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New York City, Mar
4, 2010 (can) - The Obama administration has
endorsed a proposal to create a new U.N. “super agency”
to advance extremist feminist ideology, the Population
Research Institute (PRI) says. The organization warns
the agency could engage in “cultural imperialism” in
service to radical causes.
The proposed agency is supported by a consortium of
feminist organizations called the Gender Equality
Architecture Reform Campaign (GEAR). The proposal came
at the New York meeting of the U.N. Commission on the
Status of Women. The Obama administration and the
European Union immediately seconded the proposal, which
appears to have a good chance at passage.
The existing multiple low-level U.N. offices and
commissions have long discontented feminists, according
to PRI.
The new agency would create one agency from four
existing entities: the Office of the Special Adviser on
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, the Division for
the Advancement of Women, the United Nations Development
Fund for Women and the United Nations International
Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of
Women.
PRI explains that the Division for the Advancement of
Women has a universal U.N. mandate that would then serve
the new bureaucracy. The proposed organization would be
headed by a U.N. Under-Secretary General, who would
report directly to the U.N. Secretary General.
The draft proposal urges the establishment of the agency
before the end of the current session of the General
Assembly, advocating it be dedicated to “gender
equality” and the “empowerment of women.”
PRI says such concepts have been used to justify the
admonishing of Belarus for celebrating Mother’s Day and
the chastising of Denmark for having too few female
generals in the ranks of its military.
Radical feminists reportedly believe that such an agency
would give them access to both the money and power their
need to advance their agenda.
GEAR representative Charlotte Bunch said a billion
dollars is needed for the agency to be effective on the
ground level. She said this funding would be “catalytic”
and necessary only to launch the organization.
PRI president Steven Mosher said the pro-life,
pro-family movement should “absolutely oppose” the
creation of the agency. He said its “radical feminist
goals” would undermine marriage and weaken the family.
"What is being proposed is a very powerful agency with a
global mandate to restructure relations between the
sexes. If the past is any indicator, it will be used to
impose the lifestyle of Manhattan and Hollywood
feminists on family-centered countries and cultures. It
is cultural imperialism at its worst," Mosher said.
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