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Help Defend Family, Marriage, and the Unborn at the UN
Urgent Action Alert
By Ælfwine Mischler*
Editor, IslamOnline.net
February 28, 2005
IslamOnline has received an urgent message from World Family Alliance, a coalition of pro-family non-government organizations (NGOs). You can help protect family, marriage, and the unborn by e-mailing key UN ambassadors to encourage them to support an important provision currently under negotiation at the United Nations. Your action is needed immediately.
Representatives from UN member nations are meeting in New York February 28–March 11, 2005 to review the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and Beijing +5. These documents, while they contain some good provisions, also contain items that go against Islamic Shari`ah.
UN Ambassadors need to hear from people everywhere that the world does not want the United Nations to become embroiled in unproductive controversial negotiations over homosexual and abortion rights at the current session of the Commission on the Status of Women. (See below for additional background.)
Through the World Family Alliance Web site, you can easily send a pre-written e-mail to 129 key UN ambassadors with only a single mouse click. These ambassadors have either supported pro-family provisions in the past or have not yet declared a position on these issues. Just click here to make a critical difference in this battle.
What happens at the United Nations can have a direct and negative impact on efforts to protect marriage, the family, and children in our own countries! This is because the documents and agreements reached at these conferences become part of international law, norms, and standards that shape and influence national laws and policies worldwide.
The anti-family, anti-children forces understand this, which is why they are constantly working to slip things into these international documents and agreements that will help achieve their goals at the national level. They count on the fact that most people who are dedicated to defending marriage, the family, and children in their own countries do not understand the power of international consensus documents.
But ordinary people like you have helped to stop them before!
For example, in just the past year, United Families International (the coordinator of World Family Alliance) supporters flooded key UN missions with e-mails that helped to successfully defeat the “sexual orientation” human rights provision at the Human Rights Commission. E-mails also helped to achieve recognition of the Doha Declaration on the Family by the UN General Assembly.
Please help do it again!
Please take a couple of minutes to help defend marriage, family, and children at the international level during this critical meeting.
We must be constantly vigilant to these threats and be prepared to meet them every time. The future of marriage, the family, and children in all countries depends upon success in these critical battles.
You can help even more by forwarding the url of this article to as many other people as you can who will also take a few minutes to protect marriage, the family, and children.
Brief Background
Starting on Monday, February 28 and ending March 12, the United Nations will be negotiating a document at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) that will build on two prior women’s rights documents, the Beijing Platform for Action and Beijing +5. The negotiations on these two landmark women’s documents—one ten years ago and one five years ago—became fierce battlegrounds over homosexual and abortion rights.
After intense late-night battles the pro-family lobby defeated their worst proposals five and ten years ago, but if we do not stop them now, the past pro-family victories will have been for naught.
Last week the anti-family forces working to influence the CSW tried to force the conclusion of negotiations behind the scenes before the official conference had even begun. They wanted to pass a non-negotiable conference declaration that would rubber-stamp everything in the Beijing documents.
But the pro-family lobby caught them. And now it has to stop the current attempts to force the anti-family, anti-child agenda on the world.
Fortunately, at the past week’s preliminary negotiations, the US delegation presented a strong proposal (also supported by the Vatican) that would prevent the United Nations from using these past women’s documents and the current one under negotiation to create new international rights harmful to families.
On February 28, the real battle begins with abortion rights at the forefront, and it is predicted that the same battle over homosexual rights will emerge if the US lead proposal is not adopted.
The pro-family lobby will not give up its efforts to stop these attacks on children and the family.
But it needs your help.
A number of UN member countries have not yet shown support for the proposed provision that will protect children and families. Many of these countries—and many of them Muslim— are the same ones that fought these sexual orientation and abortion provisions five and ten years ago. They now need a wake-up call.
Concerned individuals around the world can help give them that wake up call!
Please take a minute of your time to help defend marriage, family, and children at the international level.
Click here to visit the World Family Alliance Web site and send your e-mail to 129 UN delegations.
Related Links:
The Family Under Attack (Special Folder)
The Doha International Conference for the Family (Special page)
*Ælfwine Mischler represented the International Islamic Committee for Woman and Child at a UN children’s conference in 2001 and has been interested in family issues at the United Nations since that time. You may contact her at [EMAIL PROTECTED].
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Holy Qur'an, Luqman (31):27
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{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.}
(Holy Quran-16:125)
{And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33)
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, "Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all."
[Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]
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