Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.

Rebecca Oas is the Director of Research for the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) in Washington, D.C.

Before joining C-Fam, Rebecca earned her doctorate in Genetics and Molecular Biology at Emory University.  She has written for Human Life International as a Fellow of HLI America and is has served as a Contributing Editor for HLI.

Among her focus areas are global maternal and child health and family planning, and her articles on these topics have appeared in such publications as the New Atlantis, the Hill, and the Christian Journal of Global Health.

Rebecca is a graduate of Michigan State University and currently lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Iceland Loves Abortion/Gender

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 2 (C-Fam) Iceland continues to be, by far, the most aggressive proponent of abortion and gender ideology at the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a mechanism where national governments review each other’s human rights records every couple of years.

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Pro-Life Civil Society Coalition Launches

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 25 (C-Fam). A large number of civil society groups from all over the world have joined the 46 governments that have signed the pro-life/pro-family Geneva Consensus Declaration. The governmental and now non-governmental coalition is committed to promoting women’s health, defending human life, respecting national sovereignty, and supporting the family.

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Int’l Pro-Life Coalition Grows

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 18 (C-Fam) The international coalition of pro-life and pro-family governments continues to expand. The coalition began six years ago at the end of President Donald Trump’s first term. The recent addition of three more countries in the last year brings the total membership to 43.

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Dangerous Language Enters Human Rights Council

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 28 (C-Fam) A novel category – “reproductive violence” – was accepted in a recent Human Rights Council resolution, threatening to serve as a Trojan horse for the pro-abortion agenda if it gains further acceptance.

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Amnesty Int’l Apologizes for Anti-Rights Report

WASHINGTON. D.C., August 7 (C-Fam) Amnesty International UK continues to grapple with the fallout of its hastily withdrawn report smearing a collection of women’s rights, pro-life, and pro-family organizations as “anti-rights.”

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African Cardinal Confronts EU “Colonialism”

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 31 (C-Fam) – At a recent event in Brussels, a prominent Guinean Catholic cardinal issued a stern rebuke to the European Union for its efforts to impose gender ideology and abortion on the continent of Africa.

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Exposing the Global Abortion Pill Pipeline

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 24 (C-Fam) The global fight over abortion is evolving rapidly, and some of the most important developments in recent years have shifted from legislative chambers to supply chains due to the rise of self-induced abortions with pills.

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Amnesty Backtracks on UK “Anti-Rights” Report

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 17 (C-Fam) Amnesty International UK hastily pulled down a report calling groups in the United Kingdom that oppose gender ideology and abortion “anti-rights.” Among the groups listed was a support center for women who were victims of sexual violence, which was established with support from author J.K. Rowling.

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Angry Feminists at the UN Security Council

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 10 (C-Fam) The debate over gender issues that has snarled consensus in other parts of the UN system showed up recently at the Security Council when the body debated Women, Peace, and Security (WPS).

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“UN Women” Wants to Silence Everyday Speech

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 3 (C-Fam) The UN women’s agency is calling for strong measures to limit gender bias in artificial intelligence technology ahead of a global AI summit in early July, arguing that restrictions on expression are necessary to counter hate speech.

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