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Sustainable Development Summit Declared a Pro-life Victory
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) As the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa drew to a close this week, pro-life/pro-family delegates were satisfied with the outcome…
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Drive for Abortion Rights Roils UN Sustainable Development Summit
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Just like many other UN meetings, the already-contentious negotiations at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) now taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa could…
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Rotary International Risks Reputation with UNFPA Alliance
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Along with a number of humanitarian projects, including a massive campaign to eradicate polio, Rotary International also teams with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)…
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Joining China, Girl Scouts Honor Former UNFPA Chief Sadik
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) At its world conference held this summer in the Philippines, The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGS) celebrated the achievements of the…
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NGOs Cite CEDAW Committee’s Pro-abortion Stand at Current Meetings
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Since the word "abortion" does not appear in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), US proponents of the…
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Senate Sources Believe Radical UN Treaty May Pass into US Law
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Some conservative senate staffers are bracing for the possibility that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the controversial…
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Bush De-funds UN Population Agency for Role in China Abortions
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) On Monday, the Bush administration announced its decision to end all U.S. support for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) because it aids China's "One-Child…
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EU Parliament Members Seek Holy See Silence, Ouster From UN
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Members of the European Parliament have stepped up their attacks on the Catholic Church, circulating a number of resolutions condemning the Church's moral authority on…
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UNFPA and its U.S. Allies Use Catholic Church in Funding Dispute; Kenyan Bishop Outraged
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) In a startling political move, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and its allies in the United States Congress have sought to justify US funding…
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EU Parliament Votes To Establish Europe-Wide Right to Abortion
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) In a narrow 280-240 vote (with twenty-eight abstentions), the European Parliament voted Wednesday to establish sweeping new norms for "reproductive and sexual rights," including a…
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UN Report Suggests Condoms are not the Answer to AIDS Epidemic
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) According to a United Nations report released on June 23, the UN's massive effort to supply the world with condoms in a bid to stem…
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Denmark Told to Change Laws by CEDAW Committee, Raising Fears in US
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) A familiar refrain of proponents of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is that US ratification of the…
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US Senate Committee Considers Ratification of CEDAW
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing yesterday to address whether the United States should ratify the controversial UN women's rights convention, called the…
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US Pro-Life/Pro-Family NGOs Flood White House Switchboard Against CEDAW
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) As news has spread that the United States is considering ratification of a controversial United Nations women's rights convention, pro-life and pro-family nongovernmental organizations have…
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European Rightward Tilt May Affect UN Business
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Although the rise of far-right European political parties has garnered worldwide attention, the more quiet resurgence of center-right and Christian Democratic parties in country after…
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UN Commission Asserts Low Asian Birth Rate Will Result in Poor Elderly
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The United Nations continues to voice concern over the dual demographic trends of declining births and an increasingly elderly population, this time focusing its attention…
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Vocal NGO Critic of US at Child Summit Sells Abortion Equipment
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) One of the groups most critical of the United States and other governments holding pro-life positions at the recent United Nations Special Session of the…
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Tempers Flare as Child Summit Negotiations Go Down to Wire
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The controversies over the provision of abortion for children and the proper definition of the family, which have dogged the year-long preparatory process of the…
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UN Child Summit Negotiations Stymied Over Adolescent Abortion
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The controversies over the provision of abortion for children and the proper definition of the family, which have dogged the year-long preparatory process of the…
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EU Feels Political Effects of Fertility Decline, Immigration
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) For at least three years, the United Nations Population Division has warned that Europe is on the brink of economic and political upheaval because of…
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Philippine Groups Sue “Catholics” for A Free Choice, Charging Media Lies
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The latest media campaign of "Catholics" for a Free Choice (CFFC) has finally garnered attention, but it may not be the attention CFFC desired —…
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US Takes Pro-family Stance at UN Population Commission, EU defends UNFPA
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) At the UN Commission on Population and Development last week, the United States delegation declared that the promotion of strong families and strong values is…
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UN Sponsors “Catholics” for a Free Choice Attack on the Holy See
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) "Catholics" for a Free Choice (CFFC) this week has renewed its attack against the status of the Holy See at the United Nations, this time…
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Natural Family Planning Gains Adherents in Bangladesh, Says Doctor
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) When offered the option, many women in Bangladesh select natural family planning over artificial means of contraception, according to Dr. Hanna Klaus, Executive Director of…
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UNFPA Executive Director seeks additional funding for beleaguered agency
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) At this week's International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) executive director Thoraya Obaid issued a plea for…
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