Bully Girls at IPPF attacking Nigerian Amb Joy Ogwu

The e-mail , below , is from Doris Mpoumou of  IPPF , to Nigerian NGOs so that they could attcked Amb Ogwu . Amb Ogwu has a good delegate in negotiations just now who is opposing the radiucal sexual rights agenda of the West.

If you would like to help please tweet on #cpd46  #srhr  to support Amb Ogwu and  the other pro-life countries of the world.

25.4.2013

Please circulate for endorsement. We need to send it to her this evening .
Thanks, Doris

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Dear Ambassador Ogwu,

We commend you for the leadership role that Nigeria has taken in advancing women's rights within the United Nations.  We are particularly proud of your efforts, as the first chair of UN Women, to promote gender equality and women's empowerment.  As you know, achieving gender equality and empowerment of women depend on the full realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights.

As a result, we are writing to express our concern about the position taken by Nigeria during the 46th Session of the Commission on Population and Development.  We are particularly concerned about the fact that Nigeria has called for the bracketing of all language around sexual and reproductive health and rights.

The government of Nigeria has reported to CRC that the maternal mortality rate is estimated to be 800/100,000 live births (2009).  According to a recent Lancet study (2010), Nigeria has the second highest number of maternal deaths in the world, accounting for more than 10% of maternal deaths worldwide. The study further showed that Nigeria's maternal mortality ratio has substantially increased between 1990 and 2008. (2010) Also, the 2008 National Demographic Health Survey found that among women aged 15 to 49, girls between 15 and 19 were the least likely to know of a contraceptive method.

As a signatory to Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of women in Africa, we trust that your government will commit to a positive resolution that reaffirm women's rights, gender equality and women's empowerment. We stand ready to work with you to ensure that Nigeria continues to serve as leader in advancing sexual and reproductive rights and health within the United Nations.

Sincerely,





Doris Mpoumou | International Advocacy Officer International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR)
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Another flyer

Western Obsession with Sex Gets even worse

Don’t let sexual and reproductive rights activists

 hijack the CPD document by pushing aside the

 real needs of migrants!

Migrants need:

Food and Shelter

Employment

Good Medical Care

Family Reunification

Education and Training Opportunities

Yet the current CPD draft ( Rev 2 ) increases the references

 “sexual” or “sexuality” from 33 to 36 times

“sexual and reproductive health” from 12 to 13 times

“sexual orientation” from 5 to 6 times

“gender identity” from 5 to 6 times

“Once again the sexual agenda of the first world is trumping the NEEDS of the third world… My mother tells me that not even once were her sexual and reproductive health or sexual and reproductive rights a concern.”

                                                                                      . . . . an immigrant to the US

Pro-Life and Pro-Family NGO Coalition

                                                                                                                                    4-25-13

 

The Archbishop's speech yesterday

http://www.holyseemission.org/statements/statement.aspx?id=414

Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations
in the Commission on Population and Development

46^th Session

United Nations Headquarters, New York, 24 April 2013

Mr. Chairman,

My delegation congratulates you and the bureau on your election and looks forward to working with you during this session to address the urgent needs of our fellow brothers and sisters in situations of insecurity and poverty due to migration.

The globalised economy, by putting human beings increasingly in contact with each other across borders, has contributed to creating and strengthening bonds of friendship and brotherhood within the human family. At the same time, increasing social and economic inequalities have been a source of division in the world and among our peoples. Situations of unsustainable socioeconomic insecurity and poverty have forced more and more individuals, families and entire communities to pursue their destinies in foreign lands and have driven them to leave their homes and families in the hopes of a more secure future in different countries and communities. In addition, millions every year are constrained to abandon their lands and the lands of their ancestors out of threat of war, humanitarian crisis, civil unrest and famine in order to survive. “Whether due to a search for better living conditions or a flight from persecution, war, violence, hunger or natural disasters, [migration] has led to an unprecedented mingling of peoples, with new problems and challenges.”[1]

The current state of migration presents a “social phenomenon of epoch-making proportions”[2] where families are forcibly divided, children are rendered vulnerable, labourers face abuse without recourse to remedies, and migrants are incarcerated without due respect for their human rights and dignity. Women migrants, in particular, face threats of sexual abuse and trafficking as if they were mere commodities. Accordingly, my delegation is pleased that, in his Report,[3] the Secretary-General has highlighted the need to promote family reunification, integration of migrants, recognition of the qualifications of skilled migrant workers, new approaches to assist elderly migrants, cost reductions of sending remittances, as well as protection of female domestic workers and migrants in irregular situations, especially women and children vulnerable to sexual and labour exploitation, abuse and human trafficking.

Solutions to the predicament that migration provokes for millions of our brothers and sisters ought to be far-reaching and sustainable if they are not to exacerbate an already tragic situation for many. Whereas States are possessed of a right to protect the integrity of their territorial borders, the frank reality of migration necessitates the measure of this right against the right of all people to migrate and pursue a standard of life befitting their human dignity. Where this right cannot be realised, necessity ordains that each one of us would seek it elsewhere and thus countries of destination have a moral duty to treat each migrant with respect for their human rights and dignity. Controlling borders therefore requires treating migrants with justice and mercy rather than as dangerous criminals or unwanted elements of the society. It also requires extending due protection of the law and respecting the universal rights of migrants, regardless of their migratory status, especially their right to life, development, education, clothing, food, shelter and basic health care.

