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BROCK CHISHOLM, former director of the WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION /UN, said " To achieve One World Government it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, their loyalty to family traditions and national identification." ******* As of this date, 06-11-25, this file contains 15 items. ******* item 1 NEW UNITED NATIONS (UN) audit reveals massive irregularities at UNITED NATIONS FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION (UNFPA) ******* item 2 UNESCO CALLS FOR UNLIMITED ABORTION FOR GIRLS ******* item 3 CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION AT UN ******* item 4 FRIDAY FAX/KOFI ANNAN CALLLS ABORTION GROUP "SHINING EXAMPLE" ******* item 5 UN AGENCY REFUSES TO ASK CHINA TO END COERCION IN FAMILY PLANNING ******* item 6 UNITED NATIONS' HEAD OPPOSES HUMAN CLONING BAN, U.S. AND COSTA RICA FIRM ******* item 7 UNITED NATIONS CRITICIZES POLISH ABORTION LAW, LOBBIES FOR PRO-ABORTION BILL ******* item 8 UN COMMITTEE PRESSURES POLAND TO LEGALIZE ABORTION ******* item 9 THE NEW WORLD DISORDER: ANTI-U.N. CAMPAIGN PICKS UP STEAM ******* item 10 UN PROGRAM REJECTS ABSTINENCE GROUP FOR CRITICIZING CONDOMS ******* item 11 BUSH ADMINISTRATION AGAIN WITHHOLDS UNFPA MONEY DUE TO ABORTION LINK ******* item 12 HOW SWEET IT IS - CANADA AND OTHER ANTI-FAMILY BIGOTS DEFEATED AT U.N. ******* item 13 "GENDER EQUALITY" PARTLY TO BLAME FOR FERTILITY DECLINE SAYS UN OFFICIAL ******* item 14 UN COMMITTEE SEEKS LEGAL SANCTIONS AGAINST PRO-LIFE COUNTRIES ******* item 15 UN APPROVES DECLARATION BANNING ALL HUMAN CLONING ******************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 1 NEW UNITED NATIONS (UN) audit reveals massive irregularities at UNITED NATIONS FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION (UNFPA) ******* from FRIDAY FAX ******* June 27, 2003 ******* Volume 6, Number 27 ******* According to its own audit report for 2002, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) continues to exhibit long-standing management deficiencies. The report, written by UNFPA and released at last week�s UNFPA Executive Board meeting in New York City, highlights a large number of serious lapses in both financial matters and program oversight. ******* The UNFPA audit team investigated 41 UNFPA country offices, and in almost every category of financial management, more than half of the offices were found to be deficient. With regard to general financial controls, 27 out of 41 country offices were either �partially satisfactory� or �deficient.� 24 out of 41 country offices did not fully comply with budgeting regulations. In 20 out of 41 country offices, funds for projects had not been spent appropriately. ******* Of 61 office audits received by the UNFPA audit team, only five were complete. According to the audit document, 58 of 61 country offices did not seek �solutions� to �adverse findings� in their own financial reports. ******* The audit suggests that there is no reliable way to assess the activities of UNFPA, the national programs that it funds, or the programs of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). In fact, in 19 out of 41 country offices, programs were initiated without prior agreements from governments or NGOs concerning UNFPA regulations. Since UNFPA works with NGOs that perform and advocate for abortion, there thus appears to be no way to ensure that UNFPA is not funding abortions through its programs. ******* Last year, UNFPA shipped ten million faulty condoms to Tanzania, and it seems that quality control problems remain unresolved. According to the audit document, �Controls over inventory were generally found to be inadequate.� In fact, 40 out of 41 country offices did not manage their inventory of goods satisfactorily. ******* The audit also established that 19 out of 41 country offices did not properly monitor programs, thereby bringing into question UNFPA claims of program effectiveness. The audit concluded, �The availability, accessibility and reliability of data�were problematic in all countries to varying degrees, limiting the extent and quality of analysis�� ******* The audit suggests that, where there is reliable data, it does not support UNFPA�s assertions of success. For instance, �The condition of the facilities was also an obstacle to providing quality services. In Central Asia, the majority of medical facilities did not have adequate gynaecological equipment, electricity or running water, and required major repairs and refurbishing.� The audit also concluded that the ��prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS, were the weakest of the three main reproductive health components in many countries, although STIs were rising and fast becoming one of the main public health problems.� ******* When the audit was released to the Executive Board, even the delegate from pro-UNFPA Norway acknowledged that �deficiencies abound� at the population control agency. ******* Copyright � C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute). Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required. ******* Family & Human Rights Institute 866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 427 New York, New York 10017 Phone: (212) 754-5948 Fax: (212) 754-9291 E-mail: [email protected] Website: ********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 2 UNESCO CALLS FOR UNLIMITED ABORTION FOR GIRLS ******* Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:18:05 -0700 ******* From: "Austin Ruse -- C-FAM" ******* UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) document, entitled �Unwanted Pregnancy and Unsafe Abortion,� calls for sweeping government reform to make abortion available to all women and adolescent girls without restriction, going as far as to suggest that governments should subsidize abortions and offer �redress� to women who have been �denied� access to abortions �that should be made available to them.� ******* The document, which was produced in 2002 by UNESCO�s Thailand-based Regional Clearing House on Population Education and Communication (RECHPEC), has recently come to light after it was referenced in the UN Population Fund�s State of the World Population 2003 report, which was released this month. ******* The UNESCO document explicitly recommends that �Governments should make abortion legal, safe, and affordable.� UNESCO appears particularly concerned about adolescents� access to abortion, recommending that �Legislatures should remove legal restrictions to access of abortion and family planning services to adolescents� and that �Wherever the law allows, Governments should guarantee the privacy of those seeking abortion services, especially adolescent women.� UNESCO also recommends that, �Where abortion is allowed, the legal system should provide means of redress for those denied access to the services that should be made available to them,� without explaining what type of redress it has in mind. ******* UNESCO takes aim at parental consent laws, stating that, �It is common, for instance, to require adolescents to obtain parental consent for abortion services...This alone can dissuade an adolescent from seeking a proper medical procedure and leave them to seek alternative, illegal and unsafe abortions elsewhere.