Inter-American Court IVF Ruling Draws Fire from Doctors and Lawyers | Alliance Alert » Global

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C-FAM: Lawyers and doctors last week denounced the highest human rights court in the Americas for meddling with science and failing to protect human life. Last December, the Inter-American Court for Human Rights struck down a Costa Rican ban on in-vitro fertilization, known as IVF. In order to rule that way the court had to weigh in on the law and science of when human life begins. It decided the IVF ban infringed the right to privacy, personal autonomy and sexual and reproductive health.

NZ: Charity faces axe over marriage campaign | Alliance Alert » Global

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Christian Institute: A pro-family group in New Zealand has been notified that it will lose its charitable status because it campaigned in support of traditional marriage.

Canada: RE/MAX fires agent for flyer promoting traditional family; kids better off with a mom and dad | Alliance Alert » Global

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LifeSiteNews: An independent contractor was fired by RE/MAX on Thursday after the media took note of a real estate flyer he had distributed that included an excerpt of an article on the back about how children do best in a household with their married mother and father.

How America Helped Kill Middle Eastern Christianity | Rod Dreher at the American Conservative | Alliance Alert » Global

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Rod Dreher at the American Conservative: Do, do, do read Andrew Doran’s TAC essay today about how US Mideast policy toward Iraq and others is destroying Christianity in the land of its birth. Note well this . . .

Think tank calls on Australian Parliament to legalize euthanasia | Alliance Alert » Global

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LifeSiteNews: Progressive think-tank Australia21 has released a report that calls on Australia’s parliaments to embrace euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Planned Parenthood Threatens Nigerian UN Ambassador Over Abortion | Alliance Alert » Global

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LifeNews: Delegates from around the word are a the United Nations headquarters in New York City for the latest Commission on Population and Development. At that meeting, the international affiliate of the Planned Parenthood abortion business is threatening the representative from Nigeria.

Russia to change agreement with France to prevent adoption by same sex couples | Alliance Alert » Global

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RT.com: The head of the Upper Chamber, Valentina Matviyenko, told President Putin that the Russian Foreign Ministry was already working on changes to the adoption agreement with France.

“Colombian LGBT rights advocates visit U.S.” | Alliance Alert » Global

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Washington Blade: Six Colombian LGBT rights advocates have visited D.C. and two other states this month as part of a State Department-sponsored trip to learn how activists, politicians and government officials in this country advance civil and human rights.

Kazakhstan: Religious free speech “doesn’t exist” | Alliance Alert » Global

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Forum 18: As part of its controls on free speech in the area of religion, Kazakhstan’s government agency controlling religion – the Agency of Religious Affairs (ARA) – is stepping up pressure on religious communities to instruct their members not to speak about their faith with others in public, Forum 18 News Service has found. The ARA has already instructed people to report such individuals to the police.

Analysis: European Leaders Use Laws of War to Pressure US to Fund Abortions in Africa | Alliance Alert » Global

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C-FAM: European leaders pressing President Obama to fund African abortions argue that a novel interpretation of laws governing war should trump US restrictions on abortion funding. To make their case, they are elevating the views of a few experts from a different body of law—human rights.

Governments’ Attempts To Censor Google Have Doubled Since 2011 | Alliance Alert » Global

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Tech Crunch: Governments, even democracies, are not always fans of transparency. According to Google’s brand new transparency report, “government attempts to censor content on Google services has grown”, doubling since the second half of 2012 (1,054 requests vs. 2,285). Brazil took the gold medal of the censorship olympics, with 697 requests, while the United States took 2nd place, with 321 requests.

Council of Europe tells Member States to respect conscience | Alliance Alert » Global

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Christian Concern: In an important development for the protection of ‘freedom of thought, conscience and religion’ the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has passed a resolution calling on its 47 Member states to . . .