The Presentation by FamilyPolicy.ru AG Managing Director Pavel Parfentiev at the II DHI Conference "Squeezed between European and national legal orders: Is there room for Christianity", Rome, 28 June, 2013

1. “New European Legal Order”,
National Sovereignty
and the Voice of Civil Society
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World Congress of Families –
largest international network of hundreds of pro-
life and pro-family NGOs from over 80 countries
of the world, The Howard Center is officially
accredited at the United Nations Economic &
Social Council
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Family and Demography Foundation represents
WCF in Russia and CIS, organized Moscow
Demographic Summit: Family and the Future of
Humankind on June 29-30, 2011,
founded by archpriest D.Smirnov, archpr.
M.Obukhov and A.Komov
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Interregional Public Organization “For Family
Rights” is defending the natural family in Russia
since 2010, Chairman Pavel Parfentiev has
initiated in 2011 St.Petersburg Resolution on
Anti-Family Trends at the UN signed by 126
NGOs of Russia and Ukraine
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Our mission is to reinforce the natural family values among the expert and scientific community, in the mass media, in the laws in Russia / CIS, at the U.N. and internationally. Our founders:

2. Genuine Human Rights Foundations
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These are the
natural foundation of
each human society
and of genuine
human rights
All of them should be
equally and
effectively protected
against false “human
rights” claims

3. Genuine European Legal Order
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Human Rights are founded on the God's values through Natural Law.
Without this foundation
human rights gradually become groundless and void.
Genuine European Legal Order is built upon the Judeo-Christian values

4. General Principle of Subsidiarity
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On the civil level the higher authority
should not usurp functions or powers
that properly belong to the lower authority.
e.g.
The state
shouldn’t usurp the functions
of the family or the local community
The intergovernmental structure
should not usurp
the sovereign power of the national state

5. Problems with New European Legal Order
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• Basic religious and moral values constitutive for the national societies
are disregarded
• Genuine human rights foundations and and that of the society are
deconstructed though the arbitrary reinterpretation of human rights
• The source of law is no longer the will of sovereign people but the
non-transparent social engineering by interest groups
• New norms are arbitrary created by non-elected Judges and/or
Bureaucracy
• New invented norms are imposed despite the real will of sovereign
peoples and contrary to the basics of their national legal systems
• The objective moral foundations are substituted by the arbitrary and
conventional new “human rights” norms
• National sovereignty and national constitutional order is gradually and
forcefully replaced by the new top-down “European standards”.
Most important fruit –
denial of life, natural family and marriage,
natural rights of parents, free exercise of religion.

6. Most important legal controversies of our age
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Natural Law
as the genuine foundation
of human rights
vs.
New Unnatural “Law”
as the source
of their destruction
National sovereignty
and national constitutional/legal
order
vs.
New imposed
top-down
European/International norms
ignoring the will of people
In reality
“New European Legal Order” often acts
a sort of elitist cultural and political imperialism
driven by the new intolerant exclusivist atheistic ideology

7. The question can arise then:
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1941, Nazi Reich:
Hitler proclaims
“New European Order” –
Neuordnung Europas
?XXI century, Europe:
would European Elites impose
“New European Legal Order” –
Neurechtsordnung Europas?
Do European peoples have a future
as sovereign nations?

8. New European Resistance
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Many nations actively resist this
unnatural New European Order
including peoples in Eastern Europe and CIS

9. Recent Russian legal development
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The law prohibiting homosexual propaganda among
children:
Was upheld in its regional variants
by the Constitutional Court and by the Supreme Court
of the Russian Federation
Was adopted by the State Duma without waiting
for the Venice Commission’s opinion
and approved by the Council of Federation
despite the negative opinion by the Venice Commission
and the negative comments
by the CoE Committee of Ministers
The European institutions are more and more often ignored
because their ideological bias is seen as delegitimizing

10. Russian public opinion
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The majority of Russian people
supports the legislators’ choice
Source, VZIOM, 2013: http://wciom.ru/index.php?id=459&uid=114190

11. Family is a priority of the CIS Civil Society
not the self-proclaimed so called “European standards”
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12. 2011, Resolution on the “Draft Recommendation on the
rights and legal status of children and parental
responsibilities” of the Committee of Ministers
of the Council of Europe
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“[p]lace [of the natural family] in the history and in the
life of each human society is absolutely unique, and no
other form of domestic relationship can be regarded as
having equal status and value. Any attempt to provide
the equal status to any other form of domestic
relationship, particularly to same-sex unions, is socially
destructive”.
Supported by 90 Russian and Ukrainian NGOs

13. Interregional Public Organization “For Family Rights”
initiated St.Petersburg Resolution signed by 126+ NGOs
in November 2011
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Saint-Petersburg Resolution on the anti-family trends in the United Nations,
on the unacceptable actions of the United Nations human rights treaty monitoring
bodies and on the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
on a communications procedure
“We declare and proclaim our strong conviction that all UN human rights treaties must be interpreted in a
way favorable to the natural family and natural parental rights. They also must be interpreted as
defending the natural right of unborn children to life from the moment of conception.
All interpretations contradicting this approach must be rejected, as contrary to natural human rights,
even if given by an authoritative body. If any provision under any international treaty or other
international human rights instrument cannot be interpreted in compliance with this principle, such a
provision must be amended or such an instrument must be denounced in tote as inhuman.”
SIGNED BY 126+ NGOs
ALL OVER RUSSIA &
UKRAINE
Approved at the Public Hearing
On November 24th, 2011
Saint-Petersburg, Russian
Federation

