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It has become common in recent years to use the term “child sexual exploitation/abuse material” to refer to child pornography, but the new term was never coextensive nor synonymous with the term “child pornography,” which has a long history and an established legal definition. The discrepancy between the two terms was brought to light in the negotiation of a new United Nations treaty against cyber-crime.

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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.

Radical Social Policies on Full Display at UN Human Rights Council.

NEW YORK, July 4 (C-Fam) UN human rights officials took over the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council to promote divisive social policies, including advocating for “gender-affirming care” services for migrants and criticizing countries that do not support pride marches, LGBT-friendly curricula in schools, and the killing of the unborn. 

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Iulia-Elena Cazan

July 3, 2025

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.

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Stefano Gennarini, J.D.

June 26, 2025

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.

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Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.

June 26, 2025

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.

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Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.

June 19, 2025

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