Grace Melton is The Heritage Foundation's senior associate for international social issues. She is part of the think tank's DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family.
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Recently, a United Nations human rights official appeared before a U.N. committee to present her research on the topic of surrogacy. For social conservatives skeptical… Read More
InternationalCommentary
At the latest session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, which just concluded last week, delegates dialogued with two U.N. human rights experts who have… Read More
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The UN Commission on the Status of Women concluded its annual meeting in New York last week. As always, sex radicals from the developed world… Read More
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Member states at an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are poised to adopt an “African Union Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The U.N.’s new “SOGI czar” delivered his first report to the UN Human Rights Council, which just concluded its meeting in Geneva. A SOGI czar… Read More
Health CareCommentary
A who’s who of transgender activists was scheduled this week to meet in Geneva at the World Health Organization to develop new guidelines on “the… Read More
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As the United Nations celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights this month, the global body’s bureaucrats are reinterpreting the document… Read More
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On Dec. 10, the United Nations will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document drafted in the aftermath of… Read More
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Two politicians from Mexico traveled last week to Washington, D.C., to share chilling stories of how their left-wing government is punishing them for speaking out… Read More
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Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the United Nations’ independent “expert” on sexual orientation and gender identity, capped off “Pride Month” in June with his annual report to the Human… Read More
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The leftist ideologues at the Biden administration’s foreign aid agency have just drafted a new policy on gender. The U.S. Agency for International Development is… Read More
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Victor Madrigal-Borloz may be the most consequential bureaucrat you’ve never heard of. Madrigal-Borloz is the “SOGI czar” at the United Nations. Or, more precisely, he… Read More
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It seems that President Joe Biden’s State Department has decided it must do even more to shame countries into normalizing same-sex relations. The State Department… Read More
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You may have missed this year’s Earth Day on April 22, what with historic inflation and a war in Ukraine vying for media attention. But… Read More
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Congress is considering several bills that would warp how the U.S. applies sanctions—through the Global Magnitsky Act—against foreigners who violate human rights. The changes would… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The United Nations’ annual Commission on the Status of Women concluded last week in New York. Delegates and activists from around the world met to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on the so-called Global Respect Act (HR 3485), which would impose sanctions on foreigners, including private citizens,… Read More
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Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the United Nations’ independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, delivered his latest report to the U.N. General Assembly last week that… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The United Nation’s top health czar presented her debut report to the international assembly on Oct. 20. While the COVID-19 pandemic provides a point of departure for the presentation, the… Read More
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With the world watching in horror, the hasty withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan resulted in the Taliban’s near complete control over Afghanistan’s population of… Read More
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The Biden administration is making a stark departure from past administrations in how it talks about, and treats, religious freedom. In his remarks May 12… Read More
SocietyCommentary
By now many Americans have read a glowing news article about the latest celebrity to have a child via surrogacy or watched a human-interest piece… Read More
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Earlier this month, President Joe Biden issued an executive order, “Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons… Read More
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As the 116th Congress prepares to adjourn and policymakers look ahead to the 117th, among the policies up for discussion is the status of the… Read More
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Twenty-five years ago this week, then-first lady Hillary Clinton famously declared, “Human rights are women’s rights … and women’s rights are human rights.” The United… Read More
Health CareCommentary
One would think that key international organizations responding to the COVID-19 pandemic would maintain a laserlike focus on the physical and economic damage it has… Read More
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The annual two-week meeting of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women was supposed to kick off this week, flooding Turtle Bay in Manhattan… Read More
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Many Africans think that international efforts to promote abortion are a prime example of cultural colonialism. Case in point: The just-concluded United Nations Population Fund’s… Read More
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Abortion advocates have long found a ready home for pushing their agenda at the United Nations—and the Nov. 12-14 Nairobi Summit on International Conference on… Read More
SocietyCommentary
When thousands of delegates and activists from around the world gathered recently in New York for the United Nations’ 63rd Commission on the Status of… Read More
