Vatican to Host Global Pro-Life Conference and Papal Mass
May 16 2013
ROME, May 17 (C-FAM) Pro-lifers held their breath the day the world received a new Pope. They did not question his pro-life credentials but wondered if he would speak forcefully. An old quote soon su…
It’s Back – Disability Treaty on the Move Again
May 16 2013
WASHINGTON DC, May 17 (C-FAM) The Obama administration will soon try again to win ratification of the UN’s disabilities treaty, dismissing concerns about national sovereignty, parental rights and th…
Inter-American Court Draws Fire from Doctors and Lawyers
May 09 2013
NEW YORK, May 10 (C-FAM) Lawyers and doctors last week denounced the highest human rights court in the Americas for meddling with science and failing to protect human life. Last December, the Inter-A…
Toxic Exports: Harvey Karman, Planned Parenthood, and the Exploitation of Rape Victims
May 09 2013
NEW YORK, May 10 (C-FAM) An effort to advance abortion by exploiting women raped in war stirs memories of an earlier campaign, its dangerous gadgetry, and a grisly abortionist now on trial for murder.…
UN Delegates Grow Weary of Abortion Agenda
May 02 2013
NEW YORK, May 3 (C-FAM) Late-night fatigue dogged UN delegates last Friday as abortion advocates had overstayed their welcome. A resolution on migration stalled all week and no one even cheered when i…
UN Leaders Lament 20-Year Failure to Advance Abortion
May 02 2013
NEW YORK, May 3 (C-FAM) The self-styled “master planner” of a 1990s landmark population conference last week lamented the failure to subsequently advance reproductive rights, often a code for abor…
Russia Offers Controversial Code of Conduct for UN Treaty Bodies
Apr 25 2013
NEW YORK, April 26 (C-FAM) Russia last week launched an unprecedented effort to inject independence and accountability into nine commissions that review the human rights practices of nations. The UN …
Analysis: European Leaders Use Laws of War to Pressure US to Fund Abortions in Africa
Apr 25 2013
NEW YORK, April 26 (C-FAM) European leaders pressing President Obama to fund African abortions argue that a novel interpretation of laws governing war should trump US restrictions on abortion funding.…
How the Papaya Became the Trojan Horse for Abortion Recruiters
Apr 18 2013
NEW YORK, April 12 (C-FAM) The latest effort to recruit abortionists relies on stealth and fresh fruit. Using a papaya as a uterus, medical students learn abortion techniques under the guise of “m…
Apr 18 2013
WASHINGTON DC, April 19 (C-FAM) Wolves prowl the streets of abandoned cities. Only prostitutes are left to take care of the elderly. War is looming. This is 2013 and the global population is aging. T…
UN Panel Says Sacred Texts Embrace Homosexuality
Apr 11 2013
NEW YORK, April 12 (C-FAM) After considering several religions, Sid Thompson changed his name to Daayiee Abdullah and converted to Islam at 30. He adopted the title Imam after developing the group Mus…
Social Science Study Still Spooking Gay Advocates
Apr 11 2013
WASHINGTON DC, April 12 (C-FAM) Homosexual advocates seem obsessed by a social science study that goes against them. They say the research is unimportant but can’t stop talking about it. A year ago…
Human Rights Council Shelves Families to "Protect" Children
Apr 04 2013
GENEVA, April 5 (C-FAM) The Human Rights Council set aside a resolution to protect the family as member states focused instead on a controversial resolution which could expose children to early sexual…
Advocates Combat Abortion's “Stigma” With Stealth Training
Apr 04 2013
NEW YORK, April 5 (C-FAM) Frustrated by the persistence of shame attached to abortion, international abortion activists are employing stealth methods to recruit and train abortionists while scholars a…
International Lawyers Claim Malta’s Protection of Unborn is “Torture”
Mar 28 2013
NEW YORK, March 29 (C-FAM) The tiny island nation of Malta has been singled out as a human right abuser by legal experts in Europe in preparation for its next review by the UN Human Rights Council in …
Foreign Law Invoked in Supreme Court Consideration of Same-Sex Marriage
Mar 28 2013
WASHINGTON DC, March 29 (C-FAM) Oral arguments were heard this week in the U.S. Supreme Court on the matter of homosexual marriage. A few dozen very interesting friend of the court briefs have been su…
Abortion Advocates Handcuffed By Previous Agreement
Mar 21 2013
NEW YORK, March 22 (C-FAM) Pro-life and pro-abortion representatives, pressed against the glass outside a room where UN member states were negotiating a set of policies to end violence against women l…
March for Marriage Set for Next Week in Washington DC
Mar 21 2013
WASHINGTON DC, March 22 (C-FAM) Much of the world looks to the United States for guidance on issues of social policy. The fact of abortion on demand in the U.S. has been a powerful example that other …
Negotiators Stymied at UN over Abortion Language
Mar 15 2013
