VOL. 23, No. 40 , October 2, 2020

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After 25 Years of UN Lobbying

Dear Colleague,

A quarter-century after abortion entered UN policy with conferences at Cairo and Beijing, it remains highly unpopular with many member nations. In a largely-virtual event commemorating the 1995 world conference on women in Beijing, some governments firmly denounced abortion, while others promoted it euphemistically. Nevertheless, UN agencies took the opportunity to aggressively promote LGBT rights, which, like abortion, were not included in the consensus from Beijing. Stefano Gennarini reports [[link removed]].

The United States, joined by 57 countries, issued a statement reaffirming one of the UN's founding documents, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But 136 countries refrained from joining, urged into silence by the European Union. European diplomats, as well as other critics of the Trump administration, expressed concern that refocusing on the founding human rights texts would threaten decades of advances for controversial so-called "rights" such as abortion and the "sexual rights" agenda. I report [[link removed]].

Here in the U.S., pro-life groups are welcoming the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, but not everyone is pleased. Lisa Correnti blogs about the hysterical reactions from pro-abortion organizations at Turtle Bay and Beyond [[link removed]].

I also participated in a panel discussion at the Heritage Foundation this week, talking about the failures of radical feminism at the UN over the past 25 years. Check out the video here [[link removed]].

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Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.

Director of Research

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by Stefano Gennarini, J.D.

NEW YORK, October 2 (C-Fam) Countries complained about setbacks to abortion rights twenty-five years after a landmark UN conference on women that first cemented abortion in UN policy. Read more >> [[link removed]]

EU Leads Opposition to Human Rights Statement

by Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.

WASHINGTON, D.C. October 2 (C-Fam) The United States just issued a statement at the UN reaffirming fundamental human rights long agreed to by UN Member States going back to the founding of the world body. Only 57 countries agreed to the statement; 136 did not join it. Read more >> [[link removed]]

EU Leads Opposition to Human Rights Statement

by Lisa Correnti

According to abortion groups the sky is falling—yes, that’s what will happen if President Trump’s nominee Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court, they say. Not only could abortion be gravely restricted, but women will once again find themselves tossed out of boardrooms and in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant. Read more >> [[link removed]]

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