Human Rights and Intl Law Archives - Page 4 of 12 - C-Fam
Pro-Abortion “Independent” UN Committee Lobbies General Assembly for More Power
A UN committee known for aggressively promoting abortion rights is lobbying the General Assembly to establish a UN system-wide mechanism that would expand its power and influence.
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United States Prepares to be Criticized on Human Rights by Other Countries
Last week, the U.S. Department of State hosted a meeting for civil society representatives in advance of the U.S.’s third appearance at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), in which fellow countries review its human rights record at the UN in Geneva.
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EU and Abortion Groups Attack Pro-Life Policies Adopted by the General Assembly
The European Union and a handful of Latin American countries began their push to have abortion and LGBT rights inserted into a UN political declaration to be adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women in March. Negotiations on the declaration began this week.
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5 Best Moments of 2019 for Life and Family
NEW YORK, December 27 (C-Fam) 1. President Trump stands up for the rights of unborn children at the UN General Assembly. The high point in the international campaign to protect…
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Pro-LGBT Governments and U.S. Clash on Campaign to Decriminalize Homosexuality
U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell pitched a U.S. campaign to decriminalize homosexual conduct to members of the LGBT Core Group on Wednesday.
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Once More Trump Keeps Abortion Out at UN Security Council
For the second year in a row, the U.S. kept abortion-related language out of a UN Security Council resolution on women in crisis and conflict.
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Court Rules Northern Ireland’s Abortion Restrictions Violate Human Rights Law
A high court judgment in Belfast last week ruled that Northern Ireland’s abortion restrictions are a violation of human rights commitments, further increasing the pressure on the territory, which is part of the U.K., to remove its legal protections for the unborn.
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Nairobi Summit May Claim Abortion as a Humanitarian Right
Nations may pledge to fund abortion in crisis and “fragile” situations at an upcoming UN population conference in Nairobi. This means introducing abortion precisely in those situations where it could most likely endanger women’s health.
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How President Trump’s Pro-Life Statement at the UN Came About
This week at the opening of the 74thUnited Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump delivered what may be the most pro-life statement any president has ever delivered to the world body.
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Proposed Law Would Ban Foreign Critics of LGBT
A bill recently passed out of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee would allow the federal government to block U.S. visas for foreign individuals who criticize or otherwise work against the LGBT movement.
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New UN Ambassador’s Challenges Executing Trump Pro-life Foreign Policy
The U.S. Senate confirmed their top diplomat at the United Nations last week, Kelly Knight Craft. She now faces several major challenges if she is to succeed in executing President Trump’s international pro-life agenda.
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U.S. Uses UN Mechanism to Pressure Countries on Homosexuality
The U.S. State Department is using a little-known UN mechanism to pressure governments to change their laws on sexual practices related to “sexual orientation and gender identity.”
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Sexual Left Organizes Against Pro-Life Nominee to the UN
Rarely if ever has a nominee for federal office answered the abortion question as clearly, succinctly, and even bravely as Andrew Bremberg did last month before the Senator Foreign Relations Committee.
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UN Women to Replace “Women” with “Gender”
The UN agency for women announced last week it is no longer focused on women’s rights but rather “equality of all genders,” including LGBTIQ+.
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France Ignores UN Disability Committee, Euthanizes Paralyzed Man
Starting more than a week ago, and culminating on Wednesday with his death, French doctors decided deliberately to kill Vincent Lambert.
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UN May Open the Door to a Gender Extravaganza
The International Law Commission has agreed to abandon the traditional definition of gender enshrined in the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in a draft treaty on crimes against humanity.
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UN Women Calls Families “Dark” Place for Women
Are divorce, cohabitation, same sex marriage, out of wedlock birth and adolescent sex good for women? The latest report from UN Women considers them “a positive reflection of women’s empowerment.”
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Terrorism Court Case May have Impact on Social Issues
Two years ago, the United Arab Emirates broke off diplomatic relations with Qatar and gave Qatari nationals fourteen days to leave the country.
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UN Human Rights Experts Lobby for Change in U.S. Abortion Laws
Several U.S. states are passing laws that strongly restrict abortion, aimed at challenging the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. In Geneva, the human rights bodies of the UN are watching closely, and some experts claim that beyond being unconstitutional, these abortion bans violate international human rights standards.
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Frustrated Feminists, Catholic Dissidents Call for Demotion of Holy See at UN
Dissident Catholics and their allies are calling once again for the Holy See’s status as a UN observer state to be revoked.
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Secretary General Calls for UN to Curtail Free Speech
In a speech to the UN Human Rights Council last month, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced that the UN system is going after what he calls “hate speech.”
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There is Much More to International Pro-Life than Mexico City Policy
Early this month, the Democrat controlled House of Representatives passed a spending bill that included the resumed funding of abortion groups overseas.
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UN Human Rights Committees Increase Pressure on Abortion/Homosexuality
For decades, the expert bodies monitoring compliance with UN human rights treaties have been increasingly bold in promoting abortion along with sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). While this exceeds their mandates and falls outside the agreed text of the treaties they monitor, their activities have gone largely unchecked, and this trend has only continued in the past year.
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Five Best Moments of the Year 2018 for Life and Family at the UN
There have many important moments in 2018 for the pro-life cause internationally, maybe even epochal shifts. Only history can tell.
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Editorial: What We Expect from the Next U.S. Ambassador to the UN
International life and family issues are parts of the foreign policy discussion. The UN, EU, the U.S., and governments around the world debate these issues every day. Such policies are implemented every day all around the world.
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