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From Family Research Council...

HOW U.N. CONVENTIONS ON WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S RIGHTS UNDERMINE FAMILY, RELIGION, AND SOVEREIGNTY

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By Patrick F. Fagan, William L. Saunders, and Michael A. Fragoso

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

U.N. committees charged with offering guidance on the obligations incumbent upon nations that have ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women ("CEDAW") and the Convention on the Rights of the Child ("CRC") are, instead, advancing a radical agenda harmful to the best interests of societies and states, under the cover of providing review and recommendations. In doing so, these U.N. committees are decisively undermining the sovereignty of state parties to the treaties in matters that have always been within the domestic jurisdiction of individual states to decide. These committees have recommended -
Legalizing prostitution and elevating it to the status of a profession

Diminishing the legal protection of freedom of conscience

Diminishing parental guidance for teenagers' emerging sexuality

Promoting access to abortion, contraception, and other "medical" services for children without parental consent

Promoting contraceptive use without regard to its social consequences

Promoting abortion under the fiction of an international law mandate

Demeaning traditional motherhood and those who support it

Promoting professional child care for newborns

Equating mild spanking of children by their parents with serious physical abuse

Objecting to the influence of religion on society

Objecting to the protection of rights of religious minorities

If these recommendations were followed, marriage and family would be further undermined, as would religious freedom.