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5. In sub-Saharan Africa children in
divorced, dissolved, remarried, or
repartnered homes children are at
least 20 % more likely to die before
age 5, compared to children in stable,
two-parent homes.
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WORLD FAMILY MAP 2014
Mapping Family Change and Child Well-Being Outcomes
6. What’s going on here? Why are women safer when married and
children safer when living with their married biological parents?
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9. Drinking Treated Water
• Before - 12%
• After - 97%
Family Latrine
• Before - 32%
• After 98%
Domestic violence
• 8% to 1%!
CareforLife.org
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Children Attending School
• Before - 40%
• After - 76%
Results of Family Preservation
10. Family Based Programs that Work!
Stay Alive HIV/AIDS
Prevention Program:
2,000,000 children in Africa
Parental involvement
61% reduction in pregnancy
rate in Kenya!
(StayAlive.org)
11. Yet the institution of the
traditional family is under attack
more than ever before
14. “Sexual Rights” World View
Children sexual from birth
The pursuit of sexual pleasure is a right at all ages
Gender is a choice/right and us fluid
15. Religious/ Pro Family View
Children should not engage in any sexual relations
Sexual relations in marriage only
Gender = sex (male or female only) and is fixed
16. Children are the Target
The goal is to raise
up the next
generation in their
radical sexual and
gender ideologies.
17. What are the greatest obstacles to
“Sexual Rights”?
The Family
Parents
&
Religion
18. Sexual “rights” agenda disguised under
the banner of “human rights”
The “Call it a Human Right” Strategy
19.
20. Distortion of Children’s “Rights”
Protection Rights:
Clean water, food, health, shelter, healthcare,
education, safety, and medicine
Versus
Autonomous Rights:
Privacy, confidentiality, information, association,
right to control sexual expression, gender
identity and sexual orientation
22. Why is SRHR so dangerous:
Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights =
Sexual + Rights = Sexual Rights
23. “Sexual Rights”
Claimed “rights” relating to:
contraception, abortion, sexual expression (cross
dressing, nudity), pornography, sexual relations,
age of consent, sexual orientation, gender
identity (hormone therapy, sex change
operations, etc.), sodomy, adultery, prostitution,
use of public bathrooms, adoption, fertility and
wedding services, and . . .
sexual education
24. World Health Organization:
Definition of “Sexual Rights”
seek, receive and impart information related to
sexuality; (At what age?)
sexuality education; (heterosexual or homosexual
education?)
pursue a satisfying, safe and pleasurable sexual life.
(????)
25. Sexual/Reproductive Health Rights
World Health Organization
Definition of “sexual health” includes:
“a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-
being in relation to sexuality”
26. The World Health Organization
“working definition” for “sexuality”:
Sexuality encompasses:
“gender identities and roles”
“sexual orientation”
“eroticism”
“pleasure”
“fantasies”
“desires”
“attitudes”
“behaviours”
“roles and relationships”
(WHO, 2006)
27. Number 1 Tool to Advance
Sexual Rights?:
“comprehensive sexuality education”
28. The World Health Organization:
Sexuality encompasses:
“gender identities and roles”
“sexual orientation”
“eroticism”
“pleasure”
“fantasies”
“desires”
“attitudes”
“behaviours”
“roles and relationships”
(WHO, 2006)
29. UN Rapporteur on the “Right to Education”
“sexual rights” including the right to “pleasurable”
sexual experiences.
“comprehensive sexual education” (CSE)
“. . . abolishing guilt feelings about eroticism”
CSE to teach about homosexuality
33. UNESCO Sexuality Guidelines:
(page 5)
Schools must teach:
“respect; acceptance; tolerance and
empathy for all people regardless of their
health status or sexual orientation.”
34. UNESCO’s “International Guidelines
on Sexuality Education”
Key objective: “Advocacy to promote the right
and access to safe abortion”
“respect” for “sexual and gender diversity”
“both men and women can give and receive sexual
pleasure with a partner of the same or opposite
sex”
35.
36.
37. Distributed at the UN
“Sexual rights
relate to a
person’s sexuality,
sexual
orientation,
gender identity .
. . ”
38. Laws that say
you have to tell
your sexual
partner(s) you
are infected
with HIV violate
your sexual
rights.
39. International Planned Parenthood (IPPF)
Funded by UN Agencies
Planned Parenthood receives millions
from multiple UN agencies:
UNFPA
UNAIDS
UN Women
WHO
World Bank
40. World Health Organization
“Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe”
For Children Age 0-4 years:
“Give information about enjoyment
and pleasure when touching one’s body
… masturbation.”