� ******* The document provides a candid view of attempts to increase access to abortion, apparently endorsing efforts to skirt domestic abortion legislation. In Bangladesh, for instance, �While abortion is illegal, the law does provide for �menstrual regulation� services, whereby physicians can assist up to eight weeks after the last menstrual period. This is conveniently considered family planning and not abortion. Furthermore, as the anti-abortion law requires proof of pregnancy, �the use of menstrual regulation makes it virtually impossible�to obtain the required proof.� ******* Thus, in practice, early term abortion is available; it is just referred to as menstrual regulation.� In India, �while abortion strictly on demand is not allowed, abortion for economic or social reasons is, and a very lenient reading of �mental health� of the woman effectively legalizes the procedure in all circumstances.� ******* In an accompanying document, entitled �Review of International Standards for Rights of the Child and Adolescent Rights,� UNESCO describes how to pressure individual nations that have not embraced this adolescent reproductive rights revolution, saying that it is now possible �to hold countries�accountable on the basis of human rights violations� at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) and the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). ******* The Friday Fax is reported and written by Douglas A. Sylva, Vice President of C-FAM. ******* Copyright � C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute). Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required. ******* Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute 866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 427 New York, New York 10017 ******* Phone: (212) 754-5948 ******* Fax: (212) 754-9291 ******* E-mail: [email protected] ******* Website: www.c-fam.org ************************************************************************************************************************ ******* item 3 CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION AT UN ******* Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:38:26 -0700 ******* To: [email protected] ******* From: "Austin Ruse -- C-FAM" ******* I HEARD HER SOBS THROUGH THE PHONE�SHE WAS CALLING FROM UN HEADQUARTERS� I TOLD HER TO COME IMMEDIATELY TO MY OFFICE� ******* Dear Faithful Reader of the Friday Fax, ******* What I am about to tell you is true. These are real people who have reached out to me for help. You will hear their stories today and know that they reach out to you, too� ******* I will tell you how you can help in a minute. First, their stories� ******* The young woman who came to me that day was a mid-level employee in the UN Secretariat, the vast bureaucracy that runs the UN. ******* She is a faithful Christian, going to Church almost every day. And as she sat in my office, she told me the horrors of working there. ******* Between tears, she told me she could not take it any more. She said the pressure to conform ideologically to the UN agenda is intense, non-stop. She told me the oppression comes from two sources, radical feminists and homosexuals who wield enormous power at the UN. ******* She said she came to UN because as a Christian she felt called to help poor people around the world. She thought the UN was, if not the best, at least a good vehicle for that. What she found was a bureaucracy out of ideological control. ******* While the UN does manage to do good work in feeding the hungry, she told me the main objective of UN bureaucrats is not that, it is spreading the radical feminist agenda, most especially abortion, and homosexual rights. She said any verbal deviation from the radical party line would land her in trouble --- with her bosses and with her fellow employees. ******* She even found she could not even have Christian images on her desk, that they were red flags to those who see the Church as the enemy to their dark wishes. Imagine not being able to proclaim your faith! ******* I spent a few hours with her that day. I told her she was needed by all of us to stay and fight. I told her that her witness to the Faith was vital, though she worked under oppression. I begged her to stay in touch with me. She did for a while, and then no more. I do not know what happened to her. ******* Hers in not the only story like this. ******* I know a wonderful man who represented his small country at the Cabinet level on family matters. One day powerful governments in Europe, including France and Germany, ordered him to change his government�s definition of gender. They said the UN required it. ******* They told him that no longer was gender simply men and women. According to UN radicals, gender was now a �social construct,� meaning it is not based in nature and can be changed. ******* The new definition says boys would be just as happy with dolls as with ball gloves. This is part and pacel of the radical feminist and homosexual agenda. It is nonsense. My friend refused their bullying. The European powers threatened his terribly poor country with losing millions and millions in financial aid. ******* This good and brave Christian still refused. Sadly, he was fired and then replaced by a radical lesbian who promptly changed their government�s definition of gender. ******* And this crazy definition of gender is the definition insisted upon by the UN Secretariat! ******* Here is my message to you, dear friends. You and I have many real friends within the UN system. They reach out to us all the time. They have reached out from the official delegations. They have reached out from the UN bureaucracy. They have reached out from UNICEF. ******* And they all say the same thing. Help us! Help us who fight for life, faith and family from inside the belly of the beast. ******* These people are vastly outnumbered and for the most part, have to keep their Christian and pro-life affiliations totally and completely secret. Imagine living like that! Imagine the lives of these brave souls. They are truly the leaven, the hidden leaven, of our struggle. ******* HERE IS HOW YOU CAN HELP THEM ******* Each of those I mentioned here today are readers of the Friday Fax. They know the Friday Fax is sometimes their only source for pro-life news coming out of their own buildings!!! I know I can speak for all of them when I ask you to give as much as you can to support the Friday Fax during this last week of our fund drive. ******* The Friday Fax costs C-FAM approximately $100,000 per year to produce. These costs are for research, writing, but also for printing and postage. The Friday Fax goes to those who do not have email! This is very expensive and we cannot cut them off. Printing and postage run us somewhere around $8,000 each and every month. This is not in our regular budget! Can you help us continue the Friday Fax? ******** Our opponents mock