The Human Rights Council, an inter-governmental U.N. body founded to promote and protect human rights worldwide, is holding its 32nd session this month. A Working Group report on the subject has called for the legalization of abortion around the globe, even condemning...
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Holy See to World Humanitarian Summit—“There is no right to abortion”
Editor’s note. The following is excerpted from a post at the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues. Pietro Cardinal Parolin, Secretary of State for the Vatican, led the Holy See delegation to the first World, an initiative of the United Nations, and presented the...
UN “Experts” Visit US; Denounce Laws Against Abortion
By Marie Smith Editor’s note. The following is excerpted from a post that appeared on the webpage of the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues (PNCI). The UN Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice conducted a visit to the...
New Commission to Promote Abortion “Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals”
Editor’s note. This comes from the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues. The United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 has not even begun and two pro-abortion organizations have announced creation of a new commission outside the U.N.to advance "sexual...
UN Again Ignores National Laws against Abortion
By Marie Smith, Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues The United Nations' treaty monitoring body for the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) ignored the pro-life laws of four countries under review during its recent 55th session...
New UN agenda could enable massive global expansion of abortion
By Matt Hadro New York City, N.Y. (CNA/EWTN News)--A massive, well-funded push to increase access to abortion worldwide could be underway at the United Nations, and according to one congressman it could silence faith-based organizations which oppose abortions out of...
Ipas Promotes Illegal Abortion Network in Mexico
Editor’s note. This appeared at the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues. Ipas is an ultra-aggressive international promoter of abortion. While promoting access to abortion as a "reproductive right" at the United Nations and advocating for the elimination of...
Resistance derails UN Population Commission’s pro-abortion recommendations
By Marie Smith, Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues (PNCI) The 48th Session of the Commission on Population and Development (CPD), ended last Friday and was viewed as one of the last opportunities to send a strong message of support for the inclusion of sexual...
U.N. marks 25th anniversary of Convention on the Rights of the Child
New brochure highlights areas in which many children remain unprotected NEW YORK, N.Y. — On Nov. 20, 1989, the United Nations General Assembly affirmed the dignity and rights of all children by adopting the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Events marking...
International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo) and Abortion
Editor’s Note: This is Part II of a four part series on the implications and effects of the International Conference on Population and Development that took place twenty years ago in Cairo. By Scott Fischbach Abortion advocates didn’t get what they really...