NEW YORK, March 15 (C-FAM) A last ditch effort by ambassadors and top UN officials failed last night to reach agreement on policies to end violence against women because powerful western developed cou…
Analysis: UN Conference Using Deceptive Data to Shape Policy
Mar 15 2013
NEW YORK, March 15 (C-FAM) As negotiations intensified during the 57th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), one sobering statistic on violence against women was repeated in conference rooms and me…
UN Agreement on Violence Against Women Threatened by Abortion Advocates
Mar 07 2013
NEW YORK, March 8 (C-FAM) The meeting has barely begun and UN member states are already deadlocked in negotiations at the Commission on the Status of Women this week at UN headquarters. The new line o…
UN Event Promotes Life in the “Tough Cases”
Mar 07 2013
NEW YORK, March 8 (C-FAM) As UN delegates in closed rooms debate language regarding access to abortion for women who have been violated, two women at an event blocks away presented a powerful argument…
Pro-Life Groups Ask General Assembly to Reform UN Treaty Bodies
Feb 28 2013
NEW YORK, March 1 (C-FAM) Pro-life organizations spoke at a special forum at UN headquarters this week to ask the UN General Assembly to reform treaty bodies which deviate from their mandates by pushi…
New Evidence Challenges UN Commissioner’s Call for Comprehensive Sex Ed
Feb 28 2013
NEW YORK, March 1 (C-FAM) As the UN Human Rights Council considers whether to endorse a report praising comprehensive sex education programs, a new review of the disputed curricula finds they can do m…
Guttmacher Uses Faulty Data to Push Abortion in Uganda
Feb 21 2013
NEW YORK, February 22 (C-FAM) A new Guttmacher Institute report on Uganda recommends increased access to contraception and abortion as a way to improve women’s health and reduce unintended pregnanci…
UN Commission Reinforces Role of Family for Development
Feb 21 2013
NEW YORK, February 22 (C-FAM) Last week a UN commission that formulates social policies acknowledged the role of the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society, rejecting attempts by wester…
Panel Calls Therapy for Homosexuals a Human Rights Violation
Feb 14 2013
NEW YORK, February 15 (C-FAM) Therapy to help people change unwanted same sex attraction should be banned and labeled a human rights violation, according to a panel of advocates at the Church Center, …
President Obama Extends Clinton’s Sexual Rights Foreign Policy Agenda
Feb 14 2013
WASHINGTON DC, February 15 (C-FAM) A Presidential Memorandum issued last month by President Obama under the guise of gender equality and women’s empowerment will be used to advance sexual and reprod…
Beloved Pro-Life Leader Dies, Modeled Mercy and Justice
Feb 07 2013
WASHINGTON DC, February 8 (C-FAM) Senator Tom Coburn’s tearful tribute of Michael Schwartz on the Senate floor in December threw a spotlight on a humble yet fierce advocate for the weak. A pro-life …
Obama Development Council Full of Abortion Advocates
Feb 07 2013
WASHINGTON DC, February 8 (C-FAM) President Obama’s appointments last month to his Global Development Council signal his intent to prioritize abortion over necessary life-saving health issues. Obam…
Editorial: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity are Not Human Rights
Jan 31 2013
WASHINGTON DC, February 1 (C-FAM) Policy makers around the world are regularly informed by seemingly authoritative sources that “sexual orientation and gender identity” are new categories of non-d…
Population Questions Enliven UN Debate on Development
Jan 31 2013
NEW YORK, February 1 (C-FAM) A major disagreement among demographic experts threatens to upend efforts to include population control and family planning programs in the United Nations new development …
Europeans Launch Initiative To Defund Abortion
Jan 24 2013
NEW YORK, January 25 (C-FAM) A European court victory for environmentalists has inspired a continent-wide campaign to end European Union funding of embryo-destructive research and abortion. The “On…
Abortion Leaders Prepare for New UN Development Goals
Jan 24 2013
NEW YORK, January 25 (C-FAM) Abortion advocates and others are concerned about the impending expiration of the Millennium Development Goals in two years. Some of them met last week to begin developi…
French Homosexuals Join Demonstration Against Gay Marriage
Jan 17 2013
NEW YORK, January 18 (C-FAM) Perhaps as many as a million people marched in Paris last Sunday and at French embassies around the world against proposed legislation that would legalize same-sex marriag…
US State Department Laments Losses Last Summer at Rio
Jan 17 2013
WASHINGTON DC, January 18 (C-FAM) The Obama administration told abortion advocates last week it will not be able to push for "sexual rights" in UN funding talks this spring because of the major setbac…
New Study Challenges UN Statistics and Priorities
Jan 10 2013
NEW YORK, January 11 (C-FAM) A just-released global study demonstrates that the diseases causing most of the world’s untimely deaths and illness, especially among children, are not receiving proport…
