Senate LEFT Pushes Intrusive U.N. Treaty (CEDAW)

NewsMax.com ^ | June 6th, 2002 | Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com

[madfly]

Senate Left Pushes Intrusive U.N. Treaty

Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com
Thursday, June 6, 2002

NEWSMAX.COM - WASHINGTON A United Nations treaty seeks to impose world government-style authority over the personal affairs of all Americans. The so-called Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is scheduled for a hearing next week, to be conducted by far-left Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.

This is yet another U.N. treaty that would meddle in personal matters that are none of its business. Originally signed by Jimmy Carter in 1979, it was never ratified by the Senate, although the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, just a few months before the big Republican sweep in 1994, did approve it.

The fact that the document has been in limbo in this country for 23 years is not hard to understand once its potential impact is realized.

Nations that are signatories to the treaty must appear before a CEDAW Committee to report on their progress in implementing the convention. The committee presumes then to render its judgment on internal policies of individual nations.

"The bottom line is that while some of these reports are absurd, some are dangerous,” says Austin Ruse, president of Catholic Family Institute. "It would be irresponsible for the U.S. government to expose itself to this out-of-control committee.”

Examples? Try these:

Mother's Day Is a No-No

• Belarus has been criticized for establishing Mother’s Day.

  The U.S. has had a Mother’s Day for decades. It has been taken for granted as part of the American tradition. But because Belarus established a special day to honor mothers for their role in nurturing their young, the CEDAW Committee declared itself to be "concerned by the continuing prevalence of sex-role stereotypes and by the reintroduction of such symbols as Mother’s Day and a Mother’s Award, which it sees as encouraging women’s traditional roles.”

  It is also concerned whether "the introduction of human rights and gender education aimed at countering such stereotyping has been effectively implemented.”

• The CEDAW Committee has directed China to legalize prostitution even though prostitution is condemned in the convention. The committee says prostitution would be OK because it "is often a result of poverty and economic deprivation.”

• CEDAW criticizes Ireland for the influence of the Catholic Church in society and the state, in large part because of the church’s opposition to abortion. The committee also directed Ireland to legalize abortion.

• The committee has reprimanded Mexico for having a lack of access to easy and swift abortion.

• Luxembourg has been criticized for "promoting a stereotype of men being the breadwinners of families.”

  Not Enough Babies Under State Control

• CEDAW singled out Slovenia for harsh judgment because "less than 30 percent of children under three years of age were in formal day care.”

Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America has described CEDAW as being "like the Equal Rights Amendment on steroids.” Americans rejected the ERA 20 years ago.

Ruse says CEDAW "seeks to drive women from the home and to drive children into day care. CEDAW seeks to promote prostitutes and condemn mothers. CEDAW seeks the reinterpretation of religious doctrine.”

What’s more, CEDAW could open the door for prosecution of Americans under the International Criminal Court, another intrusive entity that seeks to break down sovereign rights of nations and replace them with international authority.

Legal scholars Richard G. Wilkins and Kathryn O. Balmforth have issued a paper saying: "Numerous advocacy groups have asserted they intend to use … language from the ICC to prosecute private and corporate conduct that violates, among other things, the provisions of CEDAW. U.S. ratification of CEDAW would strengthen the claims of these groups that the far-reaching terms of the treaty establish international ‘crimes’ … for which U.S. corporations could be indicted by the ICC.”

All of this notwithstanding the fact that the Bush administration has said the U.S. will not recognize the ICC because of concerns that it could set up a witch hunt whereby U.S. citizens could be hauled before this tribunal on trumped-up charges and without legal protections afforded by the U.S. Constitution.

There are reports that the Bush administration does not want to send anyone to testify before Boxer’s subcommittee next week. CNSNews.com says the Bush White House has tried, obviously without success, to persuade the California Democrat not to pursue the hearing.

Media inquiries to the White House on this matter have gone unanswered. But NewsMax.com has reason to believe that the Bush White House does not intend to let Boxer, a crony and key ally of Sen. Hillary Clinton, lead it around by the nose on foreign policy.

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[madfly]

There are reports that the Bush administration does not want to send anyone to testify before Boxer’s subcommittee next week. CNSNews.com says the Bush White House has tried, obviously without success, to persuade the California Democrat not to pursue the hearing.

