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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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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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FY16 Omnibus: US Foreign Assistance Should Assist — Not Limit Births or Push Dangerous Pharmaceuticals
The letter below from C-Fam president Austin Ruse was sent to Congressional leaders regarding funding for overseas family planning within the FY2016 omnibus spending package. We ask leadership to consider…
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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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Drowning in Alphabet Soup
Why rapidly expanding acronyms are not the best prescription for global maternal health Earlier this year, the World Health Organization issued a report titled “Strategies toward ending preventable maternal mortality…
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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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