Feminist activists converged on the UN’s recent 2008 session on the Commission on the Status of Women to push for abortion on demand, same-sex marriage and, just for good measure, “gender perspectives on climate change”. Babette Francis, who flew to New York to attend the session, provides this exclusive report for News Weekly. The New…
Radical feminists at a recent United Nations conference expressed dismay that abortion-on-demand disproportionately victimises females, reports Babette Francis. Every year in March, the United Nations has a two-week Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) session on women’s issues. The session usually concludes with an interminable debate about “reproductive rights”, and this year’s (the 51st)…
The UN is under increasing attack these days for being inefficient and costly to run, writes Colin Teese. Almost without exception, governments around the developed world – including our own – can find little to praise with the way the United Nations is functioning. One of the most persistent criticisms of the UN is that…
It’s time for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign. Over the past seven months, the US Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations, which I chair, has conducted an exhaustive, bipartisan investigation into the scandal surrounding the UN oil-for-food program. That noble program was established by the UN to ease the suffering of the Iraqi people, then…
A friend drew my attention to an ABC PM program on March 30, with reporter Mark Colvin. It concerned Rwanda: the mysterious shooting-down of an aircraft carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi; the consequential three-months non-stop slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis by Hutus, a death rate faster than that attributed to the Germans in the…
Have you ever voted for a UN delegate? Do you know who they are? They usually represent the world’s elites who are more libertarian than the ordinary people. Worldwide, 84% of people believe that marriage is one man and one woman. In Australia, 83% agreed that extra-marital sex was wrong and 63% said that homosexual…