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NEW YORK, July 31, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Recently the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) voted to give official consultative status to several homosexual rights groups, including one from Quebec that had previously been rejected by the NGO accrediting committee. On Friday, July 20, the  ECOSOC voted to overturn the decision by the NGO committee, giving official consultative status to the Coalition gaie et lesbienne du Quebec and the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights in Geneva.However, while the granting of consultative status to these groups is a severe blow pro-life and pro-family efforts at the...

The opening round in the court-martial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada could be key to defense hopes of putting the Iraq war on trial along with this Fort Lewis Army officer who refused to deploy to Iraq. At a pretrial hearing today, Watada's attorneys will try to persuade a military judge that they should be allowed to argue that the war is illegal, in part because it violates military regulations that wars be fought in accordance with the United Nations charter. That stance is crucial to the defense of Watada, who faces charges of missing a troop movement and conduct...

We're just as surprised as we can be - aren't you? - to discover that so far not much is happening with this big, robust peacekeeping force that the UN pledged to dispatch pronto to preside over brotherhood and goodwill forevermore in the promised lands as the Security Council forced an end to Israel's war of self-defense against Hezbollah. Italy, standup kind of country that it is, commits to supply up to 3,000 troops in short order, and places like Finland and Bangladesh have offered contributions as well, but nearly everybody else is scrambling furiously to squirrel out of any...

The last time a democrat was correct about something was when a man by the name of John E. Rankin, a U.S. Congressman (A DEMOCRAT!!!) who served sixteen terms from 1921 until 1953 said "The United Nations is the greatest fraud in all history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States".

Kerry: U.S. Must 'End the Empire of Oil' 56 minutes ago Sen. John Kerry said Sunday that the United States must rebuild the power of the United Nations and help "end the empire of oil" to defeat terrorism. Kerry, who lost to President Bush in the 2004 presidential election, avoided explicit criticism of the U.S. administration during a wide-ranging speech on the global dynamics of terrorism. But he said Bush's policy of imposing democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan risked looking like a crusade in Arab, Muslim eyes. "If it is seen as the result of an army marching through Muslim...

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan will be saying so long in 2006. On his departure, the career diplomat is leaving more unanswered questions than just those never answered in the UN’s ongoing oil-for-food scandal. UN observers have wondered how Annan could watch fellow blacks get slaughtered in Rwanda and in Sudan’s Darfur during his term.

Karl Rove is no Colombo. Unlike the wrinkled coat-gumshoes of televised fame, Rove could never find the skeletons in the closet. During the last American presidential campaign, Rove went into spy mode.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote address at September’s 2005 China Internet Summit, organized by China’s leading e-commerce company, Alibaba.com. Clinton’s address in Hangzhou, China follows closely on the heels of a final report issued by the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) suggesting that the UN assume global governance of the Internet.

The Senate on Wednesday kept up an investigation of John R. Bolton on the eve of a showdown vote on the troubled nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Democrats who claim Bolton is too hotheaded or unbending say they could try to hold up a final vote in the full Senate. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held private interviews with two State Department officials who worked with Bolton in his current job as the department's arms control chief. The Democrat who is leading the opposition to Bolton said he is asking the nominee directly for additional information....

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is a man in search of a legacy. A legacy, however, is something you build up over time, like an edifice carefully constructed, action by action, decision by decision. Ultimately, it adds up to a record for history to judge. Unfortunately for Mr. Annan, there is a very real possibility that his legacy at the helm of the United Nations will be an organization that has been riddled with corruption, financial scandals, mismanagement and outright abuse. In New York on Monday, Mr. Annan took steps to leave a more positive legacy that he may be hoping...

Sudan a Painful Crisis – Help is On The Way What constitutes a “humanitarian crisis?” Sadly we all know what happened December 26, 2004. What was it? A tsunami left its signature on several nations, killing 226,000 plus people and destroyed countless lives – forever changing unnumbered individuals. But do we know what has been going on in Sudan for the last 20 years? Sudan, the war torn country of which the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has dubbed “the world's worst humanitarian crisis” is nothing less than that, a crisis. Fatima a 28 year old widow who...