Media inquiries to the White House on this matter have gone unanswered. But NewsMax.com has reason to believe that the Bush White House does not intend to let Boxer, a crony and key ally of Sen. Hillary Clinton, lead it around by the nose on foreign policy.

So could this be a case of "What if Barbara Boxer held a hearing and nobody came?"

UNsign CEDAW

[madfly]

Although it would be good for this hearing to fail, I hope that doesn't stop the information from getting out to the American People on just what this Treaty is all about. Need to keep hollerin' about this while the subject is current. Before they just push it under the rug, wait a while, and try to sneak it by the public again.

Hearing or No Hearing

UNsign CEDAW

[cactusSharp]

you all should have seen Chris Dodd on c.span yesterday just billowing and pouting that we are not in the ICC man,thought he was gonna cry too........

[madfly]

Email your Senator

UNsign CEDAW

[madfly]

That must have been fun. I will have to check C-Span's schedule for the 13th. Hope they have a camera on Barbara Boxer in an empty senate chamber. Crying would be good.

[JFoxbear]

Blue Helmet Bullseye Bump!

[madfly]

This is from an Irish website.

Human Life International Ireland

COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN (CEDAW)

See also: Church's teaching on gender equality | Gender Mainstreaming

IT SOUNDS GOOD BUT IS IT AS GOOD AS IT SOUNDS?

• CEDAW's own documentation reveals an agenda which discriminates against full-time mothers at home, Christian families, the Catholic faith and life at its earliest stages.
• CEDAW is funded by the UN to assist with the mission of promoting the Gender Agenda which tends to distort the traditional understanding of male and female and their natural roles in order to accommodate a liberal agenda - our government has been called to 'mainstream a gender perspective' into every program and policy in every public and private institution.
• Mothers caring for their children at home obstruct CEDAW (UN) policy so their work must be devalued and they must be forced into the labour market.
• Note to disguise these subversive plans we hear the cry 'gender equality'.

Anti-family ideologues like to point to the minority of families that are dysfunctional, declare that a crisis exists, then propose untried, ideological 'solutions' that will weaken all families and cause more problems.

The fact remains that science unequivocally confirms what most of us already know...

the family is the safest, healthiest place for women, men and children.

Now you can read for yourself some of CEDAW'S aims as stated in their own documentation (Unedited Version of Twenty-first session 1 July 1999)

The following statements are taken from the concluding comments of the Committee:

COMMENTS WHICH UNDERMINE THE ROLE OF MOTHERS DESIRING TO WORK AT HOME

• "The Committee considers that the persistence of the emphasis on the role of women as mothers and caregivers tends to perpetuate sex role stereotypes and constitutes a serious impediment to the full implementation of the Convention. The lack of emphasis, in public perception and in State policy, on the shared responsibility of men for family and caring work further compounds the situation of de facto inequality of women."

• "The Committee expresses its concern about the continuing existence, in article 41.2 of the Irish Constitution, of concepts that reflect a stereotypical view of the role of women in the home and as mothers."

• "The Committee recommends that such regulations and policies be accompanied by awareness raising and educational efforts aimed at changing attitudes concerning women's traditional roles and responsibilities for child and family care."

• "Childcare facilities seen as one of the most important ways of reconciling work and family life."

• "The Committee urges the Government to ensure that legislation and policies create the structural and systemic framework that will lead to women's long-term participation in the labour force on a basis of equality with men."

[Squawk 8888]

That treaty would have a lot more credibility if its proponents went after Saudi Arabia and Iran.

[madfly]

The U.N. has a social agenda supported by tax dollars and backed by
both military and financial clout.
Refugees and the world's impoverished
need food, clothing, medicine,
and education — NOT feminist policy on sexual matters.

Wendy McElroy
November 2001
ifeminists.com

[madfly]

Long Report

A "Family" Crisis
at the United Nations

By Wendy McElroy

In 1979, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) passed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which the United States has yet to ratify. Also in 1979 -- the International Year of the Child -- the UN began discussion of a draft agreement on the rights of children, which resulted in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Adopted in November 1989, the CRC remains unratified by the United States. Both documents have become flash points of controversy.

