Colombian Court Rejects Suit Aimed At Legalizing Abortion
Dec 16 2005
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) The government of Colombia's high court announced last week they would not rule in a lawsuit that sought to change the South American country's laws forbidding abor…
Recent UN Statement on Abortion Incorrectly Interprets the Meaning of Human Rights Declarations
Dec 09 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The UN Human Rights Committee's recent directive that the government of Peru violated an international covenant by preventing a 17-year-old woman from having an abortion …
Pro-abortion Groups Try to Change Colombia's Law Through Courts
Dec 02 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) A massive coalition of international pro-abortion groups is behind a recent effort to liberalize Colombia's abortion laws using that nation's courts. A suit has bee…
Radical Lawyers Exaggerate Importance of Recent UN Statement on Abortion
Nov 25 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Pro-abortion lawyers at the Center for Reproductive Rights are saying that a recent statement by a UN committee represents a major victory in the battle to create an interna…
Newly Ratified African Protocol Hailed by Radical Pro-Abort Group
Nov 18 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Radical lawyers at the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) are celebrating a recently ratified protocol for women's rights in Africa as being "the first human rights in…
Gates Foundation Funds Prostitutes' 'Union' in India
Nov 11 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave $1 million to an Indian organization that acts as a "labor union" for prostitutes according to federal agency documents obtained…
EU Conference Says World is a Cruel Place Because of Catholic Church
Nov 04 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Finding ways to force countries like Ireland, Portugal and Malta to liberalize their abortion laws was the focus of a meeting of 17 members of the European Parliament and re…
Senate Democrats Establish Abortion Litmus Test for State Dep't. Refugee Job
Oct 28 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) It appears that US Senate Democrats intend to impose an abortion litmus test on a State Department job that has nothing to do with abortion. Ambassador Ellen Sauerbrey came …
USAID Funds NGO in India that Helps Brothels Retain Child Prostitute
Oct 21 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) received a sharp rebuke from the US House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform following revelatio…
UN General Assembly Already Rejects New UNFPA Report
Oct 14 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The UN General Assembly recently rejected the notion that "reproductive health" or "reproductive rights" should be a part of the Millennium Development Goals. One of the big…
US Refuses to Fund UNFPA for the Fourth Consecutive Year
Oct 07 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The State Department announced that the US could not fund the United Nations Population Fund because the organization aids China 's "One-Child Policy," a population co…
UN Official Admits Under Pressure that "Reproductive Health" Excludes Abortion
Sep 30 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) In and unusual exchange this week in the US Congress, among the highest ranking UN officials admitted that the term "reproductive health" does not include abortion, at least…
US Issues Pro-Life Clarification Attached to UN Millennium Summit Document
Sep 23 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) In the final moments of the UN Millennium Development Summit which ended last Friday afternoon, the US government issued an official "Explanation of Position" clarifying US …
World Summit Document a Disappointment for Abortion Supporters
Sep 16 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) After months of demands to include language that would create a broad international right to abortion, proponents of abortion were disappointed with the final document issue…
Conservative Document Endorsed by 700 NGOs Presented to UN Today
Sep 09 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The Heritage Foundation today presented a conservative document to the United Nations that was endorsed by more than 700 groups gathered by the Catholic Family and Human Right…
UN Program Rejects Abstinence Group for Criticizing Condoms
Sep 01 2005
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) A Nigerian organization was denied admittance to a United Nations program that solicits volunteers because the organization's leader criticized condoms in the prevent…
Pro-Life Participant Openly Rebuked by Chair at Disabilities Conference
Aug 25 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) At a recent UN conference held to negotiate a treaty on the rights of the disabled, the concerns of a pro-life NGO leader were openly criticized by the conference chairman…
Pro-Abortion Speaker Makes Rounds at World Youth Day/Or Did She?
Aug 19 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) There was a flurry of international activity last week regarding speculation that Eveline Herfkens, a pro-abortion Dutch bureaucrat connected to the UN, would address World …
Dangerous Language Being Introduced Into Disabilities Document
Aug 12 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The inclusion of unprecedented language making "sexual and reproductive health services" a human right garnered the widespread support of governments participating in a Unit…
President of General Assembly Defends Exclusion of Pro-Life Groups
Aug 04 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The President of the UN General Assembly has responded to complaints from the US Mission that conservative and pro-life NGOs were excluded from recent consultations with the …
'Catholic' Aid Organization in Holland Supports Plan to Promote Abortion
Jul 29 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) A prominent Dutch aid organization which touts itself as Catholic has endorsed the Dutch government's position that "reproductive rights" are essential to achieve the Mi…
UNFPA Demands Abortion Rights for Children as Young as 10
Jul 21 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Two recent publications circulating at the United Nations demonstrate a growing focus on young people as a way of advancing the abortion agenda. The reports, one by the Un…
Expert at UN Women's Rights Session Compares Abortion to 'Torture'
Jul 14 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Unusual admissions were made yesterday by a member of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, a UN committee watchdog that monitors compliance wi…
US Protests Exclusion of Pro-Life Groups from UN Conference
Jul 07 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The Friday Fax has learned that the acting US Ambassador to the United Nations has sent a letter of complaint to the President of the UN General Assembly over the exclusion…
UNFPA Calls for Abortion to Decrease Child Mortality, Increase Education
Jul 01 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) This week, senior governmental ministers and heads of state have convened at the UN in a final preparatory conference before September's Millennium Summit+5. UN agencie…
US Protests UN Excludes Pro-Life Groups from Important UN Meeting
Jun 24 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) For the last two days, hundreds of UN-picked international lobby groups have gathered in New York for discussions with the UN General Assembly about the upcoming Millennium S…
