Top UN Women’s Rights Expert Declares War on Gender Ideology
GENEVA, June 27 (C-Fam) A war of words has broken out at the UN as the top UN human rights official for women told governments to define gender based on biological sex. She also told governments to stop using gender-neutral language in referring women. “You cannot protect what you cannot define,” said Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls.
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C-Fam Human Rights Database Provides Window into Human Rights Priorities
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a process whereby individual governments at the UN give each other recommendations on how to improve their human rights records. C-Fam’s human rights database offers a window into governments’ human rights priorities on social issues, both in terms of what they say and what they do not say.
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C-Fam Database Shows Increased Treaty Body Pressure on Abortion/Gender
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 20 (C-Fam) C-Fam’s massive human rights database tracks the ways in which human rights mechanisms are used to pressure countries to liberalize their abortion laws and legally recognize and promote gender ideology. The database, which went online last year, also reveals the ways in which this pressure has grown and changed over the years.
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UN Committee Tells Guatemala to Redefine Forced Pregnancy
NEW YORK, June 20 (C-Fam) A UN committee of human rights experts told the Government of Guatemala that its restrictive abortion laws must change. Unlike many non-binding recommendations of UN rights bodies, the opinion in this case is binding.
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Trump May Shut Down Gender Ideology at UNICEF/Euros Rattled
UNITED NATIONS, June 13 (C-Fam) The Trump administration may force the UN agency for children to hit the pause button on sexualizing children, promoting abortion, and gender ideology. Europeans want the agency to ignore the administration.
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UNFPA Solution to Low Fertility: Legal Abortion, Family Redefinition
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 13 (C-Fam) The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) launched its flagship annual State of World Population report this week. While this year’s report examined the causes of…
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Massive New Database Exposes Extent of Abortion/SOGI Pressure from UN Bodies
WASHINGTON, DC, June 13 (C-Fam) Countries around the world are under pressure to liberalize their abortion laws and enshrine special protections and recognition on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in their laws and policies, all in the name of human rights.
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Trump Admin Attacks China and UN Population Control Agency
UNITED NATIONS, June 6 (C-Fam) The Trump administration announced it would defund the UN population agency this week for working with the population control bureaucracy of the Chinese Communist Party and blasted it for promoting gender ideology and DEI.
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Turkey Vows Government-Wide Fight Against Gender Ideology
NEW YORK, June 6 (C-Fam) In line with President Erdoğan’s priorities, the Turkish Ministry of Family and Social Services has demanded its regional offices and other executive agencies adopt a unified stance against “gender”, “gender identity,” “sexual orientation,” and “LGBT.” The Ministry said these terminologies contradict Turkey’s moral values and undermine family structures.
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Bangladesh accused of coercing Rohingya women to use contraceptives
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 6 (C-Fam) It is reported that Rohingya women, Muslim refugees from genocide in Myanmar, are being coerced by Bangladeshi officials to use contraceptives. The coercion is reported to be taking place in Cox’s Bazar, a port city in southeastern Bangladesh.
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Turkey Vows to Fight Western Cultural Imperialism
ISTANBUL, May 30 (C-Fam) In a broadside against what he considers the decadent West, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared that all his country’s geopolitical clout will be deployed against gender ideology and population control.
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Argentina Leaves the WHO and Joins U.S. in New Health System
NEW YORK, May 30 (C-Fam) As part of an official meeting with the U.S. Health Chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Argentina reaffirmed its decision to leave the World Health Organization (WHO) and, together with the United States, replace it with an alternative international health system.
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New WHO Guidance Calls for Injectable Contraceptives for Kids
NEW YORK, May 23 (C-Fam) The World Health Organization (WHO) released a new guideline on preventing adolescent pregnancies in low and middle-income countries. The proposed framework advances a vision of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for young people that promotes controversial ideas, and norm changes inconsistent with what governments have agreed to.
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U.S. absent as World Health Assembly adopts pandemic treaty
WASHINGTON, D.C. May 23 (C-Fam) The governing body of the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the text of a pandemic agreement that has been under negotiation since the COVID-19 pandemic. Notably absent from the meeting was the United States, which withdrew from the WHO following the election of President Donald Trump earlier this year.
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New UN Treaty Allows for Virtual Child P*rn
NEW YORK, May 16 (C-Fam) A new UN treaty to combat cybercrimes would allow predators and tech giants to profit from the sexual exploitation of children, including through images created using AI.
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UN Uses AI to Target Adolescents on Controversial Issues
NEW YORK, May 16 (C-Fam) Under the guise of tackling “misinformation,” UN agencies are using AI to spy on adolescent attitudes toward contraception, abortion access, and sexual identity in the global south and target them with information that will change their views on these topics.
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Hegseth Ends Woke Feminist Peace and Security Initiative
WASHINGTON, DC, May 9 (C-Fam) U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, ended the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) involvement in Women, Peace & Security programs. He said the programs came into conflict with the Trump administration’s commitment to avoid diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
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Former USAID Chiefs Attack Critics, Defend USAID Promotion of Abortion
WASHINGTON, D.C. May 9 (C-Fam) Seven former directors of USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health have sent a letter to Congress attacking the characterization of USAID employees as “radical leftists” and defending the funding of international family planning.
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New Study Shows Massive Harms from Abortion Pills
WASHINGTON D.C., May 2 (C-Fam) New data reveals that women suffer serious adverse effects following chemical abortions, at least 22 times more frequently than what is claimed on the label for the abortion drug mifepristone.
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Africans Adopt Feminist Treaty, But Push Back Against Feminist Extremes
NEW YORK, May 2 (C-Fam) The African Union has adopted a feminist international treaty billed as an effort to combat violence against women. The treaty is expected to strengthen the hand of EU bureaucrats and EU-funded mechanisms on the African continent. Even so, some of the treaty provisions reflect Africa’s growing unease with EU meddling in African social policy.
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Men Not Welcome as Next UN Secretary General
NEW YORK, April 24 (C-Fam) The race to select the next UN Secretary-General of the United Nations is well underway. All the frontrunners are women, and they are well-known abortion advocates.
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The Radicalization of UN Youth Forum
NEW YORK, April 24 (C-Fam) The recently concluded UN Youth Forum platformed young voices advocating for some of the most controversial UN policies and programs, promoting young people as key agents for the achievement of the abortion and gender ideology agendas. Panelists asked for the development of technologies that promote abortion access, AI systems that normalize non-conventional gender roles and sexual identities, and apps that offer widespread access to sexuality education.
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ANALYSIS: Trump Changes Paradigm for Pro-Life Cause Globally
NEW YORK, April 18 (C-Fam) The Trump administration upended decades of UN social policy diplomacy last week at the UN Commission on Population and Development. A UN agreement on population policies that should have been adopted without a glitch was rejected by U.S. officials because of concerns about gender, global government, and abortion.
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Strong Pro-Life Statement at UN Commission
NEW YORK, April 18 (C-Fam) Civil society NGOs were allowed to make statements to the just-concluded UN Commission on Population and Development (CPD). Many were delivered by frustrated abortion activists but included at least one call to defend the unborn child.
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Breaking: Europeans Furious the US has Blocked New UN Document
NEW YORK, April 11 (C-Fam) The U.S. government has blocked the adoption of the final agreement of the just-concluded UN population commission over “gender ideology.” This is seen as a…
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