UN Human Rights Committee Formally Excludes Unborn Child from “Right to Life”
Despite pleas from more than one hundred governments and pro-life organizations, including the United States and Poland, the UN Human Rights Committee has excluded unborn children from the right to life in international law this week in Geneva.
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Retiring UN LGBT Czar Bids Farewell to General Assembly, Walks Back Talk of Censorship
The first and only UN human rights post on LGBT issues is suddenly vacant following the premature retirement of Thai law professor and LGBT activist Vitit Muntarbhorn hardly a year into his first term.
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Another UN Committee Says Abortion May be a Right, but not on Basis of Disability
The UN committee that monitors compliance with the Disabilities Convention stated that nations must provide access to abortion as a human right, but that they should not do so on the basis disabilities alone.
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Tell-all Event Exposes Judicial Activism of Inter-American Court
The Inter-American Court may try to impose same-sex marriage and access to abortion on all countries in Latin America, at least based on recent remarks by its President, Roberto Caldas, and other judges of the court.
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Human Rights Chief Stays Silent on LGBT Rights as His Term Expires
Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN’s top human rights official, was conspicuously silent about LGBT issues when he addressed the General Assembly on Monday.
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UNFPA Annual Population Report: From Paternalism to Ventriloquism
Every year, the United Nations Population Fund publishes a glossy report describing how its fertility reduction approach will help solve the problems facing the world.
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Pro-Lifers Barrage UN Committee in Protest
The United States, Poland, and more than one hundred other governments and non-governmental organizations barraged the UN Human Rights Committee with briefs, pleading them not to declare abortion a human right.
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The Resurgence and Rebranding of Population Control
Population control proponents have found a way to regain some of their respectability in the public square by using the framing and metrics of family planning advocates. But the tactic requires dubious metrics and raises a host of ethical questions.
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What the New General Assembly May Hold for President Trump
All eyes are on the United States this week as United Nations General Assembly begins its 72nd annual fall session. Will the Trump administration push a more conservative position on life and family matters in the coming three months?
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Vatican Academy “Rethinks” Pro-Life, Will Focus on Social Justice
After a year of turmoil and speculation about its future, the Pontifical Academy for Life is holding its first plenary session at the Vatican.
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UN Event Names and Shames Purveyors of Child Rape, Trafficking
“Decriminalization of prostitution is the most monstrous, preposterous, counterproductive act we could possibly conceive,” a prostitution survivor declared at a UN high-level meeting on human trafficking yesterday.
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Proposed U.S. Legislation Seeks to Save Lives by Preventing Them
A bill before the U.S. Senate enjoys broad bi-partisan support due to its ambition to save sixteen million lives. Critics argue that many of the lives “saved” would never exist, and that the law would funnel billions into abortion groups rather than into life-saving health care.
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PRESS RELEASE: UN Event Exposes Online Child Pornography and Sex Trafficking
Even as Google and the tech lobby stymie Congressional efforts to punish online sex trafficking, UN member states and anti-trafficking organizations will meet at UN headquarters over two days for a special High-Level Event on the margins of the General Assembly to discuss the challenge of eradicating child trafficking on the internet.
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U.S. President Asks the UN, “Are We Still Patriots?”
President Trump’s first UN speech to the General Assembly on Tuesday caught world leaders off guard and challenged seemingly unassailable attitudes about international cooperation.
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The Saint Children of Fatima Bring Their Message To Washington, D.C.
The first-ever visit of the UN Pilgrim Statue of Fatima to the U.S. capital last week reminded Washingtonians that politics demands principles, and principled leaders.
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Editorial: New Data Show UN Human Rights System May Reflect Regional, Not Universal Rights
Universality is the cornerstone of human rights law and a central focus of the United Nations. But when small groups of experts and wealthy countries attempt to redefine international human rights, the entire framework is discredited.
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Democrats Use Senate Bill to Attack Trump Overseas Pro-life Protections
A U.S. Senate committee passed an amendment last week that would wipe out all of President Donald J. Trump’s pro-life protections in foreign aid.
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U.S. Blasts UNFPA Support for China’s Birth Control Policy
The United States blasted the UN Population Fund on Thursday for supporting China’s four decades-long birth control policy, which has led to human rights abuses such as forced abortions.
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Nations Sharply Critique, Approve UN Women’s Three Year Plan
UN Member States have warned UN Women leadership they must not campaign for abortion, and ordered the agency to respect national sovereignty.
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UNESCO Promotes Sex-Change and Abortion for Kids
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has promoted a report that endorses sex-change procedures and abortion for youth without parental consent.
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U.S. Ban on Transsexuals in Military Goes into Effect
Making good on his July announcement, President Donald Trump has formally directed the U.S. military to reinstitute the longstanding ban on transsexuals serving in the armed forces, though the new policy stops short of removing currently serving transsexuals.
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Chile Abandons Pro-Life Cause
Chile’s highest court approved a law that decriminalized abortion in cases of rape, fatal disability, and when a mother’s life is at risk which was adopted earlier this summer by Chile’s Congress and long-promised by President Michelle Bachelet.
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Google Attempts to Block Bill to Hold Sex-Traffickers Accountable
Google and the tech lobby are working to derail the passage of a bill to protect girls from online sex traffickers.
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UN Super Bureaucrats Cause Stir at UN Headquarters
The hottest item of the summer at UN headquarters may not be the crisis in North Korea but new Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ plan to overhaul the UN development system.
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Abortion Groups Attack Religious Medical Providers, Right of Conscience for Health Workers
In early August, an international group of abortion advocates met in Uruguay to discuss the potential removal of conscience protections for healthcare providers with regard to abortion.
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