The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is one of the organizations which is funding a very immoral sex "education" program in my country, El Salvador. The program is called "From Teens to Teens" and is being implemented by the Ministry of Health.

Through this program over 6,000 adolescents have been trained to convince other adolescents to use dangerous contraceptives (including those which are abortifacient) when they have sex with each other. The contraception distribution is called by this program "confidential services". In other words, not only is the mentality of said program immoral in itself, it also undermines the authority that parents should have over their children, specially in such important matters as chastity.

But that is not all. For the teen training program the Ministry of Health prepared thousands of manuals 176 pages long, with pornographic illustrations in full color. The pictures depict heterosexual and homosexual relations, as well as other lustful behaviors.

On page 140 of the manual, "reproductive health and rights" are described as the "most human of all rights". Among these, "right" #14 is described as "The right to decide when, how, where and with whom to have sexual relations". "Right" #8 says: "The right to a sexual relationship independently of age, civil status or family model, free of any violence, abuse or harassment". "Right #9 says: "The right to a free motherhood, freely chosen and freely lived by one's own choice and not by obligation". "Right" #11 says: "The right to an opportune, integral, gradual and scientific sex education with a gender focus".

Knowing that "reproductive health and rights" and "free motherhood" are code words for contraception and abortion, that "family model" and "gender" are euphemisms for homosexuality and that, for the UN, adolescence begins at the age of 10, one can readily see that the manual is promoting fornication, abortion, contraception and homosexuality among children and teens.

Pro-life/family legislators have been able to stop the release of the manual. But the pro-sex "education" side says they are "revising" it.

Last 18 August, several pro-sex "education" Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's) carried out the National Forum of Civil Society, titled "A Contribution for the Process for Reform of the Health Sector". The meeting took place at the Legislative Assembly (El Salvador's Congress). Also present there were representatives of El Salvador's IPPF affiliate (ADS), the World Health Organization (WHO) and several other radical feminist NGO's(non-governmental organizations). Participants at the Forum insisted on introducing the same terminology of "reproductive health and rights" and "gender", a terminology that has been rejected internationally.

[Note from Vida Humana Internacional: It is important to realize that one of the strategies of the pro-abortion movement is to promote the "culture" of death by means of NGO's that pretend to "represent" civil society and thus a democratic process. In reality, many of these NGO's are affiliates of IPPF or reflect the mentality of powerful pro-abortion governments, like the present U.S. Administration, or powerful international organizations, like the UN. Hence, they really represent the interests of the pro-death anti-culture and not the people of El Salvador, or of Latin America for that matter.]

Then, last 31 August and 1 September, the UN's Population Fund (UNFPA) invited several NGO's to validate the Master's degree on "Information, Education, Communication and Advocacy in Reproductive Health and Rights". Evidently this degree also promotes "reproductive health" and "gender".

From 31 August to 2 September, the "I National Multi-Disciplinary Conference on The Woman and the Child Before the New Millennium" was celebrated with the co-sponsorship of VIVE (an organization that promotes condoms for ADS/IPPF). The same pro-death terminology was promoted at this conference.

Next, in September, FUNDASIDA (an organization to "stop" AIDS) organized a conference, where several young girls talked about how they promoted condoms among teens to "protect" them against AIDS. Instead of promoting chastity as the only way, both medically and morally, to protect oneself from AIDS, this conference promoted fornication and a piece of rubber (= condom) that does not protect against this fatal disease.

As of the time of this writing, our organization, Fundación Sí a la Vida ("Yes to Life Foundation") and myself have been invited to participate in a workshop on 30 October organized by the Justice Supreme Court of our country and by the World Bank. The workshop's objectives are to identify critical areas that are affecting the administration of justice in El Salvador and to propose adequate solutions from the point of view of NGO's which use the system. Given the fact that the World Bank belongs to the UN, I imagine that all available radical feminist NGOs will be invited.

In conclusion, it is a tragedy that this manual has been printed at all, and unfortunately under the auspices of El Salvador's Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance. It is also a tragedy that organizations like Save the Children of El Salvador ("Desarrollo Juvenil Comunitario, Save the Children") and Vision Mundial of El Salvador (World Vision), are apparently also involved in this inmoral project. Their names appear, along with those of UNICEF, UNESCO, UNFPA and ADS (Asociacion Demografica Salvadoreña, IPPF's El Salvador affiliate); among the "participating organizations" in the project that led to printing the above mentioned manual.