Population Questions Enliven UN Debate on Development
NEW YORK, February 1 (C-FAM) A major disagreement among demographic experts threatens to upend efforts to include population control and family planning programs in the United Nations new development agenda….
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Abortion Leaders Prepare for New UN Development Goals
NEW YORK, January 25 (C-FAM) Abortion advocates and others are concerned about the impending expiration of the Millennium Development Goals in two years. Some of them met last week to…
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Europeans Launch Initiative To Defund Abortion
NEW YORK, January 25 (C-FAM) A European court victory for environmentalists has inspired a continent-wide campaign to end European Union funding of embryo-destructive research and abortion. The “One of Us”…
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Europeans Launch Initiative To Defund Abortion
NEW YORK, January 25 (C-FAM) A European court victory for environmentalists has inspired a continent-wide campaign to end European Union funding of embryo-destructive research and abortion. The “One of Us”…
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Abortion Leaders Prepare for New UN Development Goals
NEW YORK, January 25 (C-FAM) Abortion advocates and others are concerned about the impending expiration of the Millennium Development Goals in two years. Some of them met last week to…
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US State Department Laments Losses Last Summer at Rio
WASHINGTON DC, January 18 (C-FAM) The Obama administration told abortion advocates last week it will not be able to push for “sexual rights” in UN funding talks this spring because…
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French Homosexuals Join Demonstration Against Gay Marriage
NEW YORK, January 18 (C-FAM) Perhaps as many as a million people marched in Paris last Sunday and at French embassies around the world against proposed legislation that would legalize…
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French Homosexuals Join Demonstration Against Gay Marriage
NEW YORK, January 18 (C-FAM) Perhaps as many as a million people marched in Paris last Sunday and at French embassies around the world against proposed legislation that would legalize…
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US State Department Laments Losses Last Summer at Rio
WASHINGTON DC, January 18 (C-FAM) The Obama administration told abortion advocates last week it will not be able to push for “sexual rights” in UN funding talks this spring because…
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Edmund Burke Fellowship Convenes in C-FAM UN Office
NEW YORK, January 11 (C-FAM) The academic week of the Edmund Burke Fellowship met this week in C-FAM’s New York office. Named for the 18th century statesman and political theorist,…
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New Study Challenges UN Statistics and Priorities
NEW YORK, January 11 (C-FAM) A just-released global study demonstrates that the diseases causing most of the world’s untimely deaths and illness, especially among children, are not receiving proportionate attention…
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New Study Challenges UN Statistics and Priorities
NEW YORK, January 11 (C-FAM) A just-released global study demonstrates that the diseases causing most of the world’s untimely deaths and illness, especially among children, are not receiving proportionate attention…
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Edmund Burke Fellowship Convenes in C-FAM UN Office
NEW YORK, January 11 (C-FAM) The academic week of the Edmund Burke Fellowship met this week in C-FAM’s New York office. Named for the 18th century statesman and political theorist,…
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Maternal Health Argument for Abortion Persists, Despite Evidence
NEW YORK, January 4 (C-FAM) Advocates for legal abortion in all circumstances continue to make their case in terms of reducing maternal mortality, despite a growing body of evidence showing…
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UN General Assembly Plenary Concludes as it Began
NEW YORK, January 4 (C-FAM) The UN General Assembly (GA)’s 67th plenary session concluded in December in much the same way as it concluded over half a century ago when…
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UN General Assembly Plenary Concludes as it Began
NEW YORK, January 4 (C-FAM) The UN General Assembly (GA)’s 67th plenary session concluded in December in much the same way as it concluded over half a century ago when…
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Maternal Health Argument for Abortion Persists, Despite Evidence
NEW YORK, January 4 (C-FAM) Advocates for legal abortion in all circumstances continue to make their case in terms of reducing maternal mortality, despite a growing body of evidence showing…
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C-FAM’s 2012 Five Best Moments For Life and Family at the United Nations
NEW YORK, December 27 (C-FAM) The United Nations is not a place where you expect human life and dignity, or the natural family to be valued. But on rare occasions…
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The Inter-American Court versus the Rule of Law
PHOENIX, December 27 (C-FAM) Late last week the Inter-American Court on Human Rights struck down a Costa Rican law that banned in vitro fertilization, ruling that the restrictions violated rights…
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C-FAM’s 2012 Five Worst Moments for Life and Family at the United Nations
NEW YORK, December 20 (C-FAM) As we look back over the year 2012 here are five of the worst moments for human life, dignity and the family at the United…
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UN Women Forum on Violence against Women Encumbered by Usual Baggage
NEW YORK, December 20 (C-FAM) At the closing session of the Stakeholders’ Forum on “Preventing and Eliminating Violence Against Women,” Liberian Ambassador Marjon V. Kamara praised the contributions of “all…
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Russia Rejects UN Committee Edict on Homosexual Propaganda
GENEVA, December 14 (C-FAM) A UN committee of legal experts reprimanded the Russian Federation last month for allowing the Ryazan province of Russia to enforce a law that bans the…
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Host Country Distances Itself from UN Youth Conference
NEW YORK, December 14 (C-FAM) As the twentieth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) approaches, abortion activists are marking out their priorities for governments to adopt…
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Senate Rejects Controversial Disability Treaty
WASHINGTON, DC, December 7 (C-FAM) The United States Senate voted this week against ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The 61-38 vote…
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UN Agency for Refugees Firmly in Grasp of LGBT Advocates
NEW YORK, December 7 (C-FAM) The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has issued new comprehensive guidelines on asylum claims brought by lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) persons, with…
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