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Wednesday September 11, 2002
OUTGOING UN HUMAN RIGHTS CHIEF TO FORCE NATIONS TO COMPLY WITH UN
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NEW YORK, September 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) - Mary Robinson, who today leaves her post as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, announced yesterday plans to head a new project to force governments to meet their 'legal' obligations stemming from U.N. treaties. Robinson, who in her U.N. post pushed acceptance of abortion and homosexuality as human rights, takes her new post as the head of the "Ethical Globalization Initiative" effective October 1.
The initiative was launched by the Aspen Institute (which counts depopulationist Maurice Strong as one of its Trustees), the State of the World Forum (founded by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev) and the Switzerland-based International Council on Human Rights Policy. In a press release Robinson noted "this is a 15 month project."
"The 150-odd countries that have ratified the Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the all but two that have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child have legally committed themselves to progressively implementing the right to food, to education, to health, without discrimination," Robinson told reporters. "For the past number of years, I have been very focused on seeking to implement the legal framework of human rights commitments made by governments. I now want to further this work by taking this formative framework into the debate on globalization."
Pro-life leaders on the international scene regard the initiative as extremely suspect. Until the very end of her U.N. role she abused her power to urge countries to bow to abortion. LifeSite reported last week that Robinson personally tried to pressure the Costa Rican President to support pro-abortion language in the Earth Summit document.
See related LifeSite coverage:
UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS CHIEF PRESSURES COSTA RICAN PRESIDENT OVER ABORTION LANGUAGE
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/sep/02090502.html
UN TO ENFORCE 'HUMAN RIGHTS' VIA INTERNATIONAL LAW
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1997/nov/97111201.html
See Robinson's speech and Reuters coverage:
http://www.ichrp.org/ac/excerpts/99.doc
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020910/ap_wo_en_po/un_rights...
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