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The State Department has updated its 2016 Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls.[1] While the strategy is ostensibly designed to improve the lives of girls, it contains many controversial policies that will harm them.

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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.

Argentina Leaves the WHO and Joins U.S. in New Health System.

NEW YORK, May 30 (C-Fam) As part of an official meeting with the U.S. Health Chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Argentina reaffirmed its decision to leave the World Health Organization (WHO) and, together with the United States, replace it with an alternative international health system.

Friday Fax

Iulia-Elena Cazan

May 29, 2025

New WHO Guidance Calls for Injectable Contraceptives for Kids.

NEW YORK, May 23 (C-Fam) The World Health Organization (WHO) released a new guideline on preventing adolescent pregnancies in low and middle-income countries. The proposed framework advances a vision of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for young people that promotes controversial ideas, and norm changes inconsistent with what governments have agreed to.

Friday Fax

Iulia-Elena Cazan

May 22, 2025

U.S. absent as World Health Assembly adopts pandemic treaty.

WASHINGTON, D.C. May 23 (C-Fam) The governing body of the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the text of a pandemic agreement that has been under negotiation since the COVID-19 pandemic.  Notably absent from the meeting was the United States, which withdrew from the WHO following the election of President Donald Trump earlier this year.

Friday Fax

Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.

May 22, 2025

New UN Treaty Allows for Virtual Child P*rn.

NEW YORK, May 16 (C-Fam) A new UN treaty to combat cybercrimes would allow predators and tech giants to profit from the sexual exploitation of children, including through images created using AI.

Friday Fax

Stefano Gennarini, J.D.

May 15, 2025

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