US Panel Calls for Major United Nations Reform in Scathing
Jun 17 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) A bipartisan task force of the Untied States Congress released a report on Wednesday stating that that the UN is in "urgent" need of "sweeping reforms." The report finds "t…
EU Calls For Abortion In New Global UN Document
Jun 10 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) With a draft outcome document having been presented to countries this Monday, negotiations over the Millennium+5 Summit are intensifying. It is at this time that the Coun…
UN Calls for Closer Links Between AIDS Prevention Programs and Abortion
Jun 02 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Yesterday the UN wrapped up a high-level conference to evaluate the progress achieved in combating the spread of HIV/AIDS since the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AI…
New Report Shows How Beijing Document Promotes Abortion
May 27 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Merely two months after the close of the "Beijing +10" conference at the United Nations, where pro-abortion lobby groups and delegates from several countries vehemently den…
UN AIDS Conference Threatens to Push for Increased Access to Abortion
May 20 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) On June 2, the UN will host a high-level conference to evaluate the progress achieved in combating HIV/AIDS since 2001, when countries adopted the Declaration of Commitment…
UN-Funded Lawyers File Suit to Force Change in Columbia Abortion Laws
May 13 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) On April 14, abortion activists in Colombia mounted a monumental legal challenge to Colombia's total ban on abortion, claiming that international treaties establish abo…
UNFPA, IPPF Organize Pakistani Conference to Undermine Muslim Teaching on Abortion/Contraception
May 06 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) A three-day international conference of Muslim scholars that portrayed contraception and even abortion as acceptable to Islam wraps up today in Islamabad, Pakistan. The I…
Family Planning Bill in Philippines Paving Way for Legalized Abortion
Apr 29 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) One of the most populous Catholic countries in the world is set to significantly liberalize its laws on family planning and "reproductive health" services, stopping just sh…
UN Admits that Access to Abortion Not Effective at Reducing Maternal Mortality
Apr 22 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Earlier this month, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its annual report on maternal mortality around the world. The report shows that the most important m…
Pro-Life Forces Claim Victory at UN Population Conference
Apr 15 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The UN Commission on Population and Development (CPD) ended its annual session yesterday and prolife groups are claiming victory. As is typical, the UN organizers and allie…
US Stands Firm Against Abortion at UN Population Conference
Apr 08 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) A number of pro-life interventions made this week at the 38th Session of the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) have been repelling the steady advance of th…
UN Steps Up Vigorous Call for Universal Access to Abortion
Apr 01 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) At next week's UN conference on HIV/AIDS and its links to population, development and poverty, a UN body looks poised to call for universal access to abortion as a …
EU Report Calls for European Countries to Increase Fertility
Mar 25 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) With recent European Union enlargement to include much of Eastern Europe, the EU rocketed by US population of 260 million by roughly 190 million. Even so, the European Un…
Drumbeat Continues to Include Abortion in Millennium Development Goals
Mar 18 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on Thursday wrapped up a two-day conference laying out the UN's strategy for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in pr…
UN General Assembly Calls on Nations to Ban All Forms of Human Cloning
Mar 11 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) In a historic pro-life victory, the United Nations has called on all nations of the world to ban all forms of human cloning. The Declaration adopted by the General Assemb…
UN Abortion Advocates Admit Beijing Excludes Abortion Rights
Mar 04 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Many countries and abortion proponents this week reaffirmed that the Beijing Platform for Action did not create a right to abortion. This came in response to a US request…
UN Convenes Preemptive Meeting to Promote Radical Feminist Agenda
Feb 25 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) convened an unusual informal consultation in preparation for a major two week conference set to begin on Monday. What was unu…
UN to Decide Today on Human Cloning
Feb 18 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) A UN committee has been meeting in special session this week to agree to a document on human cloning. After two years of negotiations, a substantive outcome seems more like…
UN-Commissioned Report Advocates Abortion Rights/Attacks Christian Beliefs
Feb 11 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) (NEW YORK - C-FAM) A commission working for the United Nations recently released a number of important reports that are unusual in their open advocacy of legalized ab…
Controversy Surrounds UN Disabilities Negotiation
Feb 04 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Today the United Nations closes the fifth in a series of two-week drafting sessions intended to produce an internationally binding convention on the rights and protection…
UN Report Shows Dramatic Global Increase in Contraception and Divorce
Jan 28 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The UN Population Division (UNPD) released a report this week showing that within the span of one generation, fertility levels have plummeted while divorce rates and the …
New UNICEF Chief Named, Heavy Tasks Face Her
Jan 21 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) US Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman was appointed as the new Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Vene…
UN to Draft Sweeping Convention on All "Disabilities"
Jan 14 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Next week the United Nations convenes a working group to continue drafting an international convention on people with disabilities. The eventual treaty will set domestic …
UNFPA Elusive About Abortion Aid for Tsunami Victims
Jan 07 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) describes itself as the "largest international public sector supplier of contraceptives, condoms and other reproductive health essentials,"…
UN-Funded Pro-Abortion Group Attacks Costa Rica's In Vitro Ban
Dec 30 2004
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The Center For Reproductive Rights (CRR), the most active pro-abortion litigant in the United States and a major global pro-abortion force, has filed supporting documen…
Human Rights Activists Reject UN Call for Legalized Abortion in Poland
Dec 24 2004
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The government of Poland is actively assessing its domestic laws on abortion and other social issues. An influential UN committee has intervened in the process by issuing…