Edmund Burke Fellowship Convenes in C-FAM UN Office
Jan 10 2013
NEW YORK, January 11 (C-FAM) The academic week of the Edmund Burke Fellowship met this week in C-FAM’s New York office. Named for the 18th century statesman and political theorist, the Fellowship br…
UN General Assembly Plenary Concludes as it Began
Jan 03 2013
NEW YORK, January 4 (C-FAM) The UN General Assembly (GA)’s 67th plenary session concluded in December in much the same way as it concluded over half a century ago when the GA first dealt with the Pa…
Maternal Health Argument for Abortion Persists, Despite Evidence
Jan 03 2013
NEW YORK, January 4 (C-FAM) Advocates for legal abortion in all circumstances continue to make their case in terms of reducing maternal mortality, despite a growing body of evidence showing that drama…
C-FAM’s 2012 Five Best Moments For Life and Family at the United Nations
Dec 27 2012
NEW YORK, December 27 (C-FAM) The United Nations is not a place where you expect human life and dignity, or the natural family to be valued. But on rare occasions life and family are defended at the U…
The Inter-American Court versus the Rule of Law
Dec 27 2012
PHOENIX, December 27 (C-FAM) Late last week the Inter-American Court on Human Rights struck down a Costa Rican law that banned in vitro fertilization, ruling that the restrictions violated rights to p…
C-FAM’s 2012 Five Worst Moments for Life and Family at the United Nations
Dec 20 2012
NEW YORK, December 20 (C-FAM) As we look back over the year 2012 here are five of the worst moments for human life, dignity and the family at the United Nations. 1. World Health Organization Guidelin…
UN Women Forum on Violence against Women Encumbered by Usual Baggage
Dec 20 2012
NEW YORK, December 20 (C-FAM) At the closing session of the Stakeholders’ Forum on “Preventing and Eliminating Violence Against Women,” Liberian Ambassador Marjon V. Kamara praised the contrib…
Russia Rejects UN Committee Edict on Homosexual Propaganda
Dec 13 2012
GENEVA, December 14 (C-FAM) A UN committee of legal experts reprimanded the Russian Federation last month for allowing the Ryazan province of Russia to enforce a law that bans the promotion of homosex…
Host Country Distances Itself from UN Youth Conference
Dec 13 2012
NEW YORK, December 14 (C-FAM) As the twentieth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) approaches, abortion activists are marking out their priorities for gove…
Senate Rejects Controversial Disability Treaty
Dec 06 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, December 7 (C-FAM) The United States Senate voted this week against ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The 61-38 vote fail…
UN Agency for Refugees Firmly in Grasp of LGBT Advocates
Dec 06 2012
NEW YORK, December 7 (C-FAM) The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has issued new comprehensive guidelines on asylum claims brought by lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) persons, wit…
Unsung International Pro-Life Hero Passes Away
Nov 30 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, November 30 (C-FAM) The story goes that Richard Wilkins was lying in his bed one night back in the 90’s and could not sleep. He could not get something out of his head, the crazy ide…
“Gender Identity” Debuts in a UN Resolution
Nov 30 2012
NEW YORK, November 30 (C-FAM) Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) rights continue to divide UN member states but LGBT groups are celebrating a minor victory at the United Nations General As…
Worldwide Abortion Campaigns Exploit Tragic Death in Ireland
Nov 22 2012
NEW YORK, November 23 (C-FAM) Irish pro-life groups are dismayed by the deluge of pressure pouring on Ireland to change its abortion laws following the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar from a compl…
UNFPA Promotes Social Engineering Through Family Planning
Nov 22 2012
NEW YORK, November 23 (C-FAM) The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) drew international headlines this past week for claiming a new human right to contraception. Contraception as a human right is…
European Commission Nominee May be Rejected over Catholic Beliefs
Nov 16 2012
NEW YORK, November 16 (C-FAM) Can a candidate who embraces the Catholic Church’s teachings on issues such as abortion and homosexuality serve as the European health commissioner? Do such views exi…
WHO Prescribes Unsafe Abortion for Poor Women
Nov 16 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, November 16 (C-FAM) A new manual by the World Health Organization (WHO) on how to do abortions is facing criticism for advocating substandard medical care and a ban on all limits to ab…
Analysis: Guttmacher Institute Equates Abortion Limits With Forced Abortion
Nov 08 2012
NEW YORK, November 9 (C-FAM) In June of this past year, photos of a Chinese woman and her dead child flooded the Internet, accompanied by the account of how Feng Jianmei was abducted from her home and…
