Bringing Dignity Back to the UN
Last Thursday, the Holy See Mission to the UN partnered with the Mission of Poland to host an event on John Paul II and the dignity of the human person,…
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Hungary: a governmental pro-life campaign
M. Viktor Orban’s government, just few weeks after the promulgation of the new Constitution protecting “the life of the foetus […] from the moment of conception”, started a consciousness-raising campaign…
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UNESCO Book is Back
Transaction publishers is republishing Richard Hoggart’s book, UNESCO: An idea and Its Servants, with a new introduction by former US UN ambassador John Bolton. The book is available this week,…
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US State Department Living Up To Standard to Make Homosexual Advocacy #1 Priority
What is the biggest issue for the United States in foreign affairs? It’s not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as evidenced by the quiet resignation of special envoy George Mitchell, which was…
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Targeting Young Girls in Costa Rica
A friend of ours from Costa Rica sent us some recent advertising that targets young ticas for early sexualization and implicitly, for abortion. The posters are significant in international terms…
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Sweden’s Parliament militates against freedom of conscience
Readers of this blog will remember having read that last summer the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe discussed a motion for a Resolution that would have demanded Member…
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Victims of discrimination? No, homosexuals are today’s leisure class…
At the occasion of the Gay Pride parade that was held today in Brussels, Belgian daily La Libre Belgique reports that homosexuals have become the European capital’s preferred tourists. The…
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The Need for a Real Prevention Revolution
Last week UNAIDS hosted a Commission on AIDS Prevention in Cape Town, South Africa. As part of the programming, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) partnered with UNAIDS in sponsoring a “condom…
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The Harms of the UN’s LGBT Agenda
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Navi Pillay, released a video last week that called for renewed vigor in combatting discrimination against LGBT persons. The video is a…
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Gloom in China’s New Census
China’s just-released 2010 census is grim news for those who claim that suppressing population growth boosts economic development. China is graying more rapidly than previously predicted and its demographic dividend…
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The Italian crucifix case: a watershed?
The Italian crucifix case (Lautsi case) is the first case in the history of the Court which attracts so much attention and mobilizes so much people to act. With this…
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Brazil high court okays homosexual unions
Last Thursday, Brazil’s supreme court said homosexual partnerships are a matter of privacy and eqaulity before the law and deserve many of the same benefits that marriages are granted, according…
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Another challenge on the Polish pro-life laws before the European Court of Human Rights.
A case regarding abortion in Poland is currently pending before the Fourth Section of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR): the R.R. v Poland (Application n° 27617/04). The applicant,…
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More on the HPV vaccination scheme
The flurry of interest on the HPV story continues. Medical doctors have been in touch to reinforce the problem of “false promises” I mentioned in my last post. Here is…
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Vaccines, Lies, and False Hope
This week’s Friday Fax on the new UN HPV vaccination scheme seems to have touched a nerve. Every woman I’ve talked to is appalled. One woman just wrote to say…
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Who will decide if Hungary’s constitution is constitutional?
The new Hungarian constitution, which protects life from conception, has evoked a maelstrom of protest from the European institutions, not to mention the pro-abortion lobby. It turns out that the…
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Former US Solicitor General Leaves Law Firm in Defense of Marriage
Former United States Solicitor General Paul Clement announced recently that he will be leaving the Atlanta based law firm King and Spalding after the firm pulled out of a contract…
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Having Another Girl In China: A Woman’s Courage
Recently, we reported on how the United States looked away from a couple suffering because of the one-child policy in China. Here’s a video that puts a face on the…
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Is Treaty-Body Talk Binding?
Two documents recently issued by the UN secretariat confirm the speculations of international observers that the recommendations of treaty monitoring bodies are increasingly being referenced by the UN system as…
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UN Women Land Grab
We have just learned that the controversial new super-agency, UN Women, is moving into 84,000 square feet of office space (3 whole floors) at 220 East 42nd Street in New…
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Population Commission Deadlocked Again
This week’s Friday Fax explains how a premier UN forum where member States meet to solve problems of poverty, hunger, and disease has been stymied by the abortion issue for…
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Pro-family coalition responds to Putin’s calls for 30% population increase
Here is a story from LifeNews about the tightening link between the pro-family coalition and Russians interested in shoring up their cascading population.
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More on Funding & Family Planning
As my colleague Amanda Pawloski pointed out in her previous post, the US will continue to fund UNFPA for FY 2011. During last week’s Commission on Population and Development (in…
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New Report: 2.6M Annual Stillbirths Ignored
You would never know that there are 2.6 million stillbirths every year and 1.2 million of them happen to healthy babies during labor and delivery. There was a time when…
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Former Belgian Prime minister annoyed over Hungary’s new Constitution
As my friend and colleague Roger Kiska has noted in a prior contribution, the fact that Hungary has given itself a new Constitution that (a) invokes God in its preamble,…
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