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.

Nigeria Leads Fight Against Abortion at the UN

Nigeria stood up to the United States and the European Union in a heated debate about abortion in the General Assembly on Friday.

Friday Fax

Biden Nominates Pro-Abortion Globalist to International Court

The Biden administration has nominated controversial Columbia Law School Professor Sarah Cleveland to the International Court of Justice despite being rejected for a top job by the U.S. Senate only months ago.

Friday Fax

UN General Assembly Poised to Declare Abortion a Human Right

The European Union, along with the Biden administration are attempting to force the General Assembly to adopt a resolution that claims abortion as a human right.  

Friday Fax

International Body Begins to Draft New Pandemic Preparedness Treaty

Member states of the World Health Organization approved a blueprint for a treaty on pandemic preparedness that could be used to promote abortion and gender ideology.

Friday Fax

ANALYSIS: “Keeping Girls in School Act” has Little to Do with Keeping Girls in School

There was an eerie silence, a feeling of apprehension in the House Foreign Affairs Committee as Congressman Gregory Meeks called for comments on the “Keeping Girls in School Act” last week.

Friday Fax

Western Countries Push Hard on Trans/Homosexual Issues at High-Level Forum

Western delegates made it plainly known that “gender equality” includes homosexual and transgender ideology and much more at the High-Level Forum on Sustainable Development which concluded last week.

Friday Fax

Netherlands Human Rights Record Criticized Because of Euthanasia and Abortion

In a submission to the UN Human Rights Council, C-Fam, publisher of the Friday Fax, accused the Netherlands of violating the rights of children and elderly persons through its liberal abortion and euthanasia laws.

Friday Fax

Homosexual and Transgender Issues Backfire on Western States at UN

The UN Czar for homosexual and transgender issues narrowly survived a fierce challenge in the Human Rights Council this week, as Muslim countries, increasingly frustrated by what they see as Western cultural imperialism, fought back.

Friday Fax

Guatemalan President Accuses OAS of Extortion on Abortion and Transgender Ideology

Guatemala’s president, Alejandro Giammattei, accused the Inter-American Human Rights Commission of “extortion” to promote abortion and transgender ideology.

Friday Fax

Biden Launches Global Campaign Against “Conversion Therapy”

The Biden White House announced a global campaign to eradicate any kind of therapy and counseling to help persons who struggle with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria.

Friday Fax

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)