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U.N. PUTS TROUBLING TARGET ON YOUTH: Conference in Mexico to Feature Heavy Pro-Abortion Lobby (Guest in EDT)
They’re calling it the World Conference on Youth (WCY), in the United Nations’ “International Year of Youth.” Sounds like a noble cause that should encourage all those who shall inherit the earth . . . except the youth who are too young. As in, so young they aren’t born yet.
Austin Ruse is the Director of the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), an organization that diligently tracks the social policy movements of the U.N. and works to have a family-advocacy place at the table of every U.N. social policy negotiation.
Unfortunately, the latest U.N. endeavor that falls under this category—this new Youth Conference—has been largely kept under wraps while its organizers, including sponsor and pro-abortion group, Catholics for Choice, have selected which organizations are eligible to attend. Now, with the application window closed, the U.N. is prepared to announce the first event to be held in Mexico in August.
As a guest on your show, Ruse can spell out what is so troubling about these developments, and why the “World Conference on Youth” is shamefully misguided.
Though not an official U.N. event, the Youth Conference in Mexico is backed by several pro-abortion U.N. agencies, including the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Development Program.
While Mexico is only a planning meeting for the official Conference scheduled for July 2011 in Tunisia, it will produce an official document that is drafted to influence the high-level review of the Millennium Development Goals at the U.N. General Assembly in September.
And, as Ruse can explain, this puts a heavily lopsided pro-abortion lobby on the floor of the U.N. at a time when the U.N. already has enough ideas about imposing Western liberal, secular, anti-family mandates on more traditional countries around the world.
Call Special Guests right away to really understand the full implications of this Youth Conference. Ask to schedule an interview with the tenacious pro-family advocate, Austin Ruse.
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE MAY BE USEFUL FOR SHOW PREP:
http://www.c-fam.org/publications/id.1635/pub_detail.asp
ABOUT AUSTIN RUSE:
Austin Ruse has headed the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) since shortly after its creation in the summer of 1997. Mr. Ruse has held the title of President since 2000.
Ruse or his team have participated in every major UN social policy negotiation since 1997 including the multi-year negotiations that created the International Criminal Court.
He has briefed members of the U.S. House and Senate on U.N. matters, as well as briefing White House and National Security Council staff. Ruse has also briefed senior government officials, journalists, Church and non-governmental leaders from around the world.
Austin has appeared on a number of national cable network programs discussing UN and Catholic issues, including news programs on CNN, CBS News, MSNBC and Fox News and has been published in First Things, The Washington Times, National Review Online, The Weekly Standard, Human Events and Touchstone, as well as newspapers around the world. He is a biweekly columnist for TheCatholicThing.org and founder of the foreign affairs blog, TheNewSovereigntists.org/
A former foreign affairs commentator for EWTN's weekly news broadcast The World Over, hosted by Raymond Arroyo, Austin also lectures widely on U.N. matters, appearing throughout the U.S., and in Canada, Latin America, the Far East and Europe.
Ruse is a founder of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast and prior to helping found C-FAM, Ruse spent many years in magazine publishing including Forbes, Fortune, The Atlantic Monthly and Rolling Stone.
Mr. Ruse is a Knight in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a Knight in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, and is a founding member of the Diplomatic Society of St. Gabriel. He is also a member of Sons of the American Revolution.
Austin holds undergraduate degrees in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Missouri, and an Honorary Doctorate from Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Mr. Ruse is married to the former Cathleen Cleaver, who is senior legal advisor to the Family Research Council. They have two daughters, Lucy and Gigi. They live in the state of Virginia where Mr. Ruse’s family first arrived from England in the early 1700s.
About C-FAM:
C-FAM was founded in the summer of 1997 in order to monitor and affect the social policy debate at the United Nations and other international institutions.
C-FAM is a non-partisan, non-profit research institute dedicated to reestablishing a proper understanding of international law, protecting national sovereignty and the dignity of the human person.
C-FAM personnel have participated in every major UN social policy debate since 1997 including the Rome Statutes of the International Criminal Court, the Convention on Disabilities, Cairo 5, Beijing 5 and dozens of others.
C-FAM publishes and promotes scholarships related to the proposition that the UN and other international institutions harm a true understanding of international law and, in the process, undermine the family and other institutions man requires for a just, free and happy life.
C-FAM regularly interfaces with diplomats, policy makers, academics, activists and office holders from around the world.
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