U.N. TO APPROVE ANTI-FAMILY RESOLUTION

NEW YORK, July 27 (LSN) – Reporting from UN headquarters on Friday, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (CAFHRI) warned that the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is expected to approve an anti-  family “Human Rights Defenders Declaration” at its summer session beginning this week in New York. CAFHRI reports that pro-family lobbyists see the declaration as “a major step toward guaranteeing such hitherto unaccepted human rights as abortion-on-demand, homosexual conduct, and even pedophilia.”  The declaration is likely to be passed by ECOSOC and then accepted by the 53rd General Assembly beginning in September. A virtually identical declaration was passed in Geneva last April at the 54th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights (CHR). Both the CHR document—the “Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups, and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms”—and the current ECOSOC declaration would allow any individual or group unilaterally to declare new human rights, and would allow the reinterpretation of established human rights in entirely new ways.  The resolutions urge governments to protect the initiators of new human rights from their fellow citizens who may disagree with them. According to CAFHRI, “This protection could include financial damage awards levied against citizens who might criticize the newly-minted human rights.”