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09USUNNEWYORK134
2009-02-13 18:32:00
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USUN New York
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FY2009 PEDOPHILIA CERTIFICATION

Tags:  AORC PHUM SOCI 
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TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5846
UNCLAS USUN NEW YORK 000134 

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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC PHUM SOCI
SUBJECT: FY2009 PEDOPHILIA CERTIFICATION

REF: 2008 SECSTATE 131870

UNCLAS USUN NEW YORK 000134

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

IO/RHS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: AORC PHUM SOCI
SUBJECT: FY2009 PEDOPHILIA CERTIFICATION

REF: 2008 SECSTATE 131870


1. (SBU) Summary: This cable responds to reftel requests
regarding the annual Section 102 (g) Foreign Relations
Authorization Act pedophilia certification regarding UN
agencies and their affiliated NGOs. As requested, Mission
requested required confirmations from the following UN
agencies: ECOSOC, UNCDF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNIFEM, and
UNDPI. The substance of each agency's written response is
provided below. UNCDF, UNDP, UNFPA and UNIFEM do not
accredit NGOs and should be removed from next year's annual
certification tasker. Mission estimates that 20 hours of
staff time were required to complete this tasker. USUN New
York contact for this issue is Toby Glucksman. End Summary

UNICEF
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2. (SBU) UNICEF Deputy Director Gary Stahl states in a
January 14, 2009 letter to the Mission that "UNICEF has not
granted official status, accreditation, or recognition to any
organization which promotes and condones or seeks the
legalization of pedophilia, or which includes as a subsidiary
or member any such organization. Any such organization could
not be a proper partner of UNICEF. I can assure you that if,
in fact, such a grant or official status, accreditation, or
recognition were to have been made inadvertently or through
lack of complete due diligence, UNICEF would take immediate
and appropriate steps to rectify the situation."

UNFPA
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3. (SBU) UNFPA Deputy Executive Director Purmina Mane states
in a January 19, 2009 letter to the Mission that "UNFPA has
no accreditation process for NGOs. UNFPA has never,
therefore, provided accreditation to, or become affiliated
with, any organization that promotes, condones, or seeks the
legalization of pedophilia. In as far as NGOs act as
implementing partners in UNFPA development assistance
projects, we assure you that UNFPA would never work with an
organization of any kind that condones or promotes
pedophilia, or has members who do so."


UNCDF
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4. (SBU) UNCDF Executive Secretary David Morrison states in a
January 19, 2009 letter to Mission that UNCDF "does not have
any affiliated NGOs and does not grant accreditation to any
organization outside the UN."

UNDP
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5. (SBU) UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervis states in a January
21, 2009 letter to Mission that "As we have stated in our

communications on this matter in previous years, UNDP does
not have an accreditation system for NGOs. Formal
accreditation and classification of NGOs is a process that
falls under the United Nations Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC). We have partnerships with NGOs at program and
policy levels on development priorities as defined by UNDP,
and none of our NGO partners condones or promotes the
legalization of pedophilia."

UNIFEM
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6. (SBU) UNIFEM Deputy Executive Director Moez Doraid states
in a January 13 letter to Mission that "UNIFEM does not grant
accreditation to any NGOs. Moreover, UNIFEM does not
knowingly affiliate itself or its work with NGOs that condone
or promote pedophilia or that have members that support or
seek legalization of pedophilia."

ECOSOC
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7. (SBU) UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs NGO
Section Chief Hanifa Mezoui states in a January 21 letter to
Mission that "I am pleased to send to you a list of NGOs in
consultative status with the ECOSOC of the UN, which includes
those organization granted status by ECOSOC in 2008. I am
also confirming that the NGO Committee fully complies with
Section 102 (g) of the U.S. Foreign Relations Authorization
Act and has not granted accreditation to any organization
that promotes, condones, or seeks the legislation of
pedophilia, or includes in its membership any such
organization." Para 10 includes the list of NGOs affiliated

with ECOSOC since last year's certification process.


UNDPI
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8. (SBU) UN Undersecretary General for Communications and
Public Information Kiyo Akasaka states in a January 15, 2009
letter to the Mission that "I wish to advise that, on the
basis of the accreditation documents and to the best of our
knowledge, none of the NGOs approved for association with the
Department of Public Information since 2008 condone or
promote pedophilia." Attached to the Undersecretary's letter
is a list of NGOs approved for association since 2008; para 9
provides that list.



9. (SBU) Following is a list of 15 NGOs approved for
association with UNDPI since 2008:


Begin UNDPI list:


1. Center for Global Studies, University of Illinois

2. Children International

3. Peace Partnership International

4. Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority

5. Unite for Sight

6. A Better World

7. Autism Speaks

8. Books for Africa

9. Darfur Rehabilitation Project
10.Independent Diplomat
11 Internations Institute of New Jersey
12.Pacific Rim Institute for Development and Education
13.Student World Assembly
14.Trace International
15.World Growth

End UNDPI list.