“Give the right to explore gender
identities”
41. World Health Organization
“Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe”
For Children Age 4-6 years
“masturbation”
“same-sex relationships”
“develop respect for different norms regarding
sexuality”
42. WHO Standards for
Sexuality Education in Europe:
For Children Age 9-12 years:
“Differences between gender identity and
biological sex”
“Sexual rights as defined by the
International Planned Parenthood
Federation”
43. WHO Standards for
Sexuality Education in Europe:
“For Age 15 and up:
“acceptance and celebration of sexual
differences”
“violations of sexual rights”
“right to abortion”
44. UN Entities Promoting Sexual Rights
UN Rapporteurs/Experts
UN Treaty Body Monitoring Committees
UN Agencies: (UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNWOMEN,
UNICEF, OHCHR, WHO, etc.)
45. UNAIDS
What does the UN’s premiere AIDS
prevention agency say is are ways to
prevent AIDS?
46. UNAIDS: International Guidelines on
HIV/AIDS and Human Rights
Says States must:
Legalize “abortion”, “same-sex marriage” &
prostitution
Destigmatize “men who have sex with men”
Provide sexuality education
47. U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
“men who have sex with men”
MSM only 2% of the US population, account for 6o%
of all new HIV infections
MSM are 44 times more likely to be infected with HIV
MSM “HIV infections have been increasing
steadily since the early 1990s”
49. UNFPA Reports in 2014
Parents and religion the problem
“Gate-keepers such as religious and traditional
leaders, parents, teachers, and others regulate
their [youth] access to information and services.”
“Sometimes the strongest opposition to
comprehensive sexuality education comes
from community groups and religious
institutions”
51. THE UN CEDAW Committee:
Told 7 countries to legalize prostitution
Told 6 countries to decriminalize
homosexuality and protect “sexual
orientation”
Told 66 nations to legalize, remove
penalties for, or increase access to abortion
52. UN Committee on the Rights of
the Child --Comment # 15:
Says children should have:
“sexual and reproductive freedom” (what is this??? )
“confidential counselling and advice without parental or legal
guardian consent”
sexual education, reproductive health services and medical
treatment “without the permission of a parent, caregiver or
guardian”
53. Direct violation of parental rights!
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
“Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education
that shall be given to their children.”
The International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights:
Parents’ right “… to ensure the religious and moral education
of their children in conformity with their own convictions.”
The Convention on the Rights of the Child:
“respect the rights and duties of the parents
55. Strategy 1
Claim that CSE will:
Lift people out of poverty
End discrimination
Prevent violence against women
Prevent HIV and AIDS and STIs
Prevent teenage pregnancy
Prevent maternal mortality
Ensure gender equality
Prevent climate change
Prevent child marriage
And more!
56. Adolescents from Intact Families :
•Less likely to have sexual intercourse
•Have had fewer sexual partners
•Report less sexually transmitted disease or pregnany
(The Relationship Between Family Structure and Sexual Activity by
Samuel Sturgeon- FamilyFacts.org)
57. Strategy 2
Claim that comprehensive sexuality is:
Mandated by many
international agreements
58. Strategy 3
Fund NGO youth activists to
promote sexual rights in UN negotiations.
59. 4. Groom African Youth to Put On UN Events
UN Event:
“Young African Voices”
Sponsored by Ghana
&
ASK Alliance
(Ghana, Kenya, Uganda)
Kenyan youth brought
to promote CSE!
60. Strategy 5
Bypass African UN Experts and Promote CSE
Hold conferences for African of ministers who
don’t understand the harms and get them to
sign agreements promoting CSE
DO NOT SHOW THE AFRICAN OFFICIALS
ACTUAL CSE MANUALS!
61. African Ministers Sign Declaration on CSE
Sponsored by UNAIDS UNESCO, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO in Cape
Town.
“Signatory: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique,
Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, United
Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Kenya agreed to:
“Increase the number of all schools and
teacher training institutions that provide CSE
62. Step 6: Manipulate African UN
delegations
Planned Parenthood employees trained to
get on African delegations
Netherlands trains sexual rights activists to
get on African UN delegations.
UN Agencies offer to write speeches for
African officials that promote CSE
63. The Good News!
1. Major African victory against CSE at the UN
Commission on Population and Development!
2. Islamic countries (OIC), the Holy See, Belarus, &
Russia are standing up too!
3. We defeated:
UNAIDS HIV Human Rights Guidelines
CRC Committee Comment # 15
64. What can you do to
protect children and the
family?
