UN This Week Jan 15-19

The World Economic Forum 

The 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is currently underway in Davos, Switzerland. Heads of governments and major companies convened to share their common vision for world economic advancement, climate change response, and AI. The talks come under the larger theme of “rebuilding trust” in a progressive globalist agenda that is set to solve the world's problems. 

While there was no formal talk on abortion, Argentina's newly-elected President, Javier Milei, delivered a speech that resonated with many pro-lifers, calling the abortion agenda “bloody” and refuting the radical feminist agenda.  

“The radical feminist agenda has led to more state intervention that hindered the economic process, giving jobs to bureaucrats that have not contributed anything to society.”

-Javier Milei

Milei pushed against the very progressive strategies that the WEF tries to promote through the conference in Davos. He said, “if we don’t fight against these ideas, it is for us to have an increased level of state intervention, poverty, and less freedom.”

Many conservative news outlets perceived WEF’s decision to host the staunch libertarian Javier Milei and Kevin D. Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation, a leading US-based conservative think tank, as a PR strategy to project an image of inclusivity toward diverse worldviews.

For example, António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, talked about a need to rebuild trust by reforming institutions in the exact way that Milei warned against in his speech.  

Similarly, the EU Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, said that “the world’s biggest concern is misinformation and disinformation”. She continued, “These risks are serious because they limit our ability to tackle the big global challenges we are facing: climate, shifts in demography, and technology.”

In a nutshell, Leyen thinks the the EU and the UN, while impersonating the “global community”, have a moral imperative to dictate what kind of information the general public can have access to. This, of course, comes from a progressive interest that the public will form the “right” kind of opinions which, oddly enough, tend to benefit leftist causes. 

C-Fam Friday Fax

• Read more about Milei’s speech at Davos via Stefeno Gennarini’s Friday Fax piece. 
  
  

• C-Fam also reported on how Ipas, a pro-abortion giant, pressures American states to legalize abortion in line with UN recommendations