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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the virtual signing ceremony for the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Oct. 22, 2020. | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed disappointment at the Biden administration’s failure to emphasize religious freedom and what he described as disowning the "glorious work" of the Commission on Unalienable Rights established under former President Donald Trump. “For four years, the Trump administration and the State Department, when I was leading it, placed a real premium on working around the world...

The declaration is not legally binding and it is also believed that most countries

US President Biden shines harsh spotlight on Uganda April 7, 2021 An injured protestor US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was blunt and plain-spoken in his unflattering assessment of Uganda’s poor human rights record when he delivered on-camera remarks recently while presiding at the release of the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Uganda’s grades on human rights took a battering before, during and in the immediate aftermath of 2020/2021 election campaign period that put on public display the army and police’s use of highh...

  Share Source: AP Photo/Fernando Antonio In December, masses of feminists donned in green took to the streets of Argentina to celebrate the legalization of abortion in their country. Though a judge recently blocked the new law, the initial move prompted a Central American country to take action but going in a different direction. The Honduran National Congress recently amended the country’s Constitution to declare that the unborn have the same rights under law as those born. “The unborn shall be considered as born for all rights accorded within the limits established by law. It is proh...

During the Trump administration we also finalized a common sense rule in 2019 requiring abortion to be separate from family planning and that providers not refer for abortion as family planning. All but one Planned Parenthood affiliate refused and gave up about $60 million annually in federal Title X funding, proving that abortion — not helping poor women with family planning — is their top priority. Instead of giving priority to meet the family planning needs of low-income families, as we did and as the Title X legislation requires, this executive action sets in motion the unlawful subsi...