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Family planning data: whose interests are being served?
A major flaw in the concept of the “unmet need” for family planning is that it reduces the question of whether one desires to become pregnant to a simple yes-and-no…
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The Family in International Law and Social Science
February 8th @ 3:00 PM
UN Headquarters, Conference Room E
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UN Report: “There Is No Definition of the Family”
A draft UN report says the family should be understood “in a wide sense” and tries to open the door to recognize same-sex couples in international law and policy.
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What No Ones Talking about at the Family Planning Conclave
Nothing, not even a hurricane, will stop family planning advocates from the mission at hand – reducing the number of children among poor women – even if it means promoting…
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Family Planning Conclave: Drones to Deliver Birth Control
Where there’s a will – there’s a way! A recent update at the International Family Planning conference in Bali revealed drones are being used to deliver contraception to women and…
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Contraceptive Spin Machine Takes On Family Planning “Myths”
When it comes to family planning and international policy, there is no shortage of myths. According to the most recent figures from UNFPA and the Guttmacher Institute, 225 million women…
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Five Big Pro-Life and Pro-Family Wins in 2015
The year just ended will prove to be a significant one for the United Nations. Two much anticipated agreements were finalized, one on development and another on climate.
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Five Biggest Pro-Life and Pro-Family Losses of 2015
Despite many positive events, there is always bad news coming out of the UN. 2015 was no exception. These are the worst moments of 2015.
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New Citizen Initiative Asks EU to Protect Marriage and Family – Will Europe get a DOMA?
One year and a few months ago, a controversial 5-4 judgment of the US Supreme Court emasculated the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a federal statute according which the term…
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Pope Speaks Out for Unborn, Natural Family in UN Address
World leaders broke out into applause 27 times during the Pope’s address to the UN General Assembly today, including when he called for the defense of the “right to life,” and called the family the “primary cell of any social development.”
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ANALYSIS: US and EU Block the Family From New UN Development Goals
Unable to get recognition of homosexual and transgender rights at the UN, the United States, European countries and their allies succeeded in blocking the family altogether from the new global development goals.
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Joint Statement of CSOs on Family in the Post-2015 Summit Outcome
THE FAMILY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A Statement of Civil Society on Paragraph 38 in the Final Draft of the Post-2015 Summit Outcome Many Member States have articulated the view that…
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Will Obama Re-Define the Family for the World?
The Obama administration’s placement of LGBT rights at the forefront of U.S. foreign policy has caused backlash against LGBT rights in many parts of the world.
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Sex Activists Bemoan Passage of Pro-Family Resolution at UN in Geneva
If anyone doubts the victory claimed by pro-lifers regarding the rights of the family resolution passed by the Human Rights Council in Geneva recently, look no further than the reaction of sex activists. They are very upset.
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Big Win for Traditional Family at UN Human Rights Council
A monumental development for the pro-family movement came last week in Geneva when the Human Rights Council approved a resolution calling for countries to take concrete steps to protect the family
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Human Rights Watch Pushes Abortion as Ecuador Beefs-Up Pro-Family Approach
A human rights group is misrepresenting international law to the Ecuadoran government in order to change the country’s policies on abortion.
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C-Fam’s Worst Moments for Life and Family 2014
Unlike its predecessor, 2104 was not a quiet year for life and family. We witnessed a number of new negative developments. The episodes below mostly involve rogue UN experts and officials.
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C-Fam’s Five Best Moments for Life and Family in 2014
It is not all bad news at the UN, no matter what you read in the Friday Fax each week! Here is C-Fam’s “Best List” from 2014.
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UN Shifts and Extols Family – But Some Want it Redefined
NEW YORK, December 12 (C-Fam) After decades resisting even mentioning the word, governments and advocates extolled the “family” at two special sessions at the UN last week. This year marks…
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USAIDs Family Planning Incentive Program Problematic
In the last week two troubling reports of coercive family planning programs in developing counties have surfaced. A mass sterilization program in India left several women dead and hospitalized. And…
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Protecting Life and Family in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
This C-Fam publication explains why validating “various forms of the family” is a bad idea and why the family as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the best vehicle to protect the human rights of children.
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Family Synod: only one out of 265 interventions mentioned homosexuality
The world-wide bewilderment over the interim report of the Roman Bishop’s Synod on the Family has apparently reached even a secular media outlet like Yahoo, from where it transpires that only 1 out of…
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