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REAL WOMEN WORKING AT THE UN
Summary by Jill Cahoon
Alberta Board Member
REAL Women of Canada
A talk by Ginger Malacko
UN Lobbyist for REAL Women
of Canada
At the age of 23, Ginger agreed to accompany
her mother to a United Nations meeting, only because a trip
to New York appealed to her! She did not realize just how
much the trip would influence her life. The trip began her
long affair with lobbying at the United Nations on behalf
of REAL Women of Canada, an NGO with consultative status with
the Economic and Social Council.
The United Nations consists of representatives
from 191 countries. Also present are a variety of non-government
organizations (NGO), most of which push a radical agenda.
Although the UN has six official languages, most of the actual
negotiations are carried out in English. Unfortunately, some
of the delegates are not familiar enough with the English
language or UN expressions and therefore do not always grasp
the implications of some of the expressions entered in the
documents. That is, some of the delegates are not aware of
the implications of some of their proposed text and agree
to it even though it is opposed to their country’s values
and beliefs. This is why it is important for pro-family NGOs
to be present at these meetings, to alert the delegates to
the tricks being played on them by the anti-life \ anti-family
drafters of the documents as well as NGOs and other delegates,
such as those from the European Union and Canada, who are
using the UN as a tool to promote a destructive agenda world-wide.
A document is always presented to the delegates
at the start of the negotiations. Ginger’s work at the
UN begins with checking the wording of the text for anti-life
\ anti family expressions such as “women’s reproductive
rights” or “responsible sexual relations”,
which, at the UN level, refer to a woman’s right to abortion
or ready access to contraception by adolescents without their
parents’ knowledge or consent. After Ginger has identified
the problem areas in the document, she researches the issue
and then informs the voting delegates by any means she can
of the potential pitfalls of the wording. Sometimes this is
done by way of flyers documenting the problems and sometimes
by speaking directly to delegates, and offering assistance
to them. Ginger always works in co-operation with representatives
from other pro-family NGOs at the UN.
Political trends at the United Nations include a never-ending
push for abortion on demand, gender identity (there are 48
different gender combinations, all of which radicals demand
be protected), children’s rights (which also includes
their sexual rights, to the detriment of the family), prostitution
and sexual freedom. Feminist ideology is also pushed at the
UN, such as demanding quotas for females working in the government,
implementing a national child care plan, forcing women out
of the home into the paid work force, providing contraception
to curtail population, promoting homosexual rights and same-sex
marriage and always frequent attempts to curtail the influence
of religion both at the UN specifically, and world-wide.
Early in Ginger’s life she was influenced
by the expression, “Stand for something or fall for anything”.
She feels that her work at the United Nations gives her an
opportunity to do something worthwhile. Her work there has
changed her life forever. It has become her cause and she
is very grateful for the financial assistance from REAL Women
of Canada and for the privilege of representing our organization
at the UN.
The work at the UN is difficult, it takes
time and patience, but it is a life-changing experience. Ginger
especially encourages young people to commit to this work
and stated that she would be happy to assist anyone who may
be interested in doing so.
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