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Abortion Does Not Fit With UN Reform
Despite its ongoing efforts to restore public trust in the UN through a series of reforms, the UN bureaucracy continues to overstep its mandate by carrying out a controversial normative agenda that promotes abortion and gender ideology.
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UN Child Rights Committee Promotes Abortion, Undermines Parental Rights in New General Comment
WASHINGTON D.C., August 1 (C-Fam) The UN human rights committee focused on protecting children’s rights continues to double down in favor of abortion for minors and against parental rights in…
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Foreign Operations bill advances with pro-life protections and UN oversight requirements
WASHINGTON D.C., August 1 (C-Fam) The U.S. foreign operations bill advanced toward passage last week in the House of Representatives, maintaining the inclusion of pro-life provisions and mandating oversight on…
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Trump Cracks EU Bloc with War on DEI and Gender Ideology
NEW YORK, July 25 (C-Fam) U.S. President Donald Trump’s war against DEI and gender ideology is gaining adherents, wearing down international opponents, and causing cracks to show in the EU coalition.
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UN Women’s Rights Czar Fights Back Against Trans-Feminist Smears
NEW YORK, July 25 (C-Fam) Media and advocacy organizations paid to promote gender ideology are viciously attacking a top UN women’s rights expert because she is against gender ideology. She is not cowering. She is fighting back.
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U.S. Rejects International Health Regulations Championed by Biden, With Italy and Israel
WASHINGTON DC, July 25 (C-FAM) The Trump administration rejected a set of amendments to the International Health Regulations, a key part of the Biden-backed World Health Organization’s (WHO) pandemic response framework. Italy and Israel joined the Trump administration in rejecting the amendments.
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EU Turbocharges Censorship of Conservatives with AI Regulation
NEW YORK, July 18 (C-Fam) New EU “safety and security” standards will require tech companies to censor and moderate content on general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) models to prevent “hate” and…
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Has the U.S. Disengaged from the Universal Periodic Review?
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 18 (C-Fam) The United States is scheduled to have its human rights record reviewed by UN member states later this year as part of a process called…
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Rubio Shuts Down USAID permanently, Blames DEI and Censorship
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 11 (C-Fam) Marco Rubio shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) last week. He also announced a complete overhaul of how the federal government will handle overseas assistance to advance U.S. interests.
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Civil Society Groups Ask the UN to End Demand for Prostitution
NEW YORK, July 11 (C-Fam) At a recent UN meeting on human trafficking, civil society groups asked UN member states to recognize prostitution and pornography as key drivers of trafficking. The groups challenged the UN narrative that prostitution can be a dignified profession, referring to it as an inherently exploitative system that hurts women. UN agencies stayed silent on the need to end the demand for prostitution.
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When Pro-Life Countries Surrender: Evidence from Human Rights Database
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 11 (C-Fam) C-Fam’s new human rights database shows how pressure on pro-life countries does not diminish once they allow abortion. It increases until they allow abortion on demand and become radicalized abortion advocates themselves.
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International Trans Lobby gives up on SCOTUS cases
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 4 (C-Fam) In a surprising departure from recent years, LGBT groups and their supporters stayed quiet about international human rights law during the just-concluded Supreme Court term.
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Radical Social Policies on Full Display at UN Human Rights Council
NEW YORK, July 4 (C-Fam) UN human rights officials took over the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council to promote divisive social policies, including advocating for “gender-affirming care” services for migrants and criticizing countries that do not support pride marches, LGBT-friendly curricula in schools, and the killing of the unborn.
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Top UN Women’s Rights Expert Declares War on Gender Ideology
GENEVA, June 27 (C-Fam) A war of words has broken out at the UN as the top UN human rights official for women told governments to define gender based on biological sex. She also told governments to stop using gender-neutral language in referring women. “You cannot protect what you cannot define,” said Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls.
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C-Fam Human Rights Database Provides Window into Human Rights Priorities
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a process whereby individual governments at the UN give each other recommendations on how to improve their human rights records. C-Fam’s human rights database offers a window into governments’ human rights priorities on social issues, both in terms of what they say and what they do not say.
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C-Fam Database Shows Increased Treaty Body Pressure on Abortion/Gender
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 20 (C-Fam) C-Fam’s massive human rights database tracks the ways in which human rights mechanisms are used to pressure countries to liberalize their abortion laws and legally recognize and promote gender ideology. The database, which went online last year, also reveals the ways in which this pressure has grown and changed over the years.
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UN Committee Tells Guatemala to Redefine Forced Pregnancy
NEW YORK, June 20 (C-Fam) A UN committee of human rights experts told the Government of Guatemala that its restrictive abortion laws must change. Unlike many non-binding recommendations of UN rights bodies, the opinion in this case is binding.
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Trump May Shut Down Gender Ideology at UNICEF/Euros Rattled
UNITED NATIONS, June 13 (C-Fam) The Trump administration may force the UN agency for children to hit the pause button on sexualizing children, promoting abortion, and gender ideology. Europeans want the agency to ignore the administration.
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UNFPA Solution to Low Fertility: Legal Abortion, Family Redefinition
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 13 (C-Fam) The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) launched its flagship annual State of World Population report this week. While this year’s report examined the causes of…
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Massive New Database Exposes Extent of Abortion/SOGI Pressure from UN Bodies
WASHINGTON, DC, June 13 (C-Fam) Countries around the world are under pressure to liberalize their abortion laws and enshrine special protections and recognition on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in their laws and policies, all in the name of human rights.
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The New UN Cybercrime Treaty Opens the Door to Child Pornography and Pedophilia
It has become common in recent years to use the term “child sexual exploitation/abuse material” to refer to child pornography, but the new term was never coextensive nor synonymous with the term “child pornography,” which has a long history and an established legal definition. The discrepancy between the two terms was brought to light in the negotiation of a new United Nations treaty against cyber-crime.
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Trump Admin Attacks China and UN Population Control Agency
UNITED NATIONS, June 6 (C-Fam) The Trump administration announced it would defund the UN population agency this week for working with the population control bureaucracy of the Chinese Communist Party and blasted it for promoting gender ideology and DEI.
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Turkey Vows Government-Wide Fight Against Gender Ideology
NEW YORK, June 6 (C-Fam) In line with President Erdoğan’s priorities, the Turkish Ministry of Family and Social Services has demanded its regional offices and other executive agencies adopt a unified stance against “gender”, “gender identity,” “sexual orientation,” and “LGBT.” The Ministry said these terminologies contradict Turkey’s moral values and undermine family structures.
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Bangladesh accused of coercing Rohingya women to use contraceptives
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 6 (C-Fam) It is reported that Rohingya women, Muslim refugees from genocide in Myanmar, are being coerced by Bangladeshi officials to use contraceptives. The coercion is reported to be taking place in Cox’s Bazar, a port city in southeastern Bangladesh.
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Turkey Vows to Fight Western Cultural Imperialism
ISTANBUL, May 30 (C-Fam) In a broadside against what he considers the decadent West, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared that all his country’s geopolitical clout will be deployed against gender ideology and population control.
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