Proposed Partnership Agreement Between EU, Developing Countries Builds on Past Negotiation Losses
The European Union (EU) is working with countries in the Pacific, Caribbean and African regions to finalize a new twenty-year development cooperation agreement.
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UNFPA Flagship Report Promotes Individual “Bodily Autonomy”
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) launched its annual flagship report with the theme of “bodily autonomy.”
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UN Agency Drafts Blueprint for Unrestricted Access to Abortion
Last week, the UN’s women’s agency and the government of Mexico co-hosted an online forum to commemorate 25 years since the launch of the Beijing Platform for Action on women’s rights.
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Experts Condemn Gestational Surrogacy as Harmful to Children, Exploitative to Women
The state of New York quietly adopted a measure to make commercial surrogacy legal, raising objections by women’s rights and anti-trafficking groups.
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Biden Establishes White House Gender Policy Council
U.S. President Joe Biden has issued an executive order establishing a new White House Gender Policy Council that will promote abortion and gender ideology throughout all government agencies. Abortion groups applauded the decision.
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Biden Administration Signals Intention to Overturn Helms Amendment to UN Human Rights Review
It is clear to friend and foe alike that the new Biden administration intends to overturn the Helms Amendment that has blocked taxpayer funds for abortion for nearly half a century.
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Abortion Activists Offer Dubious Claims to Attack Helms Amendment
Since the Democrats took control of the U.S. Congress and presidency, abortion advocates have taken aim at pro-life laws, including the Helms Amendment, which prohibits U.S. family planning aid from being used to promote or provide abortions overseas.
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Countries Ask to Change UN Procedures to Impose Abortion and LGBT
The longstanding way UN negotiations come to agreement is with consensus rather than voting.
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Global Family Planning Coalition Subsumed in Abortion
Melinda Gates’ Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) coalition celebrated the progress they say they’ve made since its debut in 2012 and announced a new, updated partnership for the next ten years they are calling FP2030.
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Will the international community join in condemning China’s Uighur genocide?
In one of the last acts of the outgoing Trump administration, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared China guilty of genocide against its Uighur Muslim minority, a stance also endorsed by President Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
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Selected Publications
Is there an ‘unmet need’ for family planning? The New Atlantis 49:2016