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 [...]
Fertility 2.1
Fertility is plummeting around the globe and countries are at a loss to solve the problems created by aging and population decline. Without robust workforces it will be impossible for African countries with emergent fiscal systems to sustain any kind of social protection floor in the future. While countries negotiate a document to address the challenges countries and [...]
Every Dollar Spent on Condoms Means Less Dollars in Taxes
An article from Keith Riler at First Things fleshes out the long term effects of population control efforts among the poor in America. Riler suggests that the FED and States should gladly spend $11,000 worth of Medicare on births among poor Americans, rather then spend for family planning. Riler sees it as an investment. The argument is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
US, EU Ask to Delete “Inherent Right to Life, Liberty” at UN
As countries are deadlocked over negotiations going late into the night at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the US and European Union have played a deadly card. One that contradicts a foundational principle of citizens and civilizations worldwide, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the UN Declaration of Human Rights. [...]
Pro-Life Organizations Engage Human Rights Council
Several pro-life and pro-family organizations have submitted statements to the Advisory Committee to the Human Rights Council to ask that universal values shared by all civilizations and cultures, including the right to life of unborn children and the natural family as the fundamental unit of society, are not forgotten in the quest to promote and protect [...]
Homosexual Advocates Demand a Ban on Therapy
Help for people experiencing unwanted same-sex attraction should be denied – that was the theme of an event held in the Church Center across the street from the UN last week. This article “Jay Bakker’s LGBT Power Struggle” focused on one panelist, a controversial figure in Evangelical circles. He not only read the article, he [...]
Susan Rice’s Aborted Candidacy for Secretary of State
NBC News is reporting that Susan Rice, US ambassador to the UN, is removing herself from consideration as Secretary of State. While the opposition to her candidacy was fueled by her part in the Benghazi scandal, what is not likely to get reported in the post-mortems of her aborted nomination is her undiplomatic conduct as [...]
Rice Stepping Back from Sec State Bid
US UN ambassador Susan Rice, embroiled in the controversy over the killing of a US ambassador in Benghazi, has stepped back from her bid to become America’s next top diplomat. Rice appeared on five Sunday talk shows in the final days of President Obama’s presidential campaign asserting that the killing was a reaction to an [...]
US to UN: Hands off our Internet
A day after its strident disputes over the Disabilities Treaty, Congress united today to send a strong anti-regulation message to delegates gathered for the UN talks on telecommunications: From The Hill: The House on Wednesday unanimously passed a Senate resolution introduced by Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) that calls on the U.S. government to oppose United Nations control of the [...]
Cooler heads prevailed on Disabilities Treaty
The Hill, a newspaper for people who work on U.S. federal legislation, ran Dr. Susan Yoshihara’s op ed today on the defeat of the vote on the UN Disability treaty. Dr. Yoshihara, who participated in the negotiations of the UN treaty, anticipated the political attacks that may come against the dissenting senators. Her op ed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Texas AG Warns UN Group to Stay Away From Election Polls
A group associated with the United Nations that has deployed election monitors throughout the U.S. for the Nov. 6 presidential election has been warned by the Texas Attorney General that if they violate state laws governing polling places that they face possible prosecution. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE/ODIHR) announced earlier this month [...]
UN General Assembly to Condemn Hate Speech?
Yesterday morning the President of the 67th session of the General Assembly, Mr. Vuk Jeremić, surprised the third committee of the GA, which addresses economic, social and humanitarian affairs, with a highly unusual request – he asked the committee to take the lead in condemning hate speech, saying that the “General Assembly should take action.” What [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]