UN Adopts Disabilities Treaty, Many States Reiterate Rejection of Abortion
Dec 14 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) The U.N. General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Wednesday. Among the nettlesome issues for social conservatives was the inc…
Leading Demographer Warns UN About Global War on Baby Girls
Dec 08 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) At the UN this week, renowned scholar Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) warned delegates of the growing global gender imbalance due to pre…
UNFPA Convenes Meeting of Parliamentarians That Endorses Abortion
Nov 30 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) The United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) sponsored a gathering of 180 parliamentarians in Bangkok last week in an effort to get the lawmakers to pledge to promote “re…
Violence Against Women and Children Resolutions Still Outstanding at UN Third Committee
Nov 23 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) In New York this week, the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee is scheduled to finish the last of its work this year, but two important resolutions on violence agains…
Secretary-General Puts Gender Equality At Center Of UN Reform Proposal
Nov 16 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) Last week, a high-level panel commissioned by Secretary General Kofi Annan released a key report on UN reform. While the purpose of the report was to recommend ways to ma…
Senior UN Official Outlines Vision for New UN Womens Office
Nov 09 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) A senior advisor to the UN Secretary General has called for a new UN agency for women’s rights. Nafis Sadik, special adviser to the Secretary General and the former exe…
UN Committee Complains to Nicaragua About Influence of Catholic Church
Nov 02 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) A powerful UN committee intervened in Nicaragua’s vote about abortion last week, telling national legislators to disregard religious leaders and consult with the UN ins…
UNICEF Attempts to Intervene in Nicaraguan Abortion Debate
Oct 31 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has attempted to intervene in a national debate in Nicaragua over new legislation that would ban abortion for any reason. The letter whi…
African Health Ministers Reject Abortion in New Policy Paper
Oct 26 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) African Union (AU) health ministers gathered in Mozambique this month to adopt a continental policy on reproductive health and rights. Though some participants wanted t…
Landmark Violence Against Children Study Ignores Unborn Children, Sex-Selected Abortions
Oct 19 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) The UN released its long-awaited study on Violence Against Children last week. Commissioned by outgoing Secretary General Kofi Annan in 2003, the study attempts to provi…
New UN Report on Violence Against Women Calls for Abortion and Homosexual Rights
Oct 12 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) The UN Secretariat's much anticipated report on violence against women was released this week. Compiled by a host of UN agencies and departments, regional groups, and…
Controversial Rights Being Pushed at Human Rights Council
Oct 06 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) Away from the media scrutiny surrounding the opening of the General Assembly in New York, the new UN Human Rights Council (HRC) is wrapping up its second session in Genev…
Left and Right Agree, UN Compliance Committees New Front Line in UN Abortion Debate
Sep 29 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) Leading scholars on both sides of the abortion debate agree that the push to make abortion an international human right has shifted from the UN General Assembly, where tr…
Nations Begin to Debate Ethics of Sale and Donation of Human Ova
Sep 21 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) The UN General Assembly passed a political declaration last year calling on Member States to avoid all forms of human cloning. The declaration was nonbinding and not unan…
61st Session of the UN General Assembly Opens
Sep 14 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) At the opening of the 61st session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), its newly-elected president, Sheika Haya Rashed al-Khalifa of Bahrain, stressed the primary legislat…
UN and Other Government Officials Criticize UN Treaty Monitoring System
Sep 07 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) A sitting member of a powerful UN compliance committee strongly criticized the UN treaty monitoring process at a UN luncheon this week. In a statement read for her by Dr.…
UN Treaty Rejects New Rights to Abortion, Euthanasia and Homosexuality
Aug 31 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) The just-concluded UN meeting on the rights of persons with disabilities was on balance a success for pro-lifers. Negotiations came down to the wire on the last day of th…
Pro-life Nations Under Severe Pressure to Allow Reproductive Health in New Treaty
