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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has a relatively uncontroversial mandate: to help children in need around the world.  However, a closer look at their work, materials, and partnerships reveals troubling trends. While issues such as abortion, gender ideology, and comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) remain highly controversial in the UN General Assembly and other parts of the UN that work based on consensus between member states, they have become widespread across the work of the UN’s specialized agencies and funds, including UNICEF.

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The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) is a nongovernmental organization that was founded in 1997 and has held Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council since 2014. We are headquartered in New York and Washington, D.C., and are a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and advocacy organization that is dedicated to reestablishing a proper understanding of international law, protecting national sovereignty, and the dignity of the human person.

Africans/Europeans Feud Over UN Strategic Plan.

UNITED NATIONS, August 29 (C-Fam) A war of words broke out during a UN meeting to approve the three-year strategic plan for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). It pitted Africans against Europeans and Nordics.

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Stefano Gennarini, J.D.

August 29, 2025

UNICEF Programs Sexually Groom Children.

WASHINGTON, D.C. August 22 (C-Fam) An analysis by C-Fam researchers reveals that the UN Children’s agency (UNICEF) spends hundreds of millions of dollars promoting explicit, even pornographic, sexual content for children around the world. UNICEF is the agency that, a few years ago, produced a study, since withdrawn, that purported to show pornography is helpful for children.

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Austin Ruse

August 22, 2025

UN Maternal Health Coalition Attacks Religious Voices.

WASHINGTON, D.C. August 22 (C-Fam) The world’s largest partnership for maternal and child health recently launched its updated strategy, committing to promoting abortion and gender ideology while opposing conservative and religious voices, which it describes as “anti-rights.”

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Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.

August 22, 2025

US Human Rights Report Leaves Out LGBTs.

NEW YORK, August 15 (C-Fam) The just released U.S. Annual Human Rights Report has omitted references to homosexual/trans. Leading homosexual/trans advocacy group calls the pending report “a travesty and subversion of Congressional intent.”

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Iulia-Elena Cazan

August 14, 2025

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