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The Radical Feminist Take-Over at the U.N.
September 16, 2003
by Carey Roberts
The USA
Today/CNN/Gallup poll released this past week reveals that
Americans believe the United Nations is performing poorly as a world
peace organization. And 37% want
the U.S. to slash its financial backing, which may exceed a
mind-boggling $1.6
billion this year.
And once Americans find out how much the gender feminist agenda now
pervades the UN, public support will continue to plummet. This is the
alphabet soup of radical feminist thinking at the UN:
- DAW: The Division
for the Advancement of Women oversees and
coordinates the integration of the feminist "gender perspective" into
the various UN agencies.
- CEDAW: The Convention
for the Elimination of Discrimination Against
Women consists of 30 articles that cover such areas as Education,
Health, Employment, Law, and many others. US Senate ratification of CEDAW was
blocked last summer by a vocal coalition of women's, conservative,
religious, and men's rights organizations.
- UNICEF: Thanks to director Carol Bellamy, UNICEF now promotes an
agenda that places
the needs of women above the needs of children.
A recent
report
criticized the UNICEF Go Girls! campaign in unusually blunt language:
"However, some observers do not believe such information leads
inexorably to the conclusion that girls should be favored in
international programming (and that boys should be entirely excluded)".
(page 74)
- UNIFEM: The UN Development Fund for Women, known as UNIFEM, works for
"women's empowerment and gender equality." To find out exactly what this
euphemistic phrase means, visit the UNIFEM website at
http://unifem.org/.
- WHO: The World Health Organization has a Department of Women's Health
and a Global Commission on Women's Health, but
no
corresponding programs for men.
- ILO: The International Labor Organization has recently issued a
report, "Time
for Equality at Work." The report argues that women should
be paid the same as men, regardless of the difficulty of their work or
their job qualifications.
- UNAIDS: Female liberation ideology has even gained a foothold at the
United Nations AIDS Program. Article 14 of the
UN
Declaration of
Commitment on HIV/AIDS states, "...Gender equality and the empowerment
of women are fundamental elements in the reduction of the vulnerability
of women and girls to HIV/AIDS."
- Security Council: In 1990, the UN Security Council passed
Resolution
Number 1325. This Resolution unfairly stereotypes men as the cause of
war.
The recent exposé
by the International Organizations Research Group, documents how many of these
feminist-inspired programs are now consolidating their grip by forging
strategic alliances.
For example, next month the Division for the Advancement of Women will
collaborate with the ILO and UNAIDS to sponsor a meeting on
"The Role of
Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality". But
don't expect to hear much discussion how gender equality might improve
the health of men, which lags behind women in every country around the
world.
The UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights prohibits any form of
sex discrimination. But you won't hear much about that from the feminist
apparatchiks at the UN.
Because to a radical feminist, gender equality can only be a one-way
street.
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