Obama Policy Undermines Women in Women’s Policy
An Obama-era executive order on helping women in conflict settings mutated into a vast set of mandates including abortion, homosexual rights, and environmentalism in U.S. defense and diplomatic policy and programs.
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Did the UN Secretariat Attempt to Censor Pro-Family Viewpoint?
Highly unusual, UN bureaucrats temporarily blocked C-Fam’s written and oral statements at the Commission for Social Development this year, only allowing the statements after pushback.
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Editorial: The Mexico City Policy is Not a Violation of Human Rights
Mainstream media headlines this week painted President Donald Trump’s executive order banning funding for foreign abortions as an end to all U.S. support for global women’s health. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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European Parliament Abortion Campaign Seeks to Indoctrinate Children
The European Parliament has launched a campaign to promote abortion among the continent’s adolescents.
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New UN LGBT Expert Doubles Down Against Religious Freedom, Describes “Entry Points” for Homosexual and Transgender Rights
The new UN expert on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues outlined a strategy for his three-year term before dozens of supportive UN bureaucrats, delegates, and activists in a meeting last week.
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Canada and Europe Bolster Trump’s Arguments for Mexico City Policy
The creation of the new abortion fund by the Netherlands and its partners could undermine arguments against President Donald Trump’s ban on foreign abortion funding last week.
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Trump’s Overseas Abortion Restrictions will Protect Women and Pro-Life Laws
On his first full day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that blocks international global health groups from receiving millions in US taxpayer dollars if they promote or perform abortion.
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Field Narrows in Race for New WHO Director-General
NEW YORK, March 27 (C-Fam) The United Nations’ next top medical official will be decided by May. The field of candidates has been narrowed from six to three. The race picked up momentum this week with interest groups scrutinizing each candidate’s statements and manifestos to see how they would lead on health issues, including abortion.
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New US UN Ambassador Nominee Stands by Pro-Life Position at Confirmation Hearing
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for United States UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, repeatedly asserted her pro-life views during her Wednesday confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Democrats Desperate to Preserve Obama Legacy on Abortion
Pink-clad feminists ready to disrupt a second day of Senate confirmation hearings were ejected before Rex Tillerson’s testimony began.
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Five Things the Trump Administration Must Do at the UN
There are five main things the Trump administration must do to put U.S. foreign policy back on a pro-life and pro-family track.
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Editorial: Trump Faces a Different Sort of UN Reform
Holding the UN more accountable isn’t just about using the power of the President and Congress to withhold funds—as past Republican administrations have rightly but perhaps restrictively tended to do.
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Global “Unmet Need” for Family Planning More Myth than Science: New Article
The claim that 200 million of the world’s women and girls want contraception but can’t get it is false, but it is still used to funnel billions of dollars to the international family planning and abortion industry each year.
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Best Moments of the Year for Life and Family at the United Nations
It has been a remarkable year. As has been the case in recent years, we have many more positive stories to highlight than negative ones.
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Worst Moments of the Year for Life and Family at the United Nations
While there were many positive moments to highlight this year, the bad ones were particularly bad, in fact, far worse than in any recent years.
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US UN Ambassador Implies African States Condone Mass Murder of Homosexuals
In what can only be considered well outside the bounds of usually polite diplomatic discourse, an obviously agitated US UN Ambassador Samantha Power implied that African delegations were complicit in the murder of homosexuals who are thrown off of rooftops in certain Muslim-held cities.
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OAS event proposes abortion to stop teen marriages
The Organization of the American States (OAS) hosted an international event proposing the way to end the tragedy of child marriage is by letting children have abortions.
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UN’s New Top Bureaucrat Raises Hopes
The United Nations swore in its ninth Secretary General on Monday, former Portuguese prime minister Antonio Guterres, raising cautious optimism from pro-life and pro-family groups after 10 years of activism under Guterres’ predecessor Ban Ki-moon.
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Pro-Family Leaders Launch Declaration on Marriage in Cape Town
Pro-family leaders from around the world recently gathered in Cape Town, South Africa, to roll out and sign a declaration that aims to protect the family and traditional marriage.
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New UN Czar for Homosexual and Transgender Rights Taunts General Assembly
With his job still on the line, the newly appointed UN independent expert for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights laid out a provocative agenda for his 3-year term last week.
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Editorial: We Can’t Contracept Our Way to Maternal and Child Health
For too long the answer to making childbirth less dangerous has been to urge women to avoid it.
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General Assembly Rejects Controversial Sex Ed Programming, Launches Anti-Bullying Campaign
A three-year campaign to have the General Assembly endorse “comprehensive sexuality education” programming fizzled out during negotiations this year.
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Abortion Advocates Seek to Sway Trump to Keep Foreign Abortion Funds
The biggest names in international abortion advocacy are looking for ways to convince the incoming Trump administration not cut their funding by reinstating the 1984 Mexico City Policy.
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Committee Vote in General Assembly Should Worry LGBT Rights Supporters
An African challenge to a newly established post of UN ombudsman for LGBT rights failed in a close vote in the 3rd committee of the UN General Assembly on Monday.
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Zika emergency downgraded, vigilance on emergency funding begins
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the end of the Zika emergency and shift to a long-term response to the virus on Friday
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