UNFPA Leads Efforts to Suppress “Anti-Rights” Social Conservatives
The UN population agency told governments it is committed to fight the “pushback” to the sexual rights agenda from “anti-rights” groups. Western governments pledged their support for the cause. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of UNFPA, told her executive board “There is resistance to sexual and reproductive health and rights, some of that orchestrated, some of it well funded, but also some of it due to our doubts about human sexuality.” The labels “anti-rights” and “pushback” are often used to refer to pro-life and pro-traditional family groups at the UN and on the ground around the world. The concepts were first developed at the UN in the context of opposing the pro-life policies of the Trump administration. ADF International, the Heritage Foundation, Family Watch International, and C-Fam, publisher of the Friday Fax, are some of the organizations that have been called anti-rights in Western-funded initiatives. Canada lamented the “increasing number of setbacks for sexual reproductive health and rights” and reassured UNFPA that it is “determined to provide support to combat and to reverse these rollbacks.” In 2022 alone, Canada contributed 72.8M to UNFPA. In its integrated budget for 2022-2025, UNFPA proposed a total contribution of $5,045.6 million for the agency.
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