A delegate at the Hague Conference on Human Rights stated “the real and urgent challenges that people around the world are facing” were ignored - like diseases, education, shelter, youth unemployment, and health and nutrition.
Russia is protecting “genuine and universally recognized human rights against artificial and fabricated false values” like sexual orientation and gender identity, according to the statement signed by 71 groups in one week.
The recently re-appointed UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, has issued a document calling for governments to criminalise organised opposition to abortion by non-governmental groups such as pro-life lobbyists or even family members.
Last year the Russian government initiated a process at the Human Rights Council in Geneva that was supposed to lead to a resolution touting traditional values, but found forces at UN hostile to traditional values is large and aggressive.