| Demands
to eliminate poverty |
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P-1
Demands include state policies ensuring the exercise of women's
right to:
- "pay equity" (contentious state-mandated pay rates
based on subjective comparison of male and female jobs)
- "life-long income security" (great involvement
of the state)
"States must take all possible steps to end patriarchal values
and sensitize the society towards democratization of the family
structure." (serious interference in family life and culture)
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P-2
"The urgent implemantation of the Tobin Tax" (a proposal
to tax all international money transactions) "to which
women (who represent 70% of the 1.3 billion people living in extreme
poverty) would have preferred access." |
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P-5
"A non-monolithic world political organization, with authority
over the economy and egalitarian and democratic representation
of all countries on earth (ensuring parity between poor countries
and rich countries) and equal representation of women and men".
"The following measures must be instituted immediately:"
-" A world Council for Economic and Financial Security which
would be in charge of re-defining the rules for a new international
financial system based on the fair and equitable distribution
of the planet's wealth...gender parity should be observed in the
composition of the Council's membership".
- "the redistribution of wealth held by the seven richest
countries" (rather than assisting poor nations to increase
their economies)
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| Demands
to eliminate violence against women |
| V-2 "...all states must recognize a women's right
to determine her own destiny, and to exercise control over her body
and reproductive function". (this terminology is now always
understood to especially refer to abortion, contraception, sterilization
and a minimized decision role for male spouses) |
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V-4 "That the United nations bring extraordinary
pressure to bear on member states to ratify without reservation
and implement the conventions and covenants relating to the rights
of women and children, in particular...the Convention on the Elimination
of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the Convention on
the Rights of the Child..."
(In following paragraphs the Beijing Declaration and Platform
for Action and the International Criminal Court are also added.)
"These protocols will enable individuals and groups to bring
complaints against a State. These protocols are a means to exercise
international pressure on governments to implement the rights
set out in these covenants and conventions. Provisions must be
made for effective sanctions against non-compliant States."
(The above UN agreements have been the subject of intense
and on-going efforts by the Vatican and like-minded organizations
and national delegations to eliminate or at least mitigate serious
anti-family, anti-life and anti-democracy aspects. There are many
praiseworthy elements in the agreements but the Vatican and other
family friendly states approved the documents only with serious
reservations. The UN agreements have increasingly tended to be
worded or applied in a manner that violates national sovereignty
and the religious and cultural traditions of nations.
See:
Helms
slams anti-mother UN Convention
UN's
extremist view of "Women's Rights " Confirmaed by CEDAW
UNICEF
and UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
UN
abortion push rolls on
Beijing+5
Prepcom Special report
International
Criminal Court Approved
Pro-lifers
win limits on new UN Criminal Court)
(There is much, much more on the UN agreements)
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| V-10 That, based on the principle of equality of all persons,
the United Nations and States of the international community recognize
formally that a person's sexual orientation shall not bar them from
the full exercise of the rights set out in the following international
instruments: the Universal declaration of Human Rights, the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. (such
international rights given to sexual behaviour groups could have
huge negative implications for persons, institutions and countries
holding traditional religious or cultural beliefs on this issue.) |
