The “anti-rights” campaign at the UN Heats Up
NEW YORK, March 28 (C-Fam) As the successes of conservative movements at the UN have become impossible for progressives to ignore, gatekeepers throughout the UN system have increasingly closed ranks against what they derisively refer to as the “backlash” and “pushback” from so-called “anti-rights” groups.
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“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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Davos and the Global Movement to Stop Gender Ideology
NEW YORK, January 31 (C-Fam) Argentinian President Javier Milei shocked global leaders at the World Economic Forum when he announced the downfall of the woke, gender-ideology, and abortion agendas. He announced new alliances, including with the Trump administration, that seek to “remove this abhorrent ideology from our culture, our institutions, and our laws.”
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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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