Marriage and Family Archives - C-Fam
White House Confirms Global Campaign to Protect Homosexual Acts
The White House confirmed the launch of a global U.S. campaign to promote acceptance of homosexual acts last week after several months of confusion and misinformation surrounding the administration’s position on LGBT issues.
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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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Will White House Women’s Initiative be Hijacked by Abortion and Gender Advocates?
Democratic Congresswoman Lois Frankel spoiled the White House plans for a controversy-free event last week when she took to the podium and said women can’t be empowered without contraception and abortion.
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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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Study Disputes Link Between HIV and Depo Provera; African Women Insist Results are “Not Good News”
For decades, an international debate has raged over whether the use of the injectable contraceptive Depo Provera increases women’s risk of contracting HIV when exposed to the virus.
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Pro-Family Nations and NGOs Celebrate 25th International Day of Families
UN member states and civil society gathered at UN headquarters to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the International Year of the Family during an event titled “It Takes a Family” on May 15, the International Day of Families.
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UN Commission Ends in Acrimony, Charges of Harassment and Bullying
The most controversial UN negotiation of the year ended Friday afternoon in a bitter row between Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the Irish chair of the commission over the procedure used to adopt an agreement on social protections for women.
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Pro-Lifers Win Big at UN Commission
Progressives did not applaud or cheer as they normally do as the UN Commission for Social Development concluded yesterday at UN headquarters because the commission did not even hint at abortion or homosexual/trans rights.
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UN Event Highlights the Importance of Family Stability
Member states and pro-family organizations hosted a panel discussion on the importance of family stability at UN headquarters this week.
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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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New Trump-Supported Law Enshrines Obama-Era Gender Language
Pro-life groups are deeply disappointed in a new law aimed at helping women enter the marketplace that will likely prevent USAID from working with faith-based groups unless they violate their conscience in order to partner with the U.S. government.
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Tanzania President Suspends U.S. Family Planning Advertising
Last week the Tanzanian government suspended family planning advertisements funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) while the program is reviewed for its population control motives.
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Hungarian Leader Rallies Christians, Gives EU Elites Indigestion
Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán appears to relish giving indigestion to elites of Western Europe and the European Union.
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UN Event Highlights Challenges, Hopes for Families in Migration and Urbanization
As the United Nations Commission on Population and Development turns its focus to migration and urbanization, a high-level event this week turned the spotlight to the way family integrity—or breakdown—affects and is affected by pervasive population trends.
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Christians Protest UNICEF for “Sexualizing” Children
Fifty angry Christians picketed UNICEF’s office near the UN during the just-completed Commission on the Status of Women, a UN conference where pro-lifers won a major victory.
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U.S. Delegation to UN Conference Faces Intimidation Campaign
The world’s top abortion and LGBT activist groups have joined forces to stop the Trump administration from implementing its international pro-life agenda at the UN women’s conference in New York.
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UN Panel Condemns “Prenatal Genocide” of Children with Down Syndrome
Mikayla Holmgren was a Miss USA State Pageant finalist where she won two awards.
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UNESCO Pushes Controversial Sex-Ed Rejected by General Assembly
UN staffers are making bold claims about the effectiveness of their latest efforts to initiate the world’s children to the mysteries of sex, even though their controversial sexuality education programming has been rejected by the UN General Assembly.
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Abortion May be Downplayed in U.S. Human Rights Report, Feminists Angry
Feminists and gays are up in arms about reported changes to the annual U.S. State Department report on human rights.
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Oxfam Scandal Part of Wider Sexual Abuse Cover-up
The elite UK-based aid organization Oxfam has admitted to hosting lavish parties and hiring prostitutes for humanitarian aid workers in Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake.
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Opinion: Who Will Fight for the Family at the UN?
Even on the seventieth anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN Commission on Social Development did not refer to the family as “natural and fundamental group unit of society, entitled to protection by society and the state” at its annual session this week.
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Inter-American Human Rights Court Tries to Impose Homosexual Marriage on Entire Continent
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights published a much-anticipated advisory opinion earlier this month that says homosexual marriage and transgender identity change are human rights in the American Convention on Human Rights.
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UN Agency Defies General Assembly, Promotes “Comprehensive Sexuality Education”
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNSECO) published a new technical guidance on “Comprehensive Sexuality Education,” over the recent objections of UN member states to this kind of sex education.
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New UNICEF Chief Raises Hopes, Questions About Pro-life Stance
The Trump administration “welcomed” UNICEF’s new executive director, appointed on Monday, raising hopes, and questions, about whether the new chief will embrace the administration’s pro-life stance.
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Editorial: The International Stillbirth Scandal
Every day somewhere in the world 800 women and 7000 children die in childbirth. This tragedy has rightfully garnered attention at the highest levels at the UN.
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