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Evidence of Systemic and Unlawful Promotion of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity by UN Secretariat, Agencies, and other UN Entities
Recent debates on the use of the terms “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” within the United Nations in reference to individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) are often conducted with the assumption that these notions are clearly defined in science and law. International law does not recognize the notion of “sexual orientation and gender identity” (SOGI). There is no binding UN treaty that mentions sexual orientation and gender identity and no UN treaty can be fairly interpreted to include these notions.
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Evidence of Systemic and Unlawful Promotion of Comprehensive Sexuality Education by UN Secretariat, Agencies, and Other UN Entities
At the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, UN member states agreed to provide “age-appropriate sex education” with “appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians.” Since then, the landscape has changed significantly, with a concentrated effort by a group of mostly wealthy Western countries to gain acceptance of “comprehensive sexuality education” (CSE).
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Evidence of Systemic and Unlawful Promotion of Abortion by UN Secretariat, Agencies, and Other UN Entities
UN system abortion advocacy is illegal and cannot give rise to any new obligations that are contrary to what UN member states agreed in 1994 and have reaffirmed ever since.
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The Center for Reproductive Rights: A Liability to the World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering entering a formal relationship with the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), a global law firm that promotes abortion and sexual rights, including comprehensive sexuality education, homosexual/transgender policies, and other sexual rights issues.
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Concerns About the WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty
Negotiations are underway to create a Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Accord, a binding multilateral agreement for coordinating pandemic preparedness and response. The accord is set to be finalized in May 2024. However, there are several concerning aspects of the process, including a lack of transparency, the creation of new bureaucratic mechanisms with little accountability, the transfer of power to the World Health Organization (WHO), and the likely inclusion of language that would open the door to the accord being used to promote controversial social issues, including abortion.
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Evidence of Systemic and Unlawful Abortion Promotion by UN Secretariat, Agencies, and other Entities (Updated 2022)
In 1994, at the International Conference on Population and Development, UN member states agreed that abortion was an issue to be addressed exclusively in national politics and legislation, and therefore not a human right or an issue on which international agencies should opine or interfere.
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Evidence of Systemic and Unlawful Promotion of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity by UN Secretariat, Agencies, and other Entities (Updated 2022)
Recent debates on the use of the terms “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” within the United Nations in reference to individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) are often conducted with the assumption that these notions are clearly defined in science and law.
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Evidence of Systemic and Unlawful Promotion of Comprehensive Sexuality Education by UN Secretariat, Agencies, and other Entities (Updated 2022)
At the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, UN member states agreed to provide “age-appropriate sex education” with “appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians.”
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Evidence of Systemic and Unlawful Abortion Promotion by UN Agencies, the Secretariat, and other UN Entities
In 1994, at the International Conference on Population and Development, UN member states agreed that abortion was an issue to be addressed exclusively in national politics and legislation, and therefore…
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Seven Reasons to Reject “Comprehensive Sexuality Education”
Children need and deserve guidance, not only information. Whatever we tell children, we also teach them. And what we teach them will shape their personalities, attitudes, and values throughout their entire lives.
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Mexico City Policy Reinstatement and Expansion — Talking Points
Introduction As one of his first acts as President, Donald Trump reinstated the policy first enacted by President Ronald Reagan that blocks federal funding for NGOs that promote or provide…
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Five Reasons Why the U.S. Should Defund UN Women
To maintain the pro-life strides instituted by the Trump Administration the United States should defund the “UN Agency for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment” (UN Women).
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Is There an ‘Unmet Need’ for Family Planning?
The claim that 200 million of the world’s women and girls want contraception but can’t get it is false, but it is still used to funnel billions of dollars to the international family planning and abortion industry each year.
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ACTION ALERT: Abortion Advocates Seek to Sway Trump on Mexico City Policy with Faulty Arguments
International abortion advocates report that they are trying to convince the incoming Trump administration not reinstate the 1984 Mexico City Policy. Their arguments are false and it is essential that…
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The History of the Syndemic of AIDS among Gay Men in the United States and the Failure of the Risk Reduction Strategy
HIV/AIDS is no longer a major concern for the public in the United States. It doesn’t even make the list, but the epidemic rolls on.
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Six Problems with WHO’s new policy recommendation: “Brief sexuality-related communication: Recommendations for a public health approach”
In May of 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a policy guidance urging healthcare workers at all levels receive training and engage in impromptu counseling on matters relating to sexuality with both adult and adolescent patients. Its approach raises many concerns for the children it targets, for their families, and for healthcare providers.
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The Unfinished Business of MDG 5 on Maternal Health and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
At this pivotal time, as countries decide the future of the world’s development priorities and how billions of dollars will be spent, the fate of mothers lies in their hands.
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The Politics of “Comprehensive Sexuality Education”
The paper describes the characteristics of the “Sex Education Establishment:” an array of influential and international organizations, global authorities such as UNICEF, UN Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as powerful and diffuse associations and/or donor agencies such as the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), CARE, the Population Council, etc.
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Securing a Better Future for Mothers in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Evaluating the ICPD Operational Review
As the UN prepares a new global development agenda, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) released an “ICPD Operational Review” of progress over the last twenty years, and recommendations for future policies. While presenting helpful information, it also contains misleading information and distortions, particularly related to abortion. This paper identifies UNFPA’s distortions, and provides proven ways to improve maternal health.
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Eleven Problems with the 2012 WHO Technical Guidance on Abortion
This paper analyzes the 11 most troubling aspects in two main areas: the way the guidance would raise the risk to women’s health and the way the guidance is based upon faulty legal and scientific data.
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Abortion and Preterm Birth: Why Medical Journals Aren’t Giving Us The Real Picture
Dr. Calhoun’s paper reviews a large body of literature concerning the risk factors for preterm birth. He finds a disturbing trend among medical journals and some authors to undervalue or bury entirely the link between previous abortion and risk of preterm birth. The paper draws attention to the existence of 127 peer-reviewed studies that show an increased risk of preterm birth following an abortion.
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Six More Problems with Women Deliver: Why Attempts to Redefine Maternal Health as Reproductive Health Threaten the World’s Women
If UN member states adopt the agenda for maternal health proposed at Women Deliver, women all over the world will suffer more for it.
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Six Problems with the World Programme of Action for Youth: How WPAY Fails Young People
This paper highlights six of the problems found in the WPAY document, and the reasons why WPAY does not accurately reflect the current needs of youth around the world.
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Is Benedict in Favor of World Government? Human Dignity and UN Authority in Caritas in Veritate
As observers continue to decipher the meaning of Pope Benedict XVI’s latest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, all appear to agree that the passage of note, the passage that may prove…
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Removing the Roadblocks from Achieving MDG 5 by Improving the Data on Maternal Mortality
By establishing Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG 5), world leaders agreed that reducing maternal mortality was essential to fulfilling their “collective responsibility to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity at the global level.” The goal aims at improving maternal health by reducing by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio between 1990 and 2015. Now at the halfway point, the world lags far behind in achieving the goal, with questionable prospects for success. This paper demonstrates one important reason why.
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