14. 2012, “Ultra Vires Acts by the Committee
on the Rights of the Child” report by FamilyPolicy.ru
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“The Report notes with concern that many CRC acts can be viewed as
being:
•contrary to the principle of the sovereign equality of the UN member
States (Article 2 of the UN Charter);
•beyond the mandate of the Committee;
•contrary to or not based on intergovernmental consensus”.
“Ultra vires acts by the Committee can seriously threaten the
sustainability of international human rights framework, the sovereignty of
states parties, cultural identity of their peoples, and the standing of the
family, which is ‘the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is
entitled to protection by society and the State’ (Article 16 (3) of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights), and, therefore, by the
international community”.

15. 2013, Memorandum by FamilyPolicy.ru and other NGOs
to the Venice Commission on the laws prohibiting
homosexual propaganda among children
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“This Memorandum deals primarily with the issue of the compatibility of laws on
prohibiting propaganda of homosexuality to minors … It demonstrates that the
laws/bills under consideration are fully compatible with international human rights
law provisions.
…
The Memorandum also expresses concern as regards judgements made by
ECtHR in a number of cases. Its authors argue that in some of its judgements
ECtHR has disregarded the need to protect the social morals, as well as the rights
and interests of children. Moreover, the Court unreasonably regarded recent
European trends and its own case-law as constituting a binding “European
consensus”, thus undermining the sovereignty of ECHR signatories, with some of
its judgements being explicitly ideological in their nature. This may lead ECtHR to
passing untenable and ultra vires decisions, which poses a grave threat to the
authority, effectiveness, and sustainability or the European human rights
framework”.

16. 2013, International Parents Forum in Yalta, Ukraine
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1945, Yalta Conference,
Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill
decided the post-nazi
destiny of Europe
2013, Yalta Forum,
Civil Society Leaders of CIS,
choose the good future for
their peoples

17. 2013, International Yalta Memorandum,
endorsed by 53+ NGOs (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus)
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“We proclaim that the marriage between a man and a woman, Natural Family, right
to life from the moment of conception to the natural death, rights of parents, freedom
of religion and worship, necessity to protect public morals, originate from the nature
of human being and family, and constitute an indispensable foundation of any
society.
All the good governments and healthy social forces must protect these values.
Propaganda in favour of their derogation or destruction is similar to the propaganda
of war or racial hatred and must not be tolerated. The governments that reject these
values and persecute people defending them cannot be considered democratic and
must be declared illegitimate, as they act against genuine interest of both their
nations and humanity as a whole.”
“We own genuine family values based on Christian traditions and are convinced that
the global community, including the European community, needs the cultural and
moral legacy that we keep and pass on. Therefore, if any intergovernmental
structure, even the one that believes itself entitled to speak on behalf of the
international structures, for instance, on behalf of the whole Europe, rejects our
family, moral and cultural values, imposing instead sinister things that are against
nature, we will reject such structure. We do not need structures that bring destruction
instead of creation.”

18. World Congress of Families (WCF) – leading intl network
Represents hundreds of Pro-Family organizations from 80 countries
The idea of periodic meetings of people sincerely concerned about the deep crisis of the Family and search for its rebirth as the fundamental unit of society, was
born in Moscow in 1995, during the visit by Dr. Allan Carlson (author of the well-known throughout the world Manifest "Natural Family»). Thanks to the
enthusiasm it has created, the idea was quickly put into practice. A year later, in 1997, the first World Congress of Families was held in Prague. So far 5 World
Congress of Families have been held in various parts of the world, attracting thousands of defenders of Life and Family from all over the world. In the last
Congress in Amsterdam around 3 800 people representing 65 countries.
The Congress brings together hundreds of permanent members
and 32 partner organizations
WCF publishes a monthly
Newsletter
World Congress of Families represents the most extensive and widespread association of a large number of organizations advocating for the
preservation of the Natural Family. Members of the Congress are opponents of the “childfree” movement, the radical feminists and various
"sexual minorities". The main objective of the Congress is to coordinate and unite all healthy forces working to strengthen the Family, Childhood.
WCF DEFINITION of the NATURAL FAMILY: The natural family is the fundamental social unit, inscribed in human nature, and centered
around the voluntary union of a man and a woman in a lifelong covenant of marriage, for the purposes of: satisfying the longings of the human
heart to give and receive love; welcoming and ensuring the full physical and emotional development of children; sharing a home that serves as
the center for social, educational, economic, and spiritual life; building strong bonds among the generations to pass on a way of life that has
transcendent meaning; extending a hand of compassion to individuals and households whose circumstances fall short of these ideals.
WCF 1997-2014
WCF VI has taken place in Madrid, Spain on May 25-27, 2012. WCF VII was held in Sydney, Australia in 2013,
and
WCF VIII will be held in September 2014 in Moscow Kremlin for 5 000 people from 65 countries.
1997 Прага
1999 Женева
2004 Мехико
2007 Варшава
2009 Амстердам
700 участников | 20 стран
1600 участников | 65 стран
3300 участников | 75 стран
3900 участников | 60 стран
3800 участников | 63 стран
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2012 Madrid
2013 Sydney
2014 Moscow

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pavel.parfentiev@gmail.com
President
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alexey.y.komov@gmail.com
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