66. Suggested Plan of Action:
(International)
1. Consider Kenya withdrawing from African CSE
declaration
2. Refuse to allow sexual rights or CSE to be
included in UN post-2015 agenda
3. Oppose “sexual rights” and CSE at UN in Geneva
and New York
67. Suggested Plan of Action:
(national)
1. Pass strong parental rights laws.
2. Pass a comprehensive protection of the family law to be
in compliance with UN treaties
3. Pass laws regulating sex education
(Not pornographic, cannot encourage child sex, parents opt
in, brain development, statistics for sexually active, etc)
68. Suggested Action Plan
(Individuals & Organizations)
1. Get educated (FamilyWatchInternational.org) get
the Family Watch newswire.
2. Watch our online documentaries on the sexual
rights agenda, pornography and same-sex
attraction and show them to others.
3. Go to UNFamilyRightsCaucus.org and join the
caucus!
69. Will You Stand for the Family?
Petition: I pledge to support efforts to protect:
The family
Marriage
Religious Freedom
Parental rights
Sign the Petition:
www.standforthefamily.org
So what is the legal status of the family and what obligations to UN Member States have to support and protect the family?
Another important study done by Child Trends is called the World Family Map 2014. They found some interesting results based on family structure and they also reported this interesting statistic, that 86 % of Mexicans believe that children need both a mother and a father to grow up happily. This is not to say that all children who do not have both a mother and a father are unhappy, but worldwide data show that children generally do best on almost all measurable indicators when they reside with both their mother and their father,
Heritage Foundation
Department of Justice study in the United States 1993-2010 intimate partner violence against females courtesy of Dr. Brad Wilcox
We are data junkies – 52 indicators – from beginning / amazing results - Harvard review “no one else is doing what you are doing”
Focusing on individual rights instead of the family as a unit.
Distortion of human rights
I would like to submit that at the center of the war that many of us are engaged in is a battle over the context in which sexual relations should occur and a battle over laws, policies and education surrounding human sexuality and reproduction.
There are two main sides to this battle.
Who gets to decide what human rights are? OHCHR, Human Rights Commission, Rapporteurs on the right to education, health, etc etc
Don’t be confused when it comes to promoting children’s rights. There are two kinds of rights, autonomous rights and protection rights. Protection rights are the kind of noncontroversial legitimate rights of children to such things as clean water, food, health, shelter, medicine, healthcare, education and medicine.
It is in the area of autonomous rights that we get in trouble with as these are usually adult rights that children are not yet ready to handle because their brains are not even fully developed until their early 20s. They include such things as a right to privacy, confidentiality, association, sexual expression and relations, the right to control fertility or the a right to sexual information. One must ask, privacy from who? confidentiality from who?
Please do not abandon children prematurely to autonomous rights. Children need time to enjoy their innocence and childhood, they will have plenty of time to be adults with autonomous adult rights in the future.
To begin with we need a working definition of sexual rights so we know what we are talking about. Claimed sexual rights reach into almost all areas laws and policies beginning with laws relating to contraception and include issues surrounding sexual expression, sexual orientation, even sex change operations all the way though marriage, adoption, and finally sexual education. And when we are talking about children or respecting the rights of parents things get complicated fast. What many policy makers forget at the UN and elsewhere is that unless there is an age limit put on things many of the policies or alleged “rights” will end up applying to children as well to the detriment of their emotional and physical health.
In fact the UN Rapporteur on the “right to health” claimed in his 2010 report to the UN General Assembly claimed that in order to have health, all children have a right to “comprehensive sexuality education”. . . ” which is required in order to fulfil their right to education.
He claimed that this “right” includes teaching children about their rights to “pleasurable sexual experiences” and that he “considers that pleasure in and enjoyment of sexuality . . .should be one of the goals of comprehensive sexual education, to abolish guilt feelings about eroticism that restrict sexuality to the mere reproductive function.”
He claimed that children should be learning these things from the outset of their schooling--- in other words as young as age 5.
So the rapporteur is claiming children have this controversial “rights” even though they have no basis in international human rights law.
Our final example of a UN agencies promoting the sexuality education agenda. Is UNESCOS International Guidelines on Sexuality Education. These guidelines were a collaborative effort of a number of agencies.
Notice many of the same sexual themes I pointed out earlier.
These guidelines teach youth to “promote the right and access to safe abortion”
“respect” for “sexual and gender diversity”
And teach youth again about obtaining sexual pleasure either from the opposite or the same-sex.
