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UN Pulls Credentials of Correspondent Over Spurious Charges
The United Nations has permanently canceled the press credentials of long-time UN correspondent Matthew Lee, founder and chief correspondent of the Inner City Press.
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Brazil’s Abortion Activists Hamstrung by Pro-Life Victory in Argentina
Abortion groups want Brazil’s Supreme Court to bypass the country’s legislature and declare the Brazil’s abortion laws unconstitutional.
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Kofi Annan: UN Secretary General and World’s Secular Pope
Kofi Annan died last week at the age of 80. He was a charismatic but tragic figure.
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Abortion Advocate Appointed to Top UN Human Rights Slot
Trailblazing abortion promoter and Chile’s first woman president Michelle Bachelet was appointed by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to lead the UN human rights office last week.
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Feminists Campaign for Cities to Pass UN Treaty
Earlier this month the state of Hawaii received an award from the National Association of Commissions for Women for being the first state in the union to “pass CEDAW in all counties.”
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Argentina Deals Severe Blow to UN Abortion Advocates
Argentina’s senate dealt a blow to UN human rights experts, European nations, and abortion activists when it defeated a bill that would have removed legal protection for unborn children in the first 14 weeks of life.
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Abortion Groups Prey on Refugee Women
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh to escape violence and persecution in Myanmar, including a decade-long two-child policy directed at their community.
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Global Compact on Migration Stutters Toward Adoption
It was with a sense of unease and trepidation that countries hailed the advent of a new agreement on migration at UN headquarters last month.
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Will US Quitting Human Rights Council Help the Social Conservative Cause?
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 27 (C-Fam) U.S. withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council has long been on the wish list of some conservative organizations like the Heritage Foundation that hosted…
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UN Agencies Challenge Trump: Sexual and Reproductive Health Always Includes Abortion
UN agencies are working with abortion groups to make abortion part of sexual and reproductive health policies and programming everywhere and for all, in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s pro-life efforts and the consensus of the UN General Assembly.
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U.S. Redlines Humanitarian Abortion at UN
A disagreement over abortion between the Trump administration and European governments has set the stage for a showdown in the UN General Assembly this fall.
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Power Grab by UN Secretary General Begins
The General Assembly adopted a plan to begin a long-awaited overhaul of the UN development system that will result in greater power for the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
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International Right to Abortion Comes One Step Closer
A guideline on customary international law adopted by the prestigious International Law Commission this month raises the stakes in every UN negotiation related to abortion.
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Investigator Charges UN Personnel Raped or Abused 60,000 Women and Children
“An estimated sixty thousand women and children have been raped or abused by UN personnel over the last ten years, and the UN bureaucracy is not interested in bringing anyone to justice,” former UN corruption investigator Peter Gallo told an audiencein Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
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U.S. Rebukes World Health Organization for its Abortion Activism
GENEVA, May 25 (C-Fam) The United States put the World Health Organization (WHO) on notice this week that it should stop its abortion activism. In two pointed statements, the U.S….
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UN Staff Instructed to Promote Abortion in UN Manual on Women’s Access to Justice
NEW YORK, May 25 (C-Fam) A new UN agency manual on access to justice instructs UN staff working to reform legal systems around the world to lobby countries to “decriminalize…
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Lancet, Guttmacher Publish Abortion-Centered Wish List Ahead of World Health Assembly
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 11 (C-Fam) Advocates for abortion and “sexual rights” have worked for decades to advance their agenda at international institutions, but have never won global consensus. This week…
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The Final Frontier for Abortion Rights?
NEW YORK, May 11 (C-Fam) The UN Economic and Social Council is discussing whether abortion should be part of humanitarian efforts at UN headquarters as negotiations on an annual agreement…
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UN Bureaucrats Push Full Steam Ahead for Abortion, Slam Brakes on Euthanasia
“Sexual and reproductive health and rights are integral to the dignity of women and girls,” said Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kate Gilmore at a gathering of UN experts and bureaucrats in Geneva last month.
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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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Abortion Advocates Bank on Canada and G-7
A year before the election of President Donald Trump signaled a shift in U.S. foreign policy to a pro-life position, Canada underwent a shift of its own, in the opposite direction.
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Interview with David Quinn on Ireland’s Upcoming Abortion Referendum
On May 25th, the Irish people will go to the polls to decide whether they will amend their constitution to remove the right to life and replace it with one of the world’s most liberal abortion laws.
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SPECIAL REPORT: U.S. Contributes to Stalemate on Abortion at UN, Despite Leakers on Delegation
The elation of the Commission was palpable as UN delegates applauded the Colombian who steered negotiations for an agreement on policies for women and girls in rural areas to their successful conclusion on Friday.
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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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