Pro-Life Concerns about USAID’s Updated Maternal and Child Health Framework
In March 2023, USAID launched its updated policy to prevent maternal and child deaths in developing countries: Preventing Child and Maternal Deaths: A Framework for Action in a Changing World.
Policy Papers
Pro-Life Concerns About the REACH Act of 2023
The REACH ACT sets a low bar to lower maternal and child mortality
Legislative Analysis
USAID Global Water Strategy Prioritizes Gender Ideology
The goal of the U.S. Government Global Water Strategy 2022-2027 is ostensibly to provide self-sustaining, clean, and reliable water access to people in developing countries—a laudable goal for US foreign assistance. However, the strategy raises concerns by its inclusion of language relating to contentious gender ideology.
Policy Papers
Five Problems with USAID Updated Youth Policy
The greatest concern in the Youth in Development Policy, in which it exceeds the other related strategies, is its exhibition of resources affirming “safe abortion” procedures and USAID-sponsored comprehensive sexuality education (CSE).
Policy Papers
Why the “Safe from the Start” Initiative Fuels the Global Abortion Movement
The “Safe from the Start” (SftS) initiative was launched by the Obama administration in 2013 as part of a broader effort to promote the empowerment and protection of women and girls worldwide, with a specific focus on preventing and responding to gender-based violence in emergencies.
Policy Papers
Written Submission of the Center for Family and Human Rights on Cameroon for the 44th session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group
In 2020, the ministers and high representatives of 34 countries met to launch the Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD), in which they committed to promoting four objectives: improve women’s health, protect human life, strengthen the family as the basic unit of society, and defend the sovereignty of nations with regard to their laws and policies to protect life.[1] Cameroon was one of the original signatories of the GCD. This report focuses on Cameroon’s fulfillment of its commitments to human rights in the context of the four pillars of the GCD.
Statement and Submissions
Written Submission of the Center for Family and Human Rights on Burkina Faso for the 44th session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group
In 2020, the ministers and high representatives of 34 countries met to launch the Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD), in which they committed to promoting four objectives: improve women’s health, protect human life, strengthen the family as the basic unit of society, and defend the sovereignty of nations with regard to their laws and policies to protect life.[1] Burkina Faso was one of the original signatories of the GCD. This report focuses on Burkina Faso’s fulfillment of its commitments to human rights in the context of the four pillars of the GCD.
Statement and Submissions
Written Submission of the Center for Family and Human Rights for 2024 Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
Submission to the Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs on the FY’24 appropriations bill.
Statement and Submissions
Keeping Girls in School Act (ANS to H.R. 4134)
The Keeping Girls in School Act is a bipartisan bill ostensibly about access to education for girls internationally. The goal of the legislation—to keep girls in school and empower them…
Legislative Analysis
Problems with the East African Community Sexual and Reproductive Health Bill
C-Fam offers a discussion of the more controversial aspects of the bill for the aid of legislators in East Africa and their staff in discussing the bill.
Policy Papers