Opinion: Sexual Left Gains, Developing Countries Lose at UN Population Meeting
By Wendy Wright | May 11, 2012
Our colleague Piero Tozzi writes in this week’s Friday Fax on a recent contentious meeting at the UN:
My colleagues at the Friday Fax reported last week that the “Latex Left” lost at the just ended UN Commission on the Population and Development, that they came away “empty handed.” With respect, I disagree with this assessment.
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and its allies scored a victory. What they got was a (non-binding) declaration setting funding priorities that calls for “comprehensive” sexual education for youth and adolescents, marginalized parental involvement, and increased funding for “reproductive health-care services, commodities and supplies.”
The latter is a global industry projected to top $17 billion by 2015. Funding from the UN and donor nations translates to money not going to meet more pressing needs of the developing world, such as malaria elimination, infrastructure development and access to clean water – all concerns acknowledged in passing at CPD, while disproportionately focusing on sexual themes favored by the developed world.
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