AIDS to Cripple Russia, China and India, Demographer Says
Dec 20 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) In an article appearing in the current issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, the eminent demographer Nicholas Eberstadt argues that within the next few decades Russia, China a…
Condom Lobby Drives AIDS Debate Besides Abstinence Success in Africa
Dec 13 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) As AIDS sweeps across Africa, Uganda remains a lone success story, as millions of Ugandans have embraced traditional sexual morality, including sexual abstinence outside of…
UNFPA Report Shows Promises of Fertility Reduction Have Not Been Met
Dec 06 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) For years, population control advocates have promised that lower fertility rates would result in economic growth. However, in its latest report, UNFPA mentions only a small…
Radicals Attack Bush Because of UN Pro-life Stance
Nov 29 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) International advocates of abortion and population control are showing increasing frustration with the staunchly pro-life and pro-family positions of the Bush administratio…
European Parliament Calls for Comprehensive Ban on Human Cloning
Nov 22 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) In a direct rebuke to the French and German delegations at the United Nations, the European Parliament today overwhelmingly called for an international ban on all forms of …
Overseas Abortion More Important than Overseas Education, According to EU
Nov 15 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) According to a member of the European Parliament, Irish taxes may soon contribute to a European Union initiative to provide abortions throughout the developing world, even …
UNFPA Director Obaid Courts Controversy at Women's Meeting
Nov 08 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The current executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Thoraya Obaid, has seemed determined to avoid the controversy often courted by her tough-talki…
German Diplomat in Cloning Debate Denies C-FAM Charges
Nov 01 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The head of the German delegation to the UN debate on cloning has flatly denied a report in the September 27 Friday Fax that he told a closed-door meeting of diplomats that…
IPPF Says UN Child Rights Treaty Endorses Abortion for Children
Oct 25 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has started distributing a brochure to inform children that the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC…
German Delegate Doubts Morality of US Position on Cloning
Oct 18 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) In a rare breach of United Nations protocol, the German delegate to UN negotiations on human cloning called the United States position in favor of a comprehensive ban on al…
Vatican's UN Observer Promoted to Post in Rome
Oct 11 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Archbishop Renato Martino, the Vatican's Permanent Observer to the United Nations since 1986, a period often marked by contentious debates over the expanding UN social …
Pro-Abortion Group Seeks to Use Clergy Scandal Against Church at UN
Oct 04 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) "Catholics" for a Free Choice (CFFC) is funding a New York man's trip to a United Nations child right's meeting in Geneva next week to announce the alleged sexual a…
Franco-German Partial-Cloning Ban Faces Broad Opposition at UN
Sep 27 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) As deliberations over an international response to the threat of human cloning continued at United Nations headquarters this week, the French and German proposal to create …
Bush Says "Yes" to UNESCO, Social Conservatives Concerned
Sep 20 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) One of the little-noticed and little-reported items in President George W. Bush's speech to the UN General Assembly last week was the US pledge to rejoin UNESCO, the …
Canadian International Aid Tied to Abortion, Charges Doctor
Sep 13 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The head of MaterCare International (MCI), a group of Catholic obstetricians and gynecologists dedicated to the care of women in the developing world, charges that the Cana…
Sustainable Development Summit Declared a Pro-life Victory
Sep 06 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) As the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa drew to a close this week, pro-life/pro-family delegates were satisfied with the outcom…
Drive for Abortion Rights Roils UN Sustainable Development Summit
Aug 30 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Just like many other UN meetings, the already-contentious negotiations at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) now taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa …
Rotary International Risks Reputation with UNFPA Alliance
Aug 23 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Along with a number of humanitarian projects, including a massive campaign to eradicate polio, Rotary International also teams with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFP…
Joining China, Girl Scouts Honor Former UNFPA Chief Sadik
Aug 16 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) At its world conference held this summer in the Philippines, The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGS) celebrated the achievements of the former head of …
NGOs Cite CEDAW Committee's Pro-abortion Stand at Current Meetings
Aug 09 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Since the word "abortion" does not appear in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), US proponents of the controversial UN t…
Senate Sources Believe Radical UN Treaty May Pass into US Law
Aug 02 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Some conservative senate staffers are bracing for the possibility that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the controver…
Bush De-funds UN Population Agency for Role in China Abortions
Jul 26 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) On Monday, the Bush administration announced its decision to end all U.S. support for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) because it aids China's "One-Child Poli…
EU Parliament Members Seek Holy See Silence, Ouster From UN
Jul 19 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Members of the European Parliament have stepped up their attacks on the Catholic Church, circulating a number of resolutions condemning the Church's moral authority on …
UNFPA and its U.S. Allies Use Catholic Church in Funding Dispute; Kenyan Bishop Outraged
Jul 12 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) In a startling political move, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and its allies in the United States Congress have sought to justify US funding for UNFPA by citing…
EU Parliament Votes To Establish Europe-Wide Right to Abortion
Jul 06 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) In a narrow 280-240 vote (with twenty-eight abstentions), the European Parliament voted Wednesday to establish sweeping new norms for "reproductive and sexual rights," incl…
UN Report Suggests Condoms are not the Answer to AIDS Epidemic
Jun 28 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) According to a United Nations report released on June 23, the UN's massive effort to supply the world with condoms in a bid to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS is failing. A…
