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Brave African Delegates Fight Abortion in Landmark UN Family Resolution
Traditional countries removed a reference to “reproductive health” in the final draft of a resolution on the family. The resolution was unanimously adopted in the third committee of the General Assembly yesterday.
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Tributes on the Passing of Cardinal Renato Martino
The longtime Papal Nuncio the United Nations, Renato Cardinal Martino passed away a month ago. We reported on his passing last week. UN pro-life advocates from the early days of our fight have submitted tributes to Cardinal Martino.
Friday Fax
Argentina Stands Alone at the UN/Hungary Stands with the Left
Argentina stood alone against censorship in the General Assembly this week. Close to sixty countries opposed transgenderism. And the Hungarian government of Victor Orbán gaslit everyone on behalf of the European Union.
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Longtime Papal Nuncio to the UN Passes Away
Cardinal Renato Martino passed away on October 28. He was the Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to the United Nations from 1986 to 2002 and a true hero of the international pro-life movement.
Friday Fax
Concerns About the United States Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls
The State Department has updated its 2016 Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls.[1] While the strategy is ostensibly designed to improve the lives of girls, it contains many controversial policies that will harm them.
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Unilateral Pro-Life Policy on Trump’s First Day
President-elect Donald J. Trump can go a long way toward mending pro-life and pro-family fences by making big strides in the international sphere. As you recall, he made not just a few of our colleagues angry when he seemed to abandon the pro-life cause during the campaign.
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Biden Admin Praised UN Report Calling for Election Observers on LGBT Issues
The day before election day in the United States, the UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity issued a report arguing that elections around the world are not gay and trans-friendly enough. Graeme Reed said that in order to fight against “hate speech” and “gender persecution” countries must censor opponents of the homosexual/transgender agenda. He even argued for “international election observers on LGBT rights issues.”
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UN Member States Criticize Call to Decriminalize Drugs, Prostitution, Abortion
In a rare moment of candor, several UN delegations expressed disappointment with a UN human rights expert who called on countries to decriminalize drugs, prostitution, abortion, and intentional exposure to HIV.
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Experts say Trump could help reduce global maternal deaths
If Donald J. Trump is elected president for a second term, he may be remembered for more than his anti-abortion stance. He may be credited with ending preventable maternal deaths by saving maternal health from controversial abortion programming. This, according to experts interviewed by the Friday Fax.
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UN Agency Meddles in Domestic Elections
The UN Development Fund is working with an agency in Guyana to monitor “harmful messages” on social media and counter online “misinformation” that could impact Guyana’s 2025 general election. While the UN says this partnership aims at “strengthening democracy” in Guyana, critics worry that such behavior is no less than meddling and interfering in domestics elections.
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UN Expert Says Countries Must Legalize Drugs, Prostitution and Abortion
Governments must decriminalize drug use, prostitution, abortion, and HIV non-disclosure to sexual partners, according to a UN report on the human right to health. But when it comes to alcohol, tobacco, and unhealthy food, governments must adopt strict regulations.
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Do Pro-Lifers Commit Crimes Against Humanity?
A new treaty on crimes against humanity is proving more controversial than expected, as it hit roadblocks in the General Assembly. The treaty could make denial of abortion a crime against humanity and expand the international crime of “gender persecution” to cover advocacy, laws and policies that protect man-woman marriage and deny transgender policies.
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Democrat Lawmakers falsely claim international right to abortion
Democrat lawmakers introduced a Congressional resolution declaring an international right to abortion supposedly based on U.S. treaty obligations.
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Submission to the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of Sweden, 49th Session of the UPR, Human Rights Council – April-May 2025
The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) is a nongovernmental organization that was founded in 1997 and has held Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council since 2014. We are headquartered in New York and Washington, D.C. and are a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and advocacy organization that is dedicated to reestablishing a proper understanding of international law, protecting national sovereignty and the dignity of the human person.
Statement and Submissions
Submission to the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of Kuwait, 49th Session of the UPR, Human Rights Council – April-May 2025
In 2020, the ministers and high representatives of 34 countries met to launch the Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD), in which they committed to promoting four objectives: improve women’s health, protect human life, strengthen the family as the basic unit of society, and defend the sovereignty of nations concerning their laws and policies to protect life.[1] Kuwait was one of the original signatories of the GCD. This report focuses on Kuwait’s fulfillment of its commitments to human rights in the context of the four pillars of the GCD.
Statement and Submissions
UN Official Defends Women’s Sports Against Male Incursion
This week, a UN expert ignited an explosive debate about male athletes in women’s sports. The expert called on countries and sports authorities not to allow men to compete in women’s sports.
Friday Fax
UN/Biden Use “Anti-Rights” Label to Punish Critics
Does opposing abortion as a human right make you “anti-rights?” What about opposing gender ideology? To many on the left at the international level, the answer is a resounding yes. And they want to do something about these “anti-rights” groups.
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Mainstream Media Attack on Family Watch International
In the same week, the Wall Street Journal, George Soros, and several other media outlets have accused Mormon grandmother Sharon Slater as a major factor behind the “anti-homosexuality bill” in Uganda.
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In Uganda, LGBT Activists Prioritize S*x over Starvation
A coalition of activists are urging the World Bank to withhold loans from Uganda, one of the poorest countries in the world, over its Anti-Homosexuality Act. This could set up a tension between sex and starvation.
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A Poison Pill in the Right to Development
In October 2023, the Human Rights Council decided to transmit the draft text of a treaty on the right to development to the General Assembly (A/HRC/RES/54/18, OP 17). The purpose of the new treaty is to affirm the sovereignty of developing countries and their right to pursue their economic and social development without interference from former colonial powers.
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Five Problems with the UN Cybercrime Treaty
On August 8, 2024, an ad hoc committee of the General Assembly for the elaboration of a UN cybercrime treaty completed its work by adopting a draft text of the convention. Articles 14, 15, and 16 of the new treaty allow for the creation of simulated and virtual child pornography and sexting, which is child pornography consensually created by consenting minors for private consumption.
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Problems with USAID’s 2024 Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Policy
USAID’s 2024-2034 Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Policy ostensibly outlines a strategy to promote democracy and human rights globally. Ironically, it promises to undermine democracy through programs that promote social engineering, censorship, and interference in internal politics.
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Anti-Rights: The New Censorship Weapon of the Left
In recent years, the label “anti-rights” has been used by UN officials, progressive countries, and organizations to denigrate individuals and organizations who defend traditional social values, including the protection of life in the womb and the family. This Definitions examines how the term emerged, how progressive governments and their surrogates use it, and how it fits into a larger campaign to label social conservatives as a danger to a progressive concept of human rights and to silence them.
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Evidence of Systemic and Unlawful Promotion of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity by UN Secretariat, Agencies, and other UN Entities
Recent debates on the use of the terms “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” within the United Nations in reference to individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) are often conducted with the assumption that these notions are clearly defined in science and law. International law does not recognize the notion of “sexual orientation and gender identity” (SOGI). There is no binding UN treaty that mentions sexual orientation and gender identity and no UN treaty can be fairly interpreted to include these notions.
Briefing Papers and Factsheets
Evidence of Systemic and Unlawful Promotion of Comprehensive Sexuality Education by UN Secretariat, Agencies, and Other UN Entities
At the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, UN member states agreed to provide “age-appropriate sex education” with “appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians.” Since then, the landscape has changed significantly, with a concentrated effort by a group of mostly wealthy Western countries to gain acceptance of “comprehensive sexuality education” (CSE).
Briefing Papers and Factsheets