UN Rights Chief Criticizes Facebook’s Rollback on Censorship
NEW YORK, January 19 (C-Fam) The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has aggressively criticized Facebook’s recent decision to stop censoring online speech. Türk pushed back on X and LinkedIn, saying that regulating online speech is not censorship and that his office will continue to “call for accountability and governance in the digital space.”
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UN Panelists Call for Crackdown on Political Speech
At a recently concluded UN global forum held in Portugal, panelists attributed the rise in “right-wing” movements, including the election of Donald Trump, to “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “hate speech.”
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Gender Rejected at UN Climate Conference
A coalition of Western governments, including the United States and the European Union pushed hard at the just-concluded UN Climate Conference (COP29) for the inclusion of gender ideology in the final document.
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UN Agency Meddles in Domestic Elections
The UN Development Fund is working with an agency in Guyana to monitor “harmful messages” on social media and counter online “misinformation” that could impact Guyana’s 2025 general election. While the UN says this partnership aims at “strengthening democracy” in Guyana, critics worry that such behavior is no less than meddling and interfering in domestics elections.
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Mainstream Media Attack on Family Watch International
In the same week, the Wall Street Journal, George Soros, and several other media outlets have accused Mormon grandmother Sharon Slater as a major factor behind the “anti-homosexuality bill” in Uganda.
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New UN Cyber Crime Treaty May Favor “S*xual Rights” for Kids
Western countries want to decriminalize certain forms of child pornography in a new cybercrime treaty, including pornographic material shared by children via sexting and pornographic material depicting AI-generated or fictitious children.
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Activists at UN Connect Trafficking to P*rn
Anti-trafficking advocates and a sexual abuse survivor spoke to a UN conference calling on the international community to recognize the negative impact of sex trafficking and warn against the “unmistakable link” between sex trafficking and pornography.
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Western Countries Opposed “the Family” in UN Negotiations This Week
A single reference to “the family” in a UN negotiation this week set off a firestorm of criticism from rich Western countries.
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UN Official Prioritizes Transgender Rights in Sports
A UN rights expert advocates for the rights of transgender athletes to participate in sports without “discrimination based on sex characteristics” and labels opposition to biological males competing in women’s sports as hate speech.
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UNFPA Leads Efforts to Suppress “Anti-Rights” Social Conservatives
NEW YORK, June 14 (C-Fam) The UN population agency told governments it is committed to fight the “pushback” to the sexual rights agenda from “anti-rights” groups. Western governments pledged their support for the cause.
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