October 11 marks the 5th annual International Day of the Girl. The United Nations is using this opportunity to call for increased access to abortion for girls worldwide. The pressure on women to delay and/or limit their childbearing is significant in Western countries, and we seem...
Sometimes a headline makes you stop and shake your head in wonder at who could have written such a thing in good conscience. On September 27, a United Nations news headline read: Repealing anti-abortion laws would save the lives of nearly 50,000 women a year...
In 1991, the Canadian government ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), which they signed onto in 1990. The UNCRC, like the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child which preceded it, is very clear in stating that...
Mike Schouten, Calgary Herald Published: Saturday, October 5, 2013 For the last two years Prime Minister Stephen Harper has arrived in New York just in time for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. And both times Harper has found something more important to do. This...