small donations. We do not. We welcome them. But there must be someone out there -- is it you? -- whom God has blessed with great resources. Can you help us with a sacrificial gift of $1000? Or $500? ******* We welcome all donations, even the nickel that Frances Kissling mockingly sent us a few weeks ago. Help these brave pro-life Christians working with the UN. Help us help them. ******* Go to http://www.c-fam.org/donations.htm and make the largest sacrificial donation you can afford. ******* We will spend your money wisely and well. We will spend it in relieving those who need our help, the unborn, the family, the faithful and also those who actually work under oppressive ideological conditions at the UN itself. ******* Please go to http://www.c-fam.org/donations.htm and give as much as you can. Do it now and please send this note around to all of your family and friends. ******* Yours sincerely, ******* Austin Ruse, President C-FAM, Editor in Chief Friday Fax ******* PS Each week our total is larger than the week before. I will give you final totals next week. But know this, we are only slightly more than half way to our goal of $50,000. Please make this a big week. Go to http://www.c-fam.org/donations.htm and make a difference. ******* PPS While Christian persecution is not any kind of official policy at the UN, it is clear that it happens at the hands of those who work at the UN, sometimes at very high levels. ************************************************************************************************************************ ******* item 4 FRIDAY FAX/KOFI ANNAN CALLLS ABORTION GROUP "SHINING EXAMPLE" ******* Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004From: "Austin Ruse -- C-FAM" ******* Dear Colleague, ******* UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has accepted an award from one of the most radical pro-abortion groups at the UN. The International Women's Health Coalition calls for subverting national laws on abortion all over the world. Annan called them a "shining example" for the world. ******* Spread the word. ******* Yours sincerely, ******* Austin Ruse, President _________________________________________________________________________ ******* FRIDAY FAX ******* March 5, 2004, Volume 7, Number 11 ******* At a gala event held in January, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan received an award from the International Women�s Health Coalition (IWHC), a group working for worldwide abortion on demand for women and girls. Annan�s enthusiastic acceptance of the award raises renewed questions about the objectivity of Annan, and the UN secretariat in general, which is responsible for organizing major conferences on international social policy. ******* In his acceptance speech, the Secretary General lauded IWHC, saying that �I am moved that you have chosen to honour me this evening. Above all, I want to pay tribute to the International Women�s Health Coalition for the work it is doing around the globe. The IWHC and its partners provide indispensable leadership for the health and rights of girls and women worldwide. If there were more pioneers like you, the world would be a better place�.You are a shining example.� ******* This leadership includes teaching abortion advocates how to skirt �restrictive� abortion laws. For instance, where legal abortion is restricted to those abortions considered necessary to save the life of the mother, IWHC recommends that abortion providers simply �adopt a broader definition of what constitutes a threat to a woman�s life by considering the risk of death if she seeks a clandestine procedure.� ******* IWHC also works for the radical reinterpretation of UN human rights documents. IWHC admits that no UN document �explicitly asserts a woman�s right to abortion.� But, �Despite these qualifications�the conference documents and human rights instruments � if broadly interpreted and skillfully argued � can be very useful tools in efforts to expand access to safe abortion.� For instance, according to IWHC, the right to life, the first right enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, should include a right to abortion, since women who seek illegal abortions risk their lives. ******* IWHC has also praised the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) for providing chemical abortifacients and early abortion devices in refugee settings while avoiding international scrutiny. IWHC claims that UNFPA�s �preassembled reproductive health kits have helped speed up response to emergencies and to halt case-by-case controversies about what supplies should be included. Thus, subkit three includes emergency contraception, and subkit eight includes manual vacuum aspiration equipment.� ******* Manual vacuum aspiration appears to be central to IWHC strategy to expand access to abortion, since the early abortion for which it is used, a procedure IWHC labels �menstrual regulation,� constitutes, according to IWHC, one of the �loopholes under which safe abortion can be provided even in settings where laws are restrictive.� ******* In his speech, Annan stressed the need for �achieving a deep social revolution that will give more power to women, and transform relations between women and men at all levels of society.� He concluded by calling the staff of IWHC �wonderful partners of the United Nations family.� ******* Copyright � C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute). Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required. ******* [The Friday Fax is reported and written by Douglas A. Sylva, Vice President of C-FAM.] ******* Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, 866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 427, New York, New York 10017 ******* Phone: (212) 754-5948 ******* Fax: (212) 754-9291 ******* E-mail: [email protected] ******* Website: www.c-fam.org ************************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 5 UN AGENCY REFUSES TO ASK CHINA TO END COERCION IN FAMILY PLANNING ******* Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:12:20 -0700 ******* From: "Austin Ruse -- C-FAM" ******* Dear Colleague, ******* Old news; UNFPA supports coercion in the Chinese one child policy and for this the US has stopped funding UNFPA. But there is something new. The State Department is reporting that the United Nations Family Planning Association (UNFPA) has refused even to ask China to stop coercion in family planning. ******* Spread the word. ******* Yours sincerely, ******* Austin Ruse, President _______________________________________________________________________________ ******* FRIDAY FAX ******* July 30, 2004 ******* Volume 7, Number 32 ******* UN Population Fund Refuses to Ask China to End Coercion ******* A little reported aspect of the recent US decision once more to withhold funding from the UN Population Fund was the Fund�s refusal to ask China to end coercion in family planning. This according to a recently released report from the US State Department. ******* Until the release of the report, it was not widely known that the Bush administration had been actively engaged with UNFPA in order to make its program consistent with US human rights law, or that UNFPA had declined to adopt the US recommendations. According to State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, �We also have repeatedly urged China and the UN Population Fund to restructure the organization�s programs in a way that would allow the United States to provide funding. However, since no key changes have taken place, these [funding] restrictions are being applied again.