“Disability should not become a death sentence”
WARSAW/BRUSSELS (13 Apr 2018) – Do persons with disabilities have the same rights as everyone else, regardless of their age?...
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‘Down Syndrome is becoming a death sentence’
- Side event at UN in Geneva promoting equality of people with Down Syndrome - Increasingly widespread prenatal blood test condemned as ‘eugenic’ by human rights campaigners GENEVA – On 20th March 2017, the eve of World Down Syndrome Day, the Jerome Lejeune Foundation, Downpride, the Permanent Representation of the Order of Malta to the UN, and ADF International hosted a...
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Chief Minister of Delhi: “We are killing our unborn girls in their mothers’ wombs”
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“Northern Ireland’s sovereignty on life should not be undermined”
LONDON/BELFAST – On 23 October, UK Equalities Minister Justine Greening announced that the government would...
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Universal Periodic Review Submissions
The UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) system is used to assess the human rights situations in all 193 Member...
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Shioshvili v. Russia
Right to life of unborn children Lia Shioshvili, a Georgian national who moved to Russia with her four children in 2003, could not have known that her fifth pregnancy would...
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Mrs X & Mrs Y v. Union of India and Another
The lives of preborn babies Two women, Mrs X and Mrs Y, are attempting to change the law on abortion...
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#VanishingGirls
Every year in India, baby girls are killed simply for being girls. In recent years, 19 million have died through abortion or by being killed just after birth. The problem...
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Stop Discriminating Down
GENEVA – On 20th March 2017, the eve of World Down Syndrome Day, the Jerome Lejeune Foundation, Downpride, the Permanent Representation of the Order of Malta to the UN,...
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Leaving No One Behind
On 4 September 2016 in Rome, Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint. In celebration of this event, the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United...
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Tuvalu (30th Session)
This report explains why Tuvalu should continue to affirm the sanctity of life on the part of all human beings, including the unborn, and why it should resist calls...
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Djibouti (30th Session)
This report explains why Djibouti should continue to affirm the sanctity of life on the part of all human beings, including the unborn, and why it should resist calls...
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Cape Verde (30th Session)
This report explains why Cape Verde should affirm the sanctity of life on the part of all human beings, including the unborn, and why it should resist calls to...
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View All >More scrutiny needed over power to ban prayers – A commentary on public spaces protection orders and their potential for abuse
Public spaces protection orders used against pro-life campaigners are ripe for a legal challenge, Laurence...
Read moreAn Ideological Agenda for Developing Countries-A Review of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 2018 in Newsweek
What do rural women and girls need in order to rise above poverty? Elyssa Koren* addresses...
Read moreLatin American Parliamentarians warn against undermining state sovereignty
The pressure increases. Members of the Hemispheric Congress of Parliamentarians denounced the violations on national...
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