WHAT HAPPENS AT UN CONFERENCES?
FROM AN INTERCESSOR'S POINT OF VIEW.

Mrs. Helene Bos
Serving the Nations, Almere, Netherlands.

October 1996.

Though written in 1996, this article still gives helpful information fir understanding the major dynamics in these large conferences.
Recent developments confirm the findings underneath. An update of this report is now, January 2002, in preparation.

SUMMARY

The United Nations organises around 5000 conferences a year, over the whole world. Between 1992 and this year a series of five world conferences stand out in importance, the one on Women in Beijing, October 1995, and the one on Human Settlements, Habitat II, held in Istanbul in June of this year being the last two. Discrimination against women, the growth of size and tension in the world's cities, sure enough these are important and global issues.

However, on reading through the Conference Declarations and hearing the reports of attendees, a quite different picture arises. It is not a picture of global concern for global issues, nor protection of suffering peoples in crowded places. Rather it is an attack on societal values concerning life and family, an aggressive abortion policy for reason of greed on an international scale, the blackmail of needy nations, and a disdain for national integrity.

The reader must be prepared for a shock. This report does not in any way try to paint a black picture or threaten with "end time" speculation. This report has grown out of cooperating with a group of a hundred highly qualified men and women of a variety of nationalities, most of them evangelical or Roman Catholic, many thoroughly experienced in attending UN conferences, and with a shared burden: the protection of the unborn child.
We found: Whatever the given topic of the conference, there are constantly four agenda's underlying any conference.

1. Population control. The UN, through numerous organisations, and strongly supported by the US, the European Union and Canada, aggressively pushes stringent population control activities. Covered up by ambiguous language, such as "reproductive health" and "health care," the implementation of population control measures is now most of the time a requirement for receiving economic aid.

2. "Sustainability." Under this term, wrapped in economic vocabulary, strong threats of overpopulation, pollution, ecological disaster and lack of future economic aid are emphasized, while measures are proposed to reduce population or at least population growth, to stop or not start polluting activities, and to give huge areas "back to Mother Earth." This has rightly been labelled "eco-utopism."

These two concepts are only a cover up for an even deeper underlying goal: the securing of accessibility for richer nations to the natural resources in poorer nations. For if these poorer nations grow, they might need the resources themselves and they might well become less stable politically. In other words: strict population control and strict pollution restrictions will preserve the prosperity level of the richer nations.

3. The rights of women and the breakdown of the family. The UN and the US, EU and Canada, both through their delegations and through involvement of many Non Governmental Organisation lobbyists, agressively push for emancipation of women, homosexuals and lesbians, and for reducing parental rights in the education of children according to religious, national and cultural values. Visionaries talk of a "gendered city": a society where anyone at any time can choose his sexual preference, in which abortion on demand is a human right (and where the community has to take care of children and old people).

4. By ventilating, exaggerating and emphasising the global scale of the problems, the increase of power of the UN seems inevitable; by emphasising (and giving way to) the involvement of non-elected "grassroots organisations" at a decision level (!), democratic principles are disdained. Visionaries talk unashamedly, in a "spiritual" New Age setting, of the emergence of city-states under the UN.

However, in spite of this program, the Istanbul Conference experienced a totally unexpected "turn of events." A small prayer team, joining the Pro-Life lobbyists, prayed boldly; the Pro-Lifers lobbied boldly; the G-77 nations spoke up boldly; and the malice of the UN-US-EU-Canada bloc, until Beijing so overpowering, was thwarted! Parental rights, religious, cultural values and national integrity were safeguarded, abortion on demand is not recognized as a "human right." An absolutely amazing answer to prayer; read Ch 8 of the report.

But the battle goes on.

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