Concerns About the United States Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls
The State Department has updated its 2016 Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls.[1] While the strategy is ostensibly designed to improve the lives of girls, it contains many controversial policies that will harm them.
Policy Papers
A Poison Pill in the Right to Development
In October 2023, the Human Rights Council decided to transmit the draft text of a treaty on the right to development to the General Assembly (A/HRC/RES/54/18, OP 17). The purpose of the new treaty is to affirm the sovereignty of developing countries and their right to pursue their economic and social development without interference from former colonial powers.
Policy Papers
Five Problems with the UN Cybercrime Treaty
On August 8, 2024, an ad hoc committee of the General Assembly for the elaboration of a UN cybercrime treaty completed its work by adopting a draft text of the convention. Articles 14, 15, and 16 of the new treaty allow for the creation of simulated and virtual child pornography and sexting, which is child pornography consensually created by consenting minors for private consumption.
Policy Papers
Problems with USAID’s 2024 Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Policy
USAID’s 2024-2034 Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Policy ostensibly outlines a strategy to promote democracy and human rights globally. Ironically, it promises to undermine democracy through programs that promote social engineering, censorship, and interference in internal politics.
Policy Papers
Can Opposition to Homosexual/Transgender Issues and Abortion be Considered a Crime Against Humanity?
In this month’s Definitions, Stefano Gennarini, J.D. sounds the alarm about how, if this new definition is adopted, advocating for traditional morality, including the definition of marriage, could be construed as a form of “gender-based persecution” and a crime against humanity.
Definitions
Concerns About the WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty
Negotiations are underway to create a Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Accord, a binding multilateral agreement for coordinating pandemic preparedness and response. The accord is set to be finalized in May 2024. However, there are several concerning aspects of the process, including a lack of transparency, the creation of new bureaucratic mechanisms with little accountability, the transfer of power to the World Health Organization (WHO), and the likely inclusion of language that would open the door to the accord being used to promote controversial social issues, including abortion.
Briefing Papers
Why Abortion is Not the Solution to Maternal Mortality
This paper explores the ways in which the medical and scientific fields have been weaponized against unborn human life and how ideology masquerades as “facts” and “evidence” to promote this deadly agenda.
Definitions
C-Fam Written Submission to CERD on Draft General Recommendation N°37 on Radical Discrimination in the Enjoyment of the Right to Health
Submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on August 4, 2023 INTRODUCTION Below are seven observations of C-Fam on the contents of paragraphs 12 and 22 of…
Statement and Submissions
The Family in International Law and Policy
Since the founding of the United Nations, international law and policy have recognized a preeminent place for marriage and the family as the “natural and fundamental unit of society.” This Definitions paper will evaluate the ongoing campaign by Western countries to redefine the family internationally and to make homosexual relations equivalent to marriage between a man and a woman. The paper will show how the definition of the family in international law is perfectly adequate and does not need modification.
Definitions
The Development Deep State: Sexual Progressivism in USAID
Since the Obama Administration began in 2008, the United States has witnessed a sharp increase in left-wing domestic and international social policy and strategy. In recent years, the U.S. government, aligned with United Nations agencies, has pressured developing and conservative nations to liberalize their abortion laws and adopt pro-LGBTQ policies and programming. However, a look at the history of U.S. foreign policy reveals that its promotion of these controversial agendas is not new.
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