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UN Begins to Consider that the “Population Explosion” is Over
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The UN this week convened a meeting of demographers to discuss whether the fertility of developing countries like India and Brazil will continue to fall,…
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UNFPA Admits Chinese Government Monitored UNFPA Investigators
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The debate over US funding of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) came to the US Senate at the end of last week. Senator Barbara Boxer…
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US Takes Strong Position for Total UN Ban on Human Cloning/EU Split
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The US government at the UN this week came out strongly in favor of a total ban on human cloning. The US delegate told the…
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UN Begins Deliberation on Partial Ban of Human Cloning
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) UN Members States begin discussions in New York on Monday that may lead to an international ban on human cloning. The proposed Convention, however, will…
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UNFPA “Partner” Advocates Breaking National Abortion Laws
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) repeatedly insists it does not support or promote abortion. This assertion is a key part of their case to…
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UN Gender Committee Admits Legal Abortion Unsafe for Women
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) After years of advising countries to legalize abortion, members of the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) expert committee have voiced…
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Homosexual Group Misleads UN Panel, Rejected for Official UN Status
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) After a contentious debate lasting intermittently since 1995, the UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) this week rejected a bid by the International Gay and…
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Chilean Senate Fears for Sovereignty if UN Document is Ratified
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The government of Chile recently postponed a senate vote on the UN's controversial Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women…
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National Campaign Rages For and Against US Funding for UN Agency
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) As President Bush mulls whether the US should give $34 million to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), editorial boards across the nation have mobilized…
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UNICEF ‘Major Funder’ of Group Promoting Abortion/Pornography for Children
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) supports a South African organization that encourages children to engage in sexual and homosexual behavior and to have abortions,…
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New Director Named for Radical Feminist UN Agency
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) has named Dr. Carolyn Hannan, a Swedish "gender mainstreaming" expert, as its new director. Hannan recently…
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Campaign Blaming Bishops for AIDS Deaths Largely Ignored by Media
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The latest effort of Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) to discredit the Catholic Church appears to have fallen flat. On November 30, CFFC began…
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UN Report Claims no Coercive Practices in China, Report Disputed by Experts
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) In an effort to quell one of the controversies threatening its US funding-levels, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) sent investigators to China to assess…
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UN Report Confirms UN-Backed Coercive Population Control in Peru
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Despite repeated UN denials, a recently uncovered report commissioned by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) shows that UNFPA-sponsored family planning programs in Peru have been…
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Texas Lawyers Attempt to Use UN Resolutions to Overturn US Law
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The State of Texas executed Gerald Lee Mitchell recently but not before his lawyers advanced arguments that he should be spared based on United Nations…
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UN Begins Considering “Clone and Kill” Convention
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Last week, the UN General Assembly (GA) took the first steps towards a limited worldwide ban on cloning, a ban that would ignore the human…
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Doctor Charges UN With Ignoring Women’s Needs for Basic Medical Care
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The medical director of a Catholic relief agency charges that UN officials in some of the poorest countries in the world reject the assistance of…
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Vatican Criticizes Three-Year-Old UN Refugee Manual
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The Vatican last week strongly condemned a three-year-old UN field manual on refugees for promoting "anti-values that offend the dignity of the poorest and most…
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New UNFPA Report Contradicted by More Credible UN Sources
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) A new report issued by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) contends that population growth has resulted in human misery and environmental ruin throughout the…
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UNFPA Fumbles Opening of Chinese Coercion Investigation
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has asked the Population Research Institute (PRI) for additional proof that forced abortions and sterilizations still occur in Chinese…
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Girl Scouts at UN Charged with Supporting Anti-Catholic Group
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) This week the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights charged the World Association of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides (WAGGGS) with promoting anti-Catholicism. The…
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Human Rights Group Charges UNFPA With Complicity in Chinese Coercion
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Human rights activists told the US Congress on Wednesday that, despite UN assurances, forced abortions and sterilizations continue in Chinese counties in which the United…
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UN Religious Meeting Blames Religion for Terror Attack on US
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The founder of the United Religions Initiative, a movement that seeks to become the dominant religious voice at the UN, blamed religion for the September…
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Klink State Department Nomination Dead, Anti-Catholicism Charged
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) It is being reported that the White House has decided not to nominate former Vatican UN negotiator John Klink to head the State Department's Bureau…
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European Union Calls for UN to Ban Human Cloning Worldwide
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Citing an imminent threat to the "entire human family," France and Germany are leading a European Union effort to create an international convention to ban…
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