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UN Agreement on Violence Against Women Threatened by Abortion Advocates

NEW YORK, March 8 (C-FAM) The meeting has barely begun and UN member states are already deadlocked in negotiations at the Commission on the Status of Women this week at…

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UN Event Promotes Life in the “Tough Cases”

NEW YORK, March 8 (C-FAM) As UN delegates in closed rooms debate language regarding access to abortion for women who have been violated, two women at an event blocks away…

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Pro-Life Groups Ask General Assembly to Reform UN Treaty Bodies

NEW YORK, March 1 (C-FAM) Pro-life organizations spoke at a special forum at UN headquarters this week to ask the UN General Assembly to reform treaty bodies which deviate from…

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New Evidence Challenges UN Commissioner’s Call for Comprehensive Sex Ed

NEW YORK, March 1 (C-FAM) As the UN Human Rights Council considers whether to endorse a report praising comprehensive sex education programs, a new review of the disputed curricula finds…

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Guttmacher Uses Faulty Data to Push Abortion in Uganda

NEW YORK, February 22 (C-FAM) A new Guttmacher Institute report on Uganda recommends increased access to contraception and abortion as a way to improve women’s health and reduce unintended pregnancies. …

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UN Commission Reinforces Role of Family for Development

NEW YORK, February 22 (C-FAM) Last week a UN commission that formulates social policies acknowledged the role of the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society, rejecting attempts…

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Panel Calls Therapy for Homosexuals a Human Rights Violation

NEW YORK, February 15 (C-FAM) Therapy to help people change unwanted same sex attraction should be banned and labeled a human rights violation, according to a panel of advocates at…

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President Obama Extends Clinton’s Sexual Rights Foreign Policy Agenda

WASHINGTON DC, February 15 (C-FAM) A Presidential Memorandum issued last month by President Obama under the guise of gender equality and women’s empowerment will be used to advance sexual and…

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Beloved Pro-Life Leader Dies, Modeled Mercy and Justice

WASHINGTON DC, February 8 (C-FAM) Senator Tom Coburn’s tearful tribute of Michael Schwartz on the Senate floor in December threw a spotlight on a humble yet fierce advocate for the…

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Obama Development Council Full of Abortion Advocates

WASHINGTON DC, February 8 (C-FAM) President Obama’s appointments last month to his Global Development Council signal his intent to prioritize abortion over necessary life-saving health issues. Obama established the Presidents…

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Editorial: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity are Not Human Rights

WASHINGTON DC, February 1 (C-FAM) Policy makers around the world are regularly informed by seemingly authoritative sources that “sexual orientation and gender identity” are new categories of non-discrimination in international…

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Population Questions Enliven UN Debate on Development

NEW YORK, February 1 (C-FAM) A major disagreement among demographic experts threatens to upend efforts to include population control and family planning programs in the United Nations new development agenda….

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Europeans Launch Initiative To Defund Abortion

NEW YORK, January 25 (C-FAM) A European court victory for environmentalists has inspired a continent-wide campaign to end European Union funding of embryo-destructive research and abortion. The “One of Us”…

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Abortion Leaders Prepare for New UN Development Goals

NEW YORK, January 25 (C-FAM) Abortion advocates and others are concerned about the impending expiration of the Millennium Development Goals in two years.  Some of them met last week to…

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French Homosexuals Join Demonstration Against Gay Marriage

NEW YORK, January 18 (C-FAM) Perhaps as many as a million people marched in Paris last Sunday and at French embassies around the world against proposed legislation that would legalize…

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US State Department Laments Losses Last Summer at Rio

WASHINGTON DC, January 18 (C-FAM) The Obama administration told abortion advocates last week it will not be able to push for “sexual rights” in UN funding talks this spring because…

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New Study Challenges UN Statistics and Priorities

NEW YORK, January 11 (C-FAM) A just-released global study demonstrates that the diseases causing most of the world’s untimely deaths and illness, especially among children, are not receiving proportionate attention…

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Edmund Burke Fellowship Convenes in C-FAM UN Office

NEW YORK, January 11 (C-FAM) The academic week of the Edmund Burke Fellowship met this week in C-FAM’s New York office. Named for the 18th century statesman and political theorist,…

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UN General Assembly Plenary Concludes as it Began

NEW YORK, January 4 (C-FAM) The UN General Assembly (GA)’s 67th plenary session concluded in December in much the same way as it concluded over half a century ago when…

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Maternal Health Argument for Abortion Persists, Despite Evidence

NEW YORK, January 4 (C-FAM) Advocates for legal abortion in all circumstances continue to make their case in terms of reducing maternal mortality, despite a growing body of evidence showing…

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C-FAM’s 2012 Five Best Moments For Life and Family at the United Nations

NEW YORK, December 27 (C-FAM) The United Nations is not a place where you expect human life and dignity, or the natural family to be valued. But on rare occasions…

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The Inter-American Court versus the Rule of Law

PHOENIX, December 27 (C-FAM) Late last week the Inter-American Court on Human Rights struck down a Costa Rican law that banned in vitro fertilization, ruling that the restrictions violated rights…

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C-FAM’s 2012 Five Worst Moments for Life and Family at the United Nations

NEW YORK, December 20 (C-FAM) As we look back over the year 2012 here are five of the worst moments for human life, dignity and the family at the United…

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UN Women Forum on Violence against Women Encumbered by Usual Baggage

NEW YORK, December 20 (C-FAM)  At the closing session of the Stakeholders’ Forum on “Preventing and Eliminating Violence Against Women,” Liberian Ambassador Marjon V. Kamara praised the contributions of “all…

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Russia Rejects UN Committee Edict on Homosexual Propaganda

GENEVA, December 14 (C-FAM) A UN committee of legal experts reprimanded the Russian Federation last month for allowing the Ryazan province of Russia to enforce a law that bans the…

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