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“Cities for CEDAW” Seeks To Adopt UN Women’s Treaty into Local Laws
Frustrated by the U.S. Senate’s decades-long refusal to ratify the UN Women’s Treaty activists are now asking local governments to adopt the controversial treaty as a city ordinance.
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Scotland’s “Named Persons” to Replace Parents
Under a new plan, Scotland will assign a state-employed guardian to every child from birth until age 18, who can intervene without parental consent and share information with a wide…
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C-Fam Hosts International Students for Edmund Burke Fellowship
Ten graduate students convened at C-Fam’s headquarters in New York for a weeklong course on international law, the UN, and the state of life and family issues in a global context.
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C-Fam’s Worst Moments for Life and Family 2014
Unlike its predecessor, 2104 was not a quiet year for life and family. We witnessed a number of new negative developments. The episodes below mostly involve rogue UN experts and officials.
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A Look Back and a Peek Forward
UN radicals are rightly peeved at their lack of progress. This year, like in the previous twenty, they did not advance their agenda on abortion even one syllable beyond what they got at the Cairo Conference in 1994.
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C-Fam’s Five Best Moments for Life and Family in 2014
It is not all bad news at the UN, no matter what you read in the Friday Fax each week! Here is C-Fam’s “Best List” from 2014.
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Russian Orthodox Condemn UN Children’s Fund For Promoting Homosexuality
As Christians around the world got ready to contemplate the innocence of the child Jesus, last week the Russian Orthodox Church took on a UNICEF paper that says children have LGBT rights.
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Argentina: Court recognizes “human rights” of an orang-utan
Why is judicial activism so dangerous? Because it aggrandizes judges at the expense of the laws they should protect. In the end, however, citizens will simply stop taking laws and judges…
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LGBT Activists Meet at UN, Promise to Keep Fighting
On Human Rights Day, homosexual activists converged on UN headquarters to make the case that “LGBT rights are human rights.” But only a few countries within the United Nations agree.
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UN Shifts and Extols Family – But Some Want it Redefined
NEW YORK, December 12 (C-Fam) After decades resisting even mentioning the word, governments and advocates extolled the “family” at two special sessions at the UN last week. This year marks…
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Review: “The Obsolescence of Customary International Law”
Abortion advocates have argued unsuccessfully for decades that abortion is a human right under customary international law.
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U.N. Takes on Bullying During General Assembly
The United Nations decided to take on bullying, with the first ever stand-alone resolution
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UN Human Rights System Becomes Pro-Abortion Echo Chamber
When El Salvador’s turn came up to be assessed by fellow countries on its human rights record, twelve countries criticized its legal protections for unborn children
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In Bangkok, Activists Rumble at Feminist Forum
As countries prepare for a global review of women’s issues at a UN conference next year, feminist leaders tried to control dissent
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C-FAM Exclusive: UNICEF Denies Sneaking Birth Control Into Tetanus Vaccines
In an exclusive interview with C-Fam’s Friday Fax, UNICEF denies allegations from the Catholic bishops of Kenya that a tetanus vaccine program
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LGBTs Tell Tall Tales to UN Torture Committee
American activists against “reparative therapy” asked the UN Committee on Torture to define the practice as a form of torture and violation of international law.
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How Human Rights Are Becoming ‘Post and Trans-Human Rights’
Gregor Puppinck, PhD, Director of the European Centre for Law and Justice explains how human rights are becoming “trans-humans rights” under the influence of individualism, skepticism and biotechnologies. Human rights…
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UN Rights Office Gets Human Rights Wrong
Two weeks ago the Singapore high court ruled that the city-state’s ban on sex between men was constitutional.
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UN Chief Ignores Security Council to Urge Nations to Abort War Babies
The UN Secretary General told nations they must provide abortions to women raped in refugee camps in Syria, Iraq, and Sudan, even though the Security Council – his boss – has repeatedly rejected such a notion.
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USAID Funding Pro-Prostitution and LGBT Political Activists
Outside the U.S., President Obama is prioritizing lesbian, gay bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) rights has aggravated already sour relations.
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Meeting Shut Down After Planned Parenthood Chief Challenged on Giving Risky Drugs to African Women
NEW YORK, October 10 (C-Fam) A UN event abruptly ended when a women’s rights attorney asked International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Director General why harmful contraceptives were targeted to poor women…
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Vatican: UN Committee “A Sword Against Freedom of Religion”
NEW YORK, October 3 (C-Fam) The Vatican accused a UN committee of intolerance against Christians and interfering with the free exercise of religion in a scathing reply to a UN…
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Abortion Promoters Intent on Infiltrating Development Goals
NEW YORK, August 22 (C-Fam) The international abortion lobby has experienced twenty years of stalled progress in at the UN, but an article by one of its leaders reveals their…
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Uganda Laws on Homosexuality Set Aside for Now
NEW YORK, August 8 (C-Fam) The constitutional court of Uganda has ruled the laws against certain predatory homosexual activity is unconstitutional, ending however briefly the international conflict the laws have…
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Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: General Concerns
The U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) addresses a desperate problem for many countries where having a disability can isolate a person and destroy any hope for gainful employment, interaction with others or basic living conditions for survival. Thankfully, the U.S. has strong ethics and laws based on a commitment to care for the vulnerable.
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