EXCLUSIVE: UN Agency Blocks Pro-Lifers from Conference
The pro-abortion UN Population Fund (UNFPA) does not want pro-life critics in attendance when the agency convenes a conference in Nairobi in mid-November.
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Crazy Treaty Bodies at Heart of Abortion LGBT Battles at UN
The General Assembly isn’t yet scheduled to take up treaty body reform until next year.
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Brazilian Prosecutor Takes Aim at World Health Organization Abortion Guidelines
Brazilian prosecutors may launch a criminal investigation into a magazine that promoted illegal abortions based on controversial guidelines from the World Health Organization.
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Court Rules Northern Ireland’s Abortion Restrictions Violate Human Rights Law
A high court judgment in Belfast last week ruled that Northern Ireland’s abortion restrictions are a violation of human rights commitments, further increasing the pressure on the territory, which is part of the U.K., to remove its legal protections for the unborn.
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EXCLUSIVE: New UN Treaty May Put Gender Ideology in International Law
In a new treaty, the General Assembly may scrap the definition of gender as “male and female” currently in international law and endorse a definition of gender as “socially constructed.” The new definition would open the door to 100+ “genders” in binding law.
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Nairobi Summit May Claim Abortion as a Humanitarian Right
Nations may pledge to fund abortion in crisis and “fragile” situations at an upcoming UN population conference in Nairobi. This means introducing abortion precisely in those situations where it could most likely endanger women’s health.
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U.S. Coalition Tells UN: “There is no International Right to Abortion”
The United States led a coalition of twenty-one countries to promote pro-life and pro-family international policies and oppose abortion at the United Nations on Monday.
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How President Trump’s Pro-Life Statement at the UN Came About
This week at the opening of the 74thUnited Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump delivered what may be the most pro-life statement any president has ever delivered to the world body.
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UN LGBT Czar Takes Aim Against Religions
A UN expert charged with promoting LGBT rights around the world called on governments to take action against religions that don’t embrace LGBT rights.
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Abortion Politics Threaten U.S. Budget Battle
Abortion has roiled the ongoing budget battles in the U.S. Congress.
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Proposed Law Would Ban Foreign Critics of LGBT
A bill recently passed out of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee would allow the federal government to block U.S. visas for foreign individuals who criticize or otherwise work against the LGBT movement.
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UN Envoy Supports Buying and Selling of Children
A UN representative charged with combatting the buying and selling of children has come out for the buying and selling of children in commercial surrogacy.
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UN Population Agency Intends to Avoid Negotiations on Abortion
The UN population agency is asking governments to endorse 17 political commitments related to “sexual and reproductive health and rights” without a UN negotiation. The request raises fears that the agency wants to supplant limits set by the UN General Assembly on UN programs for controversial issues like abortion and sex education.
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WHO Downgrades Warnings on Depo, Concerns Remain
In response to the results of a large-scale trial, the World Health Organization (WHO) has revised its recommendation for the use of the injectable contraceptive Depo Provera, removing warnings that it might be linked to increased risk of HIV infection.
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G7 Rejects Abortion Language in Final Communique
G7 leaders of the world’s largest economies rejected the recommendation of an advisory panel that abortion language be included among the group’s final communiques.
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UN Agency Tries to Impose Abortion and LGBT Rights in Sex Education Everywhere
A UN Agency is urging governments to use deceptive anti-democratic tactics to “overcome social opposition” to comprehensive sexuality education that promotes abortion and LGBT rights.
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U.S. Sends Official Pro-Life Message to Foreign Governments
The U.S. Government has reached out to foreign capitals to request support for U.S. pro-life efforts at the United Nations. Such a high-level pro-life effort by a U.S. administration is unprecedented.
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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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Can White House and GOP Senators Protect Pro-Life Policy?
Before lawmakers left Washington for the August recess, they passed a major budget bill increasing the federal budget and lifting the debt ceiling for two years.
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U.S. Uses UN Mechanism to Pressure Countries on Homosexuality
The U.S. State Department is using a little-known UN mechanism to pressure governments to change their laws on sexual practices related to “sexual orientation and gender identity.”
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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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White House Confirms Global Campaign to Protect Homosexual Acts
The White House confirmed the launch of a global U.S. campaign to promote acceptance of homosexual acts last week after several months of confusion and misinformation surrounding the administration’s position on LGBT issues.
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Longtime UN Pro-Life Advocate Publishes a Memoir of His Life and Stories from the Field
Earlier this year, a longstanding champion of the pro-life movement at the UN published a book compiling stories, reflections, images, and documents from nearly a quarter-century of work on behalf of unborn children and the family at high-level international meetings.
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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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