For the second year running, before the meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 61. See the report in News Weekly, May 6, 2017), a Youth Forum was held. This year about 750 young people (mostly young women) gathered on March 11–12 at the United Nations in New York to produce the…
Patrick J. Byrne’s perceptive analysis of the attack on religious freedom and parents’ rights that will flow from the legalisation of same-sex “marriage” (News Weekly, April 28, 2012) is a timely warning in light of the activities of pro-abortion and pro-homosexual organisations at the United Nations. The pro-abortion International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has…
Endeavour Forum Inc. is the only Australian pro-life organisation which has special consultative status with the United Nations’ Economic & Social Council (ECOSOC), but there are an increasing number of pro-life non-government organisations (NGOs) from other countries which are also monitoring UN debates. Having consultative status with ECOSOC enables an NGO to have observers…
NEW YORK, March 30 (C-FAM) The UN Commission on Population and Development is considering “sexual and reproductive health and rights” for children as young as 10. Even the Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon agrees. In a statement recently released he said, “Young people, as much as all people, share the human right to health, including…
In my article, “Gender diversity battle at UN women’s session” (News Weekly, April 2, 2011), I reported on the 55th session of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 55) held in New York in February/March this year. My conclusion was that the theme of the conference, “Access and participation of…
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has recently praised a UN Human Rights Council declaration urging the international community to end violence against homosexual, bisexual and transgender individuals. On March 22 she said: “Today 85 countries from every region of the world joined together in a historic moment to state clearly that…
