Human Rights and Intl Law Archives - Page 3 of 12 - C-Fam
Experts Condemn Gestational Surrogacy as Harmful to Children, Exploitative to Women
The state of New York quietly adopted a measure to make commercial surrogacy legal, raising objections by women’s rights and anti-trafficking groups.
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Biden Administration Signals Intention to Overturn Helms Amendment to UN Human Rights Review
It is clear to friend and foe alike that the new Biden administration intends to overturn the Helms Amendment that has blocked taxpayer funds for abortion for nearly half a century.
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UN Report: Parents Block Sexual Freedom for Kids
A new UN report on children and privacy might shock parents if they ever knew about it.
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Biden Funds Program to Block Foreign Religious Leaders Who Oppose LGBT
This week, President Biden signed an executive order that will promote homosexuality and transgenderism as a centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy.
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U.S. Fails to Capitalize on Growing Pro-Life Support in UN General Assembly
Despite a growing number of countries supporting U.S. pro-life diplomacy, the U.S. fell short of the votes necessary to add new pro-life protections in UN policy this week in the United Nations General Assembly.
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U.S. Pushes Back on Abortion at Human Rights Council
At the UN in Geneva last week, European countries attacked the U.S. record on abortion. The U.S. pushed back.
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Editorial: Biden Would be a Disaster for the Unborn at the UN
The U.S. presidential election is not yet settled. But the campaign is over and, as a U.S.-based non-profit, we are now allowed to comment.
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BREAKING: Trump to Enforce Compliance on Abortion Overseas
Acting Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development John Barsa announced a new effort to enforce abortion-related restrictions on foreign assistance in a press release earlier today.
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Human Rights Council to Review Trump Administration’s Record on Human Rights
The Human Rights Council will review the record of the Trump administration next month.
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LGBT Issues Come Back Hard at UN Negotiations
Countries have witnessed a strong resurgence of LGBT advocacy in UN General Assembly negotiations.
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Governments Launch Pro-Life Declaration at United Nations
Governments from around the world launched a shot across the bow of UN abortion advocates in a document called the Geneva Consensus Declaration.
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Pompeo Prays Every Day at the State Department
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo touted the Trump administration’s record on international life issues and religious freedom at a virtual dinner in Florida last week. He also described praying every day when he enters the State Department.
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EU Leads Opposition to Human Rights Statement
The United States just issued a statement at the UN reaffirming fundamental human rights long agreed to by UN Member States going back to the founding of the world body. Only 57 countries agreed to the statement; 136 did not join it.
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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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Inter-American Court Declares New Right to Comprehensive Sexuality Education
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Ecuador is responsible for the suicide of a 16-year old girl sexually abused by her vice-principal because among many other failures, it did not mandate comprehensive sexuality education in the country’s schools.
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Advocate for Teen Prostitution Takes Top UN Post
The United Nations has appointed as its top expert on health and human rights a former abortionist who advocates for teen prostitution.
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U.S. Ambassador Andrew Bremberg Lambasts UN Experts Who Promote Abortion
The U.S. Ambassador to Geneva, Andrew Bremberg, sent a blistering letter to UN human rights experts because of their abortion advocacy.
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USAID Gender Policy Emphasizes Women and Girls Rather than Trans
The Trump administration struck at the heart of gender ideology in a new draft policy released last week by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Congressmen Criticize U.S. Human Rights Report for “Christian-centric” Language
Abortion industry and LGBT lobby groups called an internal human rights report of the U.S. State Department “deeply disturbing” and “dangerous.”
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Mexican Court Turns Down UN-Backed Abortion Lawsuit
A pro-abortion lawsuit backed by various UN offices has been dismissed by the Supreme Court of Mexico. The lawsuit sought to overturn protections for the unborn in the State of Veracruz.
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Report on Unalienable Rights Fails on Abortion
The U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights, comprising some of the most respected human rights experts in the United States, released its first, and much anticipated report last week.
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Secretary Pompeo Says American Rights Tradition is under Assault in Legacy Speech
“Our rights tradition is under assault,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned solemnly at the unveiling of a report of the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights he founded over one year ago.
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State Department Keeps Funding WHO Regional Office that Violates U.S. Law
Last week, the U.S. State Department decided to continue funding the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), while defunding its parent organization, the World Health Organization (WHO).
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UN Disabilities’ Czar Lambasts “Liberal Eugenics” But Promotes Abortion
A UN human rights expert on disabilities criticized “prenatal testing, selective abortion and preimplantation genetic diagnosis” in a report to UN member states, but fell short of calling for an end to the selective abortion of children with disabilities.
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UN LGBT Expert Wants to Punish Religious Opponents
One of the great debates at the UN over the last few decades has been over how to wedge the LGBT issue into the UN dialogue. Member states were largely uninterested. Conservative and religiously minded countries knew the issue was a radicalizing one.
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