Conservative Group 'Thrilled' by U.S. Performance at U.N. Child Conference

NewsMax.com ^ | 5/14/02 | Cliff Kincaid

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Although the U.S. appeared to back down on such issues as abortion and homosexual rights, Janice Shaw Crouse of Concerned Women for America says she is "thrilled" with the document issued at the conclusion of the United Nations Special Session on Children.

At the urging of the U.S., the phrase "reproductive health services," which conservatives consider a euphemism for abortion, was eliminated from the U.N. document. However, the report also recognizes the significance of previous U.N. documents and conferences where "reproductive health services" were endorsed.

"The Bush administration does not support those other documents," said Crouse, in explaining why the additional reference is irrelevant.

Before the summit, Austin Ruse of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute had hailed the U.S. delegation for opposing a reference in the document recognizing "various forms of family," a phrase that could imply homosexual marriages. But the phrase was kept in the document, and U.S. efforts to define a family as "based on marriage between a man and a woman" were ultimately dropped.

Nevertheless, Crouse, a member of the U.S. delegation to the session, said the "various forms of family" phrase did not necessarily imply acceptance of homosexual marriages. She believes it refers to extended families where grandparents or other relatives care for children.

As negotiations over the document, titled "A World Fit for Children," dragged on through the final day of the conference, the "consensus" of phrases subject to different interpretations was finally reached.

When negotiations over the document were transferred to the German U.N. Mission, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute accused the Germans of trying to "block" pro-life and pro-family non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from "their normal involvement in the U.N. process."

The Special Session on Children featured more than 60 heads of state and government, 200 parliamentarians from 77 countries, 350 children and young people, and 2,000 NGO representatives.

U.S. Allies at U.N.: Iran, Sudan, Pakistan

In arguing for the pro-life position, the United States was aligned with the Vatican and Muslim countries such as Sudan, Iran and Pakistan. "This is the world we live in," said Crouse. "We can't agree with everybody who is on our side."

Clear-cut U.S. victories occurred when the document dropped criticism of using the death penalty against juveniles, added a reference to sexual abstinence, and dropped recognition of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as an international standard.

The CRC was strongly endorsed by 300 delegates at a "Children's Forum" held in conjunction with the event. They issued a "message to world leaders" urging "a real and effective commitment to the principle of children's rights and applying the Convention on the Rights of the Child to all children."

The message further recommended that children be "actively involved in decision-making at all levels and in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating all matters affecting the rights of the child."

Treaty Bans ... Spanking

The treaty bans spanking, urges education along U.N. principles, and affirms a right to play.

"I am enormously proud and pleased at what has been accomplished this week," said Carol Bellamy, executive director of UNICEF. "If leaders keep the promises they have made, we can bring about enormous positive change in the world in less than a generation."

Bellamy was placed on the defensive during the conference when the Washington Times reported that UNICEF was distributing a book promoting sexual activity and abortion for children.

Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who represented the Bush administration at the event, spoke about the need for sexual abstinence among young people. The speech "received tepid applause, in contrast to the significantly greater applause for the previous speaker, who had lambasted Israel and strongly defended Palestine," said Crouse.

Forum to Bash U.S., Israel, Vatican

Representatives of Arab and other nations used the occasion to denounce Israel or the U.S. Dr. Abdelouahed Belkeziz, secretary-general of the Organization of the Islamic Coanference, lamented "the tragic situation of the Palestinian child at this dreadful time of the repeated, unceasing Israeli attacks in the Palestinian territories."

Dr. Fahad Al-Shagra, the minister of education of Iraq, gave a speech accusing the U.S. of "the crime of the century" in the war on Iraq that he said "surpassed in its horrific consequences what happened in Nagasaki and Hiroshima."

Vilma Espin Guillois, head of the Cuban delegation, denounced the "new world characterized by the U.S. hegemonic superpower, whose great economic strength is not used to improve the quality of life of its citizens in need, but to manufacture sophisticated and horrible devices that kill people."

The Vatican, a permanent observer at the U.N. and a major voice against abortion at the conference, discovered that it now faces increased scrutiny by the world body over the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy.

A group called Coalition of Concerned Catholics tried to use the session to get an apology from the Vatican.

Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), a liberal group, said it would meet with the Committee on the Rights of the Child, a U.N. body that monitors compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to hold the Vatican accountable for violating the treaty. A CFFC report accuses the Vatican, which ratified the CRC in 1990, of violating several provisions on the welfare of children.

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United Nations Addresses “Children's Rights”

At a key meeting next week (May 8-10) and the preliminary meetings and “Children's Forum” leading up to it, the United Nations discusses the “rights” of children. But it treats children as autonomous beings rather than minors under their parents’ protection and authority. And, ominously, those “rights” include contraceptives and abortion.

Find out how it affects you by reading our regular highlights filed by Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse from U.N. Headquarters in New York City.

