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U.S. Expected to Reverse Course on United NationsCNSNews.com) – The United States’ relationship with the United Nations faces a major change under the next administration. Those advocating greater U.S. engagement with the world body are lining up with advice for President-elect Barack Obama. On a range of issues, from membership of the much-criticized Human Rights Council to abortion-related funding, activists are anticipating, or urging, a significant change in direction. Reproductive rights advocates expect that Obama to make among his first priorities next January a reinstatement of funding to the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA), which has lost some $240 million since 2002 because of its links with China’s controversial population control programs. The defunding was in line with a 1985 amendment to foreign appropriations legislation, which denies funding for any organization that supports or participates in forced abortion or involuntary sterilization programs. Activists also expect Obama to end the “Mexico City Policy,†which requires agencies receiving U.S. aid to certify that they are not using any funds to carry out or promote abortion.
