Powerful United Nations Agency Calls for Fewer Africans, Asians and Latins

By Austin Ruse

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM) In an annual rite of the summer UN season, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) yesterday released their "State of World Population: 1998." UNFPA is the principle architect of UN population control programs around the world. At a time when most demographers in the industrialized west report the growing danger of low fertility rates and aging populations, UNFPA still sounds an alarmist tone that the world's population is growing dangerously fast and large. 

     UNFPA's report portentously announces next June 16th as the "Day of 6 Billion." A world population of this size would roughly equal the population density of the largely rural US state of Georgia. Even though official UN statisticians assert that the world population will more than likely stop at less than 10 billion in the middle of the next century, UNFPA remains deeply skeptical on that point.  

     It is clear from the report that a major concern of UN feminists is the coming "bulge" of youth. The report claims that the world is presently witnessing "the largest-ever generation of young people." Though the report repeatedly praises this "demographic bonus" as beneficial to society, paradoxically it strongly urges that this group be discouraged from reproducing. 

     In order to stop this enormous cohort from reproducing, the report urges the world-wide adoption of certain western feminist concepts and the elimination of the traditional family and societal practices in the developing world. In a rather startling point, the report draws a comparison between the traditional practice of early marriage and female genital mutilation. The report states rather surprisingly that "for the first time in the history of population growth, humanity will reach the next billion with a clear idea and a common agreement on how to respond." UNFPA claims all of humanity agrees that the answer lies in aggressive reproductive health campaigns, and the elimination of traditional societal practices that stand in their way. It should be noted that the UN officially defines reproductive health as including abortion. 

     In order to lay groundwork for overcoming these societal objections, for the past several months UNFPA has sponsored expert meetings around the world, many of them on the topic of adolescent sexuality and reproductive health. One of them, convened last spring in New York City and addressed by former actress Jane Fonda, called for the adolescent and sexual freedom of minors. Echoing this many times in recent months, UN feminists have initiated declarations in official UN documents calling not just for complete reproductive freedom for minors, but freedom also from the encumbrances of parental authority. 

     A growing coalition of pro-family UN lobbyists, and diplomats from developing countries believe this report and other UNFPA programs are efforts to destroy the traditionally strong families in the developing world. One UN diplomat interested in protecting his people from feminist initiatives, pointed out that his country "may be Third World economically, but the industrialized west is Third World in terms of the family."

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