UPDATE!- please note that REAL Women is co-sponsoring an event called Best practices for maternal health care in Africa at the UN in New York on
March 17 at 4:45 to 6:00 PM EST Poster for Mar 17
You can watch on: The United Nations Live & on-demand TV They will be providing live coverage of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) throughout March 14 to 24
Maternal health care that meets the authentic needs of African women must be a priority when considering the 2030 agenda of the United Nations.
REALity Volume XXV Issue No. 3 March 2016
In 1998, REAL Women obtained special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the UN. Since then, we have been tirelessly working at UN conferences and meetings around the world, to push back against the demands by the UN bureaucracy to implement anti-family/life, pro-homosexual policies.
REAL Women is attending the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York City, March 14 to March 24, 2016. During this meeting, we are co-sponsoring with the Australian pro-family organization, Endeavour Forum, an NGO Panel discussing the link between abortion and breast cancer and other harmful effects of abortion. We are also very excited to join with Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) and the British Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) to organize a presentation to be sponsored by the Holy See (the representatives of the Catholic Church at the UN). The topic will address maternal health care dealing with the pressure on African nations to promote abortion instead of genuine health care and the necessities of life. His Excellency, the Most Reverend Bernardito Auza, Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, will speak and lead this event at the UN. Other speakers include a young African woman, Uju Ekeocha, Director of Culture of Life in Nigeria, Dr. Robert Walley of Newfoundland, founder and Director of MaterCare International Canada, which provides health services and hospitals in Africa, and Maria Madise, International Director of SPUC. This presentation will be open to all UN delegates (as opposed to only NGO’s), so it is a very critical seminar.
This effort to present a strong pro-life, pro-family message on Africa at the UN will be expensive, but we believe it is critical to do so even if it is causing us an unprecedented expense. It is critical for us to bring this information directly from Africa to the UN delegates, who will be negotiating and deciding this issue.
It is estimated that REAL Women’s share for bringing Uju Ekeocha from Africa will be approximately $500 US. There will be other speaker expenses, room rent and handout materials, which will range from $500 to $1,000. In addition, we will also pay the expenses for accommodation and flight to New York, for our REAL Women representative, Cecilia Forsyth, (an experienced hand at the UN), plus our share of the costs of visual aids and handouts for the NGO presentation. In total, this undertaking will cost REAL Women between $4,000.00 and $5,000.00.
We would be very grateful if any of our members can contribute to the cost of this one-time, unprecedented special project by REAL Women that we are undertaking at the UN at this critical time in its history.