� ******* The State Department report says that UNFPA has not even asked that China �eliminate coercive �administrative� or �disciplinary� punishments� against women, �thus continuing to reflect UNFPA�s support for China�s coercive program.� ******* The report cites a number of areas of concern, including the continued existence of heavy fines, called social compensation fees, levied against women who break family planning laws by becoming pregnant. The report says �Despite several rounds of discussions with US representatives, UNFPA and China decided not to make substantive changes to the proposed UNFPA fifth country program. For example, UNFPA did not condition the start of the program on the elimination of social compensation fees.� ******* According to the report, these fines, which often act to coerce women into abortions, continue to be issued in areas in which UNFPA operates. The report asserts that, �One county where UNFPA has activities, Liuyang in Hunan Province, assesses a fee of two times the average annual income.� ******* The report also establishes that UNFPA actually assists the Chinese government to enforce its coercive population control laws. The report claims that UNFPA�s �resources are provided directly or indirectly to the State Family Planning Commission in counties where it enforces the fines and administrative penalties such as job loss, demotion, and expulsion from the Communist Party. The UNFPA activities include training of reproductive health service providers in, among other things, awareness of the law in order that they may provide reproductive health counseling. This, as well as UNFPA�s supplying equipment and supplies to the very agencies that employ coercive practices, amounts to support for not only China�s broader population-planning activities, but also specifically for the Chinese government�s more effective implementation of its program of coercive abortion.� ******* UN officials, including Secretary-General Kofi Annan, continue to voice outrage that the US will not fund UNFPA, but have yet to address the specific findings of the report. ******* Copyright 2004 � C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute). ******* Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required. ******* Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute 866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 427 New York, New York 10017 ******* Phone: (212) 754-5948 Fax: (212) 754-9291 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.c-fam.org ************************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 6 UNITED NATIONS' HEAD OPPOSES HUMAN CLONING BAN, U.S. AND COSTA RICA FIRM ******* Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 03:30:47 EDT ******* From: "Steven Ertelt" and LifeNews.com Pro-Life Report ******* For news updated throughout the day, visit http://www.LifeNews.com ******* New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- The head of the United Nations says he opposes a proposal to draft a treaty banning all forms of human cloning. Meanwhile, the United States and Costa Rica are standing firm in their resolve to fight for a complete ban rather than delay a vote for another year or allow a partial ban to pass. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday endorsed embryonic stem cell research and said he opposes efforts by the 61 nation coalition, headed by the U.S. and Costa Rica, to draft a treaty opposing both reproductive and research cloning. Meanwhile, a U.S. diplomatic official told the French Press Agency that its position in favor of banning all human cloning has not changed. "A partial ban that prohibits cloning for reproductive purpose but permits the destruction of cloned human embryos for experimental purposes is unacceptable," the State Department official said. "Our position on cloning has not changed. We believe all cloning is wrong and should be banned," the official said. Costa Rica isn't changing its mind either. http://www.lifenews.com/bio517.html ************************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 7 UNITED NATIONS CRITICIZES POLISH ABORTION LAW, LOBBIES FOR PRO-ABORTION BILL ******* From: "LifeNews.com" ******* Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 ******* Warsaw, Poland (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life leaders in Poland are upset that the United Nations is sticking its nose into an internal debate about the state of the European nation's abortion law. At the end of October, the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, held meetings about Polish law and a new bill that would further allow abortions there. In a report released by its office, Jaime Ruiz de Santiago, a senior U.N. official in Poland, said he was worried that Polish law was driving women to have illegal abortion. "The State Party should liberalize its legislation and practice on abortion," the document recommended. "This is an attempt to influence Polish parliament to adopt the anti-life bill which is in the working," says Lech Kowalewski, a Polish pro-life leader associated with Human Life International. ************************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 8 UN COMMITTEE PRESSURES POLAND TO LEGALIZE ABORTION ******* Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 ******* from Friday Fax via "Austin Ruse -- C-FAM" ******* Dear Colleague, ******* The government of Poland is being pressured by a UN committee to legalize abortion. Human rights activists in Poland reject this, saying it is a violation of human rights and oversteps the purview of the UN. ******* Today begins the 8th year of the Friday Fax. Merry Christmas to all. ******* Spread the word. ******* Yours sincerely, Austin Ruse, President ******* ACTION ITEM: Pray that the Polish people resist this pressure from a UN committee to force abortion on Poland. ******* Human Rights Activists Reject UN Call for Legalized Abortion in Poland ******* The government of Poland is actively assessing its domestic laws on abortion and other social issues. An influential UN committee has intervened in the process by issuing a report calling on Poland to liberalize its laws. The report issued by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Committee expresses "deep concern about restrictive abortion laws in Poland" and tells Poland that it "should liberalize its legislation and practice on abortion." ******* The report was released just as the Polish government prepares to consider draft legislation that would loosen current restrictions on abortion. In an unusually explicit