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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C-Fam Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review 36th Session of the UPR Human Rights Council – April-May 2020
In the previous two cycles of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), the United States of America (U.S.) received recommendations that it change its laws and policies regarding funding for foreign assistance in order to fund abortions in other countries.
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C-Fam Submission to ECOSOC at the 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women, New York, 11-22 March, 2019
The family is the most important or only source of social protection for over seventy percent of the world’s women. According to the International Labour Organization, more than five billion people on the planet are not covered by comprehensive social security.
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C-Fam Statement at Consultations of the Committee on NGOs with NGOs in Consultative Status with ECOSOC
3-minute statement delivered at the ECOSOC NGO Forum on June 22, 2018
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C-Fam Submission for HHS World Health Assembly Listening Session
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services held a listening session on Friday, May 11 in advance of the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body for the World Health Organization (WHO). Members of civil society were invited to tell the administration about their concerns and priorities for the coming year in global health, and the state of WHO governance.
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C-Fam Oral Statement at the 51st Session of Commission on Population and Development, 9 April 2018 – 13 April 2018
The effects of urbanization and migration are frequently addressed in UN resolutions and debates on a whole host of topics ranging from the economy to the environment and global health.
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