Abortion in Kenya is Good for Business and Bad for Women
Today, International Planned Parenthood Federation’s (IPPF) news service reported on the pro-life opposition to the controversial proposed Constitution in Kenya. IPPF’s report highlights Ms. Brook Elliott Buettner’s statement on the…
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Dueling Campaigns on Gay Rights Group Accreditation; Vote Expected Monday
On Monday, the UN is expected to come to a decision on whether to grant official status to the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC). Over the past…
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EU Pushes for Expanded UN Role
The European Union (EU) is angling for some of the same privileges reserved for member states at the UN, including the ability to address the General Assembly, submit resolutions and…
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Argentina Approves Same-Sex ‘Marriage’
Early this morning, the Argentine Senate voted 33-27 to legalize same-sex marriage, as well as adoptions by same-sex couples. Argentina becomes the first country to Latin America to grant legal…
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New EU Gender Agency Opens Doors
Recently, the first ever EU women’s agency, the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) opened it’s doors to the public. According to their website the Institute has the support of…
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MDGs-as-human rights hammer
Ever wonder what will happen to the MDGs once they expire in 2015? If UN staff and human rights activists have their way, they will become a legally binding document, forcing…
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Questionable Representation at the World Youth Conference 2010
The Social Forum Organizing Committee (SOFOC) at the World Youth Conference (WYC) Mexico 2010, which is the committee responsible for “urging young people to participate in the youth NGO Global…
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African Union Prepares for Continental Meeting on Maternal Mortality
The African Union is preparing for a meeting in Uganda on “Maternal, Infant and Child Health and Development in Africa” later this month. On the agenda is the new initiative…
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Obaid Uses Disabilities Treaty Language as New Access Point for “Reproductive Health”
” At a panel presentation on human rights and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) yesterday, UNFPA’s executive director Thoraya Obaid made her standard pitch about how “”universal access to reproductive…
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Belgian Raids on Catholic Church Sign of New Legal Trend?
” Last Thursday, Belgian authorities carried out an unprecedented raid on the Catholic Church in relation to the sex-abuse cases there. I do not use the word “”unprecedented”” lightly. In…
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The European Court’s second Hearing of the Crucifix Case
Today a Grand Chamber the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) heard for a second time the case of Soile Lautsi vs. Italy, worldwide known as ‘the Crucifix Case’. In…
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Why “safe” abortion initiatives aren’t
UN agencies and their network of “maternal health” research NGOs argue that in order to decrease maternal mortality, abortion must be “safe.” But at the Women Deliver conference in Washington…
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Obama’s Transnationalism?
In recent days President Obama has shown a willingness to side with smaller/poorer countries against the wishes of the Europeans and other wealthy governments. First, it is being reported that…
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ECtHR: The European Human Rights Convention does NOT oblige States to recognise same-sex marriages
Observers of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg had feared the worst: the Court had lately issued a series of highly controversial judgments that were apparently intended…
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US Irks Western Nations Over New Women’s Agency Funding
A recent news article details that the United States has drawn the ire of other Western Nations in a bid to push through the new UN super-agency on women. In…
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Obama announces 8 “GHI Plus” nations
The Obama administration has announced that Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nepal and Rwanda will be recipients of its pilot programs for the Global Health Initiative, a campaign that…
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The Billionaire Challenge
An article in Fortune Magazine highlights a lunch between Bill Gates and Warren Buffet last year, that has turned into them encouraging other billionaires to give at least half of…
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Austin Ruse Addresses More Than 100 ADF Blackstone Fellows
Today, Austin Ruse the President of C-FAM will be addressing more than 100 Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) Blackstone Legal Fellows in Pheonix, AZ. He will be one of many to…
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Italy Should be Allowed to Bear Its Own Crosses
The Alliance Defend Fund, acting on behalf of 33 Members of European Parliament from 11 different European Union Member States (also Council of Europe States), has been granted leave to…
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Kenyan Pro-Life Rally Rocked by Explosions, Killing at Least 6 People
A massive prayer meeting in Nairobi, Kenya that was organized to protest the new pro-abortion draft constitution ended in tragedy yesterday, with two explosions reportedly caused by grenades leading to…
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UN Campaigns Against Polish Laws on Abortion
I highly recommend you to follow this link to a comment by Patric Buckley (SPUC) on a report recently published by UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health Mr. Anand Grover….
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A World Cup Tragedy: Human Trafficking in South Africa
With the World Cup right around the corner, ESPN sheds some light on uncomfortable issues that we are glad they did not ignore. This lengthy investigative report on human trafficking…
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Spain’s Radical “Sexual Education” Proposal
From the very same government that brought Spain its radical “Education in Citizenship” curriculum (which is now the subject of a major lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights…
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Record number of US pro-life bills this year
Nancy Northrup, president of Center for Reproductive Rights, says her outfit is challenging six of the 24 pro-life bills that have passed in the US this year. They are among…
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Awarded by UNFPA
At a ceremony at the UN headquarters yesterday, the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation was honored for its work “for outstanding contributions to increasing the awareness of population questions and…
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