Rubio Shuts Down USAID permanently, Blames DEI and Censorship
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 11 (C-Fam) Marco Rubio shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) last week. He also announced a complete overhaul of how the federal government will handle overseas assistance to advance U.S. interests.
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International Trans Lobby gives up on SCOTUS cases
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 4 (C-Fam) In a surprising departure from recent years, LGBT groups and their supporters stayed quiet about international human rights law during the just-concluded Supreme Court term.
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Top UN Women’s Rights Expert Declares War on Gender Ideology
GENEVA, June 27 (C-Fam) A war of words has broken out at the UN as the top UN human rights official for women told governments to define gender based on biological sex. She also told governments to stop using gender-neutral language in referring women. “You cannot protect what you cannot define,” said Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls.
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UN Committee Tells Guatemala to Redefine Forced Pregnancy
NEW YORK, June 20 (C-Fam) A UN committee of human rights experts told the Government of Guatemala that its restrictive abortion laws must change. Unlike many non-binding recommendations of UN rights bodies, the opinion in this case is binding.
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Trump May Shut Down Gender Ideology at UNICEF/Euros Rattled
UNITED NATIONS, June 13 (C-Fam) The Trump administration may force the UN agency for children to hit the pause button on sexualizing children, promoting abortion, and gender ideology. Europeans want the agency to ignore the administration.
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Trump Admin Attacks China and UN Population Control Agency
UNITED NATIONS, June 6 (C-Fam) The Trump administration announced it would defund the UN population agency this week for working with the population control bureaucracy of the Chinese Communist Party and blasted it for promoting gender ideology and DEI.
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New UN Treaty Allows for Virtual Child P*rn
NEW YORK, May 16 (C-Fam) A new UN treaty to combat cybercrimes would allow predators and tech giants to profit from the sexual exploitation of children, including through images created using AI.
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Hegseth Ends Woke Feminist Peace and Security Initiative
WASHINGTON, DC, May 9 (C-Fam) U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, ended the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) involvement in Women, Peace & Security programs. He said the programs came into conflict with the Trump administration’s commitment to avoid diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
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Africans Adopt Feminist Treaty, But Push Back Against Feminist Extremes
NEW YORK, May 2 (C-Fam) The African Union has adopted a feminist international treaty billed as an effort to combat violence against women. The treaty is expected to strengthen the hand of EU bureaucrats and EU-funded mechanisms on the African continent. Even so, some of the treaty provisions reflect Africa’s growing unease with EU meddling in African social policy.
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Men Not Welcome as Next UN Secretary General
NEW YORK, April 24 (C-Fam) The race to select the next UN Secretary-General of the United Nations is well underway. All the frontrunners are women, and they are well-known abortion advocates.
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ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY
Will European Nationalists Ever Stop LGBT and Pro-Abortion EU Diplomacy?, Public Discourse (September 1, 2020)
Why the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights Should Not Ignore Abortion, Public Discourse (August 11, 2020)
Can Unalienable Rights Be Rescued from Human Rights?, Public Discourse (July 15, 2019)
The International Implications of Overturning Roe v. Wade, Public Discourse (February 22, 2019)
The Conservative Disadvantage, Public Discourse (February 7, 2019)
Abortion: The Original Sin of the United Nations’ Human Rights Project, Public Discourse (January 8, 2019)
Nikki Haley’s Pro-Life Dilemma at the UN, The Stream (June 12, 2018)
The Trump Administration Must Keep Abortion Out of International Law and Policy, Public Discourse (June 4, 2018)
The Future of the Pro-Life Movement is in Africa, Public Discourse (April 12, 2018)
Beyond Roe: A Global Roadmap for the Pro-Life Movement, Public Discourse (February 14, 2018)
How Their Refusal To Tolerate Dissent Is Creating A Global Backlash Against LGBT People, The Federalist (January 11, 2018)
The Problem with Pro-Life “Lite”, The Stream (November 12, 2017)
Rules for (Pro-Life) Radicals, The Stream (November 1, 2017)
What Happened at the Vatican’s Bio-Extinction Conference, Catholic World Report (September 21, 2017)
Can We Stop an International Roe v. Wade?, Public Discourse (September 13, 2017)
And LGBT Roadmap for President Trump, The Stream (July 29, 2017)
Spadaro’s American Christian Straw Man, The Stream (July 21, 2017)
The Paris Accord Epitomizes Why All Bureaucrats Need Term Limits, The Federalist (June 5, 2017)
The Genius of the Mexico City Policy and the Pro-Life Legacy of President Trump, Public Discourse (May 17, 2017)
Population Control Ideologue Paul Ehrlich Speaks at the Vatican, The Stream (February 27, 2017)
We Must Fight the Global War on Marriage, The Stream (October 3, 2016)
One Year Since Obergefell Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace, The Stream (June 25, 2016)
Pope Francis and the Human-Rights Issue of Our Time, National Catholic Register (September 25, 2015)
“Reproductive Health” is a Trojan Horse, First Things, First Thoughts (July 1, 2015)
The Wrong Way to Respond to Critics, First Things, Web Exclusives (May 29, 2015)
Allow Abortion—Or You’re Guilty of Torture, First Things, Web Exclusives (May 13, 2014)
A Strong Note of Caution on Reproductive Health and Family Planning, First Things, Web Exclusives (May 16, 2012) (Austin Ruse, co-author)
IN THE NEWS
Training the Next Generation of U.N. Pro-Life Advocates, National Catholic Register (January 19, 2015)
Officials Denounce Claims that Kenyan Vaccine Meant for Population Control, The Washington Times (November 14, 2014)
Weighing a Catholic Change for LGBT and Divorcees, NPR OnPoint with Tom Ashbrook, (October 16, 2014)
U.N. Panel Says Vatican is Lax Over Abusive Priests, New York Times (May 23, 2014)
U.N. Committee to Vatican: Change Church Teaching, National Catholic Register (February 8, 2014)
UN Abuse Report: From Policy to Ideology, Zenit.org (February 6, 2014)
BOOK CHAPTERS
The diffusion of sexual and reproductive rights through the UN human rights framework, in Aleksander Stepkowski (ed.), PROTECTION OF HUMAN LIFE IN ITS EARLY STAGE: INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS AND MEANS (Peter Lang Editions 2014) (link)