10. (SBU) Following is a list of 117 NGOs newly accredited by
ECOSOC in 2008:

Begin ECOSOC list:


1. Women and Modern World Social Charitable Centre

2. Action pour le Developpement de l'Agriculture et de la
Peche avec
Protection Environnementale de Likende

3. Advisory Network For African Information Society (ANAIS-AC)

4. Africa Humanitarian Action Association

5. African Child Care Association, Inc

6. Agence de Developpement Economique et Culturel Nord-Sud

7. Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD)

8. Al Zubair Charitable Foundation

9. American Association of University Women
10.ASEER Foundation (All About Social, Educational, Rights)
11.Asia Darshana
12.Asociacion Mujeres Unidas para el Microcredito
13.Association Coeur Africain
14.Association pour Ie Developpement du Canton Bulu du Dja
(ASSODEDJA)
15.Association VERSeau Developpement
16.Baltic Sea Forum
17.BATANI Internationl Development Fund for Indigenous
Peoples of the
North, Siberia and the Far East
18.Beckley Foundation, The
19.Bharat Sevashram Sangha
20.Black Sea Civil Society Solidarity Association (Union of
Black Sea
Region NGOs)
21.Business Humanitarian Forum
22.CARAM - Asia Berhad
23.Carter Center, Inc.
24.The Center for Health and Gender Equity, Inc.
25.Center of Egyptian Woman Issues
26.Centre for European Constitutional Law - Themistocles and
Dimitris
Tsatsos Foundation
27.Centro de Informacion y Education para Ia Prevencion del
Abuso de
Drogas
28.Cercie de Recherche sur Ies Droits et les Devoirs de a
Personne
Humaine
29.Child Family Health International
30.Children International
31.China NGO Network for International Exchanges (CNIE)
32.Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group

33.CIRID (Centre Independent de Recherches et dlniatives pour
le
Dialogue)
34.Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program,
Inc.
35.Colonie Des Pionniers de Developpement (CPD asbl)
36.Comitato-Ev-K2-CNR
37.Comite pour les relations internationales de jeunesse de la
communaute francaise de Belgique
38.Council on Health Research for Development
39.Environic Foundation International
40.Federatie van Nederlandse Verenigingen tot Integratie Van
Homoseksualiteit - COC Nederland
41.Federation of Environmental and Ecological Diversity for
Agricultural Revampment and Human Rights
42.Federation Of Jam Associations in North America
43.Fondation Connaissance et Liberte - Fondasyon Konesans ak
Libete
44.Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI)
45.Fundacdo de Assistencia Medica Internacionul
46.Fundacio Futbol Club Barcelona
47.Fundacion Guayasamin
48.Fundacion Instituto Psicopedagogico Uruguayo
49.Fundacion Para La Libertad - Askatasun Bidean
50.Fundacion para Una Cultura de Paz
51.Fundacion Proyecto de Paz Mundial
52.Geneva Infant Feeding Association
53.Geneva Social Observatory
54.Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
55.Global Workers Justice Alliance
56.Gods Harvest Foundation, GHARFO
57.Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda I.A.P.
58.Health for Humanity
59.Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS,Inc.)
60.Hudson Institute, Inc.
61.Hunter College Center for Community and Urban Health
62.Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology
63.Instituto Internacional de Ciencias Politicas - IICP - lISP
64.International Association for Media and Communication
Research
65.International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children
66.International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF)
67.International Paralympic Committee (IPC) e.V.
68.Istituto Internazionale Maria Ausiliatrice delle Salesiane
di Don
Bosco
69.IT for Change
70.JA Worldwide
71.Knights of the Southern Cross (Australia) Incorporated
72.L'Association dequipements collectifs La Castellane
73.Learning and Development - Kenya
74.Les Enfants de Frankie
75.Ligue pour le Droit de la Femme Congolaise
76.Mother Child Education Foundation
77.National Womens Studies Association
78.Network of Non-Governmental Organisations of Trinidad and
Tobago for
the Advancement of Women,
79.The New Future Foundation, Inc.
80.Nigeria-Togo Association
81.Nigerian Army Officers Wives Association
82.Nigerian Health Care Foundation, Inc.
83.NTIC et Citoyennete
84.Okedongmu Children in Korea
85.Ordre des Avocats a la Cour de Paris
86.Organisation pour a Communication en Afrique et de
Promotion de la
Cooperation Economique Internationale - OCAPROCE
Internationale
87.Partnership for Global Justice
88.Peace Parks Foundation
89.People to People, Inc.
90.Physicians for Peace
91.Plateforme pour le Developpement Durable des Caraibes
(PLAC 21)
92.PLAY SOCCER
93.Pos Keadilan Peduli Ummat
94.Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims
95.Romani CR155 - Roma Centre for Social Intervention and
Studies
96.Rural Africa Water Development Initiative
97.Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra
98.Sante de Ia Reproduction pour une Maternite Sans Risque
(SRMSR-DIMOL)
99.School of Human Genetics and Population Health
100.Service for Peace, Inc.
101.Ship and Ocean Foundation
102.Smile of the Child
103.Society for the Protection and Assistance of the Socially
Disadvantaged Individuals, The
104.Society Studies Centre (MADA ssc)

105.SustainUS, Inc.
106.Talented Girl Students Trust (TGST)
107.Vikash
108.Village Suisse ONG
109.Voices of African Mothers, Inc.
110.Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural
Resource
Management
111.Womens Association for a Better Aging Society (WABAS)
112.Womens Health and Education Center
113.Womens Rights Association Against Discrimination (AKDER)
114.Womens Shadow Parliament - Kenya
115.World of Hope International
116.Worldwide Network Nigeria:Women in Development and
Environment
117.Yugoslav Youth Association Against AIDS - Youth of JAZAS

End ECOSOC list.



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