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6,000 EXPECTED AT UN FEMINIST CONFERENCE
The annual UN Commission on the Status of Women has turned into perhaps the largest annual radical feminist gabfest in the world. Six thousand women are descending on UN headquarters March 1-12, 2010.
Conducting Talk Show interviews exposing the radical liberal agenda of this event is Austin Ruse, Director of the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, who warns about the involvement in the conference by The Center for Reproductive Rights, a New York based law firm that Ruse calls “bully girls with law degrees” with their sights set on aborting African babies. Said Ruse, “Africans beware of women from this group coming from American saying they are there to help you. They are not.”
This year’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is particularly significant because it marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Beijing Conference on Women. At the original 1995 conference, advocates attempted to establish a “right” to abortion on demand but failed when governments specifically outlined that no new rights – particularly, no new “right” to abortion – were established at Beijing. Since then, however, abortion proponents have not given up their attempts to push abortion rights at CSW and during periodic reviews of the Beijing conference.
While governments gather in a conference room to discuss how they have helped the world's women progress, non-government organizations (NGOs) will be holding their own events to push their ideas. According to an official from the Division on the Advancement of Women (DAW), over 6,000 NGO representatives have registered to attend this year’s CSW. A number of these side events will, not unexpectedly, focus on “sexual and reproductive rights,” “access to reproductive health services,” and abortion. While most pro-life organization were denied the opportunity to hold events over “space constraints,” many prominent abortion advocates such as Ipas, the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the Center for Reproductive Rights were given slots.
In conjunction with NGO side events, NGOs are also circulating documents to other advocates for presentation to delegations. Catholics for Choice (CFC) – formerly known as Catholics for a Free Choice – has circulated a joint declaration seeking support from other organizations on the CSW electronic mailing list for NGOs. The CFC declaration calls on "all Christians" to take aim at Nicaragua and El Salvador's strict pro-life laws with the slogan that "Jesus never condemned therapeutic abortion." CFC demands "in Nicaragua the immediate restitution of therapeutic abortion and in El Salvador the restitution of law that guaranty therapeutic, ethical and eugenical [sic] abortion."
ABOUT AUSTIN RUSE…
Austin Ruse has headed the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) since shortly after its creation in the summer of 1997. Mr. Ruse has held the title of President since 2000.
Ruse or his team have participated in every major UN social policy negotiation since 1997 including the multi-year negotiations that created the International Criminal Court.
He has briefed members of the U.S. House and Senate on U.N. matters, as well as briefing White House and National Security Council staff. Ruse has also briefed senior government officials, journalists, Church and non-governmental leaders from around the world.
Austin has appeared on a number of national cable network programs discussing UN and Catholic issues, including news programs on CNN, CBS News, MSNBC, and Fox News and has been published in First Things, Washington Times, National Review Online, Weekly Standard, Human Events, Touchstone, as well as newspapers around the world. He is a biweekly columnist for TheCatholicThing.org and founder of the foreign affairs blog, TheNewSovereigntists.org
A former foreign affairs commentator for EWTN's weekly news broadcast The World Over hosted by Raymond Arroyo, Austin also lectures widely on U.N. matters, appearing throughout the U.S., also in Canada, Latin America, the Far East and Europe.
Ruse is a founder of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast and prior to helping to found C-FAM, Ruse spent many years in magazine publishing including Forbes, Fortune, the Atlantic Monthly and Rolling Stone.
Mr. Ruse is a Knight in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a Knight in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, and is a founding member of the Diplomatic Society of St. Gabriel. Ruse is also a member of Sons of the American Revolution.
Austin holds undergraduate degrees in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Missouri, and an Honorary Doctorate from Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Mr. Ruse is married to the former Cathleen Cleaver, who is senior legal advisor to the Family Research Council. They have two daughters, Lucy and Gigi. They live in the state of Virginia where Mr. Ruse’s family first arrived from England in the early 1700’s.
About C-FAM…
C-FAM was founded in the summer of 1997 in order to monitor and affect the social policy debate at the United Nations and other international institutions.
C-FAM is a non-partisan, non-profit research institute dedicated to reestablishing a proper understanding of international law, protecting national sovereignty and the dignity of the human person.
C-FAM personnel have participated in every major UN social policy debate since 1997 including the Rome Statutes of the International Criminal Court, the Convention on Disabilities, Cairo 5, Beijing 5 and dozens of others.
C-FAM publishes and promotes scholarship related to the proposition that the UN and other international institutions harm a true understanding of international law and in the process undermine the family and other institutions man requires for a just, free and happy life.
C-FAM regularly interfaces with diplomats, policy makers, academics, activists and office holders from around the world.
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