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Friday February 20, 2004
Anti-Family Canadian Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour Nominated as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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OTTAWA, February 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Canadian Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour has been nominated today to the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Justice Arbour is expected to retire from the Supreme Court of Canada to take up her post in Geneva in late June. As described by LifeSiteNews.com last week, while the development may be welcome news to social conservatives in Canada who will see at least one radical leftist judge leave the Supreme Court, from her new post, Arbour will now tax pro-family supporters the world over.
Justice Arbour's anti-family legacy as a Canadian Supreme Court Justice includes the legalization of lap-dancing; she has ruled in favour of common-law relationships, being in at least one herself; in a 1992 insurance case, she ruled that laws should not discriminate against common-law couples as compared to married couples; and in the recent Canadian Supreme Court decision on the use of spanking by parents as a form of discipline, justice Arbour was the only one among Canada's nine radical Supreme Court Justices to insist on total criminalization of all spanking.
Of grave concern are Arbour's globalist views. Speaking about the controversial proposal to have an International Criminal Court to prosecute what the UN sees as "human rights abuses" (which would include forced pregnancy), Arbour insisted that the ICC "would have universal jurisdiction [and] all states would be required to co-operate. It would have coercive powers that would bind states to produce documents and evidence [and] it would be armed with the ability to get evidence it needs."
See last week's LifeSiteNews.com report "Anti-Family Canadian Judge to be New United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights" at: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/feb/04021101.html
Also see the Real Women of Canada report which detail Justice Arbour's record of Judicial activism (in PDF) at: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003_docs/curbingthepower.pdf
And the LifeSiteNews.com report "Canada's Supreme Court Downgrades Public Morality," which describes the role Justice Arbour played in the legalization of lap-dancing at: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1999/dec/99121402.html
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