Britain’s teachers’ union is demanding that teachers be given the right to refuse to teach sex education in schools.
UN agencies led by UNICEF and local nongovernmental organizations, on Tuesday began a four-day meeting in Lome, Togo, to discuss hastening the implementation of UN international conventions promoting radical feminism (including abortion) such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
SPUC, the UK pro-life agency reports that the number of legal abortions in Croatia since the end of communism has plummeted. In 1987 the total was 48,608, but the number has fallen steadily each year since then and in 1998 the figure was only 8,907. Marijo Zivkovic, director of the Obiteljski (family) Centre in Zagreb, credits this success to concerted efforts over a number of years to distribute pro-life information literature, the clarity and consistency of the Catholic hierarchy in addressing the issue of the unborn, and the visits of Pope John Paul II in 1994 and 1998. (Obiteljski Centar, 22nd March)