UN Committees Overstep Mandates to Push Abortion Again
In what has become standard practice, UN committees charged with the task of monitoring compliance with human rights treaties have overstepped their mandates and pressured countries on their abortion laws…
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Religion and the United Nations?
The latest UN confab on climate change took place earlier this month in Cancun Mexico. As is the norm for such conferences, the speakers were many, with the Executive Secretary…
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Official UN News Website Refers to a Declaration as a Treaty
Last week, the UN News website ran a story the United Nations “hailing” the decision of US President Barack Obama to support the UN Treaty on Indigenous People. What’s that…
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Duke of Kent’s Son: Abortion is a Graver Threat than Islamic Terrorism
So says Lord Nicholas Windsor, in a new article in First Things. Read the whole piece here.
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Russian Orthodox Church condemns European Human Rights Court decision on gay pride
Hegumen Filaret, a representative of the Russian Church in Strasbourg, commented a recent decision made by the European Court of Human Rights, which ordered the Russian authorities to pay compensation…
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Canadian PM to track UN Maternal Health Aid Commission
Much to the consternation of pro-abortion groups, Canadian PM Stephen Harper has been chosen to co-chair a UN commission that will track the $40 billion in international pledges to help…
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A Comment on A, B and C vs. Ireland
In an earlier post I briefly related the good news that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, ‘the Court’) has today issued a Judgment on the case of ‘A,…
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US to Tighten UN’s Purse Strings?
Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, writes in The American Thinker this week about new funding challenges for the new UN super-agency on women coming from pro-life Rep….
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European Court of Human Rights: there is no “Right to Abortion”
The European Court of Human Rights today has delivered its long awaited judgment on the case of A, B and C v. Ireland (application no. 25579/05), finding that the European…
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Women Deliver posts 2010’s Top 10 list
Pro-abortion Women Deliver has posted it’s top 10 “successes” for 2010. The anniversaries of the pill and other abortifacient pharmaceuticals made the list, along with the renewal of the Maputo…
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Cairo Conference’s Implementation Remains Contentious
For the past two weeks, the General Assembly has been discussing a resolution which addresses the implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development beyond 2014. The draft resolution…
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Goodbye, Thoraya!
At a farewell dinner organized by the United Nations Foundation last night, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon praised outgoing UNFPA head Thoraya Obaid’s leadership on “human rights, reproductive health and the…
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What’s wrong with US@UN?
On Friday, US UN ambassador Susan Rice made two speeches. One, concerning the grievous threat of Iran’s impending acquisition of nuclear weapons was short and toothless. The other, marking the…
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Asia on the decline
Last week it was Vietnam. This week it’s Japan. Europe and now Asia are seeing the devastating social and economic results of demographic decline. Lifesitenews.com is reporting that Japan’s economy…
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ECtHR to Rule on Irish Abortion Laws
The European Court of Human Rights is set to rule on whether Ireland’s abortion laws violate the rights of 3 women in Ireland. The case is known as the ABC…
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Happy Human Rights Day!
Today is International Human Rights Day and this year, International Human Rights Day (10 December) has as its theme: “human rights defenders who act to end discrimination.” According to the…
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Switzerland: Government plans to legalise incest
The Swiss Government has presented plans to legalise incest, provided it takes place between consenting adults. See attached link (in German).
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What did EU Commissioner Reding really say about the “mutual recognition of same-sex marriages”?
On the website of the European Parliament’s “Intergroup on LGBT Rights” (always a very good source of information on the schemes and thoughts of Europe’s homosexual lobby), there is a…
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IPPF’s Booming Abortion Business
Despite an economic downturn, the abortion business is booming. IPPF’s most recent publication is a survey of the abortion provider’s activities over the last five years. Across the board, IPPF’s…
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Global Health Discussed by General Assembly
The General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution on Global Health and Foreign Policy this morning. The swiftness of its approval belied the weeks of discussions that produced the final text,…
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Family planning as a development tool
Today at the UN, the Population Division hosted an expert panel on “Fertility, Reproductive Health and Development.” Taking a de-populationist view, speakers pushed family planning as one of the most…
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Muslim World Following West to Family Decline?
The New York Times reports today that divorce is soaring in Iran. They report that “over a decade, the number each year has roughly tripled to little more than 150,000…
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Stigma or Irresponsibility?
Is it wrong for someone with HIV to willfully infect another person? The answer to the question seems quite obvious, but IPPF seems to disagree. In their campaign “Criminalize Hate…
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WHO Researchers: 30% Decrease in Deaths Due to Unsafe Abortion
WHO researchers Iqbal Shah and Elisabeth Ahman report that the number of women dying from unsafe abortion has decreased by approximately one-third, from 67,000 in 2003 to 47,000 in 2008….
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Foeticide
The American press don’t use the word, so it has gone largely unnoticed here, but likening abortion to homicide has made a comeback. In India, the media and even feminist…
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