NEW YORK, Dec 8 (LifeSiteNews.com) The UN has announced that it will commemorate December 10, Human Rights Day, with a signing ceremony opening the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The Protocol would legally bind countries to uphold CEDAW in every detail, which would include upholding the “reproductive rights of women” (including abortion), and would also include targeting any “culture and tradition” which stands in the way of this militant agenda.
A press release from the UN yesterday explained that “By accepting the Optional Protocol, a State would recognize the competence of the Committee to receive and consider complaints from individuals or groups of individuals within its jurisdiction.” Moreover, the Optional Protocol grants “a right of petition for individual women to appear before the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.” Thus an individual woman who felt her “right” to an abortion was compromised by a pro-life organization’s very existence could bring her case forward to the UN. The petition “would also trigger an inquiry procedure by which the Committee could address serious or systematic women’s rights violations” in countries which have ratified the convention.
The Optional Protocol will enter into force three months after 10 state parties to the Convention have ratified or acceded to it, putting CEDAW on par with other conventions such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
See here for the UN report on this story.
For more on CEDAW’s radical feminist agenda see:
UN's Extremist View of “Women's Rights” Confirmed by Cedaw