Grace Melton is The Heritage Foundation's senior associate for social issues at the United Nations. She is part of the think tank's DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society.
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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
InternationalCommentary
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
InternationalCommentary
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
InternationalCommentary
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
InternationalCommentary
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
InternationalCommentary
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women is being pressured to embrace “gender identity” ideology at its annual meeting this week. If successful,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
With another session of the United Nations General Assembly underway, the U.S. has a number of opportunities to advance U.S. interests and to protect life… Read More
InternationalCommentary
A dangerous alliance between United Nations bureaucrats and LGBT activists poses a new danger to free speech, free exercise of religion, and parental rights—not just… Read More
