Why don’t women in the developing world use contraceptives? It’s not lack of access
A pro-abortion group recently announced the theme for its May 28th Call for Action 2013: “Access to Contraceptives is a Human Right.” In November, the United Nations Population Fund released their “State of World Population 2012: By Choice, Not By Chance – Family Planning, Human Rights and Development,” which stated: “Recent statistics show that 867 [...]
Give them Condoms!
If only women in sub-saharan Africa would finally stop having more than 3 children each… This is what the head of the UNFPA just communicated to UN member states at a UN meeting on migration and development, in more politically correct terms. [...]
ICPD Global Youth Forum: Diversity of genders, but not of worldview
According to the website of the ICPD Global Youth Forum: “Recommendations from the Global Youth Forum will be presented by the Secretary General of the United Nations to the General Assembly. Like the watershed International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, the ICPD Beyond 2014 Review will have a profound influence on future policy [...]
Transcription of ICPD Global Youth Forum’s recommendations on “Families, youth-rights and well-being (including sexuality)”
Following the plenary session (also discussed here) on the topic of “Families, youth-rights and well-being (including sexuality)”, recommendations were compiled for inclusion in the ICPD Global Youth Forum’s outcome document and presented to the forum. The recommendations are as follows: Financing and accountability: Governments should make a political and financial commitment to ensure that sexual [...]
ICPD Global Youth Forum: It’s five o’clock somewhere
Readers of the late Douglas Adams’ classic book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” will no doubt remember the following exchange, which occurs when protagonist Arthur Dent confronts the local bureaucrat who is attempting to demolish his house: `…You hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to call attention to [the plans] had you? I [...]
ICPD Global Youth Forum
Today marks the first day of the ICPD Global Youth Forum taking place from Dec 3rd to Dec 6th. Taking place in Bali, the forum is aimed at promoting global dialogue among youth. Youth (under 25) are encouraged to write recommendations and to vote on five core issues (1. STAYING HEALTHY. 2. COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION. 3. TRANSITIONS TO DECENT EMPLOYMENT [...]
URGENT: Sign up for UNFPA’s Global Youth Forum!
CALL FOR YOUTH TO SIGN UP! Are you between the ages of 14-25? Do you know someone that age? Then you must register, and tell other to do the same, as a delegate at the UNFPA’s Global Youth Forum that will take next week in Bali, between December 3-6. The Forum is being sponsored by [...]
Beware the next UNFPA Youth Forum
UNFPA expects 900 people at a youth forum scheduled for December 4-6 in Bali. It says the Indonesian Vice-President will open the event with UNFPA’s executive director. Of course, if you followed C-FAM coverage of the UNFPA Youth events in Mexico and New York in the last 2 years, you know that what was planned and the chaos materialized were at striking variance. [...]
UNFPA’s dark view
The new UN Population Fund report is riddled with problems which undercut its call for $8.1B a year for ever more contraception in developing countries. The evidence for this ambitious claim is so thin that it should not be hard for critics to refute it, but here are 11 problems that jumped off the very first pages: 1. The report is [...]
UNFPA to American Voters: Thanks!
If you thought UNFPA was thrilled that the American taxpayer would continue to fund their already swollen coffers after last week’s presidential election–you were right. I just received a copy of a letter UNFPA Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin fired off to US UN ambassador Susan Rice last Sunday expressing his relief that Barak Obama would stay in office and [...]
No Cairo Conference in 2014
There will be no international population conference on the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Cairo conference. So says UN Population Fund executive director. Instead, he announced a UN “high level meeting.” This should come as no surprise. Conferences marking the decade anniversaries of such meetings were more common until the 2000s when advancing the abortion agenda became [...]
WHO: Free Guidance for Melinda
Melinda Gates has just received a free lesson on how to spend the four billion dollars collected by her foundation and the UNFPA to promote and provide contraception in Sub-Saharan Africa. The most recent WHO Bulletin contains an interesting study detailing how marketing campaigns had a positive impact on condom use in Sub-Saharan Africa. Imagine, with [...]
Either Dishonest or Uninformed
This report from the Seattle Times says the “UN” has announced that the Philippines should pass a controversial reproductive health bill. I have no doubt whoever said something wants the Filipinos to believe the “UN” said it. The thing is that the UN speaks to the world through the General Assembly and sometimes the Security [...]
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 [...]
Architect of Reproductive Rights Dies
Perusing the Sunday New York Times yesterday I saw that Joan Dunlop died on Friday at 78. I wondered how many pro-lifers would even know the name. The obit did her no justice. Couched in the fuzzy, cryptic terms about health and women’s rights editors use these days for abortion, it was hard to tell that she was a giant in the arena [...]
Melinda Gates and the New Population Control Movement
Love him or hate him, Stephen Colbert doesn’t waste time getting to the point. In last Thursday’s interview with Melinda Gates on the Colbert Report, he asked Melinda about her newest initiative and cut straight to the chase: the new population control movement exists to save lives by erasing lives. Colbert: “But now you’ve got [...]
First Babies, Then the Elderly . . .
As activists gear up for a global summit in London to pressure governments to spend more money on family planning, a British doctor is claiming thousands of elderly patients are killed each year due to a lack of hospital beds and caring nursing staff. Some say the population control movement is dead. These events show [...]
Rio + 20: The Future We Want and Population Control
“The Future We Want” is the title chosen for the document that will be the outcome of the Rio + 20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. For the moment, it looks as though Population Control will not feature in that document as a result of developing countries’ refusal to bow to demands from western countries [...]
Report Posits Population Control as Solution to Poverty in World’s Least Developed Countries
In the last months leading up to the Rio +20 summit, yet another report was released promoting population control as essential in the fight to eradicate world poverty. The report, published by the Royal Society of London, titled “People and the Planet” acknowledges that the world’s population has declined while pointing out that in the [...]
Senate Foreign Ops Bill Bans Mexico City Policy and Increases Population Control Funding
The Senate Appropriations committee approved the FY 2013 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill, a bill that funds overseas operations of the State Department and global health programs through USAID. The Senate bill allocates $44 million to UN Population Fund (UNFPA), a recipient for the fourth straight year under President Obama. Known for its strategic [...]