Lanka on the Verge

20th June: Will the nation surrender to CEDAW on the 20th of June?

The Sri Lanka “Women Empowerment” bill is scheduled to be taken up in the Sri Lankan parliament on the 20th June 2024. It is a submission of national sovereignty and a betrayal of women, in that it defines “women’s rights” in terms of the radical feminist UN CEDAW, whose committee has instructed Sri Lanka to legalise abortion “in all cases”, not just when the child was conceived consequent to rape, or if the child is handicapped.

It is high time for act - to reach out to the President Ranil Wickremesinghe, and to the Members of the Sri Lankan parliament to express your dissent, and urge the rejection of this deceptive bill clothed in euphemisms.

As soon as abortion is legalised, there will be international abortion businesses setting up clinics and advertising their gruesome service - and innumerable more Sri Lankan children will be killed within the sanctuary of their mothers’ wombs.

Act now for Sri Lanka - reach out for more information. Links to context can be found at the bottom of this essay.

[Below is an abridged version of an essay by Dr Brian Clowes, outlining how CEDAW operates globally to influence anti-life, anti-woman, anti-family law reform - to which Sri Lanka has become a victim]

Although CEDAW is not binding on nations that have not ratified it, and although it has no authority to do so, the CEDAW committee still attempts to bully pro-life and pro-life nations into legalizing abortion, homosexuality, divorce and other immoral and harmful activities.

      CEDAW represents the absolute worst of the imperialistic, domineering Western elitist attitude as it meddles in the affairs of every developing and developed nation in the world.

Introduction

     The feminist-packed CEDAW committee is so irrationally dedicated to the concept of absolute equality that it has ― with no authority to do so and with no support in the documents they quote ― ordered nations several hundred times to legalize abortion, homosexuality and prostitution.

      CEDAW has also condemned nations for celebrating mothers and has even ordered some nations to reduce their protections of pregnant women in the name of equality! This is typical behavior of people who have little contact with the real world and who have been given great power to interfere in the lives of others. Not one member of the 23-member CEDAW committee has ever been pro-family or pro-life. But most of them are rich and childless women who think that they know better than the mothers of Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Overall CEDAW Strategy

      In 2004, Partners for Law and Development (PLD) in New Delhi and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) published "CEDAW: Restoring Rights to Women." This document, which was written for lawyers, outlines a detailed strategy for using CEDAW to re-tool the laws of developing nations in whatever way those in power wish to do. This strategy is based on a rights-based approach, which appeals to people's emotions, and shows how to sidestep and ignore the laws, customs and cultures of developing nations.

Meddling, Busybody Rich Western Feminists

      Just a few of CEDAW’s meddlesome activities are listed below, by nation. Keep in mind that CEDAW has no actual power to enforce its orders; it just pretends that it has this power and hopes that the leadership of nations are weak and stupid enough to cave in.

     In fact, the members of the CEDAW committee are so disconnected from reality that they even believe they have the power to order Muslim nations to re-interpret the Koran so that it obeys the CEDAW convention, as it did in Libya and Sri Lanka (see below for details).

·        Belarus ― In 2000, CEDAW condemned Belarus for celebrating Mothers’ Day and criticized it for instituting the Mothers’ Award because it “encourages women’s traditional roles.” CEDAW ordered Belarus to “review its occupational health and safety legislation and standards, with a view to reducing protective standards on women in general and pregnant women in particular” in the name of equality. Providing extra care for pregnant women was considered to “have a discriminatory effect.”

·        China ― In 1999, the CEDAW Committee said that it was "concerned that prostitution…is illegal in China" and it "recommends the decriminalization of prostitution in China."

·        Colombia ― In 1999, CEDAW told Colombia that “the [CEDAW] committee believes that the restrictive abortion law constitutes a violation of the rights of women”.

·        Croatia ― In 1998, CEDAW criticized Croatia for “the refusal, by some hospitals, to provide abortions on the basis of conscientious objection of doctors. The Committee considers this to be an infringement of women's reproductive rights.” In other words, CEDAW believes that pro-life doctors should be forced to do abortions!

·        Czech Republic ― In 1998, CEDAW criticized the Czech Republic for “the increase in over-protective measures for pregnancy and motherhood” and told it that “the cultural glorification of women's family roles could exacerbate the negative impact of economic rationalization policies on women.”

·        Ireland ― In 1999, CEDAW criticized the Irish constitution for “promoting the stereotypical view of the role of women as mothers and caregivers [since it] constitutes a serious impediment to the implementation of the Convention.” The CEDAW Committee also condemned Ireland for "the influence of the Church …in attitudes and stereotypes but also in official state policy."

·        Libya ― In 1994, CEDAW instructed Libya that “the interpretation of the Qur’an had to be reviewed in the light of the provisions of the Convention and the current social environment.”

·        Luxembourg ― In 2000, CEDAW complained to Luxembourg about its "stereotypical attitudes that tend to portray men as heads of households and breadwinners, and women primarily as mothers and homemakers."

·        Mexico ― In 1998, CEDAW criticized Mexico for the “lack of access to easy and swift abortion.”

·        Russia ― In 2002, CEDAW ordered Russia to implement mandatory comprehensive sex education of all children, even those as young as five years old, and to ensure their easy access to birth control drugs and devices.

·        Slovenia ― In 1997, CEDAW criticized Slovenia for not having enough children “in formal day care.” Only 30 percent of children under three years old are in government-sponsored day care in Slovenia. In other words, CEDAW requires children to be brought up by the State, and not by their mothers. However, CEDAW praised Slovenia in the same year: “The Committee notes with satisfaction the inclusion of the right to abortion in the Constitution.”

·        Spain ― In 1999, CEDAW ordered Spain to implement mandatory comprehensive sex education of all children, even those as young as five years old, and to ensure their easy access to birth control drugs and devices.

·        Sri Lanka ― in 2002, CEDAW reprimanded Sri Lanka, and said that “the Muslim personal law … is discriminatory against women.” It ordered the government of Sri Lanka to interpret “Islamic law in line with the [CEDAW] Convention.”

·        Uzbekistan ― In 2001, CEDAW ordered Uzbekistan to implement mandatory comprehensive sex education of all children, even those as young as five years old, and to ensure their easy access to birth control drugs and devices. The CEDAW Committee also "expressed concern that women's motherhood role was taking precedence over their professional and individual development" in Uzbekistan.

·        Zimbabwe ― In 1999, CEDAW instructed Zimbabwe to “reappraise the law on abortion with a view to its liberalization.”

Link to more CEDAW directives on abortion to countries around the world: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LGlU963TjzXFDlNKU86KZ6DbRJDlhGV5/view?usp=drivesdk

Background on UN CEDAW

“CEDAW” is both “The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women” and “The Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.” The first of these is the document itself, and the second is the massive United Nations bureaucracy that enforces the Convention’s implementation on all the nations of the world.

      Every three to five years, all of the nations of the world have an obligation to report to UN CEDAW their progress in implementing the Convention.

      The CEDAW Convention does not mention abortion. However, it is being used in attempts to force abortion on all of the pro-life nations of the world. This is done under the cover of “equality,” which is what CEDAW is all about. This is typical of the population control/anti-life mentality; first, they trick nations into signing documents with legitimate goals, and then use the documents for purposes other than those for which they were originally intended.

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