This is one of five letters written by the (now
disbanded) International Pro-Male Association to international organisations.
None of these letters was replied to or even acknowledged.
Dr. Margaret Chan,
Director-General Elect,
World Health Organization,
CH-1211 Geneva 27,
Switzerland
3 December 2006
Dear Dr. Chan,
We write to offer you our congratulations on your appointment as the
next Director-General of the World Health Organisation.
Based on the page http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2006/pr66/en/index.html
, however, we think there are grounds for strong misgivings with respect
to your statement to the World Health Assembly that you wanted to be
judged by the impact the WHO's work has on the people of Africa and
on women across the globe. We would like to compare that statement with
two of your other statements:
Your homeland, China, has made great progress in the area of sex equality,
by being the first – or perhaps the only – country to ensure
that men have equal reproductive rights with women (see the page: http://www.china.org.cn/english/24570.htm
). Yet you seem to be influenced more by anti-male sexism which is typical
of Canada, the country where you obtained your medical degree. Saying
that you you wanted to be judged by the impact the WHO's work has on
the people of Africa and on women across the globe is, on its face,
discriminatory, sexist, and negligent. It gives the appearance of being
political payback for the fact that United Nations Secretary-General
Kofi Annan, an African, has highlighted women’s concerns during
his term of office. Why play politics with the world’s health?
If you really want to focus on the people in greatest need, where is
the evidence that the people of Africa and women across the globe are
the people who are in greatest need? We are ready to be convinced that
the health needs of Africa are greater than those of other continents,
but what is your evidence that the health needs of women are greater
than those of men? In every, or almost every country in the World, women
live longer than men. The callousness of North American Feminists, such
as yourself, in the face of this fact, has to be seen to be believed!
For example, a few years ago, Hilary Clinton visited South Asia, where
(in some countries) men still outlived women – and she actually
complained about that fact! As another example, as reported on the page
http://nzmera.orcon.net.nz/9unstats.html , Feminists at the United Nations
replaced the Gender-related Developement Index (GDI) with the so-called
Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), because the former was based on the
Human Development Index (HDI), which included longevity as a factor.
Since women outlived men, that factor was an embarrassment, in the context
of the Feminists’ political determination to portray women as
always and universally disadvantaged. Even the United Nations Feminists’
attempt to postulate an artificially lower “natural” life-expectancy
for men was not sufficiently callous for them!
In view of the above considerations, we do not attach much credibility
to your stated intention to build a work ethic within the WHO that is
based on competence. In our view, your own competence and objectivity
are extremely suspect. We confidently expect that the WHO, under your
leadership, will develop a culture of incompetence, sexism, discrimination
and womanly irrationality.
Yours sincerely,
Peter Zohrab
Secretary
International Pro-Male Association
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