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The TCC/CCI is currently engaged in a scoping mission to the African Union (AU) to assess the opportunities for the TCC to establish a local representation with the Headquarters of the AU in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

TCC/CCI answered questions on the future role and organisation of the Commission on Population and Development (CPD). This as input for the debate to be held in April 2021 in New York.
Issues such as (the use and liberal interpretations of) Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, comprehensive sex education, marriage and other forms of non-consensual policies, which have the obsessive, almost imperative, attention of some CPD member states, essentially belong to the domain of national legislation.
However, at the UN level, instead of reaching consensus, CPD tries to get these matters done through voting. As a result, new standards on controversial, internationally non-agreed texts are being forced upon developing countries by mostly Western UN member states and liberal NGOs.

TCC/CCI says 'no' to this sexual colonialism!

The Op-Ed of Henk Jan van Schothorst is No 1 over 2020 in the Dutch daily newspaper Trouw. Remarkable. The analysis of positive results of Trump policy and the core differences between the view on human beings and the world of Democrats and Republicans in the US apparently filled a gap.

November 3 is past, the voting is over, and the outcome is still being debated. But unless something very unusual happens, we will have a new administration that takes office in Washington come January 20. With it will come a very different set of policies that will fundamentally change America, and it is to be feared away from Biblical values. These policies will reach into every area of life and will most certainly have a negative impact on the freedom on religion and on the cause of Christian education in America. Below is a list of concerns that will directly affect our church and school community.

Rieke Hoogendoorn works as a volunteer for TCC and is involved with developments at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Complaining about electoral fraud is allowed in a democracy. But the judge has the last word. Henk-Jan van Schothorst: "That's what we have to deal with.

Press release

Washington DC - November 13, 2020

Washington DC - Pro-life and pro-family defender Christian Council International, the U.S. sister organization of the Netherlands-based Transatlantic Christian Council, has been granted the 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status in the U.S. as a non-profit organization. This makes donations tax-deductible. “That's not one day too soon," says founder and director Henk Jan van Schothorst.

Translation in English of short 2.5 minute film by Algemeen Dagblad (AD, 2nd biggest Dutch national newspaper) on November 2, one day before the US-elections, with Henk Jan van Schothorst, Executive Board of Directors of Transatlantic Christian Council (TCC) :