http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/china%e2%80%99s-population-control-inspired-by-ideas-of-the-club-of-rome/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/china%e2%80%99s-population-control-inspired-by-ideas-of-the-club-of-rome/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 21:51:41 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134651 Turtle Bay and Beyond: They were inspired by the reports of the Club of Rome, a think tank that unites Heads of States, UN bureaucrats, diplomats, scientists and business leaders who claim they “share a common concern for the future of humanity and the planet.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/china%e2%80%99s-population-control-inspired-by-ideas-of-the-club-of-rome/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/on-anti-homophobia-day-un-calls-for-repeal-of-discriminatory-laws/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/on-anti-homophobia-day-un-calls-for-repeal-of-discriminatory-laws/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 20:27:18 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134012 UN News Centre: Marking International Day against Homophobia, senior United Nations officials today drew attention to laws around the world which discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, and called for equality and the repeal of such laws. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/on-anti-homophobia-day-un-calls-for-repeal-of-discriminatory-laws/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/analysis-a-strong-note-of-caution-on-reproductive-health-and-family-planning/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/analysis-a-strong-note-of-caution-on-reproductive-health-and-family-planning/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 20:00:22 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134002 C-FAM: And it is true that while family planning is mentioned in three hard law treaties, it is not defined as including contraception. Does it follow that we have nothing to fear from these phrases and that we should in fact embrace them? ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/analysis-a-strong-note-of-caution-on-reproductive-health-and-family-planning/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/phyllis-schlafly-defeat-law-of-the-sea-treaty-again/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/phyllis-schlafly-defeat-law-of-the-sea-treaty-again/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 22:22:16 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133900 Townhall: The stunning repudiation of Sen. Richard Lugar's, R-Ind., bid for a seventh term has sent shock waves through Washington's internationalist lobby . . . Americans today are in no mood for subordinating U.S. sovereignty, plus seven-tenths of the world's surface area, to another entangling global bureaucracy, so advocates are using Orwellian talking points to pretend that LOST would do the opposite. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/phyllis-schlafly-defeat-law-of-the-sea-treaty-again/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/piero-tozzi-sexual-left-gains-developing-countries-lose-at-un-population-meeting/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/piero-tozzi-sexual-left-gains-developing-countries-lose-at-un-population-meeting/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 21:20:42 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133751 C-FAM: My colleagues at the Friday Fax reported last week that the “Latex Left” lost at the just ended UN Commission on the Population and Development, that they came away “empty handed.” With respect, I disagree with this assessment. International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and its allies scored a victory. What they got was a (non-binding) declaration setting funding priorities that calls for “comprehensive” sexual education for youth and adolescents, marginalized parental involvement, and increased funding for “reproductive health-care services, commodities and supplies.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/piero-tozzi-sexual-left-gains-developing-countries-lose-at-un-population-meeting/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/benjamin-bull-should-critically-discussing-islam-be-a-form-of-hate-speech/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/benjamin-bull-should-critically-discussing-islam-be-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 17:37:45 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133547 Benjamin Bull at American Thinker: Several days ago, I noted with interest that Danish journalist and historian Lars Hedegaard has been acquitted by a unanimous Dutch Supreme Court of charges that he violated Holland's notorious "hate speech" laws. His crime? He made a public utterance that state prosecutors concluded was "denigrating" of Islam. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/benjamin-bull-should-critically-discussing-islam-be-a-form-of-hate-speech/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/defense-secretary-panetta-favors-united-nations-oversight-of-world-oceans/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/defense-secretary-panetta-favors-united-nations-oversight-of-world-oceans/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 19:13:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133480 Human Events: After regaling a group of environmentalists last week on military initiatives to pursue biofuels and prepare for climate change, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta advanced another tenet of a far-left military agenda Wednesday when he appeared at a forum to push for ratification of the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty. The treaty would create an international regime of law to dictate actions and activities on and in the oceans ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/defense-secretary-panetta-favors-united-nations-oversight-of-world-oceans/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/gay-rights-obama-praised-for-global-commitment/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/gay-rights-obama-praised-for-global-commitment/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 15:33:49 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133001 San Francisco Chronicle: As President Obama struggles with the politics of gay issues at home, his administration is drawing cheers from human rights groups for its commitment to gay rights around the globe. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/gay-rights-obama-praised-for-global-commitment/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/vatican-to-the-un-all-parents-have-the-right-to-homeschool/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/vatican-to-the-un-all-parents-have-the-right-to-homeschool/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 18:29:17 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132717 LifeSiteNews: “The State should respect the choices that parents make for their children and avoid attempts at ideological indoctrination,” the permanent observer mission of the Holy See to the United Nations wrote in a statement released last Tuesday. