C-Fam’s Best of 2023

By | December 28, 2023

NEW YORK, December 29 (C-Fam) It’s easy to get lost in the sea of bad news. To end the year 2023 on a positive note, here are a few times we were surprised by victories for life and family.

1. Two UN commissions blocked Biden’s sexual agenda for children, in back to back sessions.

UN member states rejected the Biden administration’s calls for “comprehensive sexuality education” in two important annual agreements. At the Commission on the Status of Women, in March, the Holy See played a central role in the final hours of an all-night negotiation and denounced the dishonest tactics of the Biden administration. In April, at the Commission on Population and Development, delegates from Russia, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East filibustered an agreement until it was taken off the table in a well-executed strategy that surprised Western countries leaving them dazed and confused.

2. Poland and Hungary publicly broke ranks with the EU on definition of gender.

Poland and Hungary surprisingly broke ranks with the European Union on how to define “gender” in a new treaty on crimes against humanity. The existing definition of gender in international law—“men and women in the context of society”—comes from the Rome Statute that created the International Criminal Court. The European Union and the sexual left have been trying to change the definition ever since it was adopted in 1998. Their goal is to condemn  opponents of the homosexual/trans agenda as criminals and enemies of humanity.

 3. Islamic countries stopped homosexuality and transgenderism from becoming new categories in international law.

Sixty-three countries voted against making homosexual/trans issues human rights in the General Assembly. Over thirty made statements to oppose the Biden homosexual/trans agenda. While they could not stop the terms “sexual orientation and gender identity” in a Biden resolution, they showed there is no support to make these categories into new human rights. Two years ago, the Biden administration was able to force the adoption of the same resolution easily. The growing opposition will make it harder in the future.

4. Traditional countries outplayed Western powers on gender in General Assembly.

Traditional countries forced consideration of a resolution on gender ideology away from the General Assembly committee that deals with economic development and finance to the committee on social and humanitarian issues. Western countries were left fuming. It is not often that they are procedurally outfoxed. But that’s exactly what happened.

5. U.S. House of Representative votes to keep abortion out of U.S. assistance for HIV/AIDS

House Republicans voted to block international abortion groups from receiving HIV/AIDS funding in the 2024 State and Foreign Operations funding bill. This is a major pro-life victory. Even if only on the House side, it sets an important precedent. U.S. Assistance for HIV/AIDS, also known as PEPFAR, is the largest single global health program in the world, receiving close to $8 billion annually from Uncle Sam in recent years. And it’s not just a measure against abortion. It also targets gender ideology. From now on this must be a benchmark for Republicans in every budget fight.  Many thanks to the very impressive pro-lifers in Washington D.C. who made this happen!

We would be remiss not to mention two other very interesting developments. In May, the UN rapporteur on the prevention of violence against women openly defended critics of the transgender agenda. In September, the EU parliament adopted a very good proposal for legislation against prostitution. As you can imagine, UN experts did not like any of this.

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