Infuriated UN Delegates Complain About Handling of Hurricane Sandy
Nov 08 2012
NEW YORK, November 9 (C-FAM) UN delegates and staff were not immune from the disasters wrought by Hurricane Sandy. Delegates vented their frustration with the UN bureaucracy’s handling of the storm …
Fire Alarm Goes Off As Diplomats Criticize Human Rights Boss
Nov 01 2012
NEW YORK, November 2 (C-FAM) On UN Day, an official day to celebrate the United Nations, delegates were more concerned about highlighting abuses of the High Commissioner for Human Rights than celebrat…
Report on Intolerance Against Christians Submitted to UN Human Rights Commission
Nov 01 2012
NEW YORK, November 2 (C-FAM) Parents in Germany seeking to educate their children with a Christian worldview have been jailed and fined for trying to exempt their children from state-mandated sex educ…
Creative Campaign Re-Opens Debate on Abortion in Latvia
Oct 25 2012
LATVIA, October 26 (C-FAM) Sculptures of babies curled up on the pavement, attracted people walking by. Near each baby, a message in Latvian, English and Russian told the true story of an aborted chil…
Editorial: Arguing LGBT “Rights”
Oct 25 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, October 26 (C-FAM/ The Catholic Thing) Homosexual advocates never want to make the debate about homosexual rights overseas strictly about violence against homosexuals. Oh, they say the…
High Commissioner Continues Push for LGBT Rights Despite Setbacks
Oct 18 2012
NEW YORK, October 19 (C-FAM) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay is not one to shy away from controversy. UN member states have repeatedly complained about attempts to turn sexual …
Health Minister to Sneak Abortion into Ireland through Regulations
Oct 18 2012
NEW YORK, October 19 (C-FAM) Pro-life groups in Ireland fear that recommendations from a panel of experts appointed by Irish Health Minister James Reilly would be the first steps to introduce legal ab…
USAID Unleashes Norplant-Like Implant for Poor Women
Oct 11 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, October 12 (C-FAM) The US Agency for International Development announced on World Contraception Day a partnership with international donors to distribute Jadelle, a second-generation o…
Warsaw Pro-Life Gathering Strengthens Legislative Efforts to Defend Life
Oct 11 2012
WARSAW, October 12 (C-FAM) European and American pro-life academics and practitioners gathered late last month at the University of Warsaw for a conference on the “Intellectual Foundations and Legal…
Human Rights Council Attempts to Create Abortion Right
Oct 04 2012
GENEVA, October 5 (C-FAM) The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva inched closer to asserting abortion as a human right last week when it passed a resolution endorsing a controversial new set of guidelin…
UN Human Rights Council Affirms Traditional Values
Oct 04 2012
GENEVA, October 5 (C-FAM) Delegations from European Countries and the United States suffered a setback last week when the Human Rights Council adopted a resolution affirming a positive link between tr…
Sneak Attempt To Pass UN Treaty Thwarted
Sep 27 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, September 28 (C-FAM) A surprise attempt to pass the UN Disability treaty in the U.S. Senate last week was thwarted when Senator Mike Lee announced he and 36 other senators object to pa…
New Study Reignites Abortion Drug Controversy
Sep 27 2012
NEW YORK, September 28 (C-FAM) A new study critiquing a drug's effectiveness in childbirth sparked a vicious backlash from the abortion lobby this week, deepening concerns over the politicization of i…
UN Secretary General Defies UN Member States on LGBT Rights and Reproductive Rights
Sep 20 2012
GENEVA, September 21 (C-FAM) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon courted controversy last week when he told nations on the Human Rights Council to place lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual rights and…
European Court to Decide If Lesbian Adoption Trumps a Father’s Rights
Sep 20 2012
NEW YORK, September 21 (C-FAM) Europe’s highest court on human rights will decide if a lesbian can adopt her partner’s child, in this case stripping the father of his parental rights to his son. …
US Experts Testify on Dangers of Disabilities Treaty
Sep 13 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, September 14 (C-FAM) A panel of experts warned U.S. lawmakers this week that the UN Disabilities treaty could threaten the rights of parents and advance abortion rights. "This treaty…
Club of Rome Reconvenes on Pages of Top Journal
Sep 13 2012
NEW YORK, September 14 (C-FAM) Members of the Club of Rome, a group made famous forty years ago for its prediction of global starvation due to overpopulation, defended their projections recently in a …
Will UN Treaties Become a Hot Topic in the Presidential Race?
