In Belize, Global “Gay” Movement’s Legal Roadshow Comes to Town
Ten years ago, the late, great American jurist Robert Bork wrote a short book entitled Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges. He described how the “American disease” of judicial legislating—activists using constitutional courts “to outflank majorities and nullify their votes” on controversial social issues—was becoming a global phenomenon. Among other examples, Bork noted a [...]
Abortion in France gives Ireland the benefit of hindsight
Here is a post published on the Blog “Constitution Project” of the University College Cork (UCC), an inter-disciplinary research group looking at issues surrounding constitutional law, history, governance and politics. It may also be of interest for the readers of Turtle Bay. Abortion in France gives Ireland the benefit of hindsight Posted on March 22, 2013 We are delighted to [...]
Global Abortion Lobby Stuck at the Rubicon. A Hobbit is Sneaking By…
“Though Shalt not pass!” Last week at the Commmission of the Status of Women, nations that cherish traitional values were able to halt the advance of the global abortion lobby towards abortion as a human right. Despite attempting to do so for over 40 yrs, nations and groups that want abortion to be a human [...]
UK: Lords make fun of “gay marriage”
Well, that’s also a way of fighting against the rising tide of laws that, in various countries, seek to impose the legal recognition of same-sex “marriages”, and maybe not the least efficient one: to expose those legislative projecs to the ridicule they deserve. As had to be expected, nobody is more talented for this than [...]
“Various Forms of the Family” Unnecessary in UN Resolutions
In December, the EU tried to qualify the word “family” with “various forms of the family exist” in a GA resolution on observing the international year of the family (2014). The proposal was shot down by the G77 (who sponsored the resolution), and the EU whined vociferously during the adoption of the resolution in the [...]
The Culture of Death, the Dictatorship of Relativism and the Inter-American Court
Late yesterday the Inter-American Court of Human Rights released a lengthy opinion (Murillo et al. v. Costa Rica, dated November 28, 2012) holding that Costa Rica’s law which protects life at its earliest stages by prohibiting in vitro fertilization violates the American Convention on Human Rights. In so doing, the Court turned the Convention, which protects [...]
How the Council of Europe is imposing abortion on Ireland and Poland
How can a country, that refused abortion three times by referendums, be pressured to legalize it in the name of a Convention which does not enshrine a right to abortion? In Europe,Irelandis a symbol of resistance against abortion. Nevertheless,Irelandis on the point of giving in to the concerted pressure of the Council of Europe [...]
Disability Treaty Goes to Senate Floor
Senator Reid made a motion yesterday to move the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to executive session. The motion passed allowing debate to follow. Foreign Relations committee chairman Sen. John Kerry followed with an opening statement in which he tried to assure senators that the convention would not grant any new [...]
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Still Divide UN General Assembly
Yesterday afternoon the United Nations General Assembly adopted its biannual resolution on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions. Once again, the third committee proceedings at which the resolution was adopted, by 108 votes to 1, with 65 abstentions, were mired in controversy over “sexual orientation and gender identity” (SOGI). An attempt by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation [...]
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. [...]
“Sovereignty or Submission” Wins ISI Award
Our hearty congratulations to John Fonte. The Hudson Institute scholar’s latest book, “Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or be Ruled by Others?” has been awarded Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s (ISI) Paolucci-Bagehot book award for 2012. Here is Susan Yoshihara’s review of the book in the Friday Fax: Book Review: Sovereignty or Submission? By Susan [...]
UN Global Tax for Health?
It sounds incredible, but it is true. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Anand Grover, is calling for a “treaty-based global pooling mechanism, comprising compulsory progressive contributions from States allocated based upon need and driven by transparent, participatory processes…” This is what the nations of the world are being told by UN officials. Anand [...]
The frivolity of the European Human Rights Court
In a previous post, we have been informed about a case currently pending before the European Court of Human Rights in which the petitioners, a lesbian couple from Austria, claim to have been victims of “discrimination” because the Austrian legislation does not allow homosexual adoption. As the post explains in more detail, one of the [...]
No Need to Ratify New UN Treaty
Yesterday Wendy Wright and I spent our lunch hour at the new state of the art US Mission to the UN at 45th St and 1st Ave. We attended a side event hosted by the US delegation to the UN on Disability Rights. The side event was held because of the ongoing Conference of States Parties [...]
GOP Platform shuns treaties that would harm the family
Julian Ku at Opinio Juris ran the following excerpt today from the U.S. Republican party platform: Under our Constitution, treaties become the law of the land. So it is all the more important that the Congress — the senate through its ratifying power and the House through its appropriating power — shall reject agreements whose long-range [...]
House Members Letter Highlights Problems with UN Disability Treaty
The UN Disability treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), is advancing due to Senator Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, expected filing of the approved Resolution despite concerns by members of Congress and conservative leaders. The treaty passed out of committee last week and once the resolution has [...]
CEDAW Expert Supervillains Keep Hurting Women
Staff from every major, and not so major, UN entity, human rights agency, program and organization showed up yesterday morning in Conference Room 3 of the temporary North Lawn Building at UN Headquarters in New York at a commemorative event for the 30th anniversary of the CEDAW Committee. Later during the evening, the same crowd [...]
The UNFPA’s Miserable Failure to Control the World’s Population at Rio +20
The UNFPA left the Rio +20 conference on sustainable development without anything to show for its efforts. Not a single one of their hard fought suggestions ever made it into the text. Their presence at the conference could hardly even be felt, except through a few countries like New Zealand, Norway and Iceland, which were [...]
Ugandan Ambassador tells EU: Killing of Homosexual Activist by a Male Call-Boy Was Not “Homophobia”. The European Parliament Is “Surprised and Disappointed”
I have had little time to post on this blog recently, and therefore I am somewhat late in reporting on the scurrilous exchange of letters that took place between the European Parliament and the Ambassador of Uganda to the EU, Mr. Stephen T.K. Katenta-Apuli with regard to the allegedly “homophobic” killing of a homosexual “rights [...]
Rio + 20: Green Economy Loses, Sovereign States Win, Civil Society Disappointed
Rio + 20 was touted as the most important United Nations Conference ever by the UN bureaucracy led by the Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon. It was also touted to be a UN Conference where we would witness unprecedented collaboration between Governments and civil society. To that end, for the past two years civil society had [...]