Denmark Told to Change Laws by CEDAW Committee, Raising Fears in US
Jun 21 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) A familiar refrain of proponents of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is that US ratification of the controversial UN d…
US Senate Committee Considers Ratification of CEDAW
Jun 14 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing yesterday to address whether the United States should ratify the controversial UN women's rights convention, calle…
US Pro-Life/Pro-Family NGOs Flood White House Switchboard Against CEDAW
Jun 07 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) As news has spread that the United States is considering ratification of a controversial United Nations women's rights convention, pro-life and pro-family nongovernment…
European Rightward Tilt May Affect UN Business
May 31 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Although the rise of far-right European political parties has garnered worldwide attention, the more quiet resurgence of center-right and Christian Democratic parties in …
UN Commission Asserts Low Asian Birth Rate Will Result in Poor Elderly
May 21 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The United Nations continues to voice concern over the dual demographic trends of declining births and an increasingly elderly population, this time focusing its attentio…
Vocal NGO Critic of US at Child Summit Sells Abortion Equipment
May 17 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) One of the groups most critical of the United States and other governments holding pro-life positions at the recent United Nations Special Session of the General Assembly…
Tempers Flare as Child Summit Negotiations Go Down to Wire
May 10 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The controversies over the provision of abortion for children and the proper definition of the family, which have dogged the year-long preparatory process of the Special …
UN Child Summit Negotiations Stymied Over Adolescent Abortion
May 03 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The controversies over the provision of abortion for children and the proper definition of the family, which have dogged the year-long preparatory process of the Special …
EU Feels Political Effects of Fertility Decline, Immigration
Apr 26 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) For at least three years, the United Nations Population Division has warned that Europe is on the brink of economic and political upheaval because of its precipitous drop…
Philippine Groups Sue "Catholics" for A Free Choice, Charging Media Lies
Apr 19 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The latest media campaign of "Catholics" for a Free Choice (CFFC) has finally garnered attention, but it may not be the attention CFFC desired -- CFFC is being sued for d…
US Takes Pro-family Stance at UN Population Commission, EU defends UNFPA
Apr 12 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) At the UN Commission on Population and Development last week, the United States delegation declared that the promotion of strong families and strong values is necessary t…
UN Sponsors "Catholics" for a Free Choice Attack on the Holy See
Apr 05 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) "Catholics" for a Free Choice (CFFC) this week has renewed its attack against the status of the Holy See at the United Nations, this time with the apparent approval of at…
Natural Family Planning Gains Adherents in Bangladesh, Says Doctor
Mar 29 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) When offered the option, many women in Bangladesh select natural family planning over artificial means of contraception, according to Dr. Hanna Klaus, Executive Director …
UNFPA Executive Director seeks additional funding for beleaguered agency
Mar 22 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) At this week's International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) executive director Thoraya Obaid iss…
UN Begins to Consider that the "Population Explosion" is Over
Mar 15 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The UN this week convened a meeting of demographers to discuss whether the fertility of developing countries like India and Brazil will continue to fall, perhaps even rea…
UNFPA Admits Chinese Government Monitored UNFPA Investigators
Mar 08 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The debate over US funding of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) came to the US Senate at the end of last week. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) called the hearing in hopes of ge…
US Takes Strong Position for Total UN Ban on Human Cloning/EU Split
Mar 01 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The US government at the UN this week came out strongly in favor of a total ban on human cloning. The US delegate told the UN Member States, "Human cloning is an enormous…
UN Begins Deliberation on Partial Ban of Human Cloning
Feb 22 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) UN Members States begin discussions in New York on Monday that may lead to an international ban on human cloning. The proposed Convention, however, will only produce a pa…
UNFPA "Partner" Advocates Breaking National Abortion Laws
Feb 15 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) repeatedly insists it does not support or promote abortion. This assertion is a key part of their case to receive funding from …
UN Gender Committee Admits Legal Abortion Unsafe for Women
Feb 08 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) After years of advising countries to legalize abortion, members of the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) expert committee have voic…
Homosexual Group Misleads UN Panel, Rejected for Official UN Status
Feb 01 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) After a contentious debate lasting intermittently since 1995, the UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) this week rejected a bid by the International Gay …
Chilean Senate Fears for Sovereignty if UN Document is Ratified
Jan 25 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The government of Chile recently postponed a senate vote on the UN's controversial Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Wome…
National Campaign Rages For and Against US Funding for UN Agency
Jan 18 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) As President Bush mulls whether the US should give $34 million to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), editorial boards across the nation have mobilized in support o…
UNICEF 'Major Funder' of Group Promoting Abortion/Pornography for Children
Jan 11 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) supports a South African organization that encourages children to engage in sexual and homosexual behavior and to have abort…
New Director Named for Radical Feminist UN Agency
Jan 04 2002
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) has named Dr. Carolyn Hannan, a Swedish "gender mainstreaming" expert, as its new director. Hannan recently completed a s…
Campaign Blaming Bishops for AIDS Deaths Largely Ignored by Media
Dec 28 2001
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The latest effort of Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) to discredit the Catholic Church appears to have fallen flat. On November 30, CFFC began a major advertising blitz t…