This archive report was first published on 17 November 2019.
Published on November 17, 2019, the ICPD25 summit in Nairobi has left a lasting impact on the global community. The conference's central agenda, Sexuality and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), has been dissected into two sets of rights: Sexuality rights (read homosexuality rights) and reproductive health rights (read abortion rights).
Huber Valerie, the head of the US delegation, was categorical that the 1994 Cairo agenda had been hijacked. "The term SRHR has been used to aggressively promote practices like abortion. There is no international right to abortion," she said.
More than 160 states made commitments to the ICPD agenda, with the EU being particularly vocal on their stand. They openly pledged greater inclusion of LGBTIQs "to ensure these groups enjoy full and equal rights." The EU was backed by a strong financial might, with Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the UK, together with the European Commission, committing around US$1 billion in support of the ICPD agenda.
However, a small minority of nations chose to stand against the ICPD agenda. The US, Brazil, Belarus, Egypt, Haiti, Hungary, Libya, Poland, Senegal, St. Lucia, and Uganda openly stood for life and the family. The pro-life and pro-family groups must now strategise how to deal with legitimate issues that have been the railroad for sinister agenda.
As the writer, the presiding bishop of Christ is the Answer Ministries, noted, "In spite of apparently mighty forces, darkness can never overcome light – no matter how weak or small the light. Throughout history, righteousness has always triumphed over evil, albeit too slowly at times."
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