UNICEF Moves to Keep Pro-life Lobbyists Out of Upcoming Child Summit
Dec 15 2000
(NEW YORK -- C-FAM) The UN Children's Fund has announced a plan that will severely restrict non-governmental (NGO lobbyists to the upcoming ten-year review of the Convention on the Right…
C-FAM Presents Holy See/UN Campaign to Papal Household in Rome
Dec 08 2000
(NEW YORK -- C-FAM) Representatives of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) met at the Vatican recently to present the results of the campaign in support of the Holy See at …
Nafis Sadik to Leave UNFPA, American Educated Saudi to Replace Her
Nov 09 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Ending a very controversial fourteen-year reign, Nafis Sadik, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, will step down at the end of this year and be replac…
UNICEF Criticized for Promoting Controversial Programs for Adolescents
Nov 03 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has come under intense criticism from the Catholic Church and parent's groups in El Salvador for distributing and promot…
Demographers at UN Meeting Alarmed at World-Wide Population Implosion
Oct 27 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) More than a dozen noted demographers meeting at UN headquarters last week expressed alarm at the rapid change in the age structure of many countries. They also expressed de…
UNICEF To Come Under Increased Scrutiny in Coming Months
Oct 13 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is the lead UN agency for the upcoming ten-year review of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Governments will meet i…
Planned Parenthood Admits To Illegal Use Of Funds For Abortion
Oct 05 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) A long expected war has erupted in Washington DC over US funding of groups that perform or promote abortion in foreign countries. International Planned Parenthood Federatio…
UNFPA Releases Annual Ideological Look at State of the World's Population
Sep 29 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has a dim view of marriage and the family, and believes the only way for women to achieve freedom and equality is through the bro…
Internal UNICEF Memo Reveals Intentions for Child Summit Next Year
Sep 22 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) An internal memo has come to light that reveals the intentions of UNICEF toward the special session of the UN General Assembly on children scheduled for next fall. Issued b…
Australian Government Withdraws from UN Treaty Monitoring System
Sep 11 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) In a highly controversial move, the coalition government of Prime Minister John Howard recently announced Australia will no longer report to UN bodies charged with monitori…
World Leaders Issue Declaration on Future of the United Nations
Sep 08 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The Millennium Summit of world leaders ends this afternoon at UN headquarters in New York City. After three days and more than 150 speeches, practically the only news from …
Christians/Muslims Feel Marginalized at Conclusion of World Peace Summit
Sep 01 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) What seemed to begin on Monday as a pell-mell sprint for world peace and understanding ended this afternoon in bruised feelings and charges of favoritism. The World Peace…
"President's Working Draft" Shows Intentions of UN Millennium Summit
Aug 25 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The working draft document for the upcoming UN Millennium Summit reveals a UN that is eager to regain lost credibility and to demand center stage. This comes after years of…
Inaccurate Internet Reports Panic Conservatives on UN Millennium Summit
Aug 18 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The US based Evangelical group Focus on the Family has been inundated with worried phone calls. So has the Washington DC office of the Christian Coalition. The calls are …
Campaign Defending Catholic Church at UN Grows to More than 4,000
Aug 10 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) More than 4,800 organizations have now joined in support of the Catholic Church at the United Nations. Campaigns supporting the Vatican's position are running in coun…
"State of the World Forum" to Advance "Global Governance" for Everyone
Aug 04 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) International leaders from government, business and civil society will meet in New York for seven days in September to muse about mankind and his future. Founded in 1995 …
Religious and Spiritual Leaders meet to form Permanent UN Advisory
Jul 28 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Organizers of the Millennium World Peace Summit hope to make history during four days of meetings at UN headquarters starting August 28. Dozens of leaders from religions …
Liberal and New Age Religious Groups Gather to Effect International Affairs
Jul 21 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) This fall world leaders will gather at the UN for the Millennium Summit that is expected to propose new roles for the UN in the new century. Separate meetings of world le…