Mr. Chairman,

A first step towards solution must be the frank recognition of the presence among us of migrants, and an acknowledgement of their humanity. It is not a reality that can be wished away. The presence of migrants among us confronts us with the ancient question, “Who is my neighbour?”[4], and invites receiving countries to evaluate their hospitality in terms of their commitment to brotherhood enshrined in the very first article of the Universal Declaration of Human rights.

Migrants count among “the simple, the humble, the poor, the forgotten,” that Pope Francis pleaded for in his recent Palm Sunday Homily[5]: “those who do not matter in the eyes of the world”. Their human dignity requires that we accord to them their fundamental rights, including their right to migrate. Migrants are human persons, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, members of the human family, struggling with the challenges we all face, oftentimes under infinitely harsher circumstances. This should augur for the establishment of a stronger sense of solidarity between peoples and amongst nations which requires collaboration between countries of origin and destination and the adoption of adequate international norms so as to protect the rights of migrants and members of their families.

Mr. Chairman,

Migrants’ courageous pursuit of development for the good of their families naturally predisposes them to serve as an inspiration for their host communities. Their presence, courage and willingness to work can be a boon for both receiving and sending economies, and an enrichment of the common good through the cultures and values they bear. They are a source of immense social and economic potential which must be nurtured or risk being squandered. The Secretary-General reports an increase by some 60 million of the number of international migrants during the past 20 years, most of whom migrate from developing to developed countries – suggesting that migrant families are providing vital human resources in these rapidly ageing regions of the world where fertility rates are often well below replacement levels. Thus, migration brings host countries many benefits – and these ought honestly to be acknowledged and accorded the appropriate legal recognition.

Ultimately, the only appropriate response to the ongoing phenomenon of migration must be the development of the sending countries whose encounter with the globalised economy has not rendered them able to meet the legitimate aspirations of their people. Development of the poorer countries is the real and urgent challenge we have as a human family, calling for our active and concrete engagement. Redoubling border controls or tightening visa restrictions only serves to bolster migrants’ resolution and risk-taking, aggravating a sense of civic alienation to the point where it could threaten to undermine stability and the common good. Such an approach functions to harness a force of great potential good to precisely the opposite ends.

Further, we cannot fail to recognize the impact that the enactment of draconian population control policies have wreaked on countries whose populations can no longer sustain themselves, nor the destructive impact that the forced promotion of harmful notions, such as reproductive rights, has had on migrant families, trivialising marriage and the family and denying the very right to life for the unborn. Such a promotion of population control as a way to development has also led States to use forced abortion and sterilization as a means for controlling or mitigating the demographic and racial impact of migrants on their countries. States, on the contrary, have the duty to bolster the family, “the fundamental group unit of society”[6], so as to provide support for the institution where the relations of tomorrow must be cultivated.

Mr. Chairman

My delegation will continue to advocate for and provide economic, social, political, cultural, ethical, and religious resources for migrants regardless of their legal status and hopes that through this session we may find the political, legal and economic will necessary to make a lasting difference for those migrants and refugees longing for a better life.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

New Flyer for ICD today

Protect the Health and Innocence of Children!

Please oppose any language in the CPD draft relating to education on human sexuality and replace with “sex education”!

Did you know that UN supported sexuality education programs:

1.  Teach children as young as 5 they can touch their body parts (masturbate) for sexual pleasure (see UNESCO Guidelines on sexuality education)

2.  Promotes a right to sexual pleasure to young children whose brains are not fully developed and are not mature enough to regulate their sexual behavior in a responsible manner.  (See UN funded International Planned Parenthood’s (IPPF) sexuality education programs)

3.  Encourages youth to choose an identity based on their sexual behaviors and sexual feelings rather than their biological sex (see IPPF programs)

4. Fails to disclose the research showing that youth that engage in premarital sex have higher depression rates, lower educational achievement, and are less likely to have stable, healthy marriages

5. Does NOT reveal that oral contraceptives make women more vulnerable to AIDS

6.  Does NOT reveal condom failure rates to youth

7.  Does NOT reveal that HPV and other STIs can be contracted even with perfect condom use

8.  Does NOT reveal that no population studied has ever exhibited consistent, effective condom use, even with extensive education and availability of condoms (when hormones are raging  many people don’t want to use a condom even when they know better and they have them on hand)

9.  Promote  oral sex which puts youth at risk for neck and throat cancer and promotes anal sex which increases the risk of HIV infection by 44 times. (See IPPF’s Healthy, Happy, and Hot publication)

10.  Promotes the pill without revealing the increased risk for cancer, especially breast cancer

So, who benefits from the promotion of Comprehensive Education on Human Sexuality?

NOT children, adolescents, or youth!

Namely, International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF), the largest provider in the world of services for sexually active people from whom they make billions of dollars.

For an overview of the serious problems with UN promoted or funded sexuality education programs go the Family Policy Resource Center at  www.FamilyWatchInternational.org and click on “sexuality”

Late night at the UN

It is 9.30 pm just now and negotiations are dragging on.