Obama Again Waives Penalties to Countries that Use Child Soldiers
The Cable reported that for the third consecutive year President Obama has waived restrictions to countries that use child soldiers. The presidential memorandum quietly released last Friday came just 3 days after…
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Group Claims Obama Admin Foreign Policy and UN Pushing Sexual Rights Agenda
An International Family advocacy group has launched a campaign to expose diplomatic pressure directed toward poor developing countries to advance sexual rights including withholding humanitarian aid to assure it is done….
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Post-Family Planning Summit: Pressure Governments Despite What Women Want
Now that the London Family Planning Summit is a memory and world leaders have gone home, what comes next? Melinda Gates is keeping the spotlight on her priority of encouraging…
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Incredible: “Pussy Riot” nominated for the Sakharov Peace Prize
Yet another confirmation for the deplorable confusion of mind of certain EU politicians: the Russian punk band “Pussy Riot”, whose three female musicians were sentenced to two years in prison…
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Dutch Abortion Ship Heads to Muslim Country
The Dutch abortion boat that has made more headlines than trips is headed to its first Muslim country. Its pro-abortion organizer Rebecca Gomperts has decided that now, in the midst…
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No Cairo Conference in 2014
There will be no international population conference on the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Cairo conference. So says UN Population Fund executive director. Instead, he announced a UN “high level meeting.”…
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Uruguay lawmakers conflicted on vote to decriminalize abortion
Legislators in Uruguay’s Chamber of Deputies narrowly voted 50-49 to legalize abortion late Tuesday night, thus clearing the bill for a Senate vote. However, before arriving at this final count,…
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New Human Exceptionalism Blog
Good news–Wesley Smith’s blog on human exceptionalism is up on National Review Online. The point of today’s post: “Once a society agrees that some suicides are good, the categories of…
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Fringe Abortion Group Uses Tacky Marketing to Promote Abortion
Dubbed “virtual occupation” a group called Women on Waves has launched a campaign to further promote “do-it-yourself” abortions. This latest endeavor to help women access misoprostol pills for a medical abortion…
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Group Warns – Reports of End of Forced Abortions in China – “Naive”
China Aid, an organization engaged in ending human rights abuses in China, is calling reports that China has banned forced abortions and sterilizations – “naive rumors.” All Girls Allowed (AGA), an…
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UN Women Director to Run for President of Chile?
Rumors still swirl that UN Women’s director Michelle Bachelet will return to Chile to run again for president in 2013. A recent poll in Chile indicated that 50% would like…
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USAID Launches New LongTerm Contraceptive Implant for Poor Women
USAID used the occasion of World Contraception Day to announce a new commitment to provide the longterm contraceptive implant – known as Jadelle, to women in the poorest countries of…
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France to Ban “Mother” and “Father”
France is eliminating the words “mother” and “father” from official documents to pave the way for homosexual marriage. The attempt to create an alternate reality where men and women are…
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Involuntary sterilization of the disabled
One positive outcome of the latest gathering of states parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is that it highlighted the abuses of government population programs,…
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48 Hours for Religious Freedom: September 22-23, 2012
Join people around the globe on the weekend of September 22-23, 2012, in raising awareness about the persecuted Church in Iran. Stand with the persecuted. « 48 Hours for Religious Freedom »…
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Korea’s demographic tipping point
Even skeptics of the demographic dividend have pointed to the success of the Asian Tigers as the exception to the global rule (there has been no such economic boom in the rest of…
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The frivolity of the European Human Rights Court
In a previous post, we have been informed about a case currently pending before the European Court of Human Rights in which the petitioners, a lesbian couple from Austria, claim…
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Polygamists and Sexual Rights
Marriage advocates warn that same-sex marriage will lead to polygamy. Lest we forget why polygamy is not a good thing, this article shows how it degrades women and the marriage…
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Homosexual adoption before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights
The case of X and others v. Austria Grégor Puppinck[1] Strasbourg, 12 September 2012. On 3rd October 2012, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights will hear…
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No Need to Ratify New UN Treaty
Yesterday Wendy Wright and I spent our lunch hour at the new state of the art US Mission to the UN at 45th St and 1st Ave. We attended a side…
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China To End Forced Late-Term Abortions and Sterilizations?
Human rights group All Girls Allowed is reporting that the Chinese government issued a document to state-run Family Planning offices ending the practice of forced abortions and sterilizations on women…
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Child Survival Improves, While Maternal Deaths are Politicized
Good news came from UNICEF today. The number of children under age 5 dying globally has dropped nearly in half since 1990. (This, of course, would not include the number…
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The Hidden Cost of a UN Interpretation of New UN Treaty
Will ratifying the newest UN human rights treaty place additional financial burdens on the U.S., international institutions and others? Advocates are heavily lobbying the U.S. to ratify the newest UN…
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China Human Rights Dissident Asks Apple to Help End One-Child Policy
Bloomberg is reporting that human rights dissident Chen Guangcheng, is urging Apple to use its influence to help prevent ongoing human rights abuses occurring in China since they have a large…
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Global Abortion Law Group Exploits Dominican Teenagers Death
The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) has one clear mission – unrestricted access to abortion worldwide. For years CRR has been challenging countries with restricted abortion laws by representing women…
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