Description: Protect Religious Freedoms Worldwide
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A new UN report issued by the UN Special Rapporteur on religious freedom or belief calls upon governments to legalize abortion, eliminate conscience clauses for medical professionals, mandate controversial comprehensive sexuality education beginning at age 10, and legalize controversial LGBT rights, ironically, all under the banner of promoting religious freedom. Help stop this report which is slated to be presented to the UN General Assembly in the fall of 2020.
We, as concerned citizens, religious and civic leaders, officers of government, grandparents, parents and youth throughout the world, are deeply concerned by the report of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Ahmed Shaheed, titled “Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development.”
The report is fraught with false claims and recommendations that far exceed his mandate and constitutes an assault on the national sovereignty of all UN Member States and the religious and cultural values of the world’s people. His controversial recommendations on issues for which there is no international consensus would require governments to: