UN Secretary General Announces Priorities for 2011
This morning, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon met with delegates to discuss his priorities for the upcoming year. He presented eight “spheres of action” for priority consideration in 2011: inclusive…
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UNFPA Weighs In on Philippines Reproductive Health Bill
As the debate over a controversial bill on reproductive health rages in the Philippines, the UNFPA has thrown its hat into the ring, publishing a new 5-minute video in favor…
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LGBT Playbook Released
The Dutch government has funded a new handbook for homosexual rights activists, targeting UN and European human rights institutions. The advocacy manual recommends using the controversial Yogykarta Principles to criminalize…
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Free Speech Disappearing in the UK?
From London comes another disturbing story out of the United Kingdom that invokes shades of Orwell’s Big Brother society. Although the person in question is a Christian, this is not…
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Losses for them mean wins for us
The Center for Reproductive Rights, the international abortion lobby group, has just put up its assessment of wins and losses in the US state legislatures for 2010. CRR reports that…
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Matercare International Continues to Deliver: Finding Hope in Haiti
Yesterday, January 12th, was the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that decimated the capital of Haiti. The Wall Street Journal commemorated the anniversary with a rather depressing article on the…
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IPPF Reports on Most Efficient Abortion Methods
IPPF recently highlighted a study conducted by a group of American and African doctors that assesed the most cost-effective abortion procedures. The authors found that Manual Vacuum Aspiration (MVA) was…
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“Omission” of Christian holidays in the EU Diary: sign the petition!
Following up on my earlier post on the “EU Diary” published by the European Commission that contains references to all kinds of secular and religious holidays except the Christian ones,…
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Australian Couple Challenges Sex-Selective Abortion Law
This week, an Australian couple has ignited a firestorm for opting to abort healthy twin boys because they are desperately hoping to have a daughter. The couple, who already have…
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UNESCO: Hey Kids Want to Play a Game?
Recently, UNESCO launched a video game for kids that mixes talk of HIV and AIDs prevention with races through World Heritage Sites around the globe. After narrowly missing some oncoming…
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US Government Redefining Gender
Fox News is reporting that the US State Dept is taking the first step at “gender neutrality.” Instead of “mother” and “father,” passport applicants will be asked to list “parent…
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For the European Commission, all Religions are worthy of respect – except Christianity, of course…
A strange yet revealing example of the European Union’s forgetfulness of its own roots has been reported by “The Telegraph”. More than 330,000 diaries, accompanied by 51 pages of glossy…
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US Foreign Aid Money Reducing Abortion?
The United States government launched a new website in an effort to make foreign aid more transparent. The site is called the Foreign Assistance Dashboard and includes information related to…
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Overpopulation Deadenders Scaring the Kids Again
There still exist some deadenders on the question of population. I was just in St. Louis and visited the remarkable Children’s Magic House, which is a kind of wonderland of…
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CEDAW Committee At It Again
Prior to the next round of CEDAW sessions, the committee is again agitating on controversial issues that have no basis in the treaty. In the list of questions sent around…
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UN Women Begins its Work: Ready, Set, Go!
But go where, exactly? And perhaps just as important, how do you plan to get there? The new UN agency for gender equality and women’s empowerment became fully operational this…
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Million-Strong Gather in Spain to Support Family
On Sunday, a massive crowd turned out in Madrid to celebrate traditional marriage and family values. Spero News reported the crowd as over a million, who assembled to hear Pope…
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New Congress: Defunding Abortion Business Beyond America
With a majority in the House of Representatives, and an encouraging increase in the Senate, conservative elected officials now have a new responsibility. When it comes to defending the lives…
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Top ten “Anti-Gay Groups”
The Southern Poverty Law Center released its Winter 2010 Intelligence Report announcing its top ten foes in the fight over U.S. social policy. Concerned Women for America and the Family…
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ICPD Program of Action Extended
The General Assembly passed a resolution at the end of last month extending the International Conference on Population and Development’s Programme of Action beyond the year 2014. UNFPA hailed the…
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New UN maternal health commission announced
Last week the UN announced the members of a new commission to enforce its guidelines on women’s and children’s health. The commission is supposed to “make transparent” the $40B going…
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Austria: No more “wrongful birth”
Good news reaches us from Austria: The Federal Minister of Justice, Mrs. Claudia Bandion-Ortner, has submitted a bill to Parliament that will put an end to the Supreme Courts’ controversial…
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Christmas in Beijing
Most of the Christian world today commemorates the slaughter of baby boys at the hands of Roman soldiers some 2010 years ago. Herod’s command–kill all male children under the age…
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US Hypocrisy Suggests Unspoken Motives
This past Tuesday afternoon, the General Assembly adopted a US-led amendment to the resolution on Extrajudicial, Summary, and Arbitrary Executions that reinserted a reference to “sexual orientation” – language that…
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Is Every Country That Didn’t Vote for Yesterday’s UN Resolution Anti-Gay?
Over at UN Dispatch, there is a post today with the provocative title, “The 55 Most Anti-Gay Countries at the UN”. The author Mark Leon Goldberg makes the simpleton argument…
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