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Fertility Decline May Unhinge Asian Security, Expert Panel Says
NEW YORK, April 6 (C-FAM) The global fertility freefall is about to cause geopolitical upheaval in Asia, a panel of experts said this week. The experts, all contributors to the…
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UN May Recognize Sex Rights for Ten-Year Old Children
NEW YORK, March 30 (C-FAM) The UN Commission on Population and Development is considering “sexual and reproductive health and rights” for children as young as ten. Even the Secretary General…
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Argentine Supreme Court Falls Prey to UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies
NEW YORK, March 30 (C-FAM) In a surprising ruling, the Supreme Court of Argentina has declared abortion is a woman’s right in case of rape under international law. Under the…
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US Bullies “Contraceptive Mandate” on International Community
NEW YORK, March 23 (C-FAM) The United States burned diplomatic bridges during this year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women by using force and deception to pass an unpopular…
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US Bullying Angers Developing World and Leads to US Defeat at UN
NEW YORK, March 23 (C-FAM) Negotiations for a final document at the UN Commission on the Status of Women were supposed to end more than a week ago. However, they…
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UN Delegates Walk Out on Sexual Orientation Panel at Human Rights Council
GENEVA, March 16 (C-FAM) UN delegates decided they had enough of “sexual orientation and gender identity” and staged a walk-out at UN headquarters in Geneva last week. It was to…
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Pro-Life Youth Converge On UN Women’s Conference
NEW YORK, March 16 (C-FAM) Pro-life and pro-family youth from around the world arrived at the United Nations last week to represent the International Youth coalition (IYc) at the 56th…
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UN Agencies Fuel Sex Selective Abortions and the Devaluation of Women
NEW YORK, March 9 (C-FAM) The United Nations top agencies are actively promoting two root causes of Asia’s massive gender imbalance, charged an expert on population policies this week during…
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YWCA Nigeria Presents Graphic Video About “Unsafe Abortion” at the UN
NEW YORK, March 9 (C-FAM) The Young Women’s Christian Association of Nigeria (YWCA) sent mixed messages about their position on abortion when it presented a graphic documentary about “unsafe abortion” at…
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UN Security Guards Confiscate Pro-Life Literature from Students
NEW YORK, March 2 (C-FAM) Youth attending a UN conference on women’s issues this week say UN security officers confiscated their backpacks after discovering pro-life literature. The confiscated materials were…
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Delegations to UN Women’s Conference Led By Abortion Advocates
NEW YORK, March 2 (C-FAM) Even before the UN’s annual women’s conference began this Monday, the European Union, Norway, Uruguay and Switzerland were already working to include abortion rights language…
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Independent Researchers Challenge Another WHO Report
Washington, DC, February 24 (C-FAM) A new study by an independent group of researchers shows that the World Health Organization (WHO) has significantly underestimated malaria mortality figures in its 2011…
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Brazil Officials at UN Reveal Plans to Defeat Pro-Life Bill
GENEVA, February 24 (C-FAM) Deep within a UN committee in Geneva, Brazil’s government officials filed a report criticizing the country’s pending pro-life legislation and described plans to defeat it. In…
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UN Committee Temporarily Shuts the Door on Pro-Abortion and Anti-Catholic Advocacy Groups
NEW YORK, February 17 (C-FAM) During the past two weeks, a seemingly inconsequential UN oversight committee convened with undeniably consequential results. Tasked with reviewing the applications of hundreds of advocacy…
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Political Leaders Protect Marriage and Children from Homosexual/Transsexual Demands
New York, February 17 (C-FAM) Resistance to the United States’ new foreign policy priority is emerging around the world for the same reasons it has been rejected within the U.S. …
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UN Secretary General Tells African Nations to Adopt LGBT Rights
New York, February 10 (C-FAM) Last week UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told African nations to repeal criminal laws that places sanctions on homosexual conduct and to stop discrimination because…
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Analysis: WHO’s report is it anyway?
NEW YORK, February 10 (C-FAM) In recent weeks a new paper asserting that all nations should liberalize abortion laws has been characterized by the news media as an authoritative study…
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Analysis: WHO Staff Report Calls for Legal Abortion in Developing World, Abortion Figures Inflated
Washington DC, February 3 (C-FAM) A widely publicized report in The Lancet medical journal calling for the legalization of abortion contained inflated numbers, flawed data collection and highly misleading language….
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Population Control and Reproductive Rights Activists Sidelined in Rio+20 Debate
New York, February 3 (C-FAM) In preparation for what is arguably the most influential intergovernmental conference on sustainable development internationally, representatives from member states, UN agencies and civil society concluded…
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Hungary Defies Critics With New Family Law
New York, January 27 (C-FAM) Hungarian leaders have passed a law protecting the traditional family, defying ongoing criticism that their new constitution would curtail abortion and homosexuality. The new law…
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Senator champions the American Convention on Human Rights as Uruguay moves to legalize abortion
NEW YORK, January 27 (C-FAM) A left leaning coalition within the Uruguayan Senate recently approved a bill that would legalize abortion within the first trimester of pregnancy. The bill narrowly…
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Guardians of Pro-Life Treaty Promote Abortion
NEW YORK, January 20 (C-FAM) An international commission committed to the promotion and protection of human rights in the Americas recently published two reports that challenge laws protecting life from…
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Backlash Begins Against Obama’s LGBT agenda
NEW YORK, January 20 (C-FAM) The citizens of several countries are pushing back against President Obama’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender foreign policy imperative. Leaders in El Salvador launched a…
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Analysis: Clash of Competing Rights Claims Raises Free Speech Concerns
NEW YORK, January 13 (C-FAM) Tension between free speech advocacy and efforts to curb “hate speech” has arisen over the past year as the result of recent initiatives at the…
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Russia and Other States Move to Reform Broken Treaty System
NEW YORK, January 13 (C-FAM) Wresting many delegations from their vacation slumber, Russia held an informal meeting early this week to propose a resolution calling for states to take a…
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