C-Fam Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review of Indonesia, 41st Session of the UPR Human Rights Council – October 2022
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. Indonesia was one of the leading cosponsors of the GCD. This report focuses on Indonesia’s fulfillment of its commitments to human rights in the context of the four pillars of the GCD.
Statement and Submissions
C-Fam Statement during the 55th Session of the Commission on Population and Development
The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) is a non-profit educational organization that interacts withdiplomats and the general public about issues related to human rights. For over twenty years,…
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C-Fam Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review of Iceland, 40th Session of the UPR, Human Rights Council – January 2022
As Iceland takes its turn to have its human rights record examined in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), this joint submission by C-Fam and the Jerome Lejeune Foundation USA raises concern about the high level of selective abortion of children with Down syndrome in Iceland, and the discriminatory practices and attitudes that encourage this practice, which is contrary both the rights of persons with disabilities and the right to life more generally.
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Brief of Amicus Curiae Center for Family and Human Rights In Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
C-Fam’s lawyers submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dobbs v. Jackson case.
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Raising Awareness on Gestational Surrogacy Among Vulnerable Women in Developing Countries
Gestational surrogacy (GS) is a growing reproductive practice through which adults obtain offspring by contracting a third woman to undergo impregnation through artificial techniques and to give birth to a child who is not genetically related to her.
Policy Papers
C-Fam Written Statement at the 54th Session of the Commission on Population and Development
Half a century ago, there was widespread concern that unless population growth was significantly reduced, mass starvation would result. While global fertility rates have fallen in many regions, continued population growth coupled with increased life expectancy has produced a current population far greater than what was seen as sustainable in the mid-twentieth century.
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C-Fam Written Statement at the 59th Session of the Commission for Social Development
A just transition to sustainable development requires that sustainable development strategies fully respect and strive to fulfill unalienable and universal human rights principles.
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Comment of the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) on the Draft USAID 2020 Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy
C-Fam welcomes the updated gender equality and women’s empowerment policy. The 2012 policy it supersedes contained several problematic aspects that the new policy has corrected.
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C-Fam Statement during the Informal consultations of co-facilitators on 2020 treaty body review for States and civil society
It has been our hope for some time that UN member states would review the work of UN treaty bodies, not just with regard to considerations of functionality and resources, but also substantive output. As an organization primarily focused on the protection of life in the prenatal phase and the protection of the family we are especially alarmed by the lawless promotion of abortion and LGBT issues by UN treaty bodies.
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C-Fam Recommendations for Treaty Body Review
As a civil society stakeholder organization, we welcome the opportunity to contribute to the discussion regarding the strengthening and reform of the human rights treaty body system. The previous review…
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