This resource is a news item from Christian Daily, reposted from a publication by C-Fam (Center for Family & Human Rights), an anti-rights, anti-choice, and anti-LGBT organization based in the USA, which works to influence policy debate at the United Nations and other international institutions.
The news item covers elements of the 48th session of the UN Commission on Population and Development in New York, April 2015. It depicts the UN Population Fund as bullying smaller Global South nations towards “tolerance” in areas of sexual and reproductive health and rights.
This resource from Catholics for Choice provides a selected biography of speakers from the World Meeting of Families (WMF) held in Philadelphia USA in 2015.
The WMF is a United States based coalition that opposes same-sex marriage and abortion. The WMF is active worldwide and organizes regular “pro-family” conventions. The organization has been classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group since 2014, for its involvement with the 2013 Russian LGBT propaganda law and opposing LGBT rights internationally
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This resource from Catholics for Choice gives an overview of the World Meeting of Families (WMF) held in Philadelphia USA in 2015.
The WMF is a United States based coalition that opposes same-sex marriage and abortion. The WMF is active worldwide and organizes regular “pro-family” conventions. The organization has been classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group since 2014, for its involvement with the 2013 Russian LGBT propaganda law and opposing LGBT rights internationally
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This resource from Catholics for Choice covers Day Three of the World Meeting of Families (WMF) held in Philadelphia USA in 2015.
The WMF is a United States based coalition that opposes same-sex marriage and abortion. The WMF is active worldwide and organizes regular “pro-family” conventions. The organization has been classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group since 2014, for its involvement with the 2013 Russian LGBT propaganda law and opposing LGBT rights internationally
Read futher coverage of the World Meeting of Families 2015:
- Day One
- Day Two
- Selected Biography of Speakers
- The World Meeting of Families: An Introductory Report
This resource from Catholics for Choice covers Day Two of the World Meeting of Families (WMF) held in Philadelphia USA in 2015.
The WMF is a United States based coalition that opposes same-sex marriage and abortion. The WMF is active worldwide and organizes regular “pro-family” conventions. The organization has been classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group since 2014, for its involvement with the 2013 Russian LGBT propaganda law and opposing LGBT rights internationally
Read futher coverage of the World Meeting of Families 2015:
This resource from Catholics for Choice covers Day One of the World Meeting of Families (WMF) held in Philadelphia USA in 2015.
The WMF is a United States based coalition that opposes same-sex marriage and abortion. The WMF is active worldwide and organizes regular “pro-family” conventions. The organization has been classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group since 2014, for its involvement with the 2013 Russian LGBT propaganda law and opposing LGBT rights internationally
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Although two-thirds of countries in the world no longer outlaw lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) relationships, same-sex relationships are still illegal in 76 countries. In the recent past, new laws have been passed in Russia, India, Nigeria, Burundi, Cameroon and Uganda and are being contemplated in other countries to further prohibit same-sex relationships or the so-called ‘promotion of homosexuality’.
There is evidence that such new laws precipitate negative consequences not just for LGBTI persons and communities, but also for societies as a whole, including the rapid reversal of key public health gains, particularly in terms of HIV and AIDS and other sexual health programmes, increases in levels of social violence, some evidence of reduced economic growth, and the diversion of attention from sexual and other violence against women and children.
Partly because those arguing in favour of criminalising sexual and gender diversity have made explicit appeals to science, this report examines the extent to which science sup- ports any of the arguments that proponents of these new laws make. Drawing on recent scientific evidence and, where possible, on systematic reviews, the report seeks to pro- vide an up-to-date overview of the state of the current biological, socio-psychological, and public health evidence and assess how this supports, or contests, the key arguments made in favour of new laws. This report considers the following questions:
- What is the evidence that biological factors contribute to sexual and gender diversity? To what degree is the wide diversity of human sexualities explained by biological factors?
- Do environmental factors such as upbringing and socialisation explain the diversity of human sexuality?
- Is there any evidence for same-sex orientation being ‘acquired’ through contact with others, i.e. through ‘social contagion’?
- What evidence is there that any form of therapy or ‘treatment’ can change sexual orientation?
- What evidence is there that same-sex orientations pose a threat of harm to individuals, communities, or vulnerable populations such as children?
- What are the public health consequences of criminalising same-sex sexual orientations and attempting to regulate the behaviour/relationships related to some sexualities?
- What are the most critical unanswered scientific research questions regarding the diversity of human sexualities and sexual orientations in Africa?
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC, CROC, or UNCRC) is a human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children.
Nations that ratify this convention are bound to it by international law and compliance to the convention is monitored by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. Governments of countries that have ratified the Convention are required to report to, and appear before, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child periodically to be examined on their progress with regards to the advancement of the implementation of the Convention and the status of child rights in their country.
The UN General Assembly adopted the Convention and opened it for signature on 20 November 1989 and it came into force on 2 September 1990. Currently, 196 countries are party to it, including every member of the United Nations except the United States.
The Convention deals with the child-specific needs and rights. It requires that states act in the best interests of the child. The Convention acknowledges that every child has certain basic rights, including the right to life, his or her own name and identity, to be raised by his or her parents within a family or cultural grouping, and to have a relationship with both parents, even if they are separated. The Convention defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen, unless the age of majority is attained earlier under a state’s own domestic legislation.