International Planned Parenthood also receives millions of dollars from various UN agencies, and they work hand in hand with these agencies to promote the sexual rights agenda, which again brings them many more customers. Your tax dollars that go to the UN are likely funding these agencies, which in turn fund Planned Parenthood and other organizations that do similar work to Planned Parenthood.
So moving on with WHOS sexuality standards for children. They recommend that from 4-6 children need to learn about masturbation and homosexual relationships and to respect different sexual norms. Remember this is ages 4-6! Why would a child need to learn about any sexual norms at this age whether heterosexual or homosexual?
What WHO recommends for ages 9-12 is probably the most concerning because children are supposed to learn about their “sexual rights” from International planned parenthood and we have already seen what that looks like. Ages 9-12 they recommend children learn the differences between gender identity and biological sex.
And from 15 up they need learn to not only accept but to “celebrate” sexual differences and about sexual rights again and what constitutes violations to their sexual rights and their alleged rights to abortion.
So I would ask, is the World Health Organization on the business of promoting sexual health or sexual rights?
So how else is the UN being manipulated to promote controversial sexual rights?
The list of includes but is not limited to:
UN Rapporteurs or experts
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
UN Agencies
UN Treaty Body Monitoring Committees
A very dangerous document that we assist the African and Islamic countries in rejecting at the UN each year is the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights. It is no accident that “and human rights” appears in the title of this document. This document, facilitated by UNAIDS, the UN agency charged with combatting AIDS throughout the world, tells countries that to fight AIDS, nations must legalize abortion, sodomy, prostitution, and same-sex marriage. In other words they want governments to legalize promiscuous sex.
Now you tell me how legalizing these things will help stop AIDS. It won’t, because whatever you legalize you get more of, not less. UNAIDS has the data showing that promiscuous sex whether it be heterosexual or homosexual sex spreads AIDS at the highest rates, yet they promote sexual rights at the expense of the sexual health of millions of people.
A very dangerous document that we assist the African and Islamic countries in rejecting at the UN each year is the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights. It is no accident that “and human rights” appears in the title of this document. This document, facilitated by UNAIDS, the UN agency charged with combatting AIDS throughout the world, tells countries that to fight AIDS, nations must legalize abortion, sodomy, prostitution, and same-sex marriage. In other words they want governments to legalize promiscuous sex.
Now you tell me how legalizing these things will help stop AIDS. It won’t, because whatever you legalize you get more of, not less. UNAIDS has the data showing that promiscuous sex whether it be heterosexual or homosexual sex spreads AIDS at the highest rates, yet they promote sexual rights at the expense of the sexual health of millions of people.
Yet the U.S. and other Western governments continue to promote this flawed sexual rights approach even though, for example, the U’S’s own Center for Disease Control admits that the only group in the U.S. where HIV infections have increased steadily since the 1990’s is among “men who have sex with men.”
In fact the CEDAW Committee told
Told 7 countries to legalize prostitution
Told 6 countries to decriminalize homosexuality and protect “sexual orientation”
Told 66 nations to legalize, remove penalties for, or increase access to abortion
Yet, again the important thing to remember regardless of your laws or your personal stances on these issues is that the CEDAW treaty says nothing about any of these issues so this committee and many other are continuing to act ultra vires” or outside of their mandates to promote their own views and not the provisions of the treaties they are monitoring.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the child has launched one of the greatest assaults on the health and innocence of children and the rights of parents and the family with their Comment 15 which seeks to reinterpret the CRC to advance sexual rights for children.
In fact the UN CRC Committee issued their notorious Comment 15 which says that children should have the right to:
“sexual and reproductive freedom” (what is this???, at what age???)
“confidential counselling and advice without parental or legal guardian consent”
sexual education, reproductive health services and medical treatment “without the permission of a parent, caregiver or guardian”
This directly violates the prior rights of parents to guide the education of children and numerous binding treaties that recognize the rights of parents.
Again the CRC does not mention any of these things so the CRC is acting well outside of their mandate.
Proclamation
I hope you will excuse me if I get emotional but this is also a personal issue for me. As you can see from this picture my family is part African, we adopted three siblings from Mozambique as older children. Both their mother and father and their older brother died of AIDS and this is a terrible, painful and slow-killing disease. I cared for their older brother Rogerio during some of the last stages of AIDS before he died and it was awful. These beautiful kids did not have to lose their parents!
What is worse is that Planned Parenthood tells youth in Healthy, Happy, and Hot that it is a violation of their international rights to have to tell their sexual partners they are infected with HIV.