Aug 25 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) At the UN this week, nations continued a heated debate over whether to include “reproductive health” in a new human rights treaty for the disabled. While the goal is …
Sexual and Reproductive Health Roils UN Conference on the Disabled
Aug 17 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The government of Nicaragua led a charge of 23 nations at UN headquarters this week objecting to the inclusion of "sexual and reproductive health services" in what will bec…
New UN Human Rights Treaty Threatens to Include Abortion
Aug 10 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) United Nations delegates will assemble in New York on Monday to finalize a new human rights treaty. The International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities …
Homosexual Groups Rejected Again by UN for Official Status
Aug 03 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Meeting in Geneva last week, the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) rejected three homosexual groups that had applied and been rejected earlier for official UN status.…
European Union Denies Funding for Embryo-Destruction
Jul 28 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) On Monday the European Commission decided to deny funds to researchers engaged in the destruction of human embryos to obtain stem cells. The European Commission is the exec…
Radical Lawyers Want Pregnant Women Drinking More
Jul 21 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Parental notification requirements, laws prohibiting ingesting illegal drugs during pregnancy, and government health insurance that does not pay for abortifacient contracep…
Top UN Official Calls for New UN Agency for Women
Jul 14 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) A top official at the United Nations has called for the creation of a multi-million dollar agency devoted to women's rights; one that opponents suspect would be devoted…
Belgian Parliament Considers Criminalizing Proselytizing
Jul 07 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) Some members of small religious groups in Belgium are worried that a controversial legislative proposal could threaten religious freedom. The law in question would punish…
20,000 Complain to German Government over World Cup Prostitution
Jun 30 2006
(NEW YORK — C-FAM) Petitions were delivered today to the German Government complaining of the prostitution situation connected to the Soccer World Cup underway now in Germany. 20,000 people…
Il Parlamento della Lettonia resiste alle pressioni UE riguardo all'omosessualità
Jun 23 2006
(NUOVA YORK — C-FAM) Nonostante quanto stabilito da una normativa dell'Unione europea, il Parlamento della Lettonia ha deciso di escludere dalla sua Legge Anti-Discriminazione il diviet…
Latvian Parliament Withstands EU Pressure on Homosexuality
Jun 23 2006
ITALIAN version (NEW YORK - C-FAM) The Latvian Parliament has decided to exclude a ban on sexual orientation discrimination from its Anti-Discrimination Bill, despite a dire…
UN Advisory Body Pushing For 'Sexual and Reproductive Health' in New Report
Jun 16 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The UN Millennium Project, a UN advisory body, has just released a report asserting that "sexual and reproductive health" is essential to achieving the Millennium Developme…
La Banca Mondiale Ignora i Governi e Promuove la "Salute Riproduttiva"
Jun 09 2006
(NUOVA YORK — C-FAM) La Banca Mondiale e altre istituzioni internazionali stanno chiedendo che la "salute riproduttiva" sia compresa fra le Mete di Sviluppo del Millennio (Millenn…
World Bank Ignores Governments and Promotes 'Reproductive Health' in Millennium Development Goals
Jun 09 2006
ITALIAN version (NEW YORK - C-FAM) The World Bank and other international institutions are promoting "reproductive health" as a part of the UN's Millennium Development Goals (M…
US State Department Succumbs to Homosexual Pressure in UN Vote
Jun 02 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) A coalition of radical homosexual groups put heavy pressure on the Bush Administration to change its vote to allow UN accreditation of homosexual groups seeking UN recognit…
U.N. Committee Rejects Accreditation for Homosexual Advocacy Groups
May 26 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The UN committee on non-governmental organizations has rejected two gay rights groups for "consultative status" with the UN Economic and Social Council. Rejected were the Lesbian…
Colombian Constitutional Court Decriminalizes Abortion for 'Hard Cases'
May 19 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) By a 5-3 vote on May 10, Colombia's constitutional court has legalized abortion in cases of rape, incest, fetal malformation or for the life of the mother. The final ru…
Judge Says Anti-Prostitution Pledge for Federal Funds Violates Free Speech
May 12 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) A U.S. District judge has ruled that it is a violation of free speech rights for USAID to require organizations that fight AIDS to sign a pledge opposing prostitution in or…
Amnesty International Considering Promoting Abortion 'Rights'
Apr 28 2006
(NEW YORK C-FAM) Amnesty International is considering changing its neutral policy on abortion to one that would declare legal abortion to be an international human right. The organization i…
