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UN Expert: World Religions Should Defer to the Authority of UN Experts
According to the UN’s special expert on freedom of religion, the fringe views of UN human rights bodies must take precedence over the mainstream beliefs of many leading world religions, when it comes to law and policy.
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UN Cancels Women’s Conference Over Coronavirus Fears
Countries rejected a recommendation by the UN Secretary to hold a “scaled down” UN Commission on the Status of Women this year due to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. With some fearing a modified conference would lead to unequal participation between countries and regions, they decided to postpone it indefinitely instead.
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Doctors Without Borders Teams up with Do-it-Yourself Abortion Group
The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders launched online medical abortion guidelines that its partner group acknowledges will be used for do-it-yourself abortions.
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Abortion Activists Push Colombia into a Constitutional Crisis
Activists for abortion-on-demand in Colombia pushed the Latin American nation into a constitutional crisis with the help of UN agencies and experts, as the country’s Constitutional Court is expected to rule on a new abortion case.
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Will Trump Administration Increase Pro-LGBT Pressure on Foreign Governments?
This week President Trump announced that U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell will take on the added responsibilities of Director of National Intelligence, the post-9/11 umbrella agency overseeing the entire U.S. intelligence apparatus.
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Pro-Abortion Group Highlights Effectiveness of Mexico City Policy
A top abortion advocacy organization recently launched a report meant to discredit U.S. pro-life foreign policy, that instead demonstrated how the policy is supporting pro-life laws and norms in one African country.
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Pro-Abortion “Independent” UN Committee Lobbies General Assembly for More Power
A UN committee known for aggressively promoting abortion rights is lobbying the General Assembly to establish a UN system-wide mechanism that would expand its power and influence.
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Lawmakers Spar Over Abortion in Global Health Assistance
At a hearing on Capitol Hill last week, Democrats failed to prove that women’s health is compromised by President Trump’s pro-life foreign policy.
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United States Prepares to be Criticized on Human Rights by Other Countries
Last week, the U.S. Department of State hosted a meeting for civil society representatives in advance of the U.S.’s third appearance at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), in which fellow countries review its human rights record at the UN in Geneva.
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EU and Abortion Groups Attack Pro-Life Policies Adopted by the General Assembly
The European Union and a handful of Latin American countries began their push to have abortion and LGBT rights inserted into a UN political declaration to be adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women in March. Negotiations on the declaration began this week.
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Fine Print in New UN Report: Abortion Only Way to Keep Women Safe and Healthy
Last November at a summit in Nairobi, the UN Population Fund announced that it would take $264 billion to reduce global maternal deaths and protect women and girls from violence. The agency just released a publication outlining the details of how the billions would be spent—and the fine print includes abortion.
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Abortion Groups Panic as Senators Target Loopholes in Mexico City Policy
Abortion groups are scrambling to keep U.S. government funding after Senate and House Republicans caught them exploiting loopholes in the U.S. pro-life foreign policy that forbids them to receive taxpayer monies to promote and perform abortions abroad.
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GOP Lawmakers Ask Pompeo to Close Huge Loopholes in Mexico City Policy
The expanded Mexico City Policy cut off U.S. funding to foreign groups that promote or perform abortion, but it did not stop funding to domestic groups that turn around and hand taxpayer money to those same foreign abortion groups.
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Trump Builds International Anti-Abortion Coalition
Last week, the Trump administration hosted an international strategy meeting for ambassadors, ministers, and other government officials to discuss a way forward for the pro-life cause internationally.
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Humanity of Unborn Child Merely “Philosophical,” Human Rights Watch Head Tells Rights Commission
The leader of one of the world’s top human rights organizations told the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights last week that abortion is a “fundamental right” for “anyone who wants or needs it” and that arguments about the humanity of the unborn are merely “philosophical,” with no place in policy.
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Population Control Making a Comeback in the U.S. Congress?
U.S. Congressman Ami Bera said population control is a national security issue and that USAID and Congress are working together to get Republicans to spend more on contraception overseas.
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Will Girls’ Education Bill be Scuttled by “Gender” Poison Pill?
Even in a gridlocked and divided Congress, there is bipartisan support for initiatives to improve global health, end violence against women around the word, and improve girls’ access to education.
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Latest UN Figures Show Rapid Global Aging
Even with adjustments for longer, healthier living, the UN’s latest population figures show rapid aging and economic unpreparedness across the globe.
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Despite Increased Support, U.S. Pro-life Diplomacy Bested by EU Opposition
Despite President Trump’s statement at the General Assembly in September, and a growing number of countries supporting U.S. pro-life diplomacy, U.S. pro-life amendments to UN resolutions adopted before Christmas failed by a wide margin.
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International Violence Against Women Bill Would Fund Overseas Abortion Groups
In late November, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives reintroduced the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA), a bill whose previous introductions led to heated debates over issues of abortion and gender.
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5 Best Moments of 2019 for Life and Family
NEW YORK, December 27 (C-Fam) 1. President Trump stands up for the rights of unborn children at the UN General Assembly. The high point in the international campaign to protect…
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5 Worst Moments of 2019 for Life and Family
NEW YORK, December 27 (C-Fam) Even as the U.S. and a coalition of other sovereign nations promoted a strong pro-life agenda at the United Nations in 2019, UN staff and…
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Democrats Fail to Rollback White House Pro-life Foreign Policy in FY2020 Spending Bill
When U.S Congressional leaders agreed to a spending bill package to fund the government and avert a government shutdown, they scuttled proposals from Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) that would have undermined U.S. pro-life foreign policy.
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Pro-LGBT Governments and U.S. Clash on Campaign to Decriminalize Homosexuality
U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell pitched a U.S. campaign to decriminalize homosexual conduct to members of the LGBT Core Group on Wednesday.
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U.S. Ambassador Fuels Public Row Over Homosexuality in AIDS-Ravaged Zambia
A war of words has broken out between the U.S. Ambassador to Zambia Daniel Foote and the government of Zambia over that conservative country’s laws on homosexual behavior. The U.S. Ambassador has even threatened to withhold financial aid to this AIDS ravaged African country.
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