US House of Representatives condemns campaign against Holy See/Resolution endorses Catholic Church
Jul 11 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The United States House of Representatives today voted to denounce the campaign of the pro-abortion lobby to oust the Catholic Church from the United Nations. In a lopsid…
New International Court Nears Reality/Pro-lifers Claim Small Victories
Jul 07 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) UN pro-life lobbyists are cautiously optimistic that the new International Criminal Court (ICC) will not be able to advance or enforce abortion rights. Governmental negot…
Controversial Abortionist Chairs UNFPA Committee in the United States
Jun 30 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) In has just come to light that Dr. Henry Foster has been appointed chairman of the newly formed "U.S. Committee for UNFPA." Foster came to national prominence in the Unit…
UNFPA Head Nafis Sadik Delivers Bitter Speech to UN General Assembly
Jun 23 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) UNFPA Executive Director Nafis Sadik is reported to have wept prior to delivering her speech to the Special Session of the UN General Assembly at the end of Beijing+5 on …
Pro-Family Groups Attacked by Canadian Government and UN Secretariat
Jun 16 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The Canadian government has paid for a report that attacks pro-lifers who participate at UN conferences. Just last week Assistant Secretary General Angela King charged pr…
Radical Feminists Suffer Unexpected and Stinging Defeat at Beijing+5
Jun 09 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Radical feminist efforts to extend their gains from the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995) ended in defeat this weekend as UN delegates finished Beijing+5 n…
Veiled in Secrecy, UN "Reproductive Rights" Talks Alarm Conservatives
Jun 02 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) In its official pronouncements the United Nations insists upon what is termed "transparency" which means all meetings should be open at least to limited public view. The …
Latin American States Proposing Radical Reproductive Rights at Beijing+5
May 26 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Beijing+5 negotiations resumed this week at UN headquarters in New York City. The final preparatory committee meeting which ended March 17 failed to produce an agreed upo…
Campaign in Support of Holy See at UN Grows to More Than 2,000 Groups
May 19 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) After only four months in operation the number of groups supporting the Holy See at the UN has grown to over 2,000 and come from more than 50 countries and all continents…
US Bishop's Conference Condemns "Catholics for a Free Choice"
May 12 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Using exceptionally strong language, the Washington DC based National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) yesterday condemned the group calling itself "Catholics for a …
European Pension System Set to Collapse/Low Fertility Blamed
May 05 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The president of the European Commission recently warned governments that by 2025 nearly one-third of the European population will be collecting pensions. Italian Romano …
Coercion in Peruvian Family Planning Programs Imperils USAID Funding
Apr 27 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Powerful Republicans in the US Congress have promised to stop the Clinton Administration's promised increase of $170 million to international family planning programs…
New UNICEF/WHO Manual for Refugees Promotes Abortion for Adolescents
Apr 21 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have released a reproductive health manual for field workers in refugee situations…
Two Radical NGO Documents Percolate Toward UN General Assembly
Apr 14 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) In the coming year the UN General Assembly will be asked to consider two documents that many see as taking away national sovereignty and advancing an extreme environmental…
UN Clamps Down on NGOs/Pro-Life and Pro-Family NGOs Cry Foul
Apr 07 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The United Nations has announced that participation by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will be heavily restricted at the Special Session of the UN General Assembly …
UN Issues Warning on Looming International Under-Population Problem
Mar 31 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Going against decades of warnings about high fertility rates and overpopulation, the United Nations has just released a report warning of an evolving new problem, populat…
Mar 24 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) A pamphlet just released by the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice reveals the intentions and wishes of feminist groups related to the nascent International Criminal C…
Beijing+5 Prepcom Stymied, Inter-sessional Planned, Pro-Lifers Abused
Mar 17 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) What was supposed to be the final preparatory committee meeting for a June special session of the UN General Assembly on women has ground nearly to a halt. After almost t…