Sep 06 2012
NEW YORK, September 7 (C-FAM) Few politicians are interested in making obscure UN treaties a political talking point. Nevertheless, the Republican and Democratic parties stand at polar opposites on th…
Abortion Drugs Linked to Maternal Deaths in Developing World
Sep 06 2012
NEW YORK, September 7 (C-FAM) Several new studies have found abortion drugs – touted as a solution to illegal, unsafe abortions – are linked to increased maternal deaths and suffering. One study …
Asian Population Conference Laments Aging But Touts Abortion and Contraception
Aug 30 2012
NEW YORK, August 31 (C-FAM) Top Asian demographers, population experts, and UN staff gathered in Bangkok this week to address the region's aging crisis. Despite the severity of the low fertility predi…
Pro-life Doctors Movement and South Korea's Abortion Ban
Aug 30 2012
NEW YORK, August 31 (C-FAM) South Korea’s highest court upheld that country's 59-year abortion ban last week, amidst a surge of pro-life activism led by former abortionists. On Wednesday the governm…
Philippine Senator Denounces Global Abortion Lobby
Aug 23 2012
MANILA, August 24 (C-FAM) Senator Vicente C. Sotto III, one of the most popular and beloved politicians in the Philippines, is using all his clout to fight the latest attempt of the global abortion lo…
Editorial: Delegates Beware on Sexual Orientation
Aug 23 2012
NEW YORK, August 24 (C-FAM) The UN is in the midst of a multi-year campaign to regularize homosexuality and other behaviors in the scheme of international law. The skirmishes began many years ago wit…
Traditional Values Resolution Hijacked at Human Rights Council in Geneva
Aug 16 2012
GENEVA, August 17 (C-FAM) Likely the Russians are furious. Last year the Russian government initiated a process at the Human Rights Council in Geneva that was supposed to lead to a resolution touting …
Disability Treaty Loses Support Over Abortion Worries
Aug 16 2012
NEW YORK, August 17 (C-FAM) U.S. ratification of a UN treaty is stumbling due to a problem that has hounded the treaty since its beginning: does “sexual and reproductive health” include abortion? …
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Ramps Up Pressure for Special LGBT Rights
Aug 09 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, August 10 (C-FAM) In the span of one month, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued eleven press releases decrying episodes of violence against “gay,” “lesbian,” a…
Amnesty International Uses Maternal Deaths to Push for Unrestricted Abortion
Aug 09 2012
NEW YORK, August 10 (C-FAM) Amnesty International, a human rights organization that used to be abortion neutral, is now using the problem of maternal mortality to advocate for abortion. In a new repor…
Lancet Blames Homophobia For Growing HIV Epidemic
Aug 02 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, August 3 (C-FAM) Despite overwhelming medical evidence that AIDS is exponentially growing among homosexuals because of behavioral risks, the widely read medical journal Lancet is telli…
Book Review: Sovereignty or Submission?
Aug 02 2012
NEW YORK, August 3 (C-FAM) The US Senate may vote this week on ratification of the latest UN human rights treaty, this one on people with disabilities. Does it really matter whether the US ratifies su…
International AIDS Conference Provides Forum for Promotion of Risky Sex
Jul 26 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, July 27 (C-FAM) The UN Population Fund partnered with sexual and reproductive rights groups this week to push a controversial agenda of risky sexual behavior at a major international A…
Experts Call “Unmet Need” for Family Planning Baseless
Jul 26 2012
NEW YORK, July 27 (C-FAM) At the same time governments pledged billions of dollars to push contraception in poor countries based on the idea of an “unmet need” for family planning, an elite group …
Governments Fight Back Against CEDAW Committee
Jul 19 2012
NEW YORK, July 20 (C-FAM) Countries are fighting back against the CEDAW Committee’s questioning on abortion and maternal mortality as delegates complain about the inaccurate information the Committe…
Gates Family Planning Summit: What Comes Next?
