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.

BREAKING: Traditional Countries Call Out WHO Chief for Promoting Abortion-on-Demand

Delegates clashed with the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on whether to give official status within the international health agency to the radical abortion and sexual rights lobby group, Center for Reproductive Rights.

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Pandemic Treaty Falters, Stand Off Between Rich and Poor

The much-touted global pandemic accord was dealt a severe blow this week as countries could not agree on over half of the thirty-four articles of the draft treaty in time for the World Health Assembly this week.

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ANALYSIS: General Assembly Negotiates UN Future

The General Assembly is negotiating two major agreements over the future of the organization and the world more widely. The agreements could concentrate power in the UN Secretary General in ways previously unforeseen. Some will see this as a major step toward one world government.

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State Attorneys General Warn Biden About WHO Pandemic Agreements

Twenty-two attorney generals have told President Joe Biden they oppose the World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic treaty and international health regulations because it gives the WHO “unprecedented and unconstitutional powers over the United States and her people.”

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ANALYSIS: Are Days Numbered for the UN Population Establishment?

The thirtieth anniversary of the 1994 Cairo agreement on population was supposed to be an occasion of celebration for abortion and homosexual/trans groups, but it was not.

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Traditional Countries Squash Sexual Revolution 30 Years After Cairo Conference

Traditional countries blocked any mention of abortion and homosexual/transgender issues in a political declaration adopted by the UN Commission on Population and Development this week.

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Latest Draft of WHO Pandemic Treaty Revealed

The Biden administration failed to get an explicit reference to abortion or “sexual and reproductive health” in the latest draft of a new international pandemic treaty. The treaty nonetheless grants broad new swaths of power to the pro-abortion World Health Organization.

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BREAKING: EU Parliament Endorses Abortion Rights, Suppression of Pro-lifers

The EU Parliament asked the EU Council to declare abortion a fundamental right in a resolution adopted today in Brussels.

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UN Commission Adopts Financing for Gender Ideology, Barely

The UN Commission on the Status of Women concluded in dramatic fashion last week as Nigeria came close to blocking the adoption of the commission’s annual agreement.

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Papal Representative Celebratres World Down Syndrome Day, Decries Eugenic Abortion

Pope Francis’ envoy to the United Nations lambasted the eugenics mentality of countries who use abortion to “eliminate” persons with Down syndrome. He said this at an event to mark Down Syndrome Day.

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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)