UN WANTS POPULATION CONTROL IN ETHIOPIA and ATTEMPTS TO SKIRT PROCEDURES TO RATIFY FEMINIST DOCUMENT

Africa.com, NY Times, LifeSite ^ | 03.25.03

[Coleus]

UNITED NATIONS PROPOSES COERCIVE POPULATION CONTROL IN ETHIOPIA
Cruel "reward and punishment" system proposed for food aid.

The United Nation's emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (EUE) has called for pressure tactics for depopulation in Ethiopia.  Rather than providing food aid, the EUE is suggesting that a "reward and punishment" system should be implemented to implement 'family planning'. 
 
African media quote the EUE report as saying, "If Ethiopia wants to become less dependent on foreign food aid, all appropriate means should be explored to stop the ongoing population explosion."

"The dissemination of family planning methods, possibly linked with relief operations, must be stepped up," it said. "Family planning education should be pursued more aggressively and it might be worth contemplating how far a system of reward and punishment could help implement family planning strategies."
 
See the Africa.com coverage:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200303200017.html

UNITED NATIONS ATTEMPTS TO SKIRT PROCEDURES TO RATIFY CONTROVERSIAL FEMINIST DOCUMENT
Meeting Suspended After Dispute Causes Disarray

NEW YORK, March 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meeting was suspended in disarray last week as various country delegates objected to the attempt by the chairman to ratify a document as agreed upon by consensus even though several states objected.  Feminists have pushed hard at the U.N. to say the CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women) convention mandates the provision of abortion but have run into problems attempting to force countries into giving up their religious objection to abortion.
 
The document in question sought to include a statement which would make countries "condemn violence against women and refrain from invoking any custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to its elimination."  Iran, Egypt and Sudan objected to the phrase but Canada and the EU led the charge in refusing to allow the statement to be deleted from the document or even modified so as to respect religious rights.  In U.N. feminist parlance violence against women includes refusal to allow abortion which is called 'forced pregnancy'.
 
Despite the disagreements, the chairman of the meeting attempted to call the matter agreed upon and told objecting members to register their objections at the end of the document.  However, Iran objected that the move was a breech of U.N. procedure and was supported in its objection by the United States.  After this the meeting was abruptly suspended.
 
See the U.N. report on the meeting and a detailed report by Concerned Women for America:
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/wom1399.doc.htm 
http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=3596&department=CWA&categoryid=nation
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LEAD CANDIDATE SELECTED FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PROSECUTOR

ARIS, March 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Members of the steering committee of the International Criminal Court have gone outside the normal process for nomination of a prosecutor for the International Criminal Court and have selected a likely candidate according to the New York Times.  Louis Moreno Ocampo, an Argentine lawyer, is being touted to be the court's first prosecutor, after a secret meeting by the steering committee.  The final endorsement of Ocampo is left to the 89 member countries of the ICC at their April meeting.
 
Critics of the court have warned that ICC documents afford the prosecutor unchecked power and as such pose immense danger. The United States has therefore refused to take part in ICC proceedings including the selection of judges and prosecutor.
 
Ocampo, currently a Harvard University Professor, is known for his prosecution of political figures.  He is president of Transparency International for Latin America.
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THREE TOP INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT JUDGES LINKED TO ABORTION MOVEMENT
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/mar/03031201.html
 
See the New York Times coverage:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/international/americas/24COUR.html
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HOLLYWOOD GLORIFIES "INFAMOUS PEDOPHILE" ROMAN POLANSKI
Shows Tolerance for Sexual Abuse of Minors

HOLLYWOOD, March 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Academy Awards last night presented glorified director Roman Polanski with the best director award for his recent film The Pianist.   The award emphasized Hollywood's tolerance for sexual abuse of minors since Polanki continues to be a fugitive in France after being caught in the rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977. 
 
U.S. sex researcher Dr. Judith Reisman recalls Polanski as "an infamous Hollywood pedophile" with a "sadistic sexual history".  A much sanitized description of Polanski's rape of his 13-year-old victim notes that he drugged, raped, sodomized and almost killed a 7th-grade girl he tricked into a hot tub.
 
Polanski's win was met with a standing ovation from the Hollywood elite at the award ceremonies.  Notably, actor Jack Nicholson did not stand.  Polanski raped the 13-year-old in Nicholson's home while the actor was away.
 
See Reisman's article on the Polanski case:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31264
 
See the AP coverage:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/03/23/state0024EST0123.DTL

[Notwithstanding]

Sending story to my environmental law professor.
We discuss this issue often at Ave Maria Law.

[GovernmentShrinker]

What no one allows for is the fact that if a woman doesn't want children, she can choose not to get pregnant in the first place

Not in places like Ethiopia.