Jul 19 2012
NEW YORK, July 20 (C-FAM) Pro-life protesters at the Family Planning Summit in London last week signaled that opposition to the multi-billion dollar campaign is not going away. Held on the 100th anni…
Gates Summit Raises Billions for Abortion Groups
Jul 11 2012
LONDON, July 13 (C-FAM) "What are women's attitude toward children," I asked a representative from a Sierra Leone family planning organization. "Before the war, they were negative. Now they are pos…
UN High Commissioner Ignores Pro-Life Concerns on Treaty Body Reform
Jul 11 2012
NEW YORK, July 13, 2012 (C-FAM) The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has ignored concerns expressed by UN Member States and civil society organizations about UN treaty bodies promoting a right to…
Architect of Reproductive Rights Dies as Her Legacy Unravels
Jul 05 2012
NEW YORK, July 6 (C-FAM) Feminist Activist Joan Dunlop died last week at 78, just a week after her legacy of recasting international population control efforts as "reproductive rights" began to unrave…
Muslim World Faces Devastating Fertility Decline
Jul 05 2012
NEW YORK, July 6 (C-FAM) Fertility rates of Muslim populations around the world have almost literally fallen off a cliff, so steep has been their decline. Policy makers at the UN and elsewhere have ba…
Abortion Advocates Outraged by Defeat of “Women’s Rights” at Rio +20
Jun 28 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 29 (C-FAM) Admitting a stinging defeat, political leaders joined abortion and population control advocates this week to express outrage over the omission of the term “reproducti…
Gates’ Contraception Summit To Enrich Abortion and Population Control Groups
Jun 28 2012
NEW YORK, June 29 (C-FAM) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants to gather commitments of billions of dollars from heads of state and other leaders for contraceptive programs aimed at poor women.…
Abortion Proponents Admit Defeat at Rio Conference
Jun 20 2012
RIO DE JANERIO, June 20 (C-FAM) In an astounding show of solidarity, a diverse group of countries rallied together with the Holy See to successfully remove any mention of reproductive rights or popula…
Rio Conference: Parties, Photo-ops, Press Conferences and Protests
Jun 20 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 20 (C-FAM) The final negotiations on the outcome document of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development ended just yesterday with a whopping 283-point declaration that will like…
Study Shows Homosexual Parenting Not Equal to Heterosexual Marriage
Jun 14 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, June 15 (C-FAM) A groundbreaking study reveals that adult children of homosexual and lesbian parents experience far greater negative social, economic and emotional outcomes than childr…
CEDAW Committee Criticizes Democratic Law Making Process in Brazil
Jun 14 2012
GENEVA, June 15 (C-FAM) The CEDAW Committee, charged with monitoring the implementation of the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), has warned Brazil th…
Analysis: Madrid Family Confab Mixes Concern with Hope
Jun 07 2012
PHOENIX, June 8 (C-FAM) As pro-life and pro-family leaders from around the world gathered in Madrid over the last weekend in May for the Sixth World Congress of Families, the man of the hour was clear…
UN Human Rights Chief Focuses on “Homophobia and Transphobia”
Jun 07 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, June 8 (C-FAM) In the midst of criticism for failing to properly prioritize, Navi Pillay, the UN’s top human rights official, released a video last month focusing on “homophobia an…
Researcher Says Abortion-Preterm Birth Connection Obscured
May 31 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, June 1 (C-FAM) A newly released research paper charges that medical journals and researchers are burying data that shows a link between abortion and dangerous preterm births in later p…
Chilean Study Exposes Fundamental Flaws in Maternal Health Research
May 31 2012
NEW YORK, June 1 (C-FAM) A Chilean medical researcher published a landmark study on the connection between the availability of abortion and maternal health. He found legal abortion does not contribute…
WHO Ignores Link Between Growing Incidence of Preterm Birth and Abortion
May 24 2012
WASHINGTON, DC May 25 (C-FAM) The World Health Organization (WHO) has just released an important new study looking at the growing and harmful medical phenomenon of “pre-term birth.” The “WHO Gl…
Friday Fax Analysis: Drop in Global Maternal Deaths Doesn't Mean Maternal Health Improving
May 24 2012
NEW YORK, May 25 (C-FAM) Around the world almost half as many women die in childbirth as they did 20 years ago, a new UN report says. The good news hides the sad fact that for women in many countries …
Analysis: A Strong Note of Caution on Reproductive Health and Family Planning
May 17 2012
