{"id":23167,"date":"2020-07-30T08:53:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T13:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=23167"},"modified":"2020-07-30T11:05:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T16:05:55","slug":"deceptive-and-dangerous-the-human-rights-councils-attack-on-sovereignty-and-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/deceptive-and-dangerous-the-human-rights-councils-attack-on-sovereignty-and-rights","title":{"rendered":"Deceptive and Dangerous: The Human Rights Council\u2019s Attack on Sovereignty and Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On July 17, the last day of its most recent session, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)\u2014a Geneva-based, powerful inter-governmental body within the UN system\u2014adopted a resolution<\/a> sponsored by over fifty nations that claims to seek \u201celimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls\u201d and urges every nation on earth to \u201cguarantee universal access to sexual and reproductive health services.\u201d If you are unfamiliar with UN terminology, this language may seem laudable\u2014until you learn that \u201csexual and reproductive health services,\u201d or SRHS, is actually UN-speak for abortion. Under the pretense of protecting women\u2019s rights, the UNHRC is advocating the ultimate violation of the ultimate human right, the right to life, which has been recognized by a UN treaty<\/a>: \u201cthe child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UNHRC resolution seeks to justify the taking of innocent life by insisting that abortion is an \u201cessential health service\u201d during the COVID-19 pandemic, and does so by claiming to affirm the Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/a>\u2014whose opening line insists on \u201cthe inherent dignity\u201d and \u201cequal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family.\u201d Well did Professor Mary Ann Glendon decry the \u201copportunism\u201d that leads \u201cnations and interest groups\u2026 to use selected provisions [of the UDHR] as weapons or shields, wrenching them out of context and ignoring the rest.\u201d Unfortunately, the resolution is not an anomaly; the UNHRC has long attacked the right to life under the guise of protecting women\u2019s rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor is this the UNHRC\u2019s only encroachment upon fundamental rights recognized by the UDHR, whose message, says Professor Glendon, is \u201cthat rights have conditions\u2014that everyone\u2019s rights are importantly dependent on respect for the rights of others, on the rule of law, and on a healthy civil society.\u201d Of course, the UDHR leaves no doubt as to the foundation of a healthy civil society: \u201cThe family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.\u201d Tragically, the family has also come into the cross-hairs of the UNHRC, as I saw at one of its sessions when two internationally prominent gay activists were treated as conquering heroes as they met with groups of delegates to promote a document they had helped create called the Yogyakarta Principles<\/a>. This cunningly crafted manifesto is premised on the notion that homosexual \u201crights\u201d reign supreme over every other human right and prevail over every incompatible principle and provision in any constitution, culture, law, or otherwise. The Yogyakarta Principles aspire to nothing less than a total transformation of human society and would brook no opposition or dissent, even by religious voices. All would be required to bow before the new idol. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No wonder that a jurist and religious leader of the stature of Dallin H. Oaks has warned, referring to the Yogyakarta Principles, \u201cReligious freedom needs defending against the claims of newly asserted human rights,\u201d and any \u201ceffort to have governments invade religion to override religious doctrines or practices should be resisted by all believers,\u201d who should also respect \u201cthe very real civil rights (such as free speech) of their adversaries or any other disadvantaged group.\u201d The Yogyakarta Principles have been the driving force behind the barrage of sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity (SOGI) resolutions by the UNHRC as it has sought to force its agenda on all nations, notwithstanding their sovereign laws and religious beliefs. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UNHRC’s war on sovereignty and rights continues largely unnoticed and unreported, but its methods have been exposed by the US Commission on Unalienable Rights in its recently released Draft Report<\/a> calling for resistance to \u201cattempts at creating new rights through means that bypass democratic institutions and procedures,\u201d since \u201cnation-states, through their laws and political decisions, are the main guarantors of human rights.\u201d The report also censures \u201cthe prodigious expansion of human rights\u201d throughout \u201cthe many different UN agencies,\u201d and warns that \u201crecasting contestable policy preferences as fixed and unquestionable human rights imperatives promotes intolerance, impedes reconciliation, devalues core rights, and denies rights in the name of rights.\u201d At risk, says the report, are those foundational and divinely endowed rights proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With\nso much hanging in the balance, we must indeed resist this deceptive and\ndangerous erosion of our sacred rights. It is time for all who believe in life,\nfamily, and faith to boldly stand up and speak out\u2014for ourselves and future\ngenerations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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