Saint-Petersburg Resolution on the anti-family trends in the United Nations, on the unacceptable actions of the United Nations human rights treaty monitoring bodiesApproved at the Public Hearing On November 24th, 2011 Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation
We, being the representatives of the civil society and non-governmental organizations of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, taking part in the second hearing conducted in Saint-Petersburg on November 24th, 2011, addressing the influence of international political organizations on the condition and welfare of the family in our countries, have examined the current trends concerning family problems in the United Nations, and in particular some activities of the UN treaty monitoring bodies, including the Committee on the Rights of the Child. We have also given special attention to tendencies towards imparting binding legal force to the interpretations and recommendations of the UN treaties monitoring bodies1 and to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure2, which is to be adopted shortly by the UN General Assembly. Considering the above-mentioned subjects in the context of multiple international tendencies, affecting the life, status, and welfare of the natural (traditional) family in our countries, we do declare the following: 1. We are strongly convincedthat the natural (traditional) family, inscribed in human nature, and based on the voluntary union of a man and a woman in a lifelong covenant of marriage, intended for the birth and upbringing of children, is “the natural and fundamental group unit of society” (Art. 16 (3) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights). [read more] * * *
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