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     (NEW YORK — C-FAM) African Union (AU) health ministers gathered in Mozambique this month to adopt a continental policy on reproductive health and rights.  Though some participants wanted to…

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Samantha Singson

October 26, 2006

     (NEW YORK — C-FAM) Leading scholars on both sides of the abortion debate agree that the push to make abortion an international human right has shifted from the UN…

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Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.

September 29, 2006

     (NEW YORK — C-FAM) At the opening of the 61st session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), its newly-elected president, Sheika Haya Rashed al-Khalifa of Bahrain, stressed the primary…

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Samantha Singson

September 14, 2006

     (NEW YORK — C-FAM) The just-concluded UN meeting on the rights of persons with disabilities was on balance a success for pro-lifers. Negotiations came down to the wire on…

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Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.

August 31, 2006

     (NEW YORK — C-FAM) At the UN this week, nations continued a heated debate over whether to include “reproductive health” in a new human rights treaty for the disabled….

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Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.

August 25, 2006

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM) The government of Nicaragua led a charge of 23 nations at UN headquarters this week objecting to the inclusion of "sexual and reproductive health services"…

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Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.

August 17, 2006

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM) United Nations delegates will assemble in New York on Monday to finalize a new human rights treaty. The International Convention on the Rights of Persons…

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C-FAM Staff

August 10, 2006

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM) Meeting in Geneva last week, the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) rejected three homosexual groups that had applied and been rejected earlier for official…

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Bradford Short, J.D.

August 3, 2006

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM) On Monday the European Commission decided to deny funds to researchers engaged in the destruction of human embryos to obtain stem cells. The European Commission…

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Bradford Short, J.D.

July 28, 2006

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM) Parental notification requirements, laws prohibiting ingesting illegal drugs during pregnancy, and government health insurance that does not pay for abortifacient contraceptives are all cited as…

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Mark Adams

July 21, 2006

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM) A top official at the United Nations has called for the creation of a multi-million dollar agency devoted to women's rights; one that opponents suspect…

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Mark Adams

July 14, 2006

     (NEW YORK — C-FAM) Some members of small religious groups in Belgium are worried that a controversial legislative proposal could threaten religious freedom. The law in question would punish…

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Mark Adams

July 7, 2006

     (NEW YORK — C-FAM) Petitions were delivered today to the German Government complaining of the prostitution situation connected to the Soccer World Cup underway now in Germany. 20,000 people…

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Samantha Singson

June 30, 2006

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM) By a 5-3 vote on May 10, Colombia's constitutional court has legalized abortion in cases of rape, incest, fetal malformation or for the life of…

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Samantha Singson

May 19, 2006

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM) A U.S. District judge has ruled that it is a violation of free speech rights for USAID to require organizations that fight AIDS to sign…

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Mark Adams

May 12, 2006

     (NEW YORK C-FAM)  Amnesty International is considering changing its neutral policy on abortion to one that would declare legal abortion to be an international human right. The organization is…

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Samantha Singson

April 28, 2006

     (NEW YORK C-FAM)   In a speech to the Commission on Population and Development at the UN a Canadian official endorsed language in international documents that has been used in…

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Bradford Short, J.D.

April 7, 2006

     (NEW YORK C-FAM)  Lawyers for the pro-abortion legal group Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) have testified before the United Nations' Human Rights Committee (HRC) that the US government has…

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Samantha Singson

March 31, 2006

      (NEW YORK – C-FAM)    As the 50th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) met for its closing ceremony last Friday, delegates were uncertain whether a…

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C-FAM Staff

March 17, 2006

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM)    In early February several pro-life groups filed Amicus Curiae briefs with the Colombian Constitutional Court, which is hearing a case on whether Colombia will be…

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Bradford Short, J.D.

March 10, 2006

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM)   "Conservatives will inherit the earth" according to the cover story of the current edition of Foreign Policy magazine which argues that families that adhere to…

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C-FAM Staff

March 3, 2006

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM)  Proposed legislation in the Philippines that would impose radical limits on the number of children that families can have appears to have less support in…

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Bradford Short, J.D.

February 24, 2006

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM)   Nations with permissive abortion laws do not experience lower rates of maternal mortality compared to nations with restrictive abortion laws according to new data published…

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C-FAM Staff

February 17, 2006

    (NEW YORK – C-FAM) The Chairman of a US House subcommittee on criminal justice has charged the US Agency for International Development (USAID) with setting up a pro-prostitution group in…

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C-FAM Staff

February 10, 2006

     (NEW YORK – C-FAM) The Friday Fax has learned that an Italian member of an expert committee of the European Union has dissented from a controversial opinion that targeted…

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C-FAM Staff

February 3, 2006