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Drumbeat Continues to Include Abortion in Millennium Development Goals
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on Thursday wrapped up a two-day conference laying out the UN's strategy for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)…
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UN General Assembly Calls on Nations to Ban All Forms of Human Cloning
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) In a historic pro-life victory, the United Nations has called on all nations of the world to ban all forms of human cloning. The Declaration…
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UN Abortion Advocates Admit Beijing Excludes Abortion Rights
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Many countries and abortion proponents this week reaffirmed that the Beijing Platform for Action did not create a right to abortion. This came in response…
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UN Convenes Preemptive Meeting to Promote Radical Feminist Agenda
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) convened an unusual informal consultation in preparation for a major two week conference set to begin…
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UN to Decide Today on Human Cloning
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) A UN committee has been meeting in special session this week to agree to a document on human cloning. After two years of negotiations, a…
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UN-Commissioned Report Advocates Abortion Rights/Attacks Christian Beliefs
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) (NEW YORK – C-FAM) A commission working for the United Nations recently released a number of important reports that are unusual in their open advocacy…
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Controversy Surrounds UN Disabilities Negotiation
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Today the United Nations closes the fifth in a series of two-week drafting sessions intended to produce an internationally binding convention on the rights and…
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UN Report Shows Dramatic Global Increase in Contraception and Divorce
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The UN Population Division (UNPD) released a report this week showing that within the span of one generation, fertility levels have plummeted while divorce rates…
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New UNICEF Chief Named, Heavy Tasks Face Her
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) US Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman was appointed as the new Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan….
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UN to Draft Sweeping Convention on All “Disabilities”
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Next week the United Nations convenes a working group to continue drafting an international convention on people with disabilities. The eventual treaty will set domestic…
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UNFPA Elusive About Abortion Aid for Tsunami Victims
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) describes itself as the "largest international public sector supplier of contraceptives, condoms and other reproductive health essentials," and states that…
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UN-Funded Pro-Abortion Group Attacks Costa Rica’s In Vitro Ban
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The Center For Reproductive Rights (CRR), the most active pro-abortion litigant in the United States and a major global pro-abortion force, has filed supporting documents…
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Human Rights Activists Reject UN Call for Legalized Abortion in Poland
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The government of Poland is actively assessing its domestic laws on abortion and other social issues. An influential UN committee has intervened in the process…
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Radicals Host Anti-Family Conference in China
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Following close on the heels of the pro-life and pro-family Doha (Qatar) International Conference on the Family, the pro-abortion forces met in a similar four-day…
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Battle Lines Forming to Replace Radical Feminist Bellamy as Head of UNICEF
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) A recent article in the British medical journal The Lancet may be the opening shot in a governmental struggle over the next head of the…
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International Conference Adopts Monumental Pro-Family Declaration
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) A two-day governmental conference in Doha, Qatar ended on Tuesday with the adoption of a groundbreaking document that endorses the traditional family as the foundation…
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UN to Reach Final Decision on Human Cloning/Vote Expected Tomorrow
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) A three-year battle at the UN over human cloning is expected to culminate tomorrow in a decision that will seal the fate of this issue…
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UN Once More Predicts Steep Declines in Population Growth Rates
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The UN Population Division has just released its occasional crystal ball predictions about global population growth. This report attempts to project fertility rates and global…
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Devout Catholic Rejected by European Parliament for Top EU Job
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Rocco Buttiglione, a devout Catholic and close friend of the Pope, withdrew his nomination for a prominent EU position last week after left-leaning members of…
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UN Resumes Debate on Human Cloning Ban
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) After a year-long delay, the UN resumed debate last week on a possible ban on human cloning. At issue are two competing resolutions, a Costa…
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US-Sponsored Panel Calls for Focus on Main Causes of Maternal Mortality
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) At a panel convened Tuesday at the UN, public health experts discussed the failure of UN "reproductive rights" and family planning programs to reduce maternal…
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US Speech at UN Rejects Abortion, Support for Motherhood and Family
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) At the UN General Assembly (GA) yesterday, the United States used the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development…
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Studies Show Values Are More Effective Than Condoms In Avoiding AIDS
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The Pontifical Council for the Family recently released a reflection by Alfonso Cardinal Lopez Trujillo that strongly makes the case for abstinence and fidelity within…
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Abortion Lobby Uses AIDS to Extend “Reproductive Rights”
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Pro-abortion nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) recently released a blueprint for their allies to force governments to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic by establishing "complete reproductive rights"…
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Executives Earn High Pay at International Planned Parenthood Federation
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Financial documents reveal that the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) pays many of its executives hundreds of thousands of dollars, even though IPPF Director-General Steven…
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