Top UN Women’s Rights Expert Declares War on Gender Ideology
GENEVA, June 27 (C-Fam) A war of words has broken out at the UN as the top UN human rights official for women told governments to define gender based on biological sex. She also told governments to stop using gender-neutral language in referring women. “You cannot protect what you cannot define,” said Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls.
Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls (UN Women/Ryan Brown)
C-Fam Human Rights Database Provides Window into Human Rights Priorities
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a process whereby individual governments at the UN give each other recommendations on how to improve their human rights records. C-Fam’s human rights database offers a window into governments’ human rights priorities on social issues, both in terms of what they say and what they do not say.
C-Fam Database Shows Increased Treaty Body Pressure on Abortion/Gender
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 20 (C-Fam) C-Fam’s massive human rights database tracks the ways in which human rights mechanisms are used to pressure countries to liberalize their abortion laws and legally recognize and promote gender ideology. The database, which went online last year, also reveals the ways in which this pressure has grown and changed over the years.
UN Committee Tells Guatemala to Redefine Forced Pregnancy
NEW YORK, June 20 (C-Fam) A UN committee of human rights experts told the Government of Guatemala that its restrictive abortion laws must change. Unlike many non-binding recommendations of UN rights bodies, the opinion in this case is binding.