NEW YORK, May 18 (First Things/C-FAM) In two recent papers, Meghan Grizzle of the World Youth Alliance argues that the phrases “reproductive health” and “family planning” are perfectly accepta…
UNFPA Fights to Make Population Control a Priority at Environmental Conference
May 17 2012
NEW YORK, May 18 (C-FAM) The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is taking advantage of the upcoming Rio+20 conference in June to promote population control and reproductive rights as the backbone…
UK Government Funds Forced Sterilizations in India
May 10 2012
NEW YORK, May 11 (C-FAM) The British government gave $268 million to the government of India for a program that forcibly sterilizes poor women and men, according to the Guardian newspaper. This news c…
Opinion: Sexual Left Gains, Developing Countries Lose at UN Population Meeting
May 10 2012
PHOENIX, May 11 (C-FAM) My colleagues at the Friday Fax reported last week that the “Latex Left” lost at the just ended UN Commission on the Population and Development, that they came away “empt…
Pro-Abortion and Pro-Homosexual Youth Lobby Sent Home Empty-Handed from UN
May 03 2012
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 Population and Development (CPD) by promoting homosexual rig…
Analysis: Family Breakdown at the Heart of Global Aging Crisis
May 03 2012
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 policy journals raise the question. "As the flight from …
LGBT Lawyers Sue Pastor for “Crime Against Humanity”
Apr 26 2012
NEW YORK, April 27 (C-FAM) A law firm known for publicity-seeking tactics is suing an American minister in U.S. Federal Court because he criticized homosexuality in Uganda. The Center for Constitutio…
UN Goals May Play Part in Uzbekistan’s Forced Sterilizations
Apr 26 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, April 27 (C-FAM) The government of Uzbekistan is accused of running a clandestine program to forcibly sterilize women, possibly as a way to meet U.N. goals on maternal mortality. The B…
Billionaire’s Wife Attacks Catholic Teaching on Birth Control
Apr 19 2012
NEW YORK, April 20 (C-FAM) Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a Catholic, is telling governments to dismiss the controversial link between contraception and population …
Abortion Advocates Create “Sexual Rights Toolkit” for UN Human Rights Council
Apr 19 2012
WASHINGTON DC, April 20 (C-FAM) Abortion groups have released a “toolkit” for activists to file “sexual rights” complaints against countries in the UN. International Planned Parenthood Feder…
European Development Aid and Funding Abortions
Apr 12 2012
NEW YORK, April 13 (C-FAM) The European Commission is using development funds to pay for abortions in countries that restrict the procedure and funding the two largest abortion providers in the world,…
Chinese Women Suffer Mental Health Risks From Abortion Despite Abortion Culture
Apr 12 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, April 13 (C-FAM) A new study from China shows that women who have experienced induced abortion have omnipresent mental health problems during a subsequent pregnancy. It also confirms t…
Fertility Decline May Unhinge Asian Security, Expert Panel Says
Apr 05 2012
NEW YORK, April 6 (C-FAM) The global fertility freefall is about to cause geopolitical upheaval in Asia, a panel of experts said this week. The experts, all contributors to the new book Population Dec…
UN Treaty Bodies Want More Power-Governments Argue Back
Apr 05 2012
NEW YORK, April 6 (C-FAM) The UN treaty body system may be on the verge of collapse due to a huge backlog of government reports and insufficient resources. In additional to backlog problems, the com…
UN May Recognize Sex Rights for Ten-Year Old Children
Mar 29 2012
NEW YORK, March 30 (C-FAM) The UN Commission on Population and Development is considering “sexual and reproductive health and rights” for children as young as ten. Even the Secretary General Ban …
Argentine Supreme Court Falls Prey to UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies
Mar 29 2012
NEW YORK, March 30 (C-FAM) In a surprising ruling, the Supreme Court of Argentina has declared abortion is a woman’s right in case of rape under international law. Under the ruling health service pr…
US Bullies “Contraceptive Mandate” on International Community
Mar 22 2012
NEW YORK, March 23 (C-FAM) The United States burned diplomatic bridges during this year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women by using force and deception to pass an unpopular resolution calling fo…
US Bullying Angers Developing World and Leads to US Defeat at UN
Mar 22 2012
NEW YORK, March 23 (C-FAM) Negotiations for a final document at the UN Commission on the Status of Women were supposed to end more than a week ago. However, they dragged on for another several days an…
UN Delegates Walk Out on Sexual Orientation Panel at Human Rights Council
Mar 15 2012
