Media Release DECEMBER 16, 2016

The United Nations calls upon the nations of the world to commemorate Human Rights Day 10 December  which commemorates the signing by the United Nations General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) clearly states that everyone has the right to life, and that what is meant by everyone is ‘every member of the human family’ – that is all human beings, including the unborn child.

The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights Article 3 states, everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. The preamble states, “Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.”

Additionally, the Convention on the Rights of the Child states in its Preamble that the Child ‘needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth’.”

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Media Release 19th November 2016

Right to Life supports the United Nations Declaration for the elimination of violence against women made by the general assembly of the United Nations in 1993. The United Nations is applauded for its Universal Declaration of human rights and its many conventions upholding human rights. The UN has done much to eliminate violence against women. There is however much that is wrong in this powerful organisation.

The UN bureaucracy promotes its own ideology and ignores the wishes not only of the UN General Assembly but the Security Council as well. Right to Life is hopeful that the new Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, who is strongly pro-women and pro-life will deal with this serious issue when he takes up his appointment this year.

Right to Life is disappointed that violence against women is being inflicted on women under the auspices of the United Nations. The United Nations Population Fund [UNFPA] under the direction of Helen Clark is promoting violence against women by actively supporting China’s current policy on restriction of children supported by forced abortions, sterilisations, punitive fines, imprisonment and destruction of homes. The law was changed this year to allow for two children, however the human rights abuses continue. Right to Life believes that it contributes to the 500 Chinese women who commit suicide every day in China.  It is disappointing that the New Zealand government continues to applaud the work of UNFPA and provides funding of over $4 million per annum. UNFPA encourages other nations to follow the example of China in implementing currently, a two child family policy.

Why does the New Zealand government refuse to recognise the violence inflicted on Chinese women with forced abortions and sterilisations? Is the government afraid that speaking out against human rights abuses may impede trade? Is the government reluctant to defend the oppressed Chinese women, because it is Helen Clark who presides over the oppressive UNFPA? [Read more…]

In December 1997 The  United Nations established the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture as June 26th, with a view to the total eradication of torture and the effective functioning of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment.

However there is glaring hypocrisy between the way the UN views persons who are born from those who are waiting to be born. The unborn child is a human person. Torture is violence inflicted on the human person. Therefore violence against the unborn is a violation of human rights and is always to be condemned.

Are you aware that the United Nations promotes the torture of the unborn?  Right to Life finds it unbelievable that the UN also proclaims that any attempts which seek to deny women the right to kill their unborn children by the violence of abortion, are in themselves a form of torture.  It is extraordinary that the United Nations is promoting the violation of its own Convention opposing torture.

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