International Planned Parenthood pressure Nigerian Delegation during Comission on Population and Development In New York

International Planned Parenthood have resorted to placing pressure on the Nigerian Ambassador to United Nations to accede to their demands to include references to sexual and reproductive health and rights in the current negotiations on the outcome document for the Commission on Population and Development in New York. 

A letter written by a Planned Parenthood executive was sent yesterday to Nigerian NGO's seeking support for their demand that Nigeria should accept their anti life and anti family agenda.

The letter looks like a veiled threat that PP will use their influence to cause the ambassador to lose her position at UN Women as First Chair if her delegate does not back down on sexual and reproductive health and rights. 

The letter sounds so nice but hidden behind the provision calling for sexual and reproductive health and rights is an agenda to legalise prostitution, same sex marriage, abortion on demand and to sexualise children whilst at the same time denying parental rights.

text of letter.

25.4.2013

Please circulate for endorsement. We need to send it to her this evening .
Thanks, Doris

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Dear Ambassador Ogwu,
We commend you for the leadership role that Nigeria has taken in advancing women's rights within the United Nations.  We are particularly proud of your efforts, as the first chair of UN Women, to promote gender equality and women's empowerment.  As you know, achieving gender equality and empowerment of women depend on the full realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights.
As a result, we are writing to express our concern about the position taken by Nigeria during the 46th Session of the Commission on Population and Development.  We are particularly concerned about the fact that Nigeria has called for the bracketing of all language around sexual and reproductive health and rights.
The government of Nigeria has reported to CRC that the maternal mortality rate is estimated to be 800/100,000 live births (2009).  According to a recent Lancet study (2010), Nigeria has the second highest number of maternal deaths in the world, accounting for more than 10% of maternal deaths worldwide. The study further showed that Nigeria's maternal mortality ratio has substantially increased between 1990 and 2008. (2010) Also, the 2008 National Demographic Health Survey found that among women aged 15 to 49, girls between 15 and 19 were the least likely to know of a contraceptive method.
As a signatory to Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of women in Africa, we trust that your government will commit to a positive resolution that reaffirm women's rights, gender equality and women's empowerment. We stand ready to work with you to ensure that Nigeria continues to serve as leader in advancing sexual and reproductive rights and health within the United Nations.
Sincerely,

Doris Mpoumou | International Advocacy Officer International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR)
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