Posted on 01/03/2003 3:52:57 PM PST by stoney
Internal UN Documents Show Financial Mismanagement at UNFPA
Austin Ruse 01/03/2003
An investigative report just released by the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) and the International Organizations Research Group (IORP) has found widespread financial and programmatic mismanagement within the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). "The United Nations Population Fund: Assault on the World's Peoples" reports that internal UN audits show that UNFPA does not monitor the quality or reliability of the reproductive goods it ships to poor countries. The report also unveils little known internal UN audits that accuse UNFPA of failing to account for up to 50 per cent of its funds for the years 1998 and 1999.
UNFPA is the chief organ of population control and abortion promotion at the United Nations and has come under severe criticism from the United States, one of UNFPA's chief donor countries. In recent months UNFPA was accused by the US government of aiding and abetting forced family planning programs in China and subsequently lost all US funding. Efforts to de-fund UNFPA are ongoing in the British House of Commons and House of Lords. This new report is expected to fuel efforts to strip UNFPA of it funding, which has decreased almost $200 million over the past ten years.
Report author Douglas A. Sylva, C-FAM research director and director of IORP, reports that 10 million condoms sent by UNFPA to Tanzania were later discovered to be faulty by the AIDS-beleaguered nation. Sylva uncovered UN reports
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