Incompetence and corruption at the U.N. appears to be swirling around and around in ever-widening circles. The oil-for-food scandal continues to grow, which the U.N. insists is under investigation, led by Paul Volcker, who now, it has been revealed, has substantial business ties with several central figures in the investigation. Then there are the sexcapade scandals that seem to follow U.N. peacekeepers wherever they go. The peacekeepers didn't go to Rwanda or Sudan, while government-backed savages hacked to death nearly a million helpless people. And now, a top researcher for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has resigned, charging that...

The quest for a settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has suffered an enormous setback at the hands of the International Court of Justice. In an egregious and shameful ruling against the security fence, this court would sweep aside Israel's right to defend its people. The United States must throw its full weight, including using its veto, against any U.N. effort to further the court's decision. We know one thing for certain about the 14 members of the court backing the ruling: Their spouses don't face the threat of being blown to bits taking a bus to work. Their children weren't...

Second Front The United Nations is covering its rear in the oil for food (search) scandal. And now it's engaged on a second front as new evidence is emerging that a U.N. ambulance was used by Palestinian terrorists for their getaway following an engagement on May 11, in which 6 Israeli soldiers were killed. The Israelis have been making the charge for years that the U.N. and Red Cross have been providing cover for terrorists, with American taxpayers footing some of the bill. But now there's evidence to back up the charge. In video shot by Reuters in Southern Gaza,...

The U.N. recently passed another blatantly anti-Israel resolution in support of extremist Arab Palestinian claims. There is no longer any point in entering into any serious dialogue with this organization. In countless ways, over many years, the U.N. has proven to be a discredited organization, with lawless elements, which can no longer claim to have any moral standing. Very few of its 191 members can be counted upon to put principle ahead of crass expediency. The hopeful vision that accompanied its founding in 1945 has long since evaporated. It was the United Nations which recognized Israel in 1947. Therefore the...

"Iraq's most influential religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, declared Thursday that he would sanction a six-month delay in the nationwide elections that he had demanded be held this summer, giving the U.S. civil administration crucial leeway in its plan to formally end its occupation and transfer power to an Iraqi government by June 30," The Washington Post reports. "But Sistani, who has emerged as a key power broker in Iraq, said he wanted the date of an election -- the end of 2004 -- enshrined in a U.N. Security Council resolution. He also insisted that an interim government must...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iraq's foreign minister accused the United Nations on Tuesday of failing his country by leaving Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) in power for decades and appealed to the world body to assume a leading role in Baghdad immediately. In an address to the U.N. Security Council, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari noted that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was opening offices in Cyprus and Jordan for international staff, who would commute to Baghdad. "Your help and expertise cannot be effectively delivered from Cyprus or Amman," Zebari said. Annan pulled out foreign staff in reaction to the Aug....

<p>WASHINGTON — The Bush administration will push for a vote as early as Wednesday on a United Nations resolution that it hopes will encourage other countries to contribute money and troops to Iraq.</p> <p>But U.N. Security Council members and Secretary-General Kofi Annan continued to express reservations. And it remained unclear whether passage would provide the incentive the administration seeks before a conference of prospective Iraq donors in Madrid next week.</p>

The curious team of Paul and Maurice How much influence does Maurice Strong -- radical environmentalist and leading exponent of the United Nation's higher humbug -- have on PM-in-Waiting Paul Martin? This question has arisen because Mr. Strong is moving to Ottawa, while Mr. Martin is filling in part of the time until his coronation by co-chairing a UN development commission, to which Mr. Strong is "special advisor." Certainly the two go back a long way. Mr. Strong, who came from a dirt-poor background in Depression-era Manitoba but exhibited a genius both for business wheeling and dealing and political networking,...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 25: President Pervez Musharraf said on Tuesday that Pakistan was not in favour of regime change "anywhere", because this would destabilize the entire region. "I would not like to get involved in conjectures," he said when a Saudi journalist wanted to know whether Pakistan was afraid of any consequences for itself if there was a regime change in Iraq. Addressing a crowded press conference, the president said he did not think there would be regime change in other states also. Asked whether Pakistan as a member of the current Security Council would support the second resolution on...