Secretary General Backdoors Abortion, LGBT Rights into UN Humanitarian Goals
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s grand plan to tackle the global humanitarian crisis and achieve recently adopted new UN development goals includes abortion and LGBT rights.
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UN Human Rights Chief Scolded for Denying Rights to Disabled Babies
Diplomats rebuked the UN human rights chief this week for demanding countries respond to the Zika virus by legalizing the killing of disabled unborn babies.
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UN Stamps Celebrate Homosexuality, Gay Parenting, Transexualism
Dark naked figures dancing around a fire and a powerful Greek god presided over the unveiling of six explicit UN postage stamps to promote homosexuality, transexuality, and gay parenting at UN headquarters last week.
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Constitutional Court Ignores Int’l Abortionists, Strikes Down Exceptions for Hard-Cases
Just days before going into effect, the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic in December struck down provisions to the Criminal Code that would have decriminalized abortion in the country.
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UN “Grand Bargain” on Aid Tries To Bypass Anti-Terrorism Efforts
UN staff want to convince the US and European governments to bypass laws aimed at stopping the financing of global terrorism so that donations could flow faster and easier to humanitarian emergencies.
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Amnesty Fires, UN Hires Divisive Activist
An official who left Amnesty International mired in scandals has been appointed the second highest position at the UN’s human rights office.
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UN Report: “There Is No Definition of the Family”
A draft UN report says the family should be understood “in a wide sense” and tries to open the door to recognize same-sex couples in international law and policy.
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Abortion Groups “Save Face” in Peru
A fifteen-year multi-million dollar campaign to make abortion legal in Peru ended last year when, following the recommendations of a UN committee, the government gave roughly $50,000 in compensation to a woman who was denied an abortion in 2001.
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Editorial: World Beware a Global UN Tax
C-Fam’s Susan Yoshihara reports today that an official UN panel has issued its final report and part of its proposals include a global tax that would be an independent revenue stream for UN agencies and bureaucrats. Fewer proposals at the UN are more dangerous than this one.
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UN Secretariat Releases Grand Plan for Global Aid Efforts
Terrorism, natural disasters and the Syrian refugee crisis have left 125 million living in disaster and conflict areas and led to a $15 billion shortfall in humanitarian aid, despite record giving. So says a 9-member panel of experts who hope to convince nations to radically overhaul the way they give and distribute aid.
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Dire Population Predictions Are Not Just For China
Low-fertility and graying populations are looming problems globally, not just in China. But few understand or even know it.
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Does Planned Parenthood Care as Much About Homosexuality as Abortion?
As the homosexual agenda has risen in popularity and draws enormous amounts of money, other movements are latching onto it.
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UNFPA Claims Concern About Decline in Donations
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) is worried about a steep decrease in donations in the last two years, according to a UNFPA official speaking at a private meeting at UN headquarters this week.
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Edmund Burke Fellows Insider’s View of the United Nations
Ambassadors, delegates, and scholars gave 10 students of law and international relations an insider’s view of the United Nations this week during the Edmund Burke Fellowship.
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Five Big Pro-Life and Pro-Family Wins in 2015
The year just ended will prove to be a significant one for the United Nations. Two much anticipated agreements were finalized, one on development and another on climate.
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Five Biggest Pro-Life and Pro-Family Losses of 2015
Despite many positive events, there is always bad news coming out of the UN. 2015 was no exception. These are the worst moments of 2015.
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Editorial: UN Feminist Busybodies Out of US
We at C-Fam have never taken the position that the UN ought to be closed or that the UN ought to move out of New York City. We believe there is a role for this body, mostly in airing out issues in the General Assembly.
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Abortion Groups Battle to Re-Gain Lost Ground in UN Development Goals
After losing UN policy space they dominated during the past decade, abortion groups are trying once more to cannibalize the attention devoted to maternal health in UN policy.
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Poland and Hungary May Break EU Bloc at UN on Gay Rights and Much More
Political change in Poland is undermining efforts to impose same-sex “marriage” on Europe and could lead to a sea change in the European Union’s negotiating position at the United Nations.
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Economic Case for LGBT Rights a Tough Sell
“What’s the secret to convincing the world to back a movement?” mused M.V. Lee Badgett in an Atlantic article last year. “Figure out how it could impact the global bottom line.”
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Fertility Decline Prolonging Global Economic Crisis, Experts Say
Experts struggle to understand why the global economy languishes years after the 2008 global economic crisis.
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Annual UN Report Repeats False Claims About Abortion
As wars and natural disasters force increasing numbers of people from their homes, among the most vulnerable are mothers with infants and pregnant women.
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Climate Summit Frustrates Population Control Groups
Population control advocates are miffed that the UN Climate Summit in Paris will not address fertility reduction.
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Irish Judge Says Abortion Restrictions Violate Human Rights
A stunning ruling from a court in Northern Ireland declared that the country’s protective abortion laws violate a European human rights treaty.
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Gays Fail Once More at UN, Abortion Language Also Rolled Back
A paragraph about sex education in a resolution on the rights of children stalled debate in the General Assembly on Tuesday and forced a vote on the resolution, which has traditionally been adopted consensually.
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