U.N.; UNESCO, AND THE US EDUCATION
Monday, February 09, 2004

I find it very encouraging, yet confusing, that Tommy Thompson; the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has rebuked the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for providing documents that promote sex and abortion as the rights of children. However, this has been the belief and action of UNESCO for years and it was well known at all the U. N. Conferences that I attended.

Secretary Thompson told UNESCO that they did not have the right to change national legislation and said, “UNESCO has gone beyond its “mandate and expertise” by advocating “that governments should make abortion legal, safe, and affordable, and abortion services available to the full extent under their existing laws, and that national legislators should remove legal restrictions to access abortion.”

The secretary claimed that UNESCO was wrong in their assessment of “child and
adolescent rights” and that their approach was “fundamentally flawed” because there was no role in their perspective for parents and family.

Secretary Thompson added, “parents and families are critical to a child’s well being and success.”

I applaud his statements, and UNESCO responded favorably and said they would “monitor” future reports. I am grateful for Secretary Thompson’s words, but I question UNESCO’s integrity and any U.S. agreement with UNESCO.

Dr. D. L. Cuddy, of whom I have the utmost respect, recently reported that in
our “No Child Left Behind” program the U.S. Secretary of Education, Rod Paige
entered into a contract with the Center for Civic Education (CCE). CCE is an
INGO (United Nations International Nongovernmental Organization). CCE’s program, “We the people…the citizen and the Constitutions” is authorized for
U.S. schools.

On October 3, 2003 Secretary of Education, Rod Paige in Paris stated: “The U.S. is pleased to return to UNESCO …our governments have entrusted us with
the responsibility of preparing our children to become citizens of the World…UNESCO is a powerful forum for sharing our views…”

Sir Julian Haxley, the first Director General of UNESCO, wrote in “UNESCO: It’s Purpose and Philosophy, “that political unification in some sort of world government would be required.”

This partnership with UNESCO can only weaken U.S. sovereignty and lead
to internationalism.

Are we being sold a bill of goods in “No Child Left Behind”? I think we are.

It appears that the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and the U. S. Secretary of Education need to get to together and compare direction.

Excerpts from: World Citizenship on the Road to World Government - by D. L. Cuddy, Ph. .D.