Evangelicals, Mormons, Jews, Muslims Announce Support for Holy See at UN
Mar 15 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Today at UN headquarters pro-life and pro-family groups announced an international campaign in support of the Holy See at the United Nations. This comes in response to an i…
Pro-Family Lobbyists Having Major Impact at UN Beijing+5 Conference
Mar 10 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Wearing bright red "Motherhood" buttons, dozens of pro-family lobbyists are having an outsized impact on the five-year review of the Beijing Women's Conference that beg…
Radical Feminists to Advance Abortion, Denigrate Motherhood at Beijing+5
Mar 03 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Abortion is not in the draft document just released by the UN, but the question of abortion is sure to stalk the upcoming Beijing+5 conference that begins at UN headquarter…
US Congress to Defend Pope at the United Nations
Feb 25 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The United States Senate and House of Representative began considering this week resolutions condemning the ongoing attack on the presence of the Holy See at the UN. The re…
Powerful NGOs Gather to Put Left-Wing Pressure on UN General Assembly
Feb 18 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The 55th annual meeting of the UN General Assembly next fall will go by the name of the Millennium Assembly. The resolution calling for this special meeting of the Member S…
Pressure Groups Threaten NATO With Kosovo War Crimes Investigation
Feb 04 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Recent actions by radical NGOs and the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal have cast a shadow over the newest round of International Criminal Court (ICC) negotiations that began t…
Competitive Enterprise Institute Challenges Radical Environmentalism
Jan 28 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) believes the modern environmental movement "cannot afford a single smelly orthodoxy to which all must conform." In its just rel…
Campaign to Kick the Vatican Out of the UN Grows to 400 Organizations
Jan 21 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Almost one year ago, a group of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) announced that they intend to get the Vatican kicked out of the United Nations. Through extensive in…
UN Convention on Organized Crime May Urge "Legalization" of Prostitution
Jan 14 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Efforts are underway this week in Vienna to change the UN definition of prostitution. This attempt comes during negotiations of a "protocol" that will accompany the UN Co…
Corporate Investments May Be New Conduit for Abortion in Developing World
Jan 07 2000
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Transnational corporations have long been seen by the left as exploiters of the poor in the developing world. Increasingly, though, with the rise of globalization, the le…
UNICEF Believes State of War Exists Against World's Women and Children
Dec 31 1999
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) believes an "undeclared war" exists against the world's women and children. In it's just released "State of the Wo…
Conservative NGOs Warn US Congressional Staffers About Beijing+5
Dec 24 1999
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) At a US Congressional briefing in Washington DC last Wednesday, four conservative NGOs warned that the Beijing Platform for Action denigrates the role of mothers, attacks…
Protection for Families Dropped From New International Criminal Court
Dec 17 1999
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) UN delegates decided this week to remove explicit protection for families in the evolving International Criminal Court (ICC) statutes. A coalition of eleven Arab states p…
Conservative NGOs Caution Governments Against Women's Rights Treaty
Dec 10 1999
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) UN gender czar Angela King just completed a five day tour of Middle Eastern countries, during which she tried to persuade them to adopt what many see as a radical convent…
New Turner Donations Promote Adolescent Sexuality in Developing World
Dec 03 1999
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Since its founding in 1997, American mogul Ted Turner's UN Foundation has given $118 million to dozens of United Nations projects in areas ranging from child health t…
Leading Thinkers and Activists Address Family Issues at Geneva Meeting
Nov 26 1999
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) More than two dozen leading scholars from around the world addressed the 1500 participants of the World Family Congress II in Geneva last week. They spoke on a range of t…
Family Declaration Unanimously Adopted at Geneva Pro-family Meeting
Nov 19 1999
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) In a hotel along Lake Geneva Wednesday night, more than 1500 pro-family leaders from around the world unanimously endorsed a declaration of conservative principles relate…