The 61st session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61) took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City from March 13 to 24 2017. The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, as you may very well know, is an annual gathering of women leaders across the world to canvas/articulate/review egregious women human rights and/or development issues affecting or involving women in the world.
The theme of the CSW61, which was chaired by His Excellency Mr. Antonio de Aguiar Patriota (Brazil), was: Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Changing World of Work. The newly-appointed Deputy-Secretary General of the United Nations Dr. Amina J. Mohammed, a Nigerian, was in attendance. Other notable Nigerian participants included commissioners in charge of women affairs in different states, ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organisations (NGOs), directors of gender affairs across the Nigerian states, and so forth.
Suffice it to say that the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Child Development, Abuja, worked very hard to ensure that Nigerian delegates gainfully participated in the CSW61. Women Affairs Minister Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan was a good role model. Beyond being physically present at most CSW61 sessions, she participated in the lively discussions and conclusions therein. Princess Joan Jummai Idonije did a yeoman’s coordinating and supervisory job. She envisioned and mounted a coordinating strategy that paved way for an all-inclusive smooth and effective participation of the Nigerian delegates in the CSW61 activities and proceedings.
Anyway, on the last days of the CSW61, the agreed draft conclusions were issued. They included, among other things, the need for equal participation of women in political and socio-economic decision-making at all levels and in all contexts, including in times of peace and conflicts and in all stages of political transition. It also included the women’s full participation in the formal economy, in particular in economic decision-making, and their equal access to full employment and decent work; empower women in the informal sector; and ensure that women and men enjoy equal treatment in the workplace, as well as equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, and equal access to power and decision-making, and promote sharing of paid and unpaid work. The African group led by Egypt issued a powerful statement extolling African cultural heritage
But something interesting happened. Comprehensive sexuality education was not included in the agreed conclusions. Consequently some American and European Union delegates including the very respected and influential Nigerian delegate Mrs. Oby Nwankwo were of the view that the non-inclusion was fatal to the agreed conclusions. With the greatest respect, I still fail to see the connection between economic empowerment of women (which was the thrust of the CSW61 theme) and the so-called comprehensive sexuality education.
Comprehensive sexuality education which oftentimes is euphemistically termed sexual education or family life education or adolescent sexual reproductive right or health teaches that sexual promiscuity, oral sex, homosexuality, lesbianism, how to wear the condoms, masturbation, abortion, sterilisation and so forth are rights in so far as they give pleasure. Comprehensive sexuality education was the strange philosophy promoted by sexual deviant Alfred Kinsey (Google him please).
Alfred Kinsey stated that children are sexy even from birth and there is nothing anybody can do about it. He said that young people are entitled to sexual pleasure because children are not healthy until they have sexual pleasure. I have right in front of me, as I scribble this, the teaching manual or Teacher’s Manual of Comprehensive Sexuality Education. At a point, the manual requests the children in the classroom to touch each other’s genital saying: “I like you”. The manual also requests the children to touch each other’s private parts and find out the differences in their respective private parts. Comprehensive sexuality education, I have been made to understand, can lead people out of poverty. I have not heard that it will lead to improved climatic change.
As I said earlier, I find no connection between the promotion of sexual promiscuity and economic empowerment of women. Sexual promiscuity is not food that women must eat in order to stay alive. Under the guise of promoting political and economic empowerment of women and in fact uplifting rural women from the state of squalor or free them from unhealthy cultural conditioning, a certain Western model of radical feminism that failed to take into account Africa’s religious, cultural and philosophical convictions is being imposed on Africans. This must be resisted. Oby Nwankwo argues that Nigeria has sexuality policies.
If that is correct, then Nigerian parents and stakeholders must meet and critically examine them to see if they resemble the comprehensive sexuality education. Similarly, Nigerian parents must now stop the reproductive right or health policies being implemented by the Federal Ministry of Health and Federal Ministry of Education because they contain some of the immoralities one finds in the comprehensive sexuality education. After all, the Federal Ministry of Health and Federal Ministry of Education never obtained the consent of parents and Nigerians before implementing the reproductive right or health policies. The best gift to our children is a sound moral education not the abrasive biological western sex education that destroys the character of our children.
What really amazes me is how some Nigerians are so eager to embrace and even force others to embrace in Nigeria the western sexual revolution that has dragged Europe and America to the point of self-destruction. Europe and America are now suffering the tragic consequences of abortion, promiscuous sexual behaviour, homosexuality, lesbianism and transgenderism. President Donald Trump has just outlawed Barack Obama’s useless policy that allows male and female students to be showering together all in the name of gender neutrality.
Therefore, we must be careful in Nigeria. Point is the western sexual revolution has done tremendous damage in the West. It has reached a stage of self-destruction. Now the battle has been shifted to developing countries. If we are caught with the revolution, our future will be imperilled too.
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