U.S. Escalates LGBT Rights; LGBT Advocate Calls it Dangerous
The U.S. upped the stakes on international LGBT rights by raising the issue in an informal briefing on Monday at UN headquarters. But an LGBT advocate criticized it as pandering that could cost lives.
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Planned Parenthood Skirts Laws Around the Globe
For over two decades, the UN has maintained a compromise: abortion is not a human right, but where it is legal, it should be safe – at least, for the mother.
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Analysis: New Development Goals Do Not Create a Right to Abortion, But They Turn on the Money Spigot for Abortion
UN agencies and bureaucrats have been part of the global abortion industry for over two decades. But they have never had much ability to compel countries to change their abortion laws.
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UN Population Report Foresees Rapid Global Aging
The UN’s latest demographic numbers are out and show rapid global aging, and a sharp deceleration in population growth that could lead to stabilizing or even falling numbers before the century’s end.
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Amnesty Credits UN for Pro-Prostitution Policy
Amnesty International voted Tuesday to urge the decriminalization of all aspect of the sex trade, and said the new policy was based on input from the World Health Organization and UN Women.
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Amnesty Cites Disability Rights for Legalizing Prostitution
Two decades after the movie “Pretty Woman” glamorized prostitution, Hollywood stars are teaming up with ex-prostituted women to convince a human rights group not to advocate for legalizing prostitution.
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WHO Seeks To Expand Dwindling Pool of Abortionists
In a newly released paper, the World Health Organization complains there is a critical shortage of trained abortion providers, particularly in the developing world – and urges that medical standards be relaxed to allow lower-level health workers to perform abortions and limit their ability to conscientiously object.
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BREAKING NEWS: No Abortion, No Gays in Massive New UN Development Goals
The most anticipated and comprehensive UN agreement involving social policy since the 1990s does not break any new ground on abortion or homosexual issues.
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Groups From Around the World Tell the UN “Don’t Scrap Universal Declaration of Human Rights”
As countries negotiate the overhaul of the UN development system, they are also re-negotiating the place of family in UN policy.
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Kenyans Tear Down Pro-Abortion Message Prior to Obama’s Visit
In advance of President Barack Obama’s visit to Kenya, the dissident abortion group Catholics for Choice, bought a billboard with the message for Obama to strike down the U.S. law that forbids taxpayer money paying for abortions overseas.
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Will Obama Re-Define the Family for the World?
The Obama administration’s placement of LGBT rights at the forefront of U.S. foreign policy has caused backlash against LGBT rights in many parts of the world.
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Major UN Committee Set to Take Sides on Abortion as a Human Right
The way in which the UN Human Rights Committee conducted business last week indicates a plan to abandon neutrality on the question of whether abortion is a right under international law.
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Sex Activists Bemoan Passage of Pro-Family Resolution at UN in Geneva
If anyone doubts the victory claimed by pro-lifers regarding the rights of the family resolution passed by the Human Rights Council in Geneva recently, look no further than the reaction of sex activists. They are very upset.
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Senate Committee Votes to Maintain Funding for Overseas Abortion Groups
WASHINGTON DC, July 17 (C-Fam) The U.S. foreign aid policy blocking funding for groups that perform or promote abortion overseas has long been a political football, alternately instated and rescinded…
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Big Win for Traditional Family at UN Human Rights Council
A monumental development for the pro-family movement came last week in Geneva when the Human Rights Council approved a resolution calling for countries to take concrete steps to protect the family
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Nigeria Rebukes UN High Commissioner For Pushing LGBT as Human Rights
Nigeria publicly chastised the UN human rights office for trampling on universally-agreed rights as it seeks to impose same sex marriage and outlaw commonly-held views on homosexuality.
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“Women’s Human Rights Defenders”; Code for Abortion Activists
A UK-based advocacy group received high-level news coverage this week with a survey claiming that “women’s rights defenders” are facing increasing threats in their efforts to end violence against women and girls.
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UN and Abortion Group Coordinate Attack on the Philippines
An abortion group traveled to the Philippines last week to heap pressure on government officials after a UN committee criticized the country for “grave and systemic” human rights violations
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Pope’s “Climate Change” Letter Brandished at UN, Its Condemnation of Abortion Ignored
Pope Francis’ new encyclical on the environment made an impact on UN negotiations this week. In their rush to emphasize its comments on climate change, those wielding the document obscured the letter’s condemnation of abortion and population control.
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Amnesty International, Abortion and Ireland: Strong pressure, weak argument
Amnesty International is sliding deeper into pro-abortion activism with a report slamming Ireland for laws protecting unborn children.
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WHO: “Sexual Health” Means Governments Must Provide Abortion and Sex Change
The World Health Organization jumped into the culture wars this week and issued a report telling every country to remove restrictions on abortions – including for adolescents – provide sex change surgery
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Pro-Life Groups Flood UN Committee With Pleas to Block Right to Abortion
The UN Human Rights Committee was greeted Monday by a deluge of requests urging it to resist pressure to declare abortion a human right.
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Powerful Forces Seek to End Counseling for Reluctant Gays
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report last week on LGBT issues. In that document he called for an end to “conversion therapy.”
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UN Report Calls for LGBT Rights, Leaves out Same-Sex Marriage
A UN report seeking to break new ground for “LGBT rights” left same-sex “marriage” out of a long list of special new rights on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Administration Denies Change in LGBT Hiring Policy for Faith-Based Groups
Last week the Friday Fax reported on the charges of a whistle-blower that the Obama administration is on the verge of instituting a policy that would require groups getting federal grants to consider hiring openly LGBT individuals, even if such a policy would violate the group’s religious conscience.
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