Stefano Gennarini, J.D.

Stefano Gennarini is the Vice President for Legal Studies at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam).

He represents C-Fam at UN headquarters in New York and researches and writes on international law and policy. UN delegations and pro-family advocates around the world rely on his reports and advice. He oversees the Edmund Burke Fellowship. His writing has been published by The Federalist, Public Discourse, First Things, the National Catholic Register, the American Spectator and other publications. He has been interviewed by the New York Times, NPR, Relevant Radio, the Washington Post and other news outlets.

Stefano earned a Juris Doctor from Notre Dame Law School in Indiana in 2011 and was a Blackstone Legal Fellow in 2009. Before attending law school, Stefano trained to be a priest at the Redemptoris House of Formation in London. Stefano lived and worked in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Nigeria, the Carribean, and the Middle East. He is fluent in Italian and Spanish.

Stefano lives in New Jersey with his wife Elizabeth Marie, and their nine children. He stopped tweeting to spend more time with them.

New USAID Policy Expands Digital Censorship

The Biden administration is beefing up the U.S. government’s capacity for social control and social engineering around the world.

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New S*exual Colonialism in UN Treaty on Development

Western countries added a poison pill to a new binding international treaty on the right to development. The poison pill is related to abortion. The treaty would become the first to include an obligation related to “sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights.”

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New UN Cybercrime Treaty Opens Door to Pedophilia and Legalizes Child Sexting

The United Nations General Assembly will adopt a new international treaty against cybercrime that opens the door to depictions of pedophilia and legalizes some forms of child pornography long considered illegal. This initiative of European countries has many traditional countries unhappy.

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ANALYSIS: Germany Stirs Sexual Controversy Ahead of Summit of the Future

The German Ambassador to the United Nations added the concept of “sexual and reproductive health and rights” in a UN agreement ahead of the Summit for the Future next month.

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C-Fam Testifies Before House Sub-Committee

C-Fam’s Stefano Gennarini J.D. testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on the question of “gender apartheid.” We are running his statement in full.

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Catholic Bishops Urge Nigeria to Reject EU Sexual Imperialism

Catholic Bishops and Islamic leaders called on the government of Nigeria to amend or reject an EU treaty that would commit Nigeria to gender ideology in exchange for investments and access to markets.

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ANALYSIS: Biden Imposes Homosexual/Transgender Mandate on Entire World

The U.S. State Department will “update” its interpretation of a binding international treaty on civil rights to include homosexual/transgender issues even though the treaty text does not mention them.

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UN Report Opposes Transparency in Foreign Funding of NGOs

A UN report claims that LGBT groups have a right to receive funds from foreign governments and to keep such funding secret.

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UN Agency for Women Targets “Anti-Rights” Groups

NEW YORK, June 21 (C-Fam) In an anonymous article on its website, the UN agency for women, UN Women, has called upon feminists to defend the homosexual/transgender cause against what they call “anti-rights” groups.

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WHO Adopts Pandemic Censorship Rules

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially adopted social control rules pioneered by Western governments during COVID, most alarmingly censorship of critics. These new rules come as amendments to an agreement known as the International Health Regulations.

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ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY

UN ‘Gender’ Treaty Would Wage International Lawfare Against People Who Believe Men And Women Are Different, The Federalist (December 9, 2024)

What If Our Ruling Class Has Women’s Workforce Participation And GDP All Wrong?, The Federalist (August 28, 2023)

Hungary and Poland Should Stand Against the EU’s Sexual Imperialism, The European Conservative (July 16, 2023)

The United Nations Meddles in US Abortion Law, The American Spectator (October 13, 2021)

American Conservatives Should Take the United Nations Seriously, Public Discourse (March 10, 2021)

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)