee as it drafts a “General Comment” outlining [...]
5 UN agencies join to promote universal abortion rights
Under the auspices of condemning the heinous practice of sex selective abortion, 5 UN agencies have issued a statement essentially calling for universal unrestricted abortion. Thanks to Marie Smith for highlighting the following disturbing passages in the document: Various United Nations human rights treaty monitoring bodies have established that the rights of women and girls [...]
The Harms of the UN’s LGBT Agenda
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Navi Pillay, released a video last week that called for renewed vigor in combatting discrimination against LGBT persons. The video is a clear statement of the UN system’s position on issues relating to “sexual orientation” (an as-yet undefined and controversial term in international law). Directly addressing the [...]
Regulating “Hate Speech” – an Incremental Approach to Implementing the Yogyakarta Agenda?
My colleague Roger Kiska recently posted on his participation in last week’s “Expert Workshop on the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred,” sponsored by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Vienna. The workshop was the first in a series on the interplay between Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political [...]
Fundamental Wrong Agency
I had the pleasure recently of attending the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Expert Workshop on the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred in Vienna. With very low expectations coming in I had anticipated the event to be a free-for-all lobby on behalf of hate speech activists’ promotion of the banning of Islamaphobia and [...]