By Hilary White
NEW YORK, January 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will answer questions emailed to him by school children around the world on the role of the U.N. chief and other global issues. Selected questions will be posted to a specially set up website, some time after March this year.
The publicity project has been organized by the U.N. Department of Public Information’s Outreach Division, the Global Teaching and Learning Project. Students from primary to secondary school age are encouraged to write in to the UN’s website and ask any question related to the UN’s work.
Pro-life groups are urging the world’s students to write to the UN asking why abortion remains such a prominent part of international aid schemes.
Austin Ruse, head of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute in New York, has written extensively on the support for abortion – especially to control the burgeoning populations of the developing world – that remains a major part of UN policies.
The World Congress of Families International (WCF), issued a demand this month that the United Nations stop putting abortion ahead of development in its aid projects. The group strongly criticized the United Nations Population Fund’s recently released annual report that said “reproductive rights” (meaning abortion and contraception) are the primary focus of the organization’s work.
“UNFPA acts as if this was one of the great tragedies to befall humanity – that a woman is expecting a child whose conception wasn’t planned,” commented Allan Carlson, secretary of the WCF, an international pro-family network.
UNFPA spends $148 million annually on abortion-promoting “reproductive health programs”, compared to only $51 million on development programs.
To email questions:
https://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/