UN & UN Agencies Archives - Page 2 of 16 - C-Fam
UN Debates Mandatory Universal Health Coverage Including Abortion
The next big thing in global aid is universal health coverage.
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Trump Could Lose Abortion Showdown with the EU
When the Trump administration threatened to veto a German sponsored resolution with abortion-related terms at the Security Council it exposed a growing problem in transatlantic relations over UN social policy.
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European Nationalists Complacent When it Comes to Abortion
European nationalist parties have tended to sound pro-life and pro-family in order to gain power, but they have been unwilling to put an end to international European advocacy for abortion and LGBT rights.
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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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Kenyan Diplomat Continues to Charge Pro-Life NGO with Bullying
A Kenyan diplomat, assisted by UN delegations and media outlets that promote abortion internationally, continues to insist she was harassed and bullied because of a pro-life petition she received through texts and emails during a recent UN conference.
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UN Population Commission Avoids Controversy, but Leaves Backdoor Open to Abortion
The UN population commission has adopted an agreement for the first time since 2016. In recent years, controversies over abortion, sex-education, and homosexual/trans ideology prevented the commission from reaching an agreement.
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Did Pro-Lifers Harass and Threaten a Kenyan Ambassador?
A senior Kenyan diplomat said she didn’t feel “safe” during the negotiations on a UN agreement about women and social development because of a pro-life online petition addressed to her.
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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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Secretary General Launches Attack on Trump Administration
The buzz phrase at UN headquarters this week was “pushback against the pushback.” The phrase refers to, among other things, U.S. resistance to international abortion policies. The phrase was coined by Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
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Nigeria Fights Radicalism at Commission on the Status of Women
As the most populous country in Africa, Nigeria has landed in the crosshairs of the family planning and abortion movement.
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Commentary: The End of Human Rights?
While massive atrocities have experts lamenting a general retreat from human rights, abortion groups say they are making progress using the field to further their agenda.
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UNFPA calls on “all stakeholders” to increase pressure on abortion
Like many UN agencies, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) walks a fine line on the issue of abortion.
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In New Reform, UN Bureaucracy Grabs More Power from Member States
The UN development system is changing drastically under a set of reforms initiated by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres last year. Member States will lose power and oversight. The UN Secretary General will receive new and expanded powers.
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UN Intervened to Change New York Abortion Law
Hardly anyone will have noticed that the United Nations, at least a part of it, was involved in the controversial New York State law that codified the U.S. Supreme Court decisions imposing abortion on demand up to birth.
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Activists Call for Abortion in Universal Health Coverage Resolution, U.S. Pushes Back
The United States pushed back on attempts to insert abortion into the World Health Organization’s resolution on universal health coverage at the agency’s just concluded executive board meeting.
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ANALYSIS: Dems Reproductive Rights Bill Backs Global Campaign for Abortion Rights
A bill introduced by Democrats in the House of Representatives in December to promote “reproductive rights” as “human rights” exposes the left’s alliance with the global abortion industry to undermine Trump administration pro-life efforts.
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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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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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U.S. Fumbles Abortion Debate at UN, Mocked by Europeans
The European Union has proved a tough adversary outmaneuvering U.S. pro-life diplomatic effort at UN headquarters in recent weeks clearly signaling they will not cede on abortion policy in development and humanitarian assistance.
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Trump Contests “Sexual and Reproductive Health” at UN but Fails to Rollback Abortion Language
Trump administration pro-life diplomacy has led to a series of unprecedented votes in UN committees to exclude abortion from UN policy but to rollback advances achieved during the Obama administration a stronger political will is needed.
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Will the Trump Administration Stop Humanitarian Abortion?
UN abortion advocates are keen to create “humanitarian abortion’, that is, include a right to abortion in humanitarian assistance through actions of the Security Council. The issue is before the UN General Assembly this week.
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Countries Debate Soft Law in Death Penalty
A dramatic debate on national sovereignty erupted in the General Assembly on Tuesday over a proposed resolution on the global abolition of the death penalty.
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UN Committee Says, “Right to Life” Means “Right to Abortion”
The “right-to-life” clause in an important UN human rights treaty must now include a right to abortion.
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Leakers Seek to Gut Trump Pro-life Foreign Policy
A new Trump administration policy defending human life in international negotiations by avoiding terms that promote abortion has come under attack this week.
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The Sometimes-Impenetrable Way Problems are Attempted at the UN
UN issues, and UN documents are highly complicated and almost impossible for laymen and even experts to follow.
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