United Nations

A just-released global study demonstrates that the diseases causing most of the world’s untimely deaths and illness, especially among children, are not receiving proportionate attention within international policy-making institutions.
According to the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD 2010) …

As we look back over the year 2012 here are five of the worst moments for human life, dignity and the family at the United Nations.
1. World Health Organization Guidelines on Abortion
The World Health Organization has always been…

The UN General Assembly voted last week to include “gender identity” in its annual resolution condemning “summary execution and extra-judicial killing.” US Ambassador Susan Rice tweeted, “Fitting, on National #Transgender Day of Remembrance, that #UNGA acknowledges protections on the basis…

How the UN Rose to Power

by Daniel Pipes on February 28, 2012 · 0 comments

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…

A Pro-Life Fight at the UN

by Timothy Herrman February 21, 2012

NEW YORK-During the past two weeks, a seemingly inconsequential UN oversight committee convened with undeniably consequential results. Tasked with reviewing the applications of hundreds of advocacy groups wishing to gain official status and entry into the United Nations, the committee…

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