UN Officials Promote Homosexual Marriage In Latin America through Celebrity Culture, Judicial Activism, and Executive Overreach
LGBT groups in Latin America and their supporters at UN headquarters have big plans for the region. But these plans don’t involve the democratically elected representatives of the people of the continent.
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Gates Foundation Suspected of Forcing Dangerous Contraceptive on Africans
HIV/AIDS and women’s health advocates are criticizing a recent report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the safety of a controversial contraceptive favored by the Gates Foundation. Depo-Provera is a long-acting contraceptive distributed to poor women in the U.S. and through foreign aid programs.
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UN Diplomats Fight Back Against LGBT Ideology
A chorus of delegates from around the world protested attempts to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” a protected category in international human rights law at the General Assembly this week.
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New UN Law Rules Will be Boon for Judicial Activism
New UN guidelines to identify customary international law threaten to unleash a barrage of litigation and judicial activism around the world.
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Expanding Acronyms Threaten Maternal and Child Health
In recent decades, the relatively simple and appealing concept of maternal and child health (MCH) has ballooned into a far broader and more convoluted agenda: sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health, with an unwieldy acronym to match: SRMNCAH.
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African Women’s Solutions to War Clash with Feminists’ Agenda
When the UN Security Council adopted its latest resolution on the role of women in international peacebuilding and security last month, a familiar clash of opinions surfaced—among women. In particular, feminists driving the international policies are on opposite sides of women living in the realities of war-challenged areas.
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UN Agencies Try to Evade Oversight in Crafting New Global Measurements
UN bureaucrats and agencies trying to bypass the oversight of UN member states are beginning to meet resistance as they craft an influential set of statistical indicators to track progress on a new UN development scheme that will impact every country and cost billions of dollars.
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LGBTs Cranky About World Congress of Families This Week in Salt Lake City
More than 3,000 will attend the 9th World Congress of Families that began Tuesday in Salt Lake City, Utah and the LGBTs are none too happy about it.
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FDA Blasts, WHO Downplays, Risks of Depo-Provera Contraceptive
A week before a huge global family planning conference in Indonesia, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a short statement reiterating its position that injectable contraceptives are safe – for any duration – even for adolescents despite being linked to progressive bone density loss and other harmful side effects.
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UN Experts Deny Wrongdoing Before General Assembly
UN human rights officials and experts were on the defensive for promoting abortion and homosexuality, during their annual visit to the General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York this week.
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UN Agency Includes Ten Year Old Boys in Definition of Gay Behavior
The UN family planning agency (UNFPA) drifted further into controversial territory with a new report on HIV and sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men – and boys.
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UN Data Backs Pope on Abortion and Contraception, Climate Alarmists Disappointed
The UN population division agrees with Pope Francis. More contraception will not stop climate change.
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Abortion Activists Pin Hopes on Security Council Resolution
The UN Security Council passed a resolution this week that activists will use to target laws protecting unborn children from abortion and to strike down U.S. laws prohibiting the funding of abortion overseas.
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Will UN Categorically Exclude Unborn from Right to Life?
A draft UN report excludes all children in the womb from any protections under international law.
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Homosexual Activist to Head European Rights Organization
The European Union’s official human rights advisory body appointed a prominent homosexual rights activist as its director this week, signaling a more aggressive stance against European laws and policies protecting the natural family.
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UN Bureaucracy To Push “LGBT Rights” Despite Tensions
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon promised that homosexual and transgender rights would advance at the United Nations despite the strain it will cause within the organization and between states.
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Analysis: Francis Speaks Truth to Power at UN, Condemns “Ideological Colonialism”
Many pro-lifers were dismayed that Pope Francis did not more robustly defend the rights of the unborn child while he was in the United States. Though he has done so in the past many times, hopes were high he would do so in the land of abortion on demand through all months of pregnancy.
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African Bishops Denounce “Filthy Campaigns” and “New Slavery” Before UN Summit
African Bishops denounced “agents of the civilization of death” in a powerful message prepared this summer ahead of today’s adoption of a new UN development scheme by world leaders.
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UNFPA Foiled By Nigeria on Abortion, Sexual Rights
A powerful and controversial UN population agency told the Nigerian government to change its position on reproductive health last week after setbacks in advancing abortion and sexual rights for adolescents in Africa.
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Amnesty’s Prostitution Stance Challenged
As Amnesty International fleshes out its new policy backing the decriminalization of prostitution, Rachel Moran has some insights for them.
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Second Source Confirms Obama Intends to Force Federal Grant Recipients to Accept LGBT Applications
A second source has come forward to confirm earlier Friday Fax reporting that the Obama administration intends to force Catholic and other Christian groups to accept LGBT applicants in hiring.
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U.S. Rebuffs Europe on Funding Abortions Abroad
The Obama administration told the UN last week that it would not contravene a U.S. law that prohibits it from funding abortions overseas.
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Abortion and LGBT Proponents Complain About Lack of Progress in UN Development Goals
The U.S. complained this week that the new UN development goals do not break any new ground on abortion.
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ANALYSIS: US and EU Block the Family From New UN Development Goals
Unable to get recognition of homosexual and transgender rights at the UN, the United States, European countries and their allies succeeded in blocking the family altogether from the new global development goals.
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Videos Spark International Protests Against Planned Parenthood
Secretly filmed videos of Planned Parenthood staff in the U.S. harvesting and selling the organs of aborted babies ignited protests in seven countries last weekend – and triggered questions of how widespread the practices may be.
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