The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is an umbrella organisation for 14 humanitarian aid agencies that unites aid efforts in times of disaster - such as flood, earthquake or famine - in poorer countries around the world.

Unfortunately many of the member-charities of the DEC provide and/or and promote abortion and/or contraception etc.

• The British Red Cross - which works to promote so-called "sexual and reproductive health" in crisis-hit countries, including provision of and advice about contraception. "Sexual and reproductive health" and similar words are used commonly as either technical terms or as euphemisms for abortion on demand
• Christian Aid - which promotes contraception in the developing world
• Concern Worldwide - which also promotes so-called "reproductive health" including condom use
• Islamic Relief - which has an agreement with the anti-life/anti-family United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to promote so-called "reproductive health"
• Merlin - which supported the Reproductive Health bill designed to impose population control on The Philippines
• Oxfam - which has a long history of support for abortion (see details under Comic Relief)
• Plan UK  - which "support[s] quality sexual and reproductive health education and services"
• Save the Children  - which promotes contraception as an answer to poverty in the developing world
• Tearfund - whose "partners at the local level" are left to make "decisions about which contraceptive methods are promoted" (letter to SPUC, March 2011)
• World Vision - which signed a "Manifesto for Motherhood" which called on the UK Government to advocate so-called "sexual and reproductive health and rights" in other countries, including access to 'safe' abortions. World Vision may also have other links to the provision of abortifacients.

Please send any information you may have about this charity to SPUC, either by email to rhoslynthomas@spuc.org.uk or by post to SPUC HQ.