Brothers,

The UN is being pressured (see below) to create yet another women's agency.

We need to coordinate a move to create a UN Agency for Men and Fathers 
(UNAMAF), or something similar.

Please respond to this email with support and suggestions -- maybe a US 
group could take the lead, since the UN is based in New York ?

Peter Zohrab

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Austin Ruse -- C-FAM
To: peter@zohrab.name
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 12:06 AM
Subject: Friday Fax -- Pro-Abortion Groups Seek to Create New U.N. Women’s 
Agency



      Friday Fax
      Volume 9, Number 17 | April 14, 2006
      Dear Colleague,

      We report today on the efforts of pro-abortion groups to set up a new 
UN agency dedicated to promoting radical feminist rights. Since most the UN 
has been taken over by this ideology, this new agency would be redundant 
many times over.

      Spread the word.

      Yours sincerely,

      Austin Ruse
      President
      Pro-Abortion Groups Seek to Create
      New U.N. Women’s Agency



      By Samantha Singson


           Last week, a coalition of U.S.-based women’s groups sent a letter 
to the United Nations to demand that the world body "more powerfully 
represent women’s empowerment and gender issues" and specifically to ask for 
a new UN agency dedicated to feminist issues.

           In an open letter to Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 
International Women’s Day last month, the coalition of international women’s 
groups wrote, “We are disappointed and frankly outraged that gender equality 
and strengthening the women’s machineries within the U.N. system are barely 
noted, and are not addressed as a central part of the U.N. reform agenda.”

           There are already several U.N. bodies which focus on issues 
affecting women, including the U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the 
U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA), Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), 
Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues (OSAGI) and the International 
Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW).

           The women’s groups complain that none of them, with the exception 
of UNFPA, is a principal agency that could equate to the fully-resourced 
agencies such as UNICEF, the U.N. Development Program or the U.N. High 
Commissioner for Refugees.

           Stephen Lewis, U.N. special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa and a 
former top official of UNICEF, has vociferously called for the creation of a 
new agency for women. Last month Lewis stressed that an international women’s 
agency, within the United Nations, was needed to advocate for women the way 
UNICEF does for children.  Many may recall that it was during Mr. Lewis’ 
stint UNICEF that the Vatican decided to withdraw its annual symbolic 
donation because of mounting evidence that the agency was promoting 
abortion.

           In a March press release, Mr. Lewis stated, “What we now have in 
place – whether it’s UNFPA or UNIFEM or the Division for the Advancement of 
Women – cannot do the job that needs to be done. This is not to disparage 
their good work; this is only to say that it has to be combined and then 
enhanced a hundred-fold.”

           Not all women's groups are supportive of the new initiative. 
Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, which is the largest 
women's public policy group in the United States said, “A UN women’s 
agency – particularly one created in response to radical feminists – would 
not advocate for women but for certain ideologies espoused by those in 
charge. They will claim to represent ‘all women of the world’ as they work 
for the abolishment of respect for motherhood, the killing of unborn babies, 
prostitution as a women’s right to economic empowerment, and sex-based 
quotas that disadvantage women who rely on their husband’s income.”

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Brother Claims Case Politically Motivated 
http://www.newswire.co.nz/main/viewstory.aspx?storyid=310145&catid=0 Joint 
Custody Annotated Research Bibliography 
http://nzmera.orcon.net.nz/custbibl.html The Next President's a Batterer 
http://nzmera.orcon.net.nz/hillaryc.html US Men’s Group Launches Suit to 
Call Feminist Bluff http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/mar/06031010.html