UN Agencies Challenge Trump: Sexual and Reproductive Health Always Includes Abortion
UN agencies are working with abortion groups to make abortion part of sexual and reproductive health policies and programming everywhere and for all, in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s pro-life efforts and the consensus of the UN General Assembly.
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No Matter the Question, Contraception’s the Answer
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13 (C-Fam) Family planning advocates are working hard to position contraceptives as the key to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As an event on Tuesday…
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Amnesty International Backs Abortion On-demand
Amnesty International will advocate for abortion on-demand as an international human right.
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Transgender No Longer Listed as Disorder by World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced that its updated diagnostic manual would no longer classify “gender incongruence”—perceiving oneself to be of a different sex than what you were born—as a mental disorder.
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Editorial: Africa and the New Imperial Masters
Yesterday, we in the United States celebrated our independence from England. You could say that we were born from the imperialistic designs of the English.
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U.S. Redlines Humanitarian Abortion at UN
A disagreement over abortion between the Trump administration and European governments has set the stage for a showdown in the UN General Assembly this fall.
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Lawmakers Fight for Funding for Overseas Abortion Groups
Two pro-abortion Republican lawmakers and their Democrat colleagues used the foreign operations funding bill to obstruct various Trump administration pro-life advances.
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Power Grab by UN Secretary General Begins
The General Assembly adopted a plan to begin a long-awaited overhaul of the UN development system that will result in greater power for the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
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Reproductive Rights Activists Lament Setbacks in Latin America
Reproductive rights activists hosted a panel during the meeting of the Organization of American States that attempted to link the democracy deficit in Latin America to the lack of abortion rights.
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U.S. Slaps Down Abortion Language at G7 Negotiations
In the lead-up to this year’s G7 summit in Quebec, Canadian officials were explicit: women and children were going to be central, and an essential component of their health and empowerment is abortion.
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Abortion Activists Lose at Organization of American States
Diplomats from the Trump administration intervened at a meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) last week to reverse a trend toward liberalizing abortion laws throughout the region.
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Abortion Groups Complain U.S. Policy is Hurting Abortion Overseas
For decades, the global abortion lobby has worked hard to embed abortion advocacy within a wide array of projects and agendas, from maternal health to global peace and security to humanitarian relief.
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EU High Court Rules All States Must Welcome Gay Spouses
Homosexual rights got a boost from a groundbreaking judgment of the European Court of Justice that forces all EU member states to welcome the same-sex “spouses” of EU citizens, even when they are not EU nationals.
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International Right to Abortion Comes One Step Closer
A guideline on customary international law adopted by the prestigious International Law Commission this month raises the stakes in every UN negotiation related to abortion.
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Investigator Charges UN Personnel Raped or Abused 60,000 Women and Children
“An estimated sixty thousand women and children have been raped or abused by UN personnel over the last ten years, and the UN bureaucracy is not interested in bringing anyone to justice,” former UN corruption investigator Peter Gallo told an audiencein Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
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U.S. Rebukes World Health Organization for its Abortion Activism
GENEVA, May 25 (C-Fam) The United States put the World Health Organization (WHO) on notice this week that it should stop its abortion activism. In two pointed statements, the U.S….
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UN Staff Instructed to Promote Abortion in UN Manual on Women’s Access to Justice
A new UN agency manual on access to justice instructs UN staff working to reform legal systems around the world to lobby countries to “decriminalize forms of behavior” that effect only women, such as abortion.
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ANALYSIS: What the Irish Referendum Means for the International Pro-Life Cause
The Irish people take to the polls next Friday to decide whether or not to repeal the 8th amendment of their Constitution which protects the lives of children in the womb. Their decision will affect the lives of Irish children in the womb, and have a powerful effect globally.
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Capitol Hill Event Examines Intersection Between Human Trafficking and Health
Washington, D.C., May 18 (C-Fam) Women and girls trafficked for sex suffer a wide range of physical health problems resulting from repeated acts of violence and rape, and bear an…
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Lancet, Guttmacher Publish Abortion-Centered Wish List Ahead of World Health Assembly
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 11 (C-Fam) Advocates for abortion and “sexual rights” have worked for decades to advance their agenda at international institutions, but have never won global consensus. This week…
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The Final Frontier for Abortion Rights?
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution directly attacking Poland’s pro-life laws and asserting that abortion is an international right.
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Dems Push USAID Administrator to Recoup Funds for International Abortion Groups
WASHINGTON DC, May 4 (C-Fam) Abortion proponents in the U.S. Congress, who were rattled by the Trump administration’s pro-life stand at recent UN negotiations, grilled the top U.S. aid administrator…
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Opinion: If Family Planning is the Solution, What’s the Problem?
Washington, D.C., May 4 (C-Fam) What is the problem that faith-based organizations and family planning groups are partnering to solve, and how will they know if and when they have…
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U.S. State Department Says Abortion is Not a Human Right
In presenting the annual U.S. report on global human rights, Ambassador Michael Kozak told reporters that abortion is not a human right and therefore “reproductive rights” was no longer included in the report.
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EU High Court Rejects “One of Us” Plea for European Mexico City Policy
One of Us, a six-year pro-life campaign supported by nearly two million EU citizens was rejected by the EU Court of Justice last week.
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