HSLDA News	May 22, 2001

HSLDA Monitors Recent UN Activity

Home School Legal Defense Association opposes international treaties that would undermine American families, like the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). We believe the CRC is one of the most dangerous attacks on parental rights ever. Although it has been temporarily halted in the United States, we continue to monitor this treaty to make sure it is not implemented in this country. We are also watching for any other UN activity that would adversely affect family freedom.

Children's Rights Committee Meets in Geneva

The 27th session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child started this week, and will be held at the United Nations Office in Geneva from May 21 to June 8, 2001. The first meeting of the session convened Monday, May 21, 2001 at 10 a.m.

HSLDA is reviewing the copy of the agenda to be discussed at this meeting. We will monitor activity and report any timely information to our membership.

UN Subcommitee Ousts U.S. and Targets Family Groups

"The same UN subcommittee that earlier this month booted the United States from the UN Human Rights Commission is trying to keep Family Research Council from participating in UN discussions. Also targeted by some delegations of the 19-member subcommittee responsible for accrediting non-governmental organizations (NGO) are Freedom House, the Baptist World Alliance and the Simon Wiesenthal Center (the famed Nazi hunters). Among the fully accredited members of this subcommittee are delegates from China, Algeria, Cuba, Pakistan, Russia, and Sudan. FRC staffer Darren Logan was grilled for hours by hostile questioners during his recent visit to UN headquarters in New York. Then, the subcommittee delayed, once again, FRC's application to be an NGO at the UN." - frc.org

First, they [eliminated] silenced the United States' voice on the UN Human Rights Commission. Now, they are going after U.S.-based human rights advocacy groups", says Adrian Karatnycky, president of Freedom House.

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