attempt to influence national lawmaking, the report directs Poland that "[t]hese recommendations should be taken into account when the draft Law on Parental Awareness is discussed in Parliament." ******* The report, which is a periodic review of Poland's compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), does not mention that it is purely recommendatory and has no legal force according to that treaty. The ICCPR is one of the two major human rights treaties adopted in 1966 to implement the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What is most troubling to human rights activists is that the treaty makes no mention of abortion yet is increasingly used by the UN committee to pressure changes in abortion laws. Not only does the treaty make no mention of abortion it says explicitly that "Every human being has the inherent right to life." ******* Human rights worker Ewa Kowalevski, Director of the Poland-based Human Life International Europe, says that with this report, "A committee of the UN has officially said that abortion is a human right according to international law. Where is this right? Show me this right!" She cautions that the report poses a "real danger" as it exerts pressure on Polish leaders. The report, she says, is a warning sign to the rest of the world. "It is against our sovereignty," and "if they can do it to Poland, they can do it everywhere." ******* The UN's review is based on a Polish progress report that, according to Kowalevski, was prepared this year by radical feminist and pro-abortion groups led by the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the Polish Federation on Women and Family Planning. Kowalevski says the report was "full of inaccurate data," such as the claim that up to 200,000 illegal abortions occur annually in Poland, while the government's official estimate places such abortions in the hundreds. A statement released by Polish pro-life groups shows that even when abortion-on-demand was available, before the current restrictive law came into effect in 1997, the total number of abortions did not exceed 60,000 per year. ******* The UN report also requests the adoption of a wider social agenda, telling Poland to track doctors who refuse to carry out abortions, that "[d]iscrimination on the ground of sexual orientation should be specifically prohibited in Polish law," and that the undefined "sexual minorities" should be protected. Poland should also alter the "nature" of sexual education in schools to meet the Committee's standards. ******* Copyright 2004 - C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute). Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required. ******* Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, 866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 427, New York, New York 10017 ******* Phone: (212) 754-5948 ******* Fax: (212) 754-9291 ******* E-mail: [email protected] ******* Website: www.c-fam.org ******************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 9 THE NEW WORLD DISORDER: ANTI-U.N. CAMPAIGN PICKS UP STEAM ******* 50,000 sign petition to chase it from U.S. ******* posted: March 22, 2005 ******* � 2005 WorldNetDaily.com ******* The non-profit group Move America Forward has collected over 50,000 signatures on petitions calling for the "U.N. to Get Out of the U.S." ******* The 50,000 signatures have been collected in just two weeks time and the rate of new signatures is growing exponentially. ******* "This explosive response is even better than we saw for the Recall Gray Davis effort," said Howard Kaloogian, one of the activists behind both campaigns. "The oil-for-arms money laundering scandal has made the United Nations program the largest source financing terror in the world. Americans overwhelmingly agree, the U.S. must not knowingly harbor a terrorist financing organization, neither should we contribute financially." ******************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 10 UN PROGRAM REJECTS ABSTINENCE GROUP FOR CRITICIZING CONDOMS ******* From: Friday Fax via [email protected] ******* Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 ******* Friday Fax Volume 8 Number 37 | September 1, 2005 ******* Dear Colleague, ******* I am pleased to announce and welcome 16,000 new subscribers to the Friday Fax. They joined us from all over the world through our online petition drive in support of John Paul the Great. Welcome! You are about to enter into an entirely new understanding of the UN and international social policy. ******* Today in the Friday Fax we report on the typical hypocrisy of UN personnel. A good group in Africa was punished by a UN division for criticizing condoms in the fight against AIDS while groups that trash abstinence are praised. Scroll down for the whole story, which was the result of a weeks-long investigation by Friday Fax editors Mark Adams and Bradford Short. ******* Spread the word. ******* Yours sincerely, Austin Ruse, President ******* PS The Friday Fax now has 40,000 primary subscribers and likely three times that number in pass along readership. ******* A Nigerian organization was denied admittance to a United Nations program that solicits volunteers because the organization's leader criticized condoms in the prevention of HIV on the African continent. The Action Family Foundation (AFF) was told that they are at odds with the UN's official position on AIDS prevention known as the ABC method which promotes abstinence, sexual fidelity and condom use. But the Friday Fax has learned that the UN program has granted admittance to several groups who are highly critical of abstinence and critical of the entire ABC approach. ******* In an e-mail dated July 22, Dr. Emmanuel I.B. Okechukwu, president of AFF, was told his organization could not participate in the UN Volunteer's Online Volunteering service, which matches organizations with volunteers who can provide services from their own homes. Annika Diederich, who works for the UN Online Volunteers office in Bonn, Germany, wrote in the email that "UN policy, as you must be aware, clearly outlines an approach with balanced A B C components as the most effective tool in the fight against HIV/AIDS." Diederich said the UN Online Volunteers had "reservations about Action Family Foundation's position and information dissemination on the use of condoms as a legitimate method of HIV/AIDS prevention. UNV cannot endorse your criticism of condoms as voiced in your articles on the Abstinence Clearinghouse web site, for instance." ******* In the offending article, found on the AfricaAbstinence.com website, Okechukwu argued that widespread condom distribution in Africa has resulted in a "sense of false security" and "subtly engenders sexual initiation/experimentation by young people who otherwise were abstinent, and emboldens the already sexually active into multiple sexual partnering." The result, he says, is "that [the] condom and the activities it engenders constitute the single most important factor promoting HIV spread around the world." ******* But despite the insistence of UN Volunteers officials that