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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.

U.S. Refuses to Join Declaration at UN Commission on Women.

NEW YORK, March 21 (C-Fam) Feminists likely paid by Western governments booed when U.S. and Argentinian diplomats defended women’s rights and opposed gender ideology at the end of the annual UN conference on women’s issues today. They cheered for an EU statement in favor gender ideology instead.

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Stefano Gennarini, J.D.

March 21, 2025

“Catholics for Choice” Risks UN Status by Launching Attack on UN Observer State.

NEW YORK March 21 (C-Fam) Catholics for Choice openly attacked the Vatican at a UN Women’s Conference, calling the Holy See a “threat to religious freedom and women’s rights” and asking for its removal from the UN. Such a hostile act against a UN member state could cost Catholics for Choice its UN consultative status. 

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Iulia-Elena Cazan

March 21, 2025

U.S. Takes Strong Stand on Gender Ideology at UN Panel.

NEW YORK, March 14 (C-Fam) The U.S. Mission to the United Nations sponsored an event on the dangers of gender ideology this week. The event was co-sponsored by C-Fam, publisher of the Friday Fax, and the Heritage Foundation. The panel was significant because it was the first ever U.S. event against gender ideology at the UN.

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Austin Ruse

March 14, 2025

Feminists Outraged at UN Loss, Presence of Pro-Life Groups.

UNITED NATIONS, March 14 (C-Fam) The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), one of the UN’s largest annual feminist gathering, has seen a dramatic mood shift, largely because of the change in U.S. leadership.

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Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.

March 14, 2025

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