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The following is an excerpt of a paper presented at the 3rd Annual
World Family Policy Forum in July 2001.
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by Ms. Amina Mesdoua, former counselor, Permanent Mission of Algeria to
the United Nations
When negotiating many documents in the UN, a few delegations are still
struggling and fighting to defend some basic and fundamental principles and
values such as sovereignty, respect for cultural and religious values,
importance of the family and in relation with children, respect for parental
guidance and authority, bearing in mind that all these principles are
recognized by previous agreed documents and are contained in different
international Treaties and Conventions.
The question is why is it becoming today so difficult to include agreed references? The answer is not that simple. There is now, at the United Nations a tendency to shape legal interpretation and to establish international standards and norms and to, even, invent new human rights that transcend culture, traditions, religion, and societal norms particularly by human rights treaty bodies (bodies that monitor the implementation of Treaties by sates parties).
IN THE NEWS
HOW THE NUCLEAR FAMILY BECAME
CONTROVERSIAL (click
title to read the full article)
Townhall.com
by Dennis Prager
This past year, Los Angeles Family Magazine asked me to write an article making the case for the two-parent family. That a mainstream (SET ITAL) family magazine would commission such an article is quite a sign of our times.
How has this happened? How has the nuclear family become controversial? It has happened because many groups and ideologies have a personal interest in denying that it is best for a child to be raised by, or even to start out life with, a father and mother.
U.S. E.U. IN DIPLOMATIC SLUGFEST (click title to read the full article)
MSNBC
Aug. 14 — The United States and the European Union are waging a
diplomatic war over the new international criminal court, which
AT THE UN
INDIA: COUNTRY, STATES CRITICIZED FOR TWO-CHILD
POLICIES (click title to read the
full article)
Activists
and experts are criticizing measures adopted by
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