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Rome Conference to Celebrate UN Legacy of Pope John Paul II
NEW YORK, April 11 (C-FAM) As crowds flock to Rome in April to celebrate the canonization of Pope John Paul II, a cohort of Catholics and Evangelicals will arrive a…
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US and EU Push Africans Once More on Abortion and Homosexuality
NEW YORK, April 11 (C-FAM) Africans are crying foul after wealthy Western countries ambushed them with a draft resolution that re-opens the troublesome issues of abortion and homosexuality in UN…
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New Paper: UN Report Emphasizes Abortion Instead of Maternal Health
NEW YORK, April 3 (C-FAM) A UN agency says abortion should be a maternal health priority and is distorting data to make its point as countries discuss a new global…
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EU Pressure on Homosexuality Complicates EU-Africa Summit
NEW YORK, April 3 (C-FAM) European pressure on African nations to change laws on homosexuality has created a backlash that may threaten this week’s meeting between leaders of the two…
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Massive UN Lobbying by Abortion Groups Yields Status Quo
NEW YORK, March 28 (C-FAM) Massive lobbying generated few returns for abortion groups who showed up in force at the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women. Women’s groups…
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Africans Abandon AIDS Resolution After Hijacked by “Sexual Progressives”
NEW YORK, March 28 (C-FAM) “This is unacceptable,” said Zimbabwe’s delegate. Her voice broke from frustration and regret. A resolution on HIV/AIDS, championed by the poorest African countries most affected…
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Ex-Prostituted Women Blast UN and Amnesty Int’l
NEW YORK, March 21 (C-FAM) Women rescued from prostitution are criticizing UN agencies and Amnesty International for trying to legalize prostitution insisting legalization would lead to more girls being trafficked,…
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Scholars Say Obama Contraception Mandate Violates Int’l Law
WASHINGTON DC, March 21 (C-FAM) Beer companies want gay pride on display at St. Patrick’s Day Parades. Coca-Cola wants to save polar bears. Hobby Lobby Stores wants to protect unborn…
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Hillary Clinton Says Women Cannot Progress Without Reproductive Rights
NEW YORK, March 14 (C-FAM) Twenty years after the Clintons failed to get countries to declare a right to abortion, Mrs. Clinton told a posh UN crowd that humanity cannot…
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Conservative Girls Shunned at World Girl Scouts UN Meeting
NEW YORK, March 14 (C-FAM) Who speaks for youth? Catholic teens are wondering after participating in a Girl Scouts meeting to collect young women’s opinions on the new goals that…
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LGBT Groups Rethinking Strategies After International Setbacks
NEW YORK, March 7 (C-FAM) Groups working for the normalization of homosexuality around the globe are asking themselves what they should do in the face of growing opposition to their…
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The Unhappy Shotgun Marriage of Abortion and Maternal Health Advocates
NEW YORK, March 7 (C-FAM) Global health advocates agree the rate of women dying in childbirth worldwide is unacceptably high. Usually, getting help from experienced advocates with political clout would…
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Obama Team Tries to Scrap Parts of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
NEW YORK, February 28 (C-FAM) Angry over not getting a same-sex-friendly definition of the family into a new UN document, the Obama Administration tried to delete language agreed upon by…
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Pro-Life Poetry Breaks Out at German Anti-Family Event
NEW YORK, February 28 (C-FAM) Quite unexpectedly pro-life poetry broke out in the German Mission to the United Nations. Twenty-year-old Anthony read a poem about becoming an unmarried father at…
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Bolivia Upholds Abortion Ban, Snubs UN Committee
NEW YORK, February 21 (C-FAM) The Constitutional Court of Bolivia has upheld the country’s laws protecting unborn children despite international pressure from UN experts. Bolivia’s highest court handed down a…
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UNFPA Struggles to Be Relevant 20 Years after Cairo
NEW YORK, February 21 (C-FAM) As countries negotiate new UN development goals, the Secretary General is lending his clout to a controversial UN agency as it struggles to stay relevant…
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Pro-lifers Host Rome Conference Celebrating John Paul II
NEW YORK, February 14 (C-FAM) C-FAM and the Alliance Defending Freedom are hosting a conference in Rome to explore and celebrate the contribution of Pope John Paul II to the…
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UN Official Mocks the Holy See at Abortion Conference in Philippines
NEW YORK, February 14 (C-FAM) Senior UN officials disparaged the Holy See and dismissed nations as subordinate to UN bureaucrats at a controversial conference in the Philippines. Pro-lifers picketed outside…
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Vatican Blasts UN Committee That Asks Church To Change Teaching on Abortion and Homosexuality
NEW YORK, February 5 (C-FAM) The Vatican accused a UN committee of interfering with Church doctrine and violating religious freedom after it was asked to change its teaching on abortion…
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UNESCO Report Promotes Abortion and Same-Sex Narrative
NEW YORK, February 5 (C-FAM) The UN’s educational and cultural agency says that the purpose of educating children is not only to foster their literacy and social advancement, but also…
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C-FAM’s Long Journey to Official UN Recognition
WASHINGTON DC, January 31(C-FAM) A UN committee agreed this week by consensus that C-FAM be granted “special consultative status” with the United Nations. Such status allows non-governmental groups access to…
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Organization Promoting Sex Selection Lies Its Way to UN Accreditation
NEW YORK, January 31 (C-FAM) The head of a fertility clinic that performs highly controversial and sometimes-deadly sex selection services downplayed those services during testimony before a UN committee this…
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Sex Research Group Linked to Pedophiles Granted UN Recognition
NEW YORK, January 24 (C-FAM) An academic group whose research was obtained from pedophiles and launched the sexual revolution in the U.S. has received accreditation by the United Nations. The…
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Top Conservative Law Professors Debate UN Lawmaking
NEW YORK, January 24 (C-FAM) Is human rights law really law if there is no way to enforce it and no remedy for the wrongs that are done? Legal experts…
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Kenyans Defeat Western Effort to Expand Abortion
NEW YORK, January 17 (C-FAM) When Kenyans voted on a new constitution in 2010, a massive publicity campaign – heavily funded by the Obama administration – assured voters it would…
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