The UN Resolution 64/133 on the ‘Follow-up to the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond’ was adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2009.
Crucially, it “urges Member States to create a conducive environment to strengthen and support all families, recognizing that equality between women and men and respect for all the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all family members are essential to family well-being and to society at large, noting the importance of reconciliation of work and family life and recognizing the principle that both parents have common responsibilities for the upbringing and development of the child”.
The UN Resolution 61/143 on the ‘Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women’ was adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2006.
It “strongly condemns all acts of violence against women and girls, whether these acts are perpetrated by the State, by private persons or by non-State actors, calls for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence in the family, within the general community and where perpetrated or condoned by the State, and stresses the need to treat all forms of violence against women and girls as a criminal offence, punishable by law”. Further suggested measures include the adequate funding of trainings and programmes that counteract violence against women, equal access to education, literacy programmes, and social services as well as special support of women and girls in armed conflicts and post-conflict situations.
The UN Resolution 56/128 on ‘Traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls’ was adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2001.
It condones the work done by UN affiliated agencies to eliminate harmful practices specifically concerning girls and women. The GA speaks for “establishing or strengthening support services to respond to the needs of victims by, inter alia, developing comprehensive and accessible sexual and reproductive health services and by providing training to health-care providers at all levels on the harmful health consequences of such practices”.
“Through consultations with communities and religious and cultural groups and their leaders, alternatives to harmful traditional or customary practices” the UN member states are to counteract harmful practices.
In this anti-rights publication, Family Watch International (FWI) try to argue that progressive actors at the UN are undermining national sovereignty.
FWI is a Mormon-led anti-rights organisation based in Gilbert, Arizona, USA. Their key activities include lobbying in international human rights spaces for “the family” and anti-LGBTQ and anti-CSE policies, training civil society and state delegates (for example, ‘The Resource Guide to UN Consensus Language on Family Issues’), information dissemination and knowledge production.
This policy brief claims that “the right of UN Member States to national sovereignty is increasingly being undermined by the actions of rogue UN agencies, Special Rapporteurs and treaty monitoring bodies that are attempting to create new rights to which UN Member States have not consensually agreed.”
In this anti-rights publication, Family Watch International (FWI) target the international advocacy of progressive actors campaigning for pro-choice policies.
FWI is a Mormon-led anti-rights organisation based in Gilbert, Arizona, USA. Their key activities include lobbying in international human rights spaces for “the family” and anti-LGBTQ and anti-CSE policies, training civil society and state delegates (for example, ‘The Resource Guide to UN Consensus Language on Family Issues’), information dissemination and knowledge production.
This document summarises anti-rights victories at the UN, which are related to anti-abortion policies or recommendations.
In this anti-rights publication, Family Watch International (FWI) attack The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, the Maputo Protocol.
FWI is a Mormon-led anti-rights organisation based in Gilbert, Arizona, USA. Their key activities include lobbying in international human rights spaces for “the family” and anti-LGBTQ and anti-CSE policies, training civil society and state delegates (for example, ‘The Resource Guide to UN Consensus Language on Family Issues’), information dissemination and knowledge production.
FWI claims that “the Maputo Protocol is an assault on the African family and unborn children and where instituted fully will contribute to the continued breakdown of the traditional family resulting in myriad of negative consequences to men, women and children throughout Africa.” Progressive actors regard the Maputo Protocol as guaranteeing comprehensive rights to women including social and political equality and sexual health and reproductive rights.
In this anti-rights publication, Family Watch International (FWI) petition for a Declaration on the Rights of Children and Families which counters progressive international documents.
FWI is a Mormon-led anti-rights organisation based in Gilbert, Arizona, USA. Their key activities include lobbying in international human rights spaces for “the family” and anti-LGBTQ and anti-CSE policies, training civil society and state delegates (for example, ‘The Resource Guide to UN Consensus Language on Family Issues’), information dissemination and knowledge production.
In this anti-rights publication, Family Watch International (FWI) summarise their critique of the report on the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health published by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2012.
FWI is a Mormon-led anti-rights organisation based in Gilbert, Arizona, USA. Their key activities include lobbying in international human rights spaces for “the family” and anti-LGBTQ and anti-CSE policies, training civil society and state delegates (for example, ‘The Resource Guide to UN Consensus Language on Family Issues’), information dissemination and knowledge production.
In this brief, FWI object to sexual an dreproductive health and rights fro children and sexuality education. They claim the OHCHR report “facilitates abortion” and “undermines the role of the family”.
In this anti-right discourse Family Watch International (FWI) present anti-rights arguments against the report on “Discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity” which was published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in 2011.
FWI is a Mormon-led anti-rights organisation based in Gilbert, Arizona, USA. Their key activities include lobbying in international human rights spaces for “the family” and anti-LGBTQ and anti-CSE policies, training civil society and state delegates (for example, ‘The Resource Guide to UN Consensus Language on Family Issues’), information dissemination and knowledge production.
According to FWI, “the purpose of this brief is to show how the OHCHR report presents a grave threat to national sovereignty, parental rights, cultural and moral values, religious liberty, and public health and safety of UN Member States. This brief will also provide facts to counteract a number of the false claims and harmful recommendations in the OHCHR report.”
In this anti-rights discourse publication Family Watch International (FWI) present their anti-choice position.
FWI is a Mormon-led anti-rights organisation based in Gilbert, Arizona, USA. Their key activities include lobbying in international human rights spaces for “the family” and anti-LGBTQ and anti-CSE policies, training civil society and state delegates (for example, ‘The Resource Guide to UN Consensus Language on Family Issues’), information dissemination and knowledge production.
FWI claim to be ‘debunking the myths’ about maternal mortality and abortion, which they say have wrongly influenced international decision-making bodies. They demand that “UN Member States must resist attempts to liberalize abortion laws under the guise of protecting women’s health and instead focus on providing basic health care to women that will enable them to safely deliver their babies.”
