Government Support for Helen Clark as Secretary General of United Nations Questioned
Right to Life believes that the government’s nomination of Helen Clark as Secretary General of the United Nations is not
in the interest of women, the family and the common good. Helen Clark in her influential position as Director of the UN
Development Programme since 2009 has remained silent in the face of the human rights abuses that have been inflicted by
the Chinese government on Chinese women with the previous ‘one child family policy.’
These are crimes against humanity and are violation of the United Nations Conventions that Helen Clark is pledged to
uphold, namely the Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention for the Elimination of all Discrimination against Women,
[CEDAW], and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, [CRC]. It is of note that from 1993 that she has been a member
of the UN Committee monitoring compliance with CEDAW. As Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008 she shamefully
turned her back on the most horrendous human rights abuses against women that the world has ever known.
The draconian and tyrannical one child family policy now extended to two children from 1 January 2016, denies the human
right of families to choose how many children they are going to have. A family is required to obtain a permit
authorising the birth of a child. Pregnancies that are not authorised are required by law to be aborted. Women who are
not married who become pregnant, are required to have an abortion. Children who escape being aborted and are born
without a permit are not recognised by the state and are denied health services and an education.
Helen Clark is at the forefront of the United Nations drive to promote worldwide contraception, sterilisation and
abortion.
China’s one child family policy started in 1979 and has resulted in forced abortions, 196 million compulsory
sterilisations, the mandatory insertion of 403 million forced intrauterine devices, punitive fines, imprisonment,
destruction of homes and loss of employment. Sex selection abortions have resulted in 37 million missing girls. Since
1971 there have been 330 million abortions, many of these on orders from the state. There is as a consequence, a surplus
of 36 million men in China. Helen Clark’s response to these human rights abuses is a deafening silence.
The New Zealand government shamefully, under both Helen Clark and John Key claimed that it has no policy on these crimes
against humanity and turned its back on these human rights abuses perpetrated by the Chinese government which is guilty
of the most horrendous human rights abuses against women that the world has ever known.
Helen Clark is at the forefront of the United Nations drive to promote worldwide contraception sterilisation and
abortion. She supports legislation to promote euthanasia and prostitution. In 2003 she was instrumental in enforcing all
Labour MP’s to vote for the controversial Prostitution Reform Act. (With the exception of one MP being allowed to
abstain.) This Act violates the human rights of women by giving men the legal right to sexually assault women.
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