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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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The Voice of the Latin American People is Pro-life and Pro-Family. Interviews from Paraguay, Panama, Guatemala, and Mexico.
The recent vote of the UN General Assembly, on the institution of an independent expert on sexual orientation and gender, did not reflect the laws, and the values, of many…
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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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“French Court Rules: Down Syndrome Children Not Allowed to Smile on TV”
On November 10, the Conseil d’Etat ruled it “inappropriate” to show happy children with Down syndrome on TV, as that sight could “trouble” women who chose not to give birth…
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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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“Sexual Rights” Proponents Seek Legitimacy Through Universal Periodic Review
Western activists have turned to a relatively obscure UN procedure to change national laws in traditional countries on such things as homosexual marriage and sexual “rights”.
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International Law Commission Ignores Criticism, Proposes Progressive Rules
New rules from the world’s highest international law body will likely lead to an onslaught of litigation and judicial decisions on the basis of new and non-negotiated customary international law.
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Transsexuals’ organizations to defend women’s rights: the “Montevideo Strategy” for gender equality.
Last month, at the 13th Regional Conference on Women, 38 Latin American and Caribbean states adopted the “Montevideo Strategy”, a document designed to “Achieve Gender Equality in the Region by…
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Countries Take up Positions Ahead of UN Vote on LGBT Rights
The UN General Assembly is preparing the battlefield for the most important vote on the homosexual agenda it has ever faced.
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The Contraception Crisis that Isn’t
The world’s most powerful family planning groups announced a “contraceptive crisis,” calling for more funding and “sounding the alarm over the unmet contraceptive needs of hundreds of millions of people.”
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Mexican Committee rejects same-sex law. A strong message to the government, and to the UN.
Perhaps, national marches work: at least, they do in Mexico. Last Wednesday, the Mexican Congressional Committee on Constitutional Matters decided to reject the president’s proposal to legalize same-sex marriage. Peña…
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Wikileaks: Clinton and Her Team Deeply Involved in UN LGBT Minutiae
Leaked emails show how intimately familiar and ardently concerned Hillary Clinton and her closest advisors are with the minutiae of social policy debates and how they intend to use its arcane language to promote “sexual rights” in traditional countries.
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Obama Legacy to International LGBT Rights Falls Short of Expectations In Final Hurdle
President Obama’s last legacy to the international homosexual rights movement drew complaint instead of gratitude.
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Wikileaks: Clinton Will Fund Overseas Abortion Without Conscience Protections
Recently released Wikileaks emails show that President Obama wanted to fund abortions overseas, a clear violation of longstanding US law and policy, but that he nonetheless wanted to allow for conscience protection for doctors reluctant to perform abortions.
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