African Catholic Activists Call for Prolife Resolutions at Ongoing UN Women’s Conference

“It is also surprising how this document heavily references previous ‘agreed language’ or intergovernmental outcomes, even when it is clear that language from past conclusions is not always consensual,” they say. 

They explain that the draft document makes reference to the Beijing Declaration, the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), and other summits whose conclusions were not adopted as binding commitments by suggesting that abortion, the sexualization of children through the CSE, and gender ideology “should be inherently promoted”.

“The UN aims to advance so-called ‘Comprehensive Sexuality Education,’ or CSE, which focuses on indoctrinating children with explicit and immoral content, including explicit sexualization, LGBT propaganda, and lies about what defines a man and a woman,” they say in the petition addressed to Kenya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

CitizenGo Africa officials call on the Kenyan Ministry’s officials present at the March 6-17 UN conference to “do the right thing, to speak for the women in the grassroots whose priorities are not perverted and sexualized education of their children, or killing their babies through abortion or even the gender ideology agenda.”

They also urge the Ministry officials present at the CSW67 to “have all language on sexual and reproductive health and rights, abortion, sexual diversity, gender ideology, and comprehensive sexuality education of the first draft – as captured in paragraphs 12, 13 (LGBT), 26 (CSE), 31 (SRHR) 39.1 (SOGI) - erased from the agreed conclusions.”

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Magdalene Kahiu is a Kenyan journalist with passion in Church communication. She holds a Degree in Social Communications from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA). Currently, she works as a journalist for ACI Africa.