UN Policies

African Governments Escalate Fight Against Abortion Giant Marie Stopes

12/13/2018 at 3:26 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. | December 13, 2018 WASHINGTON, D.C. December 14 (C-Fam) Marie Stopes International (MSI), the UK-based provider of abortion and contraceptives, is facing increasing restrictions by African governments for failing to respect their laws. Abortion advocacy groups are pushing... read more

Reckoning with the Baltimore Fiasco

11/23/2018 at 10:22 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Stephen P. White, November 21, 2018 The credibility of the American episcopate is at a low ebb. Expectations are high, patience is running short. Amidst the outrage and anger, Catholics are pleading for shepherds who will stand up for them. Our bishops were painfully aware of this as they... read more

Vatican autocracy and the U.S. bishops

11/23/2018 at 10:01 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
By George Weigel, November 21, 2018 As the U.S. bishops gathered in Baltimore on the weekend of Nov. 10-11, it seemed certain that, after a day of prayer, penance, and reflection on the Church’s sexual abuse crisis, they would take two important steps toward reform. An episcopal code of... read more

Deep State Fights Trump’s Pro-Life Foreign Policy

10/12/2018 at 7:34 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. and Lisa Correnti | October 12, 2018 NEW YORK, October 12 (C-Fam) Career employees of the State Department are fiercely resisting attempts of Trump administration officials to close loopholes in the President’s revamped and expanded Mexico City Policy. The... read more

UN Committee Says Nations May Not Exclude Abortion from “Reproductive Health”

10/04/2018 at 4:25 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. | October 4, 2018 NEW YORK, October 5 (C-Fam) A UN committee denounced Malta’s laws protecting children from abortion as a violation of the human right to sexual and reproductive health. The UN committee that monitors compliance with the Convention on the Rights of... read more

Indian High Court Says Sodomy is International Human Right

09/13/2018 at 4:03 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. | September 13, 2018 NEW YORK, September 14 (C-Fam) India’s highest court struck down the nation’s sodomy laws last week after the country’s legislature declined to do so. The court cited among other sources retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony... read more

No Matter the Question, Contraception’s the Answer

07/12/2018 at 5:07 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. | July 12, 2018 WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13 (C-Fam) Family planning advocates are working hard to position contraceptives as the key to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As an event on Tuesday demonstrated, however, their arguments collapse under... read more

How pro-lifers scored a ‘remarkable’ victory at UN meeting on ‘population and development’

05/14/2018 at 7:50 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Claire Chretien May 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-life and pro-family advocates have scored big victories at the United Nations (UN) recently, the president of the Center for Family and Human Rights (CFAM) told LifeSiteNews in a new interview. One of the biggest victories of all was that... read more

Human Rights Groups Thank U.S. for Rolling Back Abortion in Impending Report

03/14/2018 at 5:49 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Austin Ruse | March 8, 2018 WASHINGTON DC, March 9 (C-Fam) A coalition of 197 groups from around the world have sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson thanking him for expected changes in the annual State Department report on human rights. The letter thanks Tillerson... read more

UNICEF Consultant Sexually Assaulted Boy for Years

02/23/2018 at 3:47 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. | February 23, 2018 NEW YORK, February 23 (C-Fam) Longtime UN consultant for children’s rights Peter Newell was convicted of sexually assaulting and sodomizing a child over the course of three years beginning in 1965. He was jailed last week and is serving a six-year... read more

A Global LGBT Reality Check

02/03/2018 at 11:32 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. | January 26, 2018 A couple of recent news items reinforce the perception of a backlash against the LGBT agenda. Even in the U.S. and Europe it seems support for the homosexual and transgender agenda is waning. At the very least there are signs that contestation of the... read more

Even Trump’s critics have to admit the Mexico City Policy is making an impact

02/02/2018 at 4:28 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Africans Put Parental Rights Back in UN Sex Ed Policy

11/25/2017 at 11:43 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Dangerous Abortion Drug Pulled in France Still Pushed on Global South

11/20/2017 at 10:46 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Message of the Holy Father to the President of the 23rd Session of the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

11/17/2017 at 9:07 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Trump Blocks International Support for Abortion Groups at G7 Meeting

11/09/2017 at 9:36 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Population control is a ‘false solution’ to world hunger, Pope tells UN

10/17/2017 at 10:17 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

SOLDIERS FOR THE BRAVE NEW WORLD ORDER

09/23/2017 at 10:20 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

UNESCO Promotes Sex-Change and Abortion for Kids

09/03/2017 at 5:38 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

CATHEDRA OCCULTA

08/16/2017 at 4:00 PM By Mary Anne Hackett