groups admitted to their program cannot criticize any part of the ABC approach, several member groups are openly critical of the ABC approach in general and abstinence in particular. One such organization is the Voluntary Service Overseas. In a report on the 15th international conference on AIDS and HIV in Bangkok, the UK-based organization said that because of "gender" inequality "initiatives that promote ABC alone (Abstinence, Be faithful, Condom use) so heavily advocated by the US, are unlikely to be successful." A UN affiliated organization, the World Food Program, said that "For an alarming number of women, HIV prevention is not as simple as 'ABC,'". The Center for Reproductive Rights website features numerous criticisms of abstinence, including an article by a Dutch senator saying that the "US reproductive policy overseas has dangerous consequences for women" because it "over-emphasizes abstinence education." ******* In an interview with the Friday Fax, Elise Bouvet, Online Volunteering Program Specialist, defended their rejection of the Nigerian group for their criticism of condoms while admitting organizations critical of abstinence and ABC. She said stopping the spread of AIDS is a "complex" issue. "To be critical of the ABC approach is fine -- to say that it's maybe not the best solution," Bouvet said. But the AFF's rejection of condoms was too dogmatic. The article by Okechukwu "is straightforward [in saying that condoms were] the thing responsible for the HIV increase in Africa. It's written like the single most important factor promoting HIV . . . around the world." That position means "you cannot dialog; it's not about criticism. It's . . . a very strict position." ******* But Bouvet did acknowledge that many of the groups had been admitted to UN Volunteers early in the program's existence before admittance guidelines had been put firmly in place and she promised that a review of current member organizations was underway. "[W]e are working on revamping the website, reviewing the content and reviewing the criteria [for admission]. We will go group by group to see if the criteria still matches their policy [and to approach groups that are problematic or borderline]. We may have to re-contact Voluntary Service Oversees given the clearer policy on the website. I think you are right that we should treat all the same groups the same way. This is in the plans to review all the groups." ******* An experienced UN observer told the Friday Fax "this is typical of the hypocrisy of the UN. They bend over backward for their ideological soul-mates and punish those they don't like." The Friday Fax will continue to monitor the situation. ******* Copyright 2005 - C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute). Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required. ******* Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, 866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 427, New York, New York 10017 ******* Phone: (212) 754-5948 ******* Fax: (212) 754-9291 ******* E-mail: [email protected] ******* Website: www.c-fam.org ******************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 11 BUSH ADMINISTRATION AGAIN WITHHOLDS UNFPA MONEY DUE TO ABORTION LINK ******* by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor, July 16, 2004 ******* Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- For the third year in a row, President Bush has withheld taxpayer funds from the United National Population Fund (UNFPA) because of its ties with China's population control program that involves forced abortions and sterilizations. ******* The decision means $34 million in federal funds won't be sent to the U.N. agency. ******* "We have continuously called on China to end its program of coercive abortion," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. ******* The Bush administration recently sent officials from the State Department to review the situation in China and determine if the UNFPA is complicit in the coercive population control program. ******* After the fact-finding team returned, Secretary of State Colin Powell said China "has in place a regime of severe penalties on women who have unapproved births. This regime plainly operates to coerce pregnant women to have abortions in order to avoid the penalties and therefore amounts to a 'program of coercive abortion.'" ******* "UNFPA's support of, and involvement in, China's population-planning activities allows the Chinese government to implement more effectively its program of coercive abortion," Secretary Powell explained. "Therefore, it is not permissible to continue funding UNFPA at this time." ******* Powell sent Congress a report on Friday saying that the UNFPA, by virtue of its involvement in China, violates the Kemp-Kasten law. That's a 19 year-old provision that prohibits the United States from providing taxpayer funds to any program that engages in coercive population control policies. ******* However, the Bush administrations' decision isn't winning it any new friends among abortion advocates. ******* Population Institute president Werner Fornos called the decision "a cruel travesty -- an act that bypasses rationality and fairness to placate religious ideologue constituents who oppose both family planning and women's rights." ******* "This decision is clearly based on politics, not on public health," added Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). "Make no mistake: this administration will always choose anti-family planning extremism over women's health programs here and around the world." ******* But Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America said Bush's decision strongly supports women's rights. ******* "The UNFPA's assistance of coercive family planning programs obviously contradicts its claims to promote women's reproductive rights", Wright said. "What could be a greater violation of a woman's rights than a forced abortion?" ******* Steven Mosher, the president of the Population Research Institute, supports the Bush administration's decisions on revoking UNFPA funding. ******* "Why should the U.S. abandon its human rights principles to support an organization that refuses to withdraw from a program of forced abortion," Mosher said. ******* "For 25 years the UNFPA has been the chief international cheerleader for China's one-child policy, lavishing upwards of $200 million in funding on the program, and bestowing prestigious awards on its architects," said Mosher. ******* Should China end its policy or the UNFPA stop funding Chinese population control activities, Boucher said the president would be willing to looking into restoring funding. ******* Members of the House Appropriations Committee voted 32-26 last week against a measure that would have restored UNFPA funding. ******* Pro-life groups say President Bush has a strong record of consistently opposing the use of taxpayer funds to promote abortion. ******* In his first days in office, President Bush reinstated the Mexico City Policy created by Ronald Reagan. Under it, taxpayer dollars are prohibited from funding