Activists at UN Meeting Push “Erotic Justice,” Sex for Kids

International   |   Raimundo Rojas   |   Mar 11, 2013   |   2:42PM   |   New York, NY

The 57th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) begins its second week today, and the most striking of observations has to be the contrasts between the perceived needs of women in the Developing versus the Developed World.

During the waning days of the conference’s first week and well into this most recent weekend, I watched and listened as African women discussed and debated the all-important Outcome Document amongst themselves.  Luckily for me, English is their common language and I as sat beside them in the Business Center of our clean but quite modest hotel late into the night on Saturday AND Sunday, I heard their concerns.

They are worried about their daughter’s AND son’s education; they want access to potable water in the more remote regions of their respective countries; more doctors, and in keeping with this year’s conference theme, they want real life-and-death protection for their daughters

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They broke up their very informal, but most enlightening meeting just before midnight on Saturday and as I observed them gathering their belongings I couldn’t help but learn that some of them were sleeping four to a room.  The CSW is a very big deal for them and I can’t fathom the sacrifices they have made to make it to this meeting.  They are here expecting and holding on to the promise of the Commission to make life better, sustainable, and survivable for them back home.

Across town however, in the sleek conference centers of Upper Eastside hotels the women of the First World were discussing their concerns.

As reported by the left-leaning Climate Exchange, a female representative of Development Alternatives for a New Era (DAWN) and DIVA for Equality, affirmed the importance of the CSW57 Outcome Statement.

…she called for strongest defense by States and civil society [NGOs] of the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) language in the Outcome document text. She also called for specific language on early and forced marriage, on sexual orientation and gender identity, and for protection for all Women Human Rights Defenders at the front-lines of defense against much of the interlinked bodily, social and structural violence facing communities.

She also affirmed the historical moment of this CSW57 by address,

…all forms of sexual and gender based violence, and discussed the interlinked nature of economic, ecological, ecological and erotic justice, and need for more analysis, advocacy and supportive UN texts to reflect the same.

Her comments are perfectly in-line with much of the discussion and debates being held in many of the negotiation rooms.  Delegates from other developed countries are calling for language in the text of the document that requires that girls as young as 8 and 10 years of age be allowed to “enjoy their reproductive rights to their full capacity.”

Seriously.

If we are to believe their statistics, the UN claims that the vast majority of people living in poverty worldwide are women.  If we are to believe their statistics, the UN claims the vast majority of civilians dying in armed conflicts are women.  If we are to believe their statistics, the UN claims that the vast majority of the world’s illiterate are women.  If we are to believe the statistics, the UN claims that girls have a much smaller chance of making it to their 5th birthday than boys.

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The aforementioned ARE the concerns reflected in the conversations being held by the group of African women with whom I’m sharing a hotel.  How angry these women must be, or will be, if this Commission is once again stalled because of the extreme and clearly out-of-touch NGOs’ myopic worldview on “erotic justice” and “sexual rights.”

Women in the Developing World need water, antibiotics, and a safe environment in which to raise their children.  To their great shame, their sisters in the First World seem oblivious to these most basic needs. These women of wealth concern themselves almost exclusively with autonomous rights and less with the protective rights needed by my African friends.

LifeNews.com Note: Raimundo Rojas is the director of Hispanic outreach for the National Right to Life Committee. He is a former president of Florida Right to Life and has presented the pro-life message to millions in Spanish-language media outlets. He represents NRLC at the United Nations as an NGO. Rojas was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Havana, Cuba and he and his family escaped to the United States in 1968.