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US Congress to Defend Pope at the United Nations
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The United States Senate and House of Representative began considering this week resolutions condemning the ongoing attack on the presence of the Holy See at…
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Powerful NGOs Gather to Put Left-Wing Pressure on UN General Assembly
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The 55th annual meeting of the UN General Assembly next fall will go by the name of the Millennium Assembly. The resolution calling for this…
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Pressure Groups Threaten NATO With Kosovo War Crimes Investigation
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Recent actions by radical NGOs and the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal have cast a shadow over the newest round of International Criminal Court (ICC) negotiations…
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Competitive Enterprise Institute Challenges Radical Environmentalism
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) believes the modern environmental movement "cannot afford a single smelly orthodoxy to which all must conform." In its just released…
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Campaign to Kick the Vatican Out of the UN Grows to 400 Organizations
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Almost one year ago, a group of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) announced that they intend to get the Vatican kicked out of the United Nations. Through…
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UN Convention on Organized Crime May Urge “Legalization” of Prostitution
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Efforts are underway this week in Vienna to change the UN definition of prostitution. This attempt comes during negotiations of a "protocol" that will accompany…
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Corporate Investments May Be New Conduit for Abortion in Developing World
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Transnational corporations have long been seen by the left as exploiters of the poor in the developing world. Increasingly, though, with the rise of globalization,…
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UNICEF Believes State of War Exists Against World’s Women and Children
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) believes an "undeclared war" exists against the world's women and children. In it's just released "State of the World's…
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Conservative NGOs Warn US Congressional Staffers About Beijing+5
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) At a US Congressional briefing in Washington DC last Wednesday, four conservative NGOs warned that the Beijing Platform for Action denigrates the role of mothers,…
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Protection for Families Dropped From New International Criminal Court
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) UN delegates decided this week to remove explicit protection for families in the evolving International Criminal Court (ICC) statutes. A coalition of eleven Arab states…
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Conservative NGOs Caution Governments Against Women’s Rights Treaty
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) UN gender czar Angela King just completed a five day tour of Middle Eastern countries, during which she tried to persuade them to adopt what…
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New Turner Donations Promote Adolescent Sexuality in Developing World
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Since its founding in 1997, American mogul Ted Turner's UN Foundation has given $118 million to dozens of United Nations projects in areas ranging from…
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Leading Thinkers and Activists Address Family Issues at Geneva Meeting
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) More than two dozen leading scholars from around the world addressed the 1500 participants of the World Family Congress II in Geneva last week. They…
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Family Declaration Unanimously Adopted at Geneva Pro-family Meeting
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) In a hotel along Lake Geneva Wednesday night, more than 1500 pro-family leaders from around the world unanimously endorsed a declaration of conservative principles related…
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New Study Shows World Wide Acceptance of the Traditional Family
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) ¨ As the international debate on the family heats up, the influential US polling group Wirthlin Worldwide has released a new study showing that most…
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Top UNFPA Official May Have Lied to Drafters of Venezuelan Constitution
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) ¨ Shortly after Hugo Chavez became the new populist president of Venezuela last February, he immediately roiled Venezuelan society by initiating the election of a…
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UN NGO Conference Calls for End to Marriage and to National Sovereignty
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Officially accredited UN non-governmental organizations (NGOs) often speak from the far frontiers of social policy. The International Conference of NGOs, which convened for several days…
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UNFPA Briefing Makes Light of High Mortality in Africa
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) At a UNFPA briefing for the European Parliament in Brussels this week, a demographer and former United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative Jan Fransen joked…
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Conservative NGOs Convene Rare Pro-Family Seminar at UN Headquarters
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) A broad-based coalition of UN Member States and non-governmental organizations convened a pro-family seminar at UN headquarters in New York City today. Called "Church, Synagogue,…
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UNFPA Claims to have run secret wartime operations in Kosovo
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) A UNFPA spokesman claimed this week that UNFPA personnel were not invited into Kosovo by the Yugoslav government, but went in secretly and on their…
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UNFPA Head Misstates Vatican Position on International Family
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) UNFPA head Dr. Nafis Sadik claimed on Wednesday that the Vatican has capitulated in its long-standing opposition to international family planning programs that include contraception…
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Pro-life Youth Organize to Counter Radical Groups at UN Conferences
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Pro-abortion youth claiming to represent broad constituencies have invaded UN conferences in recent months. Hand-picked, funded and trained by adult NGOs and UN agencies, these…
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Millions Spent Indoctrinating Young People in Support of UN Initiatives
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) All UN conferences eagerly seek the participation of young people. Young people provide UN conferences with added legitimacy, and conferees know that children are good…
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Feminist NGOs Rev Up For Review of Beijing Women’s
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) Feminist NGOs around the world are meeting almost continuously in preparation for the upcoming five year review of the Fourth World Conference on Women held…
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Charges Against UN Population Fund Leveled by New York Post
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) A war of words has erupted in the pages of the New York Post about whether the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) was invited by…
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