Pro-Abortion and Pro-Homosexual Youth Lobby Sent Home Empty-Handed from UN
By Timothy Herrmann NEW YORK, May 4 (C-FAM) Youth activists arrived at the UN in droves last week in an attempt to hijack the 45th session of the Commission on…
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Family Breakdown at the Heart of Global Aging Crisis
By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. NEW YORK, May 4 (C-FAM) Is family breakdown the cause or the cure for the global crisis of population decline? Two new articles in top foreign…
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EU Commissioner Reding: “we only finance the gay lobby, but we have no influence on its activities”
The scandal around the European Commission’s funding for ILGA-Europe, the controversial homosexualist lobby group with links to paedophile networks, continues. As readers of this blog recall, it has emerged that…
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“Help my family and I leave safely.”
Question: If Chen is out of Clinton’s sight, will he be out of mind? Did Obama throw Chen Guangcheng under the bus? The blind attorney who exposed China’s brutal forced…
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UK Aid Pays for Forced Sterilizations in India
Great Britain gave 166 million pounds ($268 million) to a government program in India that forcibly sterilizes poor women and men. The UK’s aid agency cited a need to address…
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The Problem with Climate Scientists, Politicans and Car Salesmen…
… Is that none of them know what they are talking about most of the time, and when they do, they are usually lying. It’s a well documented fact. Politicians…
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Aiming at China, Blind Lawyer Forces U.S. to Deal with Forced Abortions
One man is forcing Hillary Clinton to pay attention to abuses against women. The woman who famously said in Beijing in 1995 “women’s rights are human rights” has been excruciatingly…
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The Children of Men–Japanese Style
I was edified to see the NY Times making the same point I have been emphasizing in my book talks: declinists have been saying for decades that America’s fiscal woes would finally topple its…
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Bombay High Court: lift the 2-child rule
Delegates at the UN witnessing the push to put population control in the Rio+20 document could take a warning coming from India, the nation who has implemented it zeaolously for decades. The Bombay High…
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Sexual Rights, Overpopulation, and what they have to do with Youth
Yesterday marked day two of a week long conference on “Adolescents and Youth” held by the UN Commission on Population and Development (CPD). While the conference is supposed to address…
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UN Conference Focus on Comprehensive Sex-Ed and Reproductive Rights for Youth Extreme
The U.N. Commission on Population and Development opened Monday for a week-long session in New York. This 45th session is dedicated to “Adolescents and Youth” to confront the challenges and…
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China’s demographic challenge
Two editors of The Economist have recently discussed the implications of China’s demographic challenges of low fertility and shrinking workforce. This fascinating conversation…
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Is Population Really What Holds Nigeria Back?
The recent NY Times article about Nigeria’s population growth leaves the reader with a sense of urgency to reduce the number of Nigerian births as quickly as possible. It gives…
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‘Chariots of Fire’ Makes a Come-Back – On Stage and In Real Life
The glorious story of Eric Liddell will soon grace a London stage just as issues of conscience make headlines with Christians defending religious freedom from coercion. Chariots of Fire, the…
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Whither America’s Demographic Exceptionalism?
America’s demographic exceptionalism comes both from it’s relatively high fertility rate and its ability to attract and integrate immigrants. At our book panel at the Hudson Institute last week, Phil…
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Abortion and Contraception More Important Than Maternal Health?
Last Friday UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, gave a talk at an event organized by the Women’s International Forum titled: “Women’s Rights are Human Rights: The Work…
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New Pew Poll: Obama has lost the Catholic Vote
Here is an interesting take from Joseph Bottum with “The Catholic Vote” on a new Pew poll that shows Obama having lost a significant percentage of the Catholic vote “post”…
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IMF: Population Aging Calls for Ambitious Reforms
The most recent issue of the IMF’s World Economic Outlook reports that despite some positive outcomes of fiscal consolidation, long term prospects for many industrialized countries remain worrisome. Unless countries…
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UN Population Fund Insistent on Reproductive Rights at Rio
Today at a UNFPA briefing on the Rio +20 negations entitled: “The Road to Rio goes through Cairo” the agency expressed serious concern about the lack of emphasis in the…
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Ireland’s Abortion Bill Defeated
The Irish Parliament rejected a bill by a 109-20 vote that was aimed at making abortion more widely available to its citizens. While the measure purports to only legalize abortion…
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Expert: Stop population decline!…get rid of marriage and family?
An OpEd in yesterday’s New York Times says that in order to reverse Europe’s population implosion policy makers must first reject objections by advocates of traditional marriage and the family….
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Poll: Human Rights Laws a License for Criminals
The Daily Mail reports on a new poll finding an astonishing 72% of Britons agree with the statement “human rights have become a charter for criminals and the undeserving.” It…
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The Hungarian new family law: a legitimate answer to contemporary crisis
The Venice Commission is currently reviewing the Hungarian cardinal law on the Protection of Families. This law has been strongly criticised, especially for defining family as “based on the marriage of…
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UK Establishment Turns its back on Abortion and Mental Health Science
Here is an article detailing how the Royal College of Psychiatrists is ignoring perfectly good science on the question of the link between abortion and mental health.
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UNESCO: biting the hand that won’t feed you
UNESCO is apparently on a PR tour to win back America’s $78 million, which it very deliberately lost last year. Here is Claudia Rossett on the matter, citing our friend…
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