USAID Sued for Requiring Pledge Against Commercial Sex Work
Apr 21 2006
(NEW YORK C-FAM) Last week, a U.S. District judge heard arguments in a lawsuit challenging a U.S. policy that requires recipients of federal HIV/AIDS service grants to pledge their oppositi…
Pro-Abortion Groups Seek to Create New U.N. Womens Agency
Apr 14 2006
(NEW YORK C-FAM) Last week, a coalition of U.S.-based women’s groups sent a letter to the United Nations to demand that the world body "more powerfully represent women’s empowerment and…
Canadian Official at UN Disappoints Pro-life Hopes
Apr 07 2006
(NEW YORK C-FAM) In a speech to the Commission on Population and Development at the UN a Canadian official endorsed language in international documents that has been used in the past to t…
Center for Reproductive Rights Charges US with Treaty Violations
Mar 31 2006
(NEW YORK C-FAM) Lawyers for the pro-abortion legal group Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) have testified before the United Nations' Human Rights Committee (HRC) that the US governm…
Latest Attempt to Push 'Sexual Orientation' at Human Rights Commission
Mar 24 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Despite the fact that this year's U.N. Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has been drastically shortened from its original six-week schedule, gay rights NGOs are pus…
Commission on the Status of Women Deletes Abortion-Inclusive Language in Agreed Conclusions
Mar 17 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) As the 50th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) met for its closing ceremony last Friday, delegates were uncertain whether a set of Agreed Conclu…
Pro-Life Groups Submit Briefs to Colombian Constitutional Court
Mar 10 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) In early February several pro-life groups filed Amicus Curiae briefs with the Colombian Constitutional Court, which is hearing a case on whether Colombia will be forc…
Demographer Says Religious, Cultural Conservatives on the Rise
Mar 03 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) "Conservatives will inherit the earth" according to the cover story of the current edition of Foreign Policy magazine which argues that families that adhere to traditio…
Two-Child Policy Stalled in Filipino Congress
Feb 24 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Proposed legislation in the Philippines that would impose radical limits on the number of children that families can have appears to have less support in the Congress tha…
UN Data Show Banning Abortion Doesn't Increase Maternal Mortality
Feb 17 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Nations with permissive abortion laws do not experience lower rates of maternal mortality compared to nations with restrictive abortion laws according to new data publi…
Congressman Accuses USAID of Establishing Pro-Prostitution Group in India and Lying About It
Feb 10 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The Chairman of a US House subcommittee on criminal justice has charged the US Agency for International Development (USAID) with setting up a pro-prostitution group in India…
Italian Jurist Dissents from Pro-Abortion EU Committee Report
Feb 03 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The Friday Fax has learned that an Italian member of an expert committee of the European Union has dissented from a controversial opinion that targeted a treaty between the…
Canada's Conservatives Defeat Pro-Abortion Liberal Party
Jan 27 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) In national elections this past Monday, the governing Liberal Party of Canada, led by Prime Minister Paul Martin, was decisively defeated by the opposition Conservative P…
Disabilities Convention Continues to Contain Problematic Language
Jan 20 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The seventh round of negotiations began this week over a treaty designed to protect and promote the rights of persons with disabilities. Pro-life advocates remain concern…
Filipino Congress Considers Coercive Two-Child Limit
Jan 13 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) The Filipino Congress is set to vote on Monday on a bill that critics say would discriminate against families with more than two children and would require the Catholic …
EU Panel Calls For Protection of Assisted Suicide, 'Gay' Marriage
Jan 06 2006
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) A statement issued by a European Union advisory panel attempts making assisted suicide, same-sex marriage and access to contraception to be among the "human rights" guaran…
Gloating E-Mails Reveal Power of Abortion Advocates in European Union
Dec 30 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) Copies of e-mails obtained by the Friday Fax reveal some of the world's leading pro-abortion advocates gloating over their powerful influence on a recent European Comm…
EU Committee Says Doctors Should be Forced to Perform Abortion
Dec 23 2005
(NEW YORK - C-FAM) A European Union advisory panel has issued a statement that threatens the rights of medical professionals to refuse to participate in abortions and other procedures that …