The UN itself evolved from the Declaration of United Nations, signed in 1942, through which twenty-six nations pledged to support the Allies during World War II and to work toward peace thereafter. Libertarians have long been critical of the UN, viewing it as a step toward a collective global government. The criticism became outright condemnation as the UN's peacekeeping role assumed a more military air. For example, SFOR -- the "Stabilization Force" of tens of thousands of troops in Bosnia-Herzegovina -- operated under the authority of a UN Security Council Resolution. The fear of World Government was made more real by the Millennium Summit (2000) at which the UN assembly considered proposals to establish a UN bank that issued currency, a permanent standing army of its own, and UN control of international financial institutions.

Today, influential conservative groups are adding their own unique criticisms of the UN. Specifically, the Family Research Council and the Heritage Foundation accuse factions within the organization of interpreting both the CRC and CEDAW according to a radical feminist ideology that seeks to subvert the family, national sovereignty and religion. The Family Research Council recently published a collection of essays entitled "Fifty Years after the Declaration: The United Nations' Record on Human Rights." In the book, nearly two dozens experts roundly criticize the recent social policies of the UN as they relate to women, abortion, and children's rights. Teresa Wagner, the editor, charges that the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights "has become a tool...to advance abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia and other destructive causes..."

[madfly]

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b82a31334fb.htm
The UN Quietly Wages War On Religion

Snip

- Catholicism has been blamed for "reinforcing attitudes and values that make women subordinate to men and discriminate against women" in Nicaragua.

Calgarian Hermina Dykxhoorn, president of the Alberta Federation of Women United for Families, has seen the UN executive at work. Over the last decade, she has been a pro-family lobbyist at UN conferences in Beijing, Istanbul, Rome and other venues.

"At the 1996 Istanbul Conference, the director general of the World Health Organization (then Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima) told a press conference that 'the three great monotheistic religions are not compatible with the New World Order'," Dykxhoorn, a Christian Reformed Protestant, recalled.

"I heard him say it. And when you're a member of one of those monotheistic religions, it's rather chilling."

But the UN Secretariat isn't opposed to all religion, she said. "They don't mind Hindus and Buddhists, because they've got more flexible moral codes. And they love the Bahai's because Bahai's are big on world government. But they don't like Orthodox Judaism, Christianity or Islam -- any religion with an absolute moral code is an obstacle to them."

[knighthawk]

Why would they want to disband mothers-day? I cannot see this is hurting anyone.

[madfly]

They want to discredit Motherhood. They want women to rejoin the workforce and leave the children to the State "daycare centers". They are against the family. Some call it the SW plan (School to Work), others call it the Cradle to the Grave plan. Sound familiar? ____________ism?

[madfly]

Email your Senator

UNsign CEDAW

[MeekOneGOP]

WE NEED A KOFI BREAK !
DUMP THE U.N. NOW ! !

[Zeno44]

When Oh When are we going to kick that UN out of the US and the US out of the UN. I've had enough> How about you? The US is it's own worst enemy.

[He Rides A White Horse]

The so-called Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is scheduled for a hearing next week, to be conducted by far-left Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.

........I get the feeling Babs doesn't like being a woman. Which strikes me as being a commonality among these types. In other words, yeah, they've got a problem.......

Belarus has been criticized for establishing Mother’s Day.

The U.S. has had a Mother’s Day for decades. It has been taken for granted as part of the American tradition. But because Belarus established a special day to honor mothers for their role in nurturing their young, the CEDAW Committee declared itself to be "concerned by the continuing prevalence of sex-role stereotypes and by the reintroduction of such symbols as Mother’s Day and a Mother’s Award, which it sees as encouraging women’s traditional roles.”

Oh God, how awful.........a day recognizing mothers for the important work they do, which in most cases is raising the next generation of people on this fair Earth. Somehow, this role has been denigrated, mocked, scorned, etc. How perverse. As if being a mother to your child is some 'lower' job class. The feminists........next thing you'll hear is that the term 'Big Brother' is sexist......maybe we should start referring to it as 'Big Momma' from now on........that ought to please them.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Ruse says CEDAW "seeks to drive women from the home and to drive children into day care. CEDAW seeks to promote prostitutes and condemn mothers. CEDAW seeks the reinterpretation of religious doctrine.”

What CEDAW wants is government to be the bridegroom.

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BUMP

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Email your Senator

LOL. My sinators are Boxer and Fishstein.