A Panel on the LGBT Community
2017-03-14
On March 13th 2017, we attended a parallel event for the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61) titled Lesbian, Bi and Trans: Stop Leaving Us Behind. Parallel events areContinue Reading
Democracy: an end or a means?
2016-09-21
In the west, democracy has become an idol. The west teaches that democracy is the ultimate bastion of liberty. Perhaps from a political standpoint it is, or at least hasContinue Reading
The sick irony of International Safe Abortion Day
2016-08-26
The International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion has written an open letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the heads of UN agencies, asking them to recognizeContinue Reading
The intrinsic dignity of all human life
2016-07-29
The government of Indonesia is seeking to execute by firing squad fourteen prisoners currently imprisoned on drug charges. Let us first then take a moment to say a prayer forContinue Reading
The Gospel is not a slogan
2016-05-01
The Gospel is not a slogan. Cardinal Robert Sarah speaks these words during an interview, as he condemns the war on poverty as contrary to the Gospel. That’s a strongContinue Reading
Vulnerability of the child: how is it tackled?
2016-04-08
Recently, on different news websites, the same news has appeared: babies thrown away, discarded, and some found in random places to include garbage dumpsters. This causes a deep reaction of astonishment,Continue Reading
The Source of Our Rights
2016-02-25
The United Nations Human Rights Committee recently affirmed abortion as a human “right.” While the United Nations is seen as a legitimate institution by many in the international community, itsContinue Reading
The Purpose of Religion According to UNFPA
2016-02-12
“Notions that had been held at the alter of religion have been dispelled.” This startling comment was one of many during a UNFPA meeting last week. The special session onContinue Reading
Abortion Rights and Oxymorons
2016-01-27
In junior high English, I learned about oxymorons. Oxymoron: “a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect.” So when I stumbled upon thisContinue Reading
Migrant Exodus and Human Dignity
2015-08-30
It sounds like something one would read in a history book. Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing their home countries as refugees from war and persecution seeking safety and freedomContinue Reading