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Conservative Document Endorsed by 700 NGOs Presented to UN Today
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The Heritage Foundation today presented a conservative document to the United Nations that was endorsed by more than 700 groups gathered by the Catholic…
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UN Program Rejects Abstinence Group for Criticizing Condoms
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) A Nigerian organization was denied admittance to a United Nations program that solicits volunteers because the organization's leader criticized condoms in the prevention of HIV…
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Pro-Life Participant Openly Rebuked by Chair at Disabilities Conference
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) At a recent UN conference held to negotiate a treaty on the rights of the disabled, the concerns of a pro-life NGO leader were openly criticized…
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Pro-Abortion Speaker Makes Rounds at World Youth Day/Or Did She?
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) There was a flurry of international activity last week regarding speculation that Eveline Herfkens, a pro-abortion Dutch bureaucrat connected to the UN, would address World Youth…
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Dangerous Language Being Introduced Into Disabilities Document
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The inclusion of unprecedented language making "sexual and reproductive health services" a human right garnered the widespread support of governments participating in a United Nations session…
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President of General Assembly Defends Exclusion of Pro-Life Groups
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The President of the UN General Assembly has responded to complaints from the US Mission that conservative and pro-life NGOs were excluded from recent consultations…
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‘Catholic’ Aid Organization in Holland Supports Plan to Promote Abortion
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) A prominent Dutch aid organization which touts itself as Catholic has endorsed the Dutch government's position that "reproductive rights" are essential to achieve the Millennium Development…
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UNFPA Demands Abortion Rights for Children as Young as 10
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Two recent publications circulating at the United Nations demonstrate a growing focus on young people as a way of advancing the abortion agenda. The reports, one…
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Expert at UN Women’s Rights Session Compares Abortion to ‘Torture’
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Unusual admissions were made yesterday by a member of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, a UN committee watchdog that monitors compliance with…
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US Protests Exclusion of Pro-Life Groups from UN Conference
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The Friday Fax has learned that the acting US Ambassador to the United Nations has sent a letter of complaint to the President of the…
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UNFPA Calls for Abortion to Decrease Child Mortality, Increase Education
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) This week, senior governmental ministers and heads of state have convened at the UN in a final preparatory conference before September's Millennium Summit+5. UN agencies…
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US Protests UN Excludes Pro-Life Groups from Important UN Meeting
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) For the last two days, hundreds of UN-picked international lobby groups have gathered in New York for discussions with the UN General Assembly about the…
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US Panel Calls for Major United Nations Reform in Scathing
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) A bipartisan task force of the Untied States Congress released a report on Wednesday stating that that the UN is in "urgent" need of "sweeping…
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EU Calls For Abortion In New Global UN Document
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) With a draft outcome document having been presented to countries this Monday, negotiations over the Millennium+5 Summit are intensifying. It is at this time that…
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UN Calls for Closer Links Between AIDS Prevention Programs and Abortion
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Yesterday the UN wrapped up a high-level conference to evaluate the progress achieved in combating the spread of HIV/AIDS since the 2001 Declaration of Commitment…
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New Report Shows How Beijing Document Promotes Abortion
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Merely two months after the close of the "Beijing +10" conference at the United Nations, where pro-abortion lobby groups and delegates from several countries vehemently…
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UN AIDS Conference Threatens to Push for Increased Access to Abortion
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) On June 2, the UN will host a high-level conference to evaluate the progress achieved in combating HIV/AIDS since 2001, when countries adopted the Declaration…
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UN-Funded Lawyers File Suit to Force Change in Columbia Abortion Laws
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) On April 14, abortion activists in Colombia mounted a monumental legal challenge to Colombia's total ban on abortion, claiming that international treaties establish abortion as…
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UNFPA, IPPF Organize Pakistani Conference to Undermine Muslim Teaching on Abortion/Contraception
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) A three-day international conference of Muslim scholars that portrayed contraception and even abortion as acceptable to Islam wraps up today in Islamabad, Pakistan. The International…
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Family Planning Bill in Philippines Paving Way for Legalized Abortion
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) One of the most populous Catholic countries in the world is set to significantly liberalize its laws on family planning and "reproductive health" services, stopping…
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UN Admits that Access to Abortion Not Effective at Reducing Maternal Mortality
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Earlier this month, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its annual report on maternal mortality around the world. The report shows that the most…
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Pro-Life Forces Claim Victory at UN Population Conference
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The UN Commission on Population and Development (CPD) ended its annual session yesterday and prolife groups are claiming victory. As is typical, the UN organizers…
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US Stands Firm Against Abortion at UN Population Conference
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) A number of pro-life interventions made this week at the 38th Session of the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) have been repelling the steady…
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UN Steps Up Vigorous Call for Universal Access to Abortion
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) At next week's UN conference on HIV/AIDS and its links to population, development and poverty, a UN body looks poised to call for universal access…
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EU Report Calls for European Countries to Increase Fertility
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) With recent European Union enlargement to include much of Eastern Europe, the EU rocketed by US population of 260 million by roughly 190 million. Even…
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