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/vatican-to-the-un-all-parents-have-the-right-to-homeschool/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/israel-says-inclusion-on-un-list-absurd/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/israel-says-inclusion-on-un-list-absurd/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:16:10 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132461 AP on Findlaw: Israel's Foreign Ministry has criticized a U.N. statement that places the country on a list of nations it says are moving to further restrict advocacy and rights groups. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/israel-says-inclusion-on-un-list-absurd/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/bombay-high-court-lift-the-2-child-rule/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/bombay-high-court-lift-the-2-child-rule/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:48:11 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132416 Turtle Bay and Beyond: Delegates at the UN witnessing the push to put population control in the Rio+20 document could take a warning coming from India, the nation who has implemented it zeaolously for decades. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/bombay-high-court-lift-the-2-child-rule/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/u-n-chief-calls-for-universal-access-to-abortion-and-contraception-for-teen-girls/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/u-n-chief-calls-for-universal-access-to-abortion-and-contraception-for-teen-girls/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:23:16 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132358 CNSNews: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday that millions of girls -- teenagers and younger -- need access to abortion and contraceptives in order to “avoid unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions and sexually transmitted infections.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/u-n-chief-calls-for-universal-access-to-abortion-and-contraception-for-teen-girls/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/26/un-goals-may-play-part-in-uzbekistan%e2%80%99s-forced-sterilizations/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/26/un-goals-may-play-part-in-uzbekistan%e2%80%99s-forced-sterilizations/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:16:55 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132254 C-FAM: The government of Uzbekistan is accused of running a clandestine program to forcibly sterilize women, possibly as a way to meet U.N. goals on maternal mortality. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/26/un-goals-may-play-part-in-uzbekistan%e2%80%99s-forced-sterilizations/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/25/sexual-rights-overpopulation-and-what-they-have-to-do-with-youth/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/25/sexual-rights-overpopulation-and-what-they-have-to-do-with-youth/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:54:13 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132157 Turtle Bay and Beyond: Yesterday marked day two of a week long conference on “Adolescents and Youth” held by the UN Commission on Population and Development (CPD). While the conference is supposed to address a wide range of topics related to population, development and youth, it has focused almost exclusively on promoting the sexual and reproductive rights of youth, comprehensive sexual education, and provoking fear among countries about the burgeoning youth population in underdeveloped regions like sub-Saharan Africa. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/25/sexual-rights-overpopulation-and-what-they-have-to-do-with-youth/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/19/abortion-advocates-create-%e2%80%9csexual-rights-toolkit%e2%80%9d-for-un-human-rights-council/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/19/abortion-advocates-create-%e2%80%9csexual-rights-toolkit%e2%80%9d-for-un-human-rights-council/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:19:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131575 C-FAM: Abortion groups have released a “toolkit” for activists to file “sexual rights” complaints against countries in the UN. International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI), a coalition of organizations that advocate for sexual and reproductive rights at the United Nations, released the 2012 Sexual Rights toolkit to encourage advocates to document sexual and reproductive right abuses and submit reports to the UN through the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/19/abortion-advocates-create-%e2%80%9csexual-rights-toolkit%e2%80%9d-for-un-human-rights-council/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/13/piero-tozzi-not-%e2%80%9crights%e2%80%9d-vs-%e2%80%9cfreedom%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-reclaiming-the-universal-declaration-from-the-left-and-defending-it-from-the-right/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/13/piero-tozzi-not-%e2%80%9crights%e2%80%9d-vs-%e2%80%9cfreedom%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-reclaiming-the-universal-declaration-from-the-left-and-defending-it-from-the-right/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:18:13 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131091 Piero Tozzi at Turtle Bay and Beyond: A word of caution is in order before adopting the framework and verbiage proposed by McCarthy in its entirety, however, for he throws out the baby with the bathwater, and his characterization of the “utopian” Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 fails to give a rounded appraisal of that landmark document. Moreover, his underlying premise of “freedoms” vs. “rights” is historically both incorrect and unessential to adopt in order to get to where the author wants to lead us. The concept of “rights,” properly understood, was very much part of the Founding Fathers’ vocabulary — as in the “bill of rights” (!!) and “unalienable rights” based on the “Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.” The tension is thus not between “rights” and “freedoms,” but rather between “negative rights” and “positive” ones — a tension that is reflected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/13/piero-tozzi-not-%e2%80%9crights%e2%80%9d-vs-%e2%80%9cfreedom%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-reclaiming-the-universal-declaration-from-the-left-and-defending-it-from-the-right/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/un-demands-immediate-end-to-sudan-oilfields-fighting/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/un-demands-immediate-end-to-sudan-oilfields-fighting/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:48:52 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131034 BBC: The UN Security Council has called for an immediate and unconditional end to fighting on Sudan's southern border. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/un-demands-immediate-end-to-sudan-oilfields-fighting/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/sex-rights-for-children-the-right-to-child-rape/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/sex-rights-for-children-the-right-to-child-rape/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:58:46 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130337 Turtle Bay and Beyond: As the UN considers creating “sexual rights” for children as young as 10, a court in Brazil shows what this would mean. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/sex-rights-for-children-the-right-to-child-rape/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/30/un-urges-chile-to-pass-hate-crime-laws/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/30/un-urges-chile-to-pass-hate-crime-laws/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:15:25 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130024 AP: The U.N. human rights office is urging Chile to pass new laws against hate crimes and discrimination after the killing of a young gay man . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/30/un-urges-chile-to-pass-hate-crime-laws/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/29/un-may-recognize-sex-rights-for-ten-year-old-children/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/29/un-may-recognize-sex-rights-for-ten-year-old-children/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:40:53 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129957 C-Fam: The UN Commission on Population and Development is considering “sexual and reproductive health and rights” for children as young as ten. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/29/un-may-recognize-sex-rights-for-ten-year-old-children/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/28/lawmakers-push-resolution-opposing-un-regulation-of-the-internet/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/28/lawmakers-push-resolution-opposing-un-regulation-of-the-internet/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:41:52 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129782 The Hill: The bill's sponsors warned that China and Russia might seek a U.N. resolution to give authoritarian regimes censorship powers. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/28/lawmakers-push-resolution-opposing-un-regulation-of-the-internet/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/26/un-human-rights-council-adopts-by-consensus-2-religious-liberty-resolutions/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/26/un-human-rights-council-adopts-by-consensus-2-religious-liberty-resolutions/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:23:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129567 Religion Clause Blog: Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted two resolutions on religious liberty. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/26/un-human-rights-council-adopts-by-consensus-2-religious-liberty-resolutions/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/anatomy-of-a-smear-opposing-the-homosexual-agenda-internationally/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/anatomy-of-a-smear-opposing-the-homosexual-agenda-internationally/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:33:54 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129490 The Catholic Thing: I do not believe that sexual orientation and gender identity should become new categories of non-discrimination in international law. For this, I have been “outed” on a number of homosexual websites and blogs as supporting the murder of homosexuals. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/anatomy-of-a-smear-opposing-the-homosexual-agenda-internationally/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/liberias-sirleaf-defends-gay-stance-amid-controversy-and-interference-by-u-s-state-department/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/liberias-sirleaf-defends-gay-stance-amid-controversy-and-interference-by-u-s-state-department/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:00:16 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129463 AFP: "I think if there were major pieces of legislation that discriminated against any group, we would have to take that into account in our relationship, and it would be a cause for concern," US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Tuesday in response to the video. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/liberias-sirleaf-defends-gay-stance-amid-controversy-and-interference-by-u-s-state-department/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/us-bullies-%e2%80%9ccontraceptive-mandate%e2%80%9d-on-international-community/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/us-bullies-%e2%80%9ccontraceptive-mandate%e2%80%9d-on-international-community/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:10:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129432 C-FAM: The United States burned diplomatic bridges during this year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women by using force and deception to pass an unpopular resolution calling for international access to contraception. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/us-bullies-%e2%80%9ccontraceptive-mandate%e2%80%9d-on-international-community/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/mark-w-leach-a-few-make-a-rare-few-rarer-reflections-on-world-down-syndrome-day/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/mark-w-leach-a-few-make-a-rare-few-rarer-reflections-on-world-down-syndrome-day/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:13:11 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129276 Public Discourse: Unless regulations and laws are changed, there will be fewer people with Down syndrome to celebrate on future World Down Syndrome Days, making this year the high water mark of lives with Down syndrome. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/mark-w-leach-a-few-make-a-rare-few-rarer-reflections-on-world-down-syndrome-day/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/20/un-bodies-and-the-natural-law/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/20/un-bodies-and-the-natural-law/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:26:11 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129207 Turtle Bay and Beyond: This week the Human Rights Committee, charged with monitoring the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights began its 104th session. It affords us an opportunity to reflect on how UN Bodies are undermining both the natural law and positive law when they promote so called rights to abortion and LGBT rights . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/20/un-bodies-and-the-natural-law/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/piero-a-tozzi-%e2%80%9cobama-wars%e2%80%9d-over-contraception-move-to-u-n-front-and-the-administration-loses-a-battle/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/piero-a-tozzi-%e2%80%9cobama-wars%e2%80%9d-over-contraception-move-to-u-n-front-and-the-administration-loses-a-battle/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:41:05 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128912 Turtle Bay and Beyond: The annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meeting broke up today after failing to reach consensus on “agreed conclusions” – a very rare occurrence. The impasse was due to the insistence by the United States delegation on changing language regarding “family planning” that had been agreed upon and in continuous use since the mid-1990s in favor of the term “modern forms of contraception.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/piero-a-tozzi-%e2%80%9cobama-wars%e2%80%9d-over-contraception-move-to-u-n-front-and-the-administration-loses-a-battle/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/vatican-official-condemns-un-report-urging-laws-protecting-homosexuals-from-%e2%80%98discrimination%e2%80%99/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/vatican-official-condemns-un-report-urging-laws-protecting-homosexuals-from-%e2%80%98discrimination%e2%80%99/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:36:13 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128907 LifeSiteNews: The Vatican’s principal representative before the United Nations, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, is objecting to demands to outlaw “discrimination” against homosexuals in a report commissioned by the United Nations Human Rights Council, on “Discriminatory Laws and Practices and Acts of Violence against Individuals based on their Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity”. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/vatican-official-condemns-un-report-urging-laws-protecting-homosexuals-from-%e2%80%98discrimination%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/08/un-agencies-fuel-sex-selective-abortions-and-the-devaluation-of-women/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/08/un-agencies-fuel-sex-selective-abortions-and-the-devaluation-of-women/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:40:54 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128075 C-FAM Friday Fax: The United Nations top agencies are actively promoting two root causes of Asia’s massive gender imbalance, charged an expert on population policies this week during a UN women’s conference. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/08/un-agencies-fuel-sex-selective-abortions-and-the-devaluation-of-women/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/08/iran-steps-up-rights-abuses-u-n-says/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/08/iran-steps-up-rights-abuses-u-n-says/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:40:41 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128028 Wall Street Journal: Iran has dramatically increased executions over the past decade and abused the rights of students, women, journalists and religious minorities, according to a new United Nations report that spotlights Tehran's crackdown on domestic dissent as the country faces an international clampdown over its nuclear ambitions. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/08/iran-steps-up-rights-abuses-u-n-says/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/07/un-secretary-general-persecution-of-gays-is-attack-on-the-universal-values-the-united-nations/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/07/un-secretary-general-persecution-of-gays-is-attack-on-the-universal-values-the-united-nations/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:26:26 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127954 Radio Free Europe: In a video message to council members today, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said persecution of gays is "an attack on the universal values the United Nations that I have sworn to defend and uphold." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/07/un-secretary-general-persecution-of-gays-is-attack-on-the-universal-values-the-united-nations/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/07/muslim-envoys-walk-out-in-protests-at-u-n-gay-rights-debate/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/07/muslim-envoys-walk-out-in-protests-at-u-n-gay-rights-debate/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:23:11 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127952 Al Arabaya News: African and Arab states walked out in protest Wednesday during a U.N. Human Rights Council debate on gay rights, saying that they could not legitimize homosexuality. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/07/muslim-envoys-walk-out-in-protests-at-u-n-gay-rights-debate/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/un-chief-in-afghanistan-calls-for-%e2%80%98disciplinary-actions%e2%80%99-against-those-involved-in-qur%e2%80%99an-%e2%80%98desecration%e2%80%99/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/un-chief-in-afghanistan-calls-for-%e2%80%98disciplinary-actions%e2%80%99-against-those-involved-in-qur%e2%80%99an-%e2%80%98desecration%e2%80%99/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:26:56 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127632 CNSNews: The top United Nations official in Afghanistan has raised eyebrows with comments urging disciplinary action against those found to be responsible for damaging copies of the Qur’an at the U.S. military base in Bagram. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/un-chief-in-afghanistan-calls-for-%e2%80%98disciplinary-actions%e2%80%99-against-those-involved-in-qur%e2%80%99an-%e2%80%98desecration%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/01/un-security-guards-confiscate-pro-life-literature-from-students/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/01/un-security-guards-confiscate-pro-life-literature-from-students/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:10:05 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127392 C-FAM: Alliance Defense Fund attorney Piero Tozzi told the Friday Fax, "The UN cannot censor speech it does not agree with. Both the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and the Human Rights Committee have recently emphasized the need to protect this fundamental freedom. Why then is speech by respectful, clean cut kids on a topic vital to keeping young people healthy being censored at the UN?" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/01/un-security-guards-confiscate-pro-life-literature-from-students/feed/ 0