organizations that perform or promote abortions in other countries. ******* In September 2003, Bush expanded the policy by also preventing family planning grants from any State Department agency to pro-abortion groups. Previously, the Mexico City Policy applied only to the USAID program. ******* In March, likely Democratic nominee John Kerry said the first action he will take as president is overturn the Mexico City Policy. ******************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 12 HOW SWEET IT IS - CANADA AND OTHER ANTI-FAMILY BIGOTS DEFEATED AT U.N. ******* From: LifeSite News via Robert A Jason ******* Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 ******* UNITED NATIONS POSTPONES VOTE ON 'SEXUAL ORIENTATION UNTIL NEXT YEAR ******* GENEVA, 25 April (UN Information Service) -- The United Nations Commission on Human Rights concluded its 59th (2003) annual session Friday voting to postpone consideration of the controversial proposal to ban discrimination based on "sexual orientation." International law experts have warned that approval of such language could threaten religious rights. ******* The motion, which was sponsored by Brazil and co-sponsored by CANADA, was heavily promoted by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC). The Commission decided, in a recorded vote of 24 in favour and 17 against, with 10 abstentions, to postpone consideration of the draft resolution until its sixtieth session. ******* While the U.S. abstained on the vote, the 17 nations wanting to promote the anti-family resolution included: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Republic of Korea, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, and Venezuela. ******************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 13 "GENDER EQUALITY" PARTLY TO BLAME FOR FERTILITY DECLINE SAYS UN OFFICIAL ******* Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:22:02 -0700 ******* From: "Austin Ruse -- C-FAM" ******* Dear Colleague, ******* We report today on a very interesting speech by a high ranking UN official who continues to raise the alarm about rapidly declining fertility rates around the globe. In a recent speech Dr. Joseph Chamie, the chief UN statistician, said the fight for �gender equality� is exacerbating the problem of encroaching demographic winter. ******* Spread the word. ******* Yours sincerely, Austin Ruse, President, Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute ******* Note from Frank Wagner: It's ironic that a UN official is now decrying the consequences of policies promoted by the United Nations. Hopefully this is a wake up call to the UN. ******* FRIDAY FAX July 23, 2004 Volume 7, NUmber 31 ******* In a speech delivered this Spring that was largely ignored by the news media, the United Nation�s chief demographer declared that the very existence of some nations has now been endangered by fertility decline, and the international community�s insistent call for �gender equality� is making the problem even worse. ******* According to Dr. Joseph Chamie, Director of the Population Division of the UN�s Department of Economic and Social Affairs, �A growing number of countries view their low birth rates with the resulting population decline and ageing to be a serious crisis, jeopardizing the basic foundations of the nation and threatening its survival. Economic growth and vitality, defense, and pensions and health care for the elderly, for example, are all areas of major concern.� ******* Chamie, who was speaking in his personal capacity at the Population Association of America�s annual meeting, asserted that one-third of the countries in the world now have �below replacement� level fertility, which means that women have fewer than 2.1 children on average. In 15 countries, the fertility rate has shrunk to l.5 children or less. ******* In an unprecedented statement for a high-ranking UN official, Chamie claimed that the drive for gender equality is partly to blame for low fertility, stating that, �While many governments, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and individuals may strongly support gender equality at work and in the home as a fundamental principle and desirable goal, it is not at all evident how having men and women participate equally in employment, parenting and household responsibilities will raise low levels of fertility. On the contrary, the equal participation of men and women in the labor force, child rearing and housework points precisely in the opposite direction, i.e., below replacement fertility. And this is in fact precisely what is being observed today in an increasing number of countries.� ******* Chamie also noted the some governments, especially in the developed world, may be concerned about appearing hypocritical if they seek to increase their own fertility rates, while at the same time working to decrease fertility in the developing world. According to Chamie, �Understandably, governments are reluctant to be seen as encouraging citizens to breed for the sake of the country. This is especially true for governments providing international assistance to family planning programs in countries aiming to reduce their comparatively higher rates of fertility and population.� ******* In his address, Chamie investigated the effectiveness of a number of governmental responses to fertility decline, including promoting marriage and childbearing, reducing the costs of child rearing, and adapting work schedules to family life. He was not optimistic concerning these policies, concluding that, �the current and foreseeable efforts of most governments to raise their current low fertility rates to replacement levels seem highly unlikely.� ******* Copyright 2004 � C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute). Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required. ******* Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, 866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 427, New York, New York 10017 ******* Phone: (212) 754-5948 ******* Fax: (212) 754-9291 ******* E-mail: [email protected] ******* Website: www.c-fam.org ************************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 14 UN COMMITTEE SEEKS LEGAL SANCTIONS AGAINST PRO-LIFE COUNTRIES ******* From: Austin Ruse via Gerry Brosso and "John Hof" ******* Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 ******* Dear Colleague, ******* It is our birthday. C-FAM turns seven years old this week. We started out in a windowless office in the summer of 1997. We now have two offices, in New York and Washington DC. OK, the one in New York is still windowless. ******* C-FAM got its start with a generous three-year grant from Human Life International for which we will always be grateful. ******* Thanks also to our current board of directors, Steve Mosher, Robert Royal and Reverend Ignacio Barreiro. And thanks also to the hardworking employees of C-FAM, Doug Sylva, Jaime Taylor, and Mark Adams (two more are coming soon!). They do all the work. ******* Spread the word. ******* Yours sincerely, Austin Ruse, President ******* Action item: Please