UN Agents Tried to Stop Nicaragua's Vote on Abortion
By Press Release: Stacey Holliday (11/01/06)
“Women’s rights” committee obsessed with abortion but silent on child sexual abuse.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 /Christian Newswire/ -- A United Nations (U.N.) committee on women’s rights sent a belligerent letter to Nicaraguan politicians prior to their historic vote last week to ban abortion. Yet these U.N. officials have been virtually silent on the well-corroborated case of a powerful Sandinista leader and former president accused of sexually molesting his stepdaughter.
“Nicaraguans held a massive rally – 200,000 strong, led and filled by women – in support of an abortion ban,” said Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America (CWA). “Yet radical feminists and U.N. officials tried to bully Nicaraguan leaders into cancelling the vote. This extraordinary interference contrasts sharply with their silence and utter failure to help seek justice for Zoilamerica Navaez, the stepdaughter of one of the most famous Nicaraguan politicians and Sandinista leader.
“Clearly U.N. agents are abusing their position to force their ideology on democratic societies, even when the women of those societies vehemently oppose it. U.N. interference in this free vote of a sovereign nation stands in stark contrast from their lack of interest in a serious case of child sexual abuse by a powerful politician in the same country. Have they ignored Zoilamerica’s case because it accuses a socialist dictator with whom radical feminists in Nicaragua have aligned?”
The letter, sent by the U.N. CEDAW committee (the treaty body for the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women), misrepresents international agreements and medical facts regarding abortion.
It claims that the “right to life,” legally protected in international agreements, means a right to abortion. In a twisted view of “sovereignty,” it criticizes Nicaraguan religious leaders for being involved in their nation’s policies, but implies that the country must comply with U.N. officials. And it misplaces blame for maternal mortality on lack of access to abortion, when in fact Ireland and Poland – countries with pro- life protections against abortion – have lower maternal mortality rates than countries that impose abortion.
CWA’s analysis of CEDAW revealed that the treaty would threaten countries’ self-determination, stripping from citizens the right to decide their laws and culture. CWA has also exposed the CEDAW committee’s abuse of power to impose radical socialist ideology on countries. It is happening again right before the eyes of the world.
“The U.N. committee’s bullying of Nicaragua proves why the U.S. should not ratify CEDAW and subject Americans to these abusive feminist ideologues,” said Miss Wright.
Concerned Women for America (CWA) is the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization.
http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=11724&department=MEDIA&categoryid=life
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