New U.N. bureaucracy dedicated to restructuring relations between the sexes along radical feminist lines

Obama Pushing for New Radical Feminist Agency at United Nations

By Christian Newswire
Thursday, March 4, 2010

The Obama administration has endorsed a proposal to create a new U.N. bureaucracy dedicated to restructuring relations between the sexes along radical feminist lines. The new super-agency is supported by a consortium of feminist organizations called the Gender Equality Architecture Reform Campaign (GEAR).

The surprise move came late yesterday at the meeting of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, currently underway in New York. Both the Obama administration and the European Union immediately seconded the proposal to create a new U.N. super- agency, which thus appears to have a good chance of passage.

Radical feminists have long been discontented with the alphabet soup of relatively low-level offices and commissions that exist in the U.N. to advance their agenda. The new agency would amalgamate four existing entities—the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, the Division for the Advancement of Women, the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women—into one super-agency. The Division for the Advancement of Women, in particular, has a universal UN mandate that would then be at the service of the new bureaucracy. To give the organization even more clout, an Under-Secretary- General, who would report directly to the U.N. Secretary- General, would head it.

The draft proposal urges that the agency be set up before the end of the current session of the General Assembly, and that it be dedicated to “gender equalityâ€