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UN Human Rights Experts Continue to Lobby for Abortion
According to a UN expert, countries must decriminalize abortion as part of their efforts to eliminate violence against women in obstetric settings, and, “at the very minimum,” legalize it in certain exceptional cases.
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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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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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Abortion Funding Robust in Global Development Goals
The UN sustainable development goals were billed as the last best hope of the UN system when they were adopted in 2015.
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Trump Administration Rains on UN Abortion Parade
The celebration of the 25thanniversary of a landmark agreement that enshrined abortion in UN policy, was dulled by the pro-life policies of the Trump Administration this week.
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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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WHO Report Endorses Do-it-Yourself Abortion
The idea of self-induced abortion has a long history as a scare tactic in legal debates over abortion both in the United States and around the world.
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UN Treaty Apparatus Furious with Trump Over Abortion and Money
A three-day feminist conclave last week shows that Trump’s pro-life policy is hitting abortion activists where it hurts: in the pocketbook.
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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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