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February 26, 2005 Urgent Action Alert! Help Defend Family, Marriage and the Unborn at the UN!
UN Ambassadors need to hear from people everywhere that the world does not want the UN to become embroiled in unproductive controversial negotiations over homosexual and abortion rights at the upcoming conference on women. (Additional background information below.) Through our website you can easily send a pre-written email to 129 key UN ambassadors with only a single mouse click. These ambassadors have either supported pro-family provisions in the past or have not yet declared a position on these issues. Just click here to make a critical difference in this battle. What happens at the UN can have a direct and negative impact on our efforts to protect marriage, the family and children in our own countries! This is because the documents and agreements reached at these conferences become part of international law, norms and standards that shape and influence national laws and policies worldwide. The anti-family, anti-children forces understand this, which is why they are constantly working to slip things into these international documents and agreements that will help achieve their goals at the national level. They count on the fact that most people who are dedicated to defending marriage, the family and children in their own countries do not understand the power of international consensus documents. But you have helped us stop them before! For example, in just the past year, United Families International supporters like you flooded key UN missions with emails that helped us to successfully defeat the “sexual orientation” human rights provision at the Human Rights Commission. Your emails also helped to achieve recognition of the Doha Declaration on the Family by the UN General Assembly. Please help us do it again! Please take a couple of minutes to help us defend marriage, family and children at the international level during this critical meeting. We must be constantly vigilant to these threats and be prepared to meet them every time. The future of marriage, the family and children in all countries depends upon our success in these critical battles! Thank you for your help in this vital fight. Sincerely, Sharon Slater P.S. You can help even more by forwarding this alert on to as many other people as you can who will also take a few minutes to protect marriage, the family and children. |
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Brief Background Starting this Monday, February 28th and ending March 12th, the UN will be negotiating a document at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) that will build on two prior women’s rights documents. The negotiations on these two landmark women’s documents--one ten years ago and one five years ago--became fierce battlegrounds over homosexual and abortion rights. After intense late-night battles we defeated their worst proposals five and ten years ago, but if we do not stop them now, our past pro-family victories will have been for naught. The anti-family forces working to influence the CSW did not think we would catch them this past week trying to force the conclusion of negotiations behind the scenes before the official conference even began. But we did. And now we have to stop their current attempts to force their anti-family, anti-child agenda on the world! Fortunately, at this past week’s preliminary negotiations the U.S. delegation presented a strong proposal (also supported by the Vatican) that would prevent the UN from using these past women’s documents and the current one under negotiation to create new international rights harmful to families. On Monday, February 28th, the real battle begins with abortion rights at the forefront and we predict that the same battle over homosexual rights will emerge if the U.S. lead proposal is not adopted. We will not give up our efforts to stop these attacks on children and the family. But we need your help. A number of UN member countries have not yet shown support for the proposed provision that will protect children and families. Many of these countries are the same ones that fought these sexual orientation and abortion provisions five and ten years ago. They now need a wake up call. Concerned individuals around the world can help give them that wake up call! Please take a minute of your time to help us defend marriage, family
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UNITED FAMILIES INTERNATIONAL |
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Please help us to protect family, marriage, and the unborn by emailing key UN ambassadors to encourage
them to support an important provision currently under negotiation
at the UN. 