400,000 in US funds was funneled to the International Development Law Organization. At its website, the IDLO says that it "uses a variety of programs to reach its objectives. These programs are fully consistent with the 2005 UN Summit and the Millenium Development Declaration. We read in No. 58 of this document, pp. 16-17:
Gender equality and empowerment of women
58. We remain convinced that progress for women is progress for all. We reaffirm
that the full and effective implementation of the goals and objectives of the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action22 and the outcome of the twenty-third special
session of the General Assembly is an essential contribution to achieving the
internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the
Millennium Declaration, and we resolve to promote gender equality and eliminate
pervasive gender discrimination by:
(a) Eliminating gender inequalities in primary and secondary education by
the earliest possible date and at all educational levels by 2015;
(b) Guaranteeing the free and equal right of women to own and inherit
property and ensuring secure tenure of property and housing by women;
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21 World Health Assembly resolution 58.3.
22 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
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(c) Ensuring equal access to reproductive health;
(d) Promoting women’s equal access to labour markets, sustainable
employment and adequate labour protection;
(e) Ensuring equal access of women to productive assets and resources,
including land, credit and technology;
(f) Eliminating all forms of discrimination and violence against women and
the girl child, including by ending impunity and by ensuring the protection of
civilians, in particular women and the girl child, during and after armed conflicts in
accordance with the obligations of States under international humanitarian law and
international human rights law;
(g) Promoting increased representation of women in Government decision making
bodies, including through ensuring their equal opportunity to participate
fully in the political process.
59. We recognize the importance of gender mainstreaming as a tool for achieving
gender equality. To that end, we undertake to actively promote the mainstreaming of
a gender perspective in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of
policies and programmes in all political, economic and social spheres, and further
undertake to strengthen the capabilities of the United Nations system in the area of
gender.
Empowerment of women is tied to "equal access to reproductive health." And by "access to reproductive health," of course, is meant access to abortion. The problem is that the allocation of US funds to lobby for abortion in other countries is illegal. The Siljander amendment, an annually renewed law which prohibits US foreign assistance funds from being used to lobby for or against abortion (Source: FY 2006 Appropriations Act, Title II, "Child Survival and Health Programs Fund" and/or Title V, Section 518), was ignored by the Obama administration.
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I should think this would constitute an impeachable offense. I mean the Obama administration violated federal law. Why aren't Republicans crying foul right now? Where is the outrage? Why are the msm media silent over this?
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