GENEVA, March 16 (C-FAM) UN delegates decided they had enough of “sexual orientation and gender identity” and staged a walk-out at UN headquarters in Geneva last week. It was to protest a panel di…
Pro-Life Youth Converge On UN Women’s Conference
Mar 15 2012
NEW YORK, March 16 (C-FAM) Pro-life and pro-family youth from around the world arrived at the United Nations last week to represent the International Youth coalition (IYc) at the 56th Session of the C…
UN Agencies Fuel Sex Selective Abortions and the Devaluation of Women
Mar 08 2012
NEW YORK, March 9 (C-FAM) The United Nations top agencies are actively promoting two root causes of Asia’s massive gender imbalance, charged an expert on population policies this week during a UN wo…
YWCA Nigeria Presents Graphic Video About “Unsafe Abortion” at the UN
Mar 08 2012
NEW YORK, March 9 (C-FAM) The Young Women’s Christian Association of Nigeria (YWCA) sent mixed messages about their position on abortion when it presented a graphic documentary about “unsafe abor…
UN Security Guards Confiscate Pro-Life Literature from Students
Mar 01 2012
NEW YORK, March 2 (C-FAM) Youth attending a UN conference on women’s issues this week say UN security officers confiscated their backpacks after discovering pro-life literature. The confiscated mat…
Delegations to UN Women’s Conference Led By Abortion Advocates
Mar 01 2012
NEW YORK, March 2 (C-FAM) Even before the UN’s annual women’s conference began this Monday, the European Union, Norway, Uruguay and Switzerland were already working to include abortion rights lang…
Independent Researchers Challenge Another WHO Report
Feb 23 2012
Washington, DC, February 24 (C-FAM) A new study by an independent group of researchers shows that the World Health Organization (WHO) has significantly underestimated malaria mortality figures in its …
Brazil Officials at UN Reveal Plans to Defeat Pro-Life Bill
Feb 23 2012
GENEVA, February 24 (C-FAM) Deep within a UN committee in Geneva, Brazil’s government officials filed a report criticizing the country’s pending pro-life legislation and described plans to defeat …
UN Committee Temporarily Shuts the Door on Pro-Abortion and Anti-Catholic Advocacy Groups
Feb 16 2012
NEW YORK, February 17 (C-FAM) During the past two weeks, a seemingly inconsequential UN oversight committee convened with undeniably consequential results. Tasked with reviewing the applications of hu…
Political Leaders Protect Marriage and Children from Homosexual/Transsexual Demands
Feb 16 2012
New York, February 17 (C-FAM) Resistance to the United States’ new foreign policy priority is emerging around the world for the same reasons it has been rejected within the U.S. Political leaders …
UN Secretary General Tells African Nations to Adopt LGBT Rights
Feb 09 2012
New York, February 10 (C-FAM) Last week UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told African nations to repeal criminal laws that places sanctions on homosexual conduct and to stop discrimination because of …
Analysis: WHO's report is it anyway?
Feb 09 2012
NEW YORK, February 10 (C-FAM) In recent weeks a new paper asserting that all nations should liberalize abortion laws has been characterized by the news media as an authoritative study by the World Hea…
Analysis: WHO Staff Report Calls for Legal Abortion in Developing World, Abortion Figures Inflated
Feb 02 2012
Washington DC, February 3 (C-FAM) A widely publicized report in The Lancet medical journal calling for the legalization of abortion contained inflated numbers, flawed data collection and highly mislea…
Population Control and Reproductive Rights Activists Sidelined in Rio+20 Debate
Feb 02 2012
New York, February 3 (C-FAM) In preparation for what is arguably the most influential intergovernmental conference on sustainable development internationally, representatives from member states, UN ag…
Hungary Defies Critics With New Family Law
Jan 27 2012
New York, January 27 (C-FAM) Hungarian leaders have passed a law protecting the traditional family, defying ongoing criticism that their new constitution would curtail abortion and homosexuality. The…
Senator champions the American Convention on Human Rights as Uruguay moves to legalize abortion
Jan 27 2012
NEW YORK, January 27 (C-FAM) A left leaning coalition within the Uruguayan Senate recently approved a bill that would legalize abortion within the first trimester of pregnancy. The bill narrowly p…
Backlash Begins Against Obama’s LGBT agenda
Jan 19 2012
NEW YORK, January 20 (C-FAM) The citizens of several countries are pushing back against President Obama’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender foreign policy imperative. Leaders in El Salvador la…
Guardians of Pro-Life Treaty Promote Abortion
Jan 19 2012
NEW YORK, January 20 (C-FAM) An international commission committed to the promotion and protection of human rights in the Americas recently published two reports that challenge laws protecting life fr…