March 25-April 5	World Conference on Sustainable Development	Third PrepCom for Rio+10
April 1-5	Commission on Population and Development	35th Session, CPD
May 2-7	Informal preliminary meetings and “Children's Forum” (May 5-7)
May 8-10	United Nations Special Session on Children

Highlights

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5-10-2002

U.N. Delegates Work All Night Thursday

5-9-2002

U.S. Delegates Hold the Line on Family-Friendly Language

5-8-2002

World Summit For Children Formal Sessions Begin

5-7-2002

United States Reverses Clinton Endorsement of the International Criminal Court

5-6-2002

World Congress of Families Equips Delegates for Battle at World Summit on Children

5-3-2002

United Nations Tug of War over Children’s Summit Outcome Document

5-2-2002

Children’s Summit Agenda Released

4-5-2002

Stumbling Blocks on the Road to Johannesburg

4-4-2002

U.N./Hollywood Half-Truths

4-3-2002

The United Nations’ Ubiquitous and Destructive “Footprints”

4-2-2002

United Nations Opens the Door For NGO Statements

4-1-2002

Introduction to the two Conferences

[nothingnew]

The treaty bans spanking,

I assume this does not include the kink-o-dults, just bratty little snots.

The end of civilization as we know it...DCS run amok.

FMCDH

[backhoe]

Concerned Women for America is a good group- I get their e-letter- and their approval is worthwhile. Far as the un goes?

American Policy Center on-line Declaration of Independence from the U.N.

Also, I recall that the un has one or more "contingency sites" located in other nations... let's banish them there--

Also:

Child sex book given out at U.N. summit

massive sexual abuse of children in Africa,

[Siobhan]

While something good was attempted by the Bush Administration, this does nothing but point up the fact that the US needs to get out of the UN, and the UN needs to be thrown out of the US.

The League of Nations died, and it is time for the UN to die. The only basis for international agreements or governance is one that recognizes the existence of God, thanks God for our existence, and acknowledges that we are accountable to God and to each other for the well being of the world.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Salvation]

Treaty Bans ... Spanking

What about killing of children? Neglect of children?

[Ohioan]

The treaty bans spanking, urges education along U.N. principles, and affirms a right to play.

What a deal of presumptuous impudence. How parents discipline their children or educate their children are the absolute antithesis of international concerns. These only become international concerns, if we are to be reduced to the human equivalent of a planet-wide ant hill, where the U.N. Queens direct our every thought.

The only saving thing in this is that the people promoting this are so stupid that they feel the need to affirm "a right to play." They have each lived, presumably, to reach adulthood, and have never even observed, that mammalian life, including us humans, basically learns through play. Without play, most mammals would not achieve the ability to fulfill roles in an adult world.

We need to be done with these totalitarian, intellectual poseurs! We should have never dignified a U.N Child Conference by attending at all. This is not a victory for us, it is a victory for those who want to build that ant hill. We are just debating with them what the Queens should decree.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[F.J. Mitchell]

Or training kids to blow themselves up?

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Sorry. I did close the tags.Lemme try again.

Good ? though I thought all tags were all closed with the new program.

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Here is the link for the problem post,as the hyperlinks don't work.

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U.N. Sex Book Encourages Pedophilia and Bestiality

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The treaty also dictates the number of children 'one' can have, under the guise of more than four children harm's the womans health....so says the U.N.

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You can kill them all you like, just don't spank them. They have a right to play, but no right to life. Strange world.

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Friday, May 10, 2002 6:55 a.m. EDT

U.N. Sex Book Encourages Pedophilia and Bestiality

A pro-abortion book distributed at the current United Nations Child Summit endorses sexual gratification with children and other non-consenting persons, and even suggests that animals and inanimate objects are appropriate subjects for human "sexual response."

The UNICEF-funded book, aimed at mothers and teenagers, was given to delegates from Latin America. It promotes sexual activity and abortion among teens - and includes the following passage:

"Situations in which you can obtain sexual pleasure: 1. Masturbation. 2. Sexual relations with a partner — whether heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. 3. A sexual response that is directed toward inanimate objects, animals, minors, non-consenting persons."

The bizarre recommendations also include encouragement for young women to have lesbian relations, according to the Washington Times, which first reported on the U.N. sex book in Friday editions:

"Sexual relations with a partner: Here we should insist there is no ideal or perfect relations between two or several people. ... This is why we encounter many differences among women. Some women like to have relations with men. And others with another woman."

The sex book was distributed by the Mexican government with U.N. funding, the Times said.

United Nations spokesman Alfred Ironside defended the publication.

"That book was a product of the Mexican government, supported by UNICEF financially as part of UNICEF's support to the Mexican government," he told the paper.

"We do everything we do in full agreement with the governments we support. We do not operate independently."

Ironside said that the book was "intended as a training manual for people working with adolescent women to prevent teen pregnancy" and noted that it carried a disclaimer that explained "the views of the writers do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations."

Still, the controversial material has forced the U.N. to halt the book's distribution:

"A very small number [of books] were produced - fewer than a thousand," Ironside told the Times. "It was pulled out of circulation when the content was more carefully reviewed."

Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
United Nations

[niki]

Yes, what a thrill that our government is negotiating our sovereignty and our right to self government away.

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I know but atleast we did not give in. Atleast we were not sold out, out right all the way with this tyrannical garbage. We need to cut all funding to the U.N. immediately as seen discussed here.

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