[Darksheare]

"depopulation in Ethiopia."
They're doing a fine job by themselves at the moment...

The UN makes me sick, and remember what happened in Rawanda?
Kofi Anon at first denied anything happend there, obstructed any chance of an honest investigatiopn, and then on PBS in an interview said it was 'sad' what happened there.
This from the same guy who said he loved the smell of burning oil filled tires around the necks of his enemies.

Next they'll try this crap out on US, if they succeed in pushing it through.

[Coleus]

Yea, where was Clinton, the first "so-called" Black President when "his" people in Africa were being mutilated for all those years?

[Darksheare]

He was with Lewinsky and a cigar..
Or being bought by China..
Or trying to dodge another lamp tossed at him by Hillary!

[MIsunshine]

Me: What no one allows for is the fact that if a woman doesn't want children, she can choose not to get pregnant in the first place.

You: Not in places like Ethiopia

So abortion's okay for population control? Okay, but only in third world countries?

I'm not putting words in your mouth, I don't understand the point of your comment to me.

BTW, Planned Parenthood is international. Why can't we get the focus on worldwide 'reproductive health' to be on preventing unwanted pregnancies in the first place?

[GovernmentShrinker]

My point was to refute the comment you made. It's a concept that pretty much holds true in developed, civilized countries, but not in the third world. We should make a high priority of changing that, but in the meantime, it's cruel slap in the faces of abused and oppressed women to claim that they had a choice as to whether or not they got pregnant in the first place. In many of these countries, husbands murder their wives (often just adolescents) with impunity if they don't comply in every way with the husbands' demands. Ending abortion shouldn't be a higher priority than ending that state of affairs.

[Zoey]

Did the US sign and ratify the CEDAW treaty?

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[Coleus]

No, but they are working on it.

http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/07/cedawvote.htm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/696748/posts
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/CEDAW
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/695195/posts
http://search.cwfa.org/find.html?id=4208944&pid=r&mode=ALL&query=cedaw&t=s

[donmeaker]

I suppose that it is not all that important, but the ladies in ethiopia tend to be tall, thin, intelligent, fluent in several languages, and to my eyes, strikingly beautiful. The only nation that can compare is just down the street, in Eritrea.

Ethiopia mostly practices a brand of Christianity called Coptic. It is my belief that once they were a major christian center, but accepted some writings not believed canonical, for example, the gospel of Peter. Coptic Christianity was rigidly supressed by the Orthodox under the Eastern (Byzantine) Roman Empire, to the extent that many Coptic Christians looked at the relative freedom granted by the early Muslim Caliphs as liberating.

Ethiopia is also (by several accounts) where the Arc of the Covanent rests. Many Ethiopian women have names that echo Jewish place names. Ierusalem, Betelhem ectera.

If I was going to begin a eugenics program, I would not try to limit growth of a population of tall beautiful women, unless I was trying to breed dog ugly people.

[Coleus]

I have some Papal Encyclical information on post 9 regarding how the Church is against Socialism.

[al_c]

Wow! That's really eye-opening stuff. I'll bookmark it for future reference.

[Teacher317]

FR and FReepers have helped me learn many things. I never knew that, thanks to Oklahoma State University, Ethiopia was a net food exporter for almost a decade (mid 50's to 60's)... and then the Marxists took power, and they've been starving to death by the millions ever since (and relying on American generosity just to survive). How about, instead of killing more people and centrally-planning their (very sparse) population density, getting rid of their Marxist rulership, and getting back to what actually feeds people? I guess that's too tough a call for the thrill-kill cult in the UN. They'll accept any amount of death, so long as those who are in power get to stay in power. Blood for oil bother you? Try rivers of blood for political posts!

[shhrubbery!]

In U.N. feminist parlance violence against women includes refusal to allow abortion which is called 'forced pregnancy'.

Good Lord, that is Orwellian.

[Teacher317]

Ooh... according to HRW World Atlas online (http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/ethiopia.htm), Ethiopia has 65 million people now (an is the size of Texas), but is predicted to have 187 million by 2050 (while most of Europe is supposed to have fewer people by 2050). Wow.

[Coleus]

You can fit the entire world's population in an area the size of Texas.

[Coleus]

Oh? And what exactly are you trying to convey?

[Lorianne]

Men too can choose not to procreate. It takes two. Women cannot become pregnante by parthenogensis.

Setting all moral issues aside, elective abortion is NOT an effective population control measure.

[Lorianne]

Men too can choose not to procreate. It takes two. Women cannot become pregnante by parthenogensis.

Setting all moral issues aside, elective abortion is NOT an effective population control measure.