say a prayer for all those individuals who financially support C-FAM. They support us with checks large and small from all over the US and Canada, indeed from all over the world. Without them we would not be here. ******* FRIDAY FAX August 13, 2004 Volume 7, Number 34 ******* At a meeting held late last month at UN headquarters, women's rights advocates discussed plans to strengthen the "legal backbone" of the UN women's rights treaty, including establishing abortion on demand for women and girls as an internationally recognized human right. ******* According to a UN press release, the committee charged with monitoring nations' compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) invited nongovernmental organizations, including the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), to advise the committee in the drafting of a new "general recommendation" on states' international legal obligations to end discrimination. ******* A representative of CRR, Pardiss Kebriaei, told the committee that "states must recognize the physical demands and need for high-quality reproductive care..Imposing or failing to remove barriers to women's access to family planning and safe abortion services discriminated against women. Among other measures, States should enact laws allowing abortion without restriction, take other legal and policy measures to ensure the accessibility of high-quality abortion services and the full range contraceptive methods." ******* Kebriaei went on to say that "abortion without restriction" should be available to girls, declaring that, "government failure to ensure reproductive health information and services for adolescents had a disproportionate, discriminatory effect on girls." ******* CRR was one of only four NGOs invited to participate in the meeting, signaling the group's powerful influence with the committee. If the new CEDAW general recommendation includes this CRR proposal, it would represent an important victory for the group in its effort to create new international abortion law through the reinterpretation of the original CEDAW convention document, a strategy that was outlined in a series of CRR secret planning memos and first exposed in the Friday Fax last December, and still available at www.c-fam.org. ******* The committee appeared pleased with the comments made by CRR and the other NGOs. Hanna Beate Schopp-Schilling, a committee member from Germany, said that the quality of the discussion had shown that "the Committee's decision to hold a meeting with NGOs when preparing a general recommendation had been the right one." ******* According to the UN press release, the committee chairperson, Ayse Feride Acar, also endorsed the "all embracing approach" proposed by the NGOs. She concluded by stating that "the discussion had helped to define the parameters of the general recommendation." ******* A UN official representing the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and the World Health Organization (WHO) also participated in the meeting, and voiced no discomfort with the radical pro-abortion language. ******* The next step in the process of drafting the recommendation has not yet been scheduled. ******* Copyright 2004 - C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute). Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required. ******* Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, 866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 427, New York, New York 10017 ******* Phone: (212) 754-5948 Fax: (212) 754-9291 ******* E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.c-fam.org ******************************************************************************************************** ******* item 15 UN APPROVES DECLARATION BANNING ALL HUMAN CLONING - PRESS RELEASE FROM UN PRO-LIFE AND PRO-FAMILY COALITION OF NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS ****** From: LifeSiteNews via [email protected] ******* Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 ******* The UN General Assembly adopted a Declaration today calling on nations to enact legislation to `'prohibit all forms of human cloning." By a vote of 84 to 34, the Declaration received more support in the General Assembly than when it passed in the 6th Committee two weeks ago. The measure sets an international standard that humans should not be created through cloning for any purpose, placing human life as a priority over scientific experimentation. ******* The decision ends over three years of deadlock caused by countries seeking approval for cloning research. Belgium, the United Kingdom, Singapore and other countries that hope to profit from cloning humans opposed a total ban, and declared they would defy the international moral agreement. ******* The topic was originally introduced at the UN by pro-cloning countries to gain implicit international approval for so-called "therapeutic cloning" (creating human clones to experiment upon and kill). In 2002, these countries requested that a treaty be drafted to ban only so-called "reproductive cloning." The countries insisted that human clones are for research only and should not be allowed to survive. ******* The pro-cloning countries lost support as Costa Rica took the lead, along with the U.S. and pro-life groups, to educate countries that cloning would violate the human rights of both cloned embryos and women. The embryos would be created and destroyed at the whim of scientists. Women would be treated as commodities to harvest their eggs. ******* Additionally, adult stem cells, the use of which is ethical, are already doing what cloning only promises by providing near-miraculous treatments for patients with a variety of illnesses, such as Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, heart failure, cancer and blindness. ******* The Declaration, introduced by Honduras, also calls on Member States to introduce measures to "prevent exploitation of women." Delegates from developing countries feared that women from poor countries would be targeted as a source for the large number of women's eggs that would be needed to support these "egg farms." The procedure by which eggs are extracted from these vulnerable women is painful and dangerous to their lives and health. ******* An additional 6 countries stated that they supported the Declaration but missed the vote. ******* The news was highly praised by pro-life groups internationally as a considerable breakthrough, uniting the international community incondemning human cloning as exploitative and unethical. ******* For more information contact: ******* Wendy Wright, Concerned Women for America (http://www.cwfa.org) 202-497-9590 ******* Lea Sevick, C-FAM (http://www.c-fam.org) 201-407-0826 ******* Thomas Jacobson, Focus on the Family (http://www.famiy.org) 719-651-3366 ******* Samantha Singson, Campaign Life Coalition - Canada 416-576-1494 ******* Jeanne Head, UN Representative for National Right to Life at 212-741-2681 or 917-660-3136 ******* (c) Copyright: LifeSiteNews.com, a production of Interim Publishing. 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