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UN Delegates Grow Weary of Abortion Agenda
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UN Delegates Grow Weary of Abortion Agenda

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by on May 08, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, The Homosexual Agenda
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Late-night fatigue dogged UN delegates last Friday as abortion advocates had overstayed their welcome. A resolution on migration stalled all week and no one even cheered when it finally passed. Proponents of abortion and sexual rights stifled debate at this year’s Commission on Population and Development, known as CPD46. While the commission addressed something as [...]

US, EU Ask to Delete “Inherent Right to Life, Liberty” at UN
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US, EU Ask to Delete “Inherent Right to Life, Liberty” at UN

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by on Mar 12, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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As countries are deadlocked over negotiations going late into the night at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the US and European Union have played a deadly card. One that contradicts a foundational principle of citizens and civilizations worldwide, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the UN Declaration of Human Rights. [...]

The Idol of “Human Rights”
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The Idol of “Human Rights”

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by on Mar 07, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Social Order
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 Our first parents, endowed with every good gift and living in friendship with the benevolent Creator, yielded to the temptation to assert an autonomy that was never their own, exalting themselves over God.  Thus, as illustrated in the masterwork of St. Augustine, was the “city of men” set in conflict with the “City of God.” [...]

Will UN Treaties Become a Hot Topic in the Presidential Race?
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Will UN Treaties Become a Hot Topic in the Presidential Race?

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by on Sep 18, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues
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Few politicians are interested in making obscure UN treaties a political talking point. Nevertheless, the Republican and Democratic parties stand at polar opposites on the question of whether or not the United States should ratify new UN treaties, particularly human rights treaties. The platform adopted at the Republican National Convention last month specifically names four [...]

Rio + 20: Catholics for Choice Deceives Itself and Others
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Rio + 20: Catholics for Choice Deceives Itself and Others

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by on Jun 21, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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If you have not seen the briefing paper from the Catholics for Choice (CFC) organization regarding the place of the Holy See in international politics, stop reading now and move on. It just isn’t worth your while to read garbage. But if you have and need some clarification, then you may want to learn about the [...]

Rio + 20: Holy See Shines Light in the Midst of Darkness
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Rio + 20: Holy See Shines Light in the Midst of Darkness

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by on Jun 19, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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In many respects, what is going on in Rio de Janeiro right now during the UN Conference on Sustainable Development is nothing other than the proverbial “blind leading the blind”. As countries hurry to make politically expedient and alarmist statements about climate change, the green economy and reproductive rights, very few delegations exhibit the poise [...]

UN May Recognize “Sex Rights” for Ten-Year Old Children
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UN May Recognize “Sex Rights” for Ten-Year Old Children

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by on Apr 03, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Parenting
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The UN Commission on Population and Development is considering “sexual and reproductive health and rights” for children as young as ten. Even the Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon agrees. In a statement recently released he said, “Young people, as much as all people, share the human right to health, including sexual and reproductive health.” Currently international [...]

G77 Derailing the “Green Agenda” at the UN
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G77 Derailing the “Green Agenda” at the UN

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by on Mar 31, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues
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Are you wondering how many businesses have to become “green” before the dream of the “green economy” becomes a reality? It seems like everything has to be green nowadays, whether its green jobs, green energy, or green skills. Now there is even green dry cleaning. Duh! If you feel like this is going to far, [...]

US Bullying Angers Developing World and Leads to US Defeat at UN
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US Bullying Angers Developing World and Leads to US Defeat at UN

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by and on Mar 27, 2012 in Featured, International Issues
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Negotiations for a final document at the UN Commission on the Status of Women were supposed to end more than a week ago. However, they dragged on for another several days and resulted in a stinging defeat for the Obama administration and anger on the part of the developing world. The US was trying to [...]

US Pushes “Contraceptive Mandate” on International Community
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US Pushes “Contraceptive Mandate” on International Community

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by on Mar 24, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, International Issues
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The United States burned diplomatic bridges during this year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women by using force and deception to pass an unpopular resolution calling for international access to contraception. Countries accused the US of manipulating the negotiations process from start to finish through proposing the initial text of the resolution on maternal [...]

UN Agencies Fuel Sex Selective Abortions and the Devaluation of Women
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UN Agencies Fuel Sex Selective Abortions and the Devaluation of Women

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by on Mar 08, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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The United Nations top agencies are actively promoting two root causes of Asia’s massive gender imbalance, charged an expert on population policies this week during a UN women’s conference. Speaking on a panel during the UN’s annual Commission on the Status of Women, Dr. Susan Yoshihara identified three reasons for the “missing girls” phenomenon in [...]

UN Security Guards Confiscate Pro-Life Literature from Students
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UN Security Guards Confiscate Pro-Life Literature from Students

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by on Mar 03, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Youth attending a UN conference on women’s issues this week say UN security officers confiscated their backpacks after discovering pro-life literature. The confiscated materials were petitions to “Stop Sexualizing Children,” and were connected to a UN approved workshop led this week by Dr. Miriam Grossman, a child psychiatrist and author of “You’re Teaching My Child [...]

Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues
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U.S. Delegation to UN Women Commission Stacked With Abortion Advocates

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by on Feb 27, 2012 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Last Thursday, a State Department press release announced the delegation they would be sending to the the 56th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women beginning this week at UN headquarters in New York and running two weeks. The two co-leaders of the delegation are Susan Rice, US Ambassador to the United Nations and Melanne [...]

UN Secretary General Tells African Nations to Adopt LGBT Rights
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UN Secretary General Tells African Nations to Adopt LGBT Rights

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by on Feb 14, 2012 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Last week UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told African nations to repeal criminal laws that places sanctions on homosexual conduct and to stop discrimination because of sexual orientation or gender identity. Ban Ki-moon addressed the 54 African nations at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa on January 29. He urged the countries in attendance [...]

Future U.S. president George H.W. Bush in 1971, at the start of his U.N. ambassadorship.
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Blame the UN’s Power on George H.W. Bush

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by on Feb 08, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues
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If Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor were the naïfs who foisted the United Nations on the world, George H. W. Bush was responsible for its revival as a political force. From about 1950 to 1990, the United Nations Security Council was essentially toothless, as the Soviet and U.S. governments disagreed on issue after [...]

Clash of Competing “Rights” Claims Raises Free Speech Concerns
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Clash of Competing “Rights” Claims Raises Free Speech Concerns

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by on Jan 18, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Tension between free speech advocacy and efforts to curb “hate speech” has arisen over the past year as the result of recent initiatives at the United Nations (UN) and by the Obama administration. Freedom of opinion and expression have long been recognized as fundamental, and a recent UN Human Rights Committee “General Comment” affirmed these [...]

Universal Declaration of Human Rights Turns 63
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights Turns 63

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by on Jan 05, 2012 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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For those of you that missed it, December 10th was Human Rights Day here at the United Nations. Sixty-three years to the day, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948 by unanimous vote at the General Assembly of the United Nations in Paris, France. When the declaration was first authored, it was [...]

Governments Condemn UN Official’s Attempt to Create A Right to Abortion
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Governments Condemn UN Official’s Attempt to Create A Right to Abortion

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by on Nov 01, 2011 in Featured, Law & Justice
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At UN headquarters [last] week, governments dismissed a high level UN bureaucrat’s claim that abortion is a human right and went so far as to scold him for overstepping his mandate. The Special Rapporteur for Health, Anand Grover, presented his report to delegates of the UN Third Committee linking unrestricted abortion with the right to the [...]

UN Women: Right to Abortion = Right to Justice
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UN Women: Right to Abortion = Right to Justice

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by on Oct 13, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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While many Americans took last Monday off for Columbus day, the Third Committee of the General Assembly at the United Nations was meeting in its 66th session to discuss Item 28 (a,b) concerning the Advancement of Women internationally. Arriving at the UN earlier than usual, we were surprised to find the Third Committee present in [...]

Major Pro-Life Legal/Scientific Document Launched at UN Headquarters
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Major Pro-Life Legal/Scientific Document Launched at UN Headquarters

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by on Oct 11, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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It is commonplace now for UN officials and American law professors to tell foreign governments that they are required by international law to liberalize their abortion laws. Just last month the UN Special Rapporteur on Health issued a report making this claim. The Secretary General endorsed his report. Shortly thereafter the UN High Commission on [...]

US Lambastes $238K Average UN Salaries and More
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US Lambastes $238K Average UN Salaries and More

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by on Oct 03, 2011 in Featured, Government & Politics
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The US representative to the UN for mangagement and reform delivered a scathing critique of the new UN budget–which was delivered piecemeal and incomplete to donors and reflects a massive spending increase that outpaces inflation. With 15 reports still to be considered, the UN budget is already at “an alarming” $5.5B, the US said. Considered [...]

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UN Considers Euthanasia and New Treaty on Aging

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by on Sep 30, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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The Holy See condemned attempts to inject euthanasia into the right to health and Latin American and Caribbean delegations called for a new UN treaty at two recent UN meetings on the rights of the elderly. At the Human Rights Council in Geneva the Holy See representative said his delegation took “strong exception” to a [...]

Donnybrook Over Homosexual Rights Expected in General Assembly
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Donnybrook Over Homosexual Rights Expected in General Assembly

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by on Sep 09, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Fresh off of what they hailed as a “historic” human rights victory, homosexual activists are expected to aggressively push their agenda in the UN General Assembly set to convene later this month. Last June a small number of Member States of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva passed a non-binding resolution calling for a [...]

What New UN Population Data Means for Global Power
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What New UN Population Data Means for Global Power

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by on Sep 05, 2011 in Featured, Government & Politics
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The UN’s new fertility forecasts could have significant implications for predicting which nations will wield global power in the 21stcentury, especially predictions about the coming power shift in Asia where Indians will outnumber Chinese by 2025. For years UN population experts have said that low fertility and aging societies like China and Europe will have [...]

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