Thread by @Kmoeti, Wrote about how opposition to CSE in SA, Ghana, Nigeria & Kenya [...]

Wrote about how opposition to CSE in SA, Ghana, Nigeria & Kenya is part of the US evangelical far-right's effort to expand an anti-women, anti-sexual reproductive health rights, homophobic, transphobic ideology under the facade of protecting the “natural family”

https://twitter.com/City_Press/status/1215136186374795265

https://twitter.com/City_Press/status/1215136186374795265

Here are some useful additional reads that I linked to in the original version:
1. America’s right is lobbying against South Africa’s sex education syllabus https://theconversation.com/americas-right-is-lobbying-against-south-africas-sex-education-syllabus-126356

America's right is lobbying against South Africa's sex education syllabus

Lobby group FOR SA is backed by the US Christian right. Its latest target is South Africa's increasingly inclusive sex education lesson plans.

https://theconversation.com/americas-right-is-lobbying-against-south-africas-sex-education-syllabus-126356

2. ‘God Has A New Africa’: Undercover in a US-led anti-LGBT ‘hate movement’ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/god-has-a-new-africa-undercover-in-a-us-led-anti-lgbt-hate-movement/ via @openDemocracy

‘God Has A New Africa’: Undercover in a US-led anti-LGBT ‘hate movement’

This year, I did something I never thought I would: I went undercover to investigate a group that hates me. This is what I found.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/god-has-a-new-africa-undercover-in-a-us-led-anti-lgbt-hate-movement/

American-led ‘pro-family’ summit in Ghana condemned for ‘shocking’ white supremacist, Islamophobic links https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/american-led-pro-family-summit-in-ghana-condemned-for-shocking-white-supremacist-islamophobic-links/ via @openDemocracy

American-led ‘pro-family’ summit in Ghana condemned for ‘shocking’ white supremacist, Islamophobic...

The World Congress of Families, hosting an Accra ‘family and development’ event, has European allies who have called African migrants “slaves” and “poison”.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/american-led-pro-family-summit-in-ghana-condemned-for-shocking-white-supremacist-islamophobic-links/

4. A descriptive and benign term, “family” has been turned into the primary frontier of social wars by the radical right https://www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/natural-family-gender-idelogy-far-right-concepts-europe-news-15241/

Turning Family Into a Political Weapon

A descriptive and benign term, “family” has been turned into the primary frontier of social wars by the radical right.

https://www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/natural-family-gender-idelogy-far-right-concepts-europe-news-15241/

5. The World Congress of Families: A prime example of today’s anti-rights lobby https://www.awid.org/news-and-analysis/world-congress-families-prime-example-todays-anti-rights-lobby via @AWID

The World Congress of Families: A prime example of today’s anti-rights lobby

On Thursday 25 May 2017, ultra-conservative activists and policy-makers will come together for the World Congress of Families (WCF) under the title “Building Family-Friendly Nations: Making Families...

https://www.awid.org/news-and-analysis/world-congress-families-prime-example-todays-anti-rights-lobby

6. "The trend is unmistakable and deeply alarming: in international human rights spaces, religious fundamentalists are now operating with increased impact, frequency, coordination, resources, and support" https://www.awid.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/rights-at-risk-ours-2017.pdf via @AWID

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