WHO Continues Attack on Conscience Rights
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a second edition of its 2022 guideline on abortion, with what appears to be the sole purpose of including harsher language against conscientious objection to the practice of abortion by health care providers.
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UN Human Rights Experts Clash Over Sex, Gender
WASHINGTON, D.C. Sep 5 (C-Fam) Collegiality among the UN’s experts on human rights is rapidly eroding over the debate around sex and gender. Last week, just over half of the 88 current special mandate holders issued a statement defending “the centrality of gender” for advancing equality and rights, in opposition to a colleague’s public stance in defense of the importance of biological sex.
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UN Maternal Health Coalition Attacks Religious Voices
WASHINGTON, D.C. August 22 (C-Fam) The world’s largest partnership for maternal and child health recently launched its updated strategy, committing to promoting abortion and gender ideology while opposing conservative and religious voices, which it describes as “anti-rights.”
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UN Child Rights Committee Promotes Abortion, Undermines Parental Rights in New General Comment
WASHINGTON D.C., August 1 (C-Fam) The UN human rights committee focused on protecting children’s rights continues to double down in favor of abortion for minors and against parental rights in…
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Foreign Operations bill advances with pro-life protections and UN oversight requirements
WASHINGTON D.C., August 1 (C-Fam) The U.S. foreign operations bill advanced toward passage last week in the House of Representatives, maintaining the inclusion of pro-life provisions and mandating oversight on…
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U.S. Rejects International Health Regulations Championed by Biden, With Italy and Israel
WASHINGTON DC, July 25 (C-FAM) The Trump administration rejected a set of amendments to the International Health Regulations, a key part of the Biden-backed World Health Organization’s (WHO) pandemic response framework. Italy and Israel joined the Trump administration in rejecting the amendments.
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Has the U.S. Disengaged from the Universal Periodic Review?
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 18 (C-Fam) The United States is scheduled to have its human rights record reviewed by UN member states later this year as part of a process called…
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When Pro-Life Countries Surrender: Evidence from Human Rights Database
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 11 (C-Fam) C-Fam’s new human rights database shows how pressure on pro-life countries does not diminish once they allow abortion. It increases until they allow abortion on demand and become radicalized abortion advocates themselves.
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C-Fam Human Rights Database Provides Window into Human Rights Priorities
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a process whereby individual governments at the UN give each other recommendations on how to improve their human rights records. C-Fam’s human rights database offers a window into governments’ human rights priorities on social issues, both in terms of what they say and what they do not say.
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C-Fam Database Shows Increased Treaty Body Pressure on Abortion/Gender
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 20 (C-Fam) C-Fam’s massive human rights database tracks the ways in which human rights mechanisms are used to pressure countries to liberalize their abortion laws and legally recognize and promote gender ideology. The database, which went online last year, also reveals the ways in which this pressure has grown and changed over the years.
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Selected Publications
Is there an ‘unmet need’ for family planning? The New Atlantis 49:2016