Almost more than any topic, maternal morality has been the focus of this year’s meeting of the United Nations (UN) Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of the Beijing women’s conference. While all agree…

[This] week, thousands of participants are expected to descend upon the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York for the annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). In anticipation of the meeting, radical feminist groups have been preparing statements…

In a speech at the United Nations (UN) last week, veteran pro-life United States (US) Congressman Christopher Smith (R-NJ) addressed delegates from over 30 countries and urged them to respect the universal right to life as set forth in the…

This week at the United Nations (UN), member states will start deliberating the details of the new “super” agency for women.  The General Assembly decided last fall to reform the current “gender architecture” by consolidating the UN’s four existing departments…

In its new report “Stand and Deliver,” the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is demanding that governments, religious institutions and society at large provide “comprehensive sexuality education” for children as young as ten years old.

In a foreword,…

The abortion advocacy group, International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), capped off 2009 by releasing its list of top ten “wins” on “women’s health and rights.” Apart from “reproductive rights” gains, the IWHC list also heralds victories on gay rights and…

International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) recently released its annual performance report for 2008-2009. Despite an economic downturn and a slight decrease in annual income, the abortion industry giant boasts of increased activity across all of its lines of work, including…

In an unexpected defeat for homosexual advocates, the United Nations General Assembly (GA) voted to delete a reference to a highly controversial interpretation of a major UN human rights treaty.

The UN committee that monitors the International Covenant on Economic,…

A new report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) shows that countries with restrictive abortion laws are often the leaders in reducing maternal mortality, and those with permissive laws often lag. According to the report, the pro-life nation of Ireland…

At the United Nations this week, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) organized a commemorative seminar on the 1995 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and, in a look ahead, urged states to renew their commitment to the program,…