A growing campaign at the United Nations to label pro-life and pro-family groups as “anti-rights” is intensifying, according to a report by C-Fam.

The term, increasingly wielded by U.N. officials, progressive nations, and advocacy organizations, targets those defending traditional values like the sanctity of life and the family structure. This rhetoric, the report argues, is part of a broader strategy to silence conservative and pro-life voices in international debates, with entities like the U.N. Research Institute for Social Development naming groups such as C-Fam, the Vatican, and the World Congress of Families as threats to a progressive, pro-abortion human rights agenda.

The campaign has moved beyond mere labeling, with tangible efforts to exclude these groups from U.N. civil society spaces.

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U.N. Women and the NGO Committee on the Status of Women have been accused of blocking pro-life and pro-family organizations from participating in events, such as those tied to the Commission on the Status of Women, since at least 2019. Critics, including over 400 organizations worldwide, contend this exclusion violates the U.N.’s own rules, which allow NGOs to engage in debates unless they exhibit extreme behavior like political attacks or criminal ties—a threshold these groups argue they do not meet.

U.N. leadership, including Secretary-General António Guterres, has fueled the controversy by endorsing the “anti-rights” narrative, raising concerns among conservatives about impartiality. A system-wide U.N. report last year suggested that such “anti-rights actors” undermine gender equality efforts, prompting calls from progressive coalitions to expel them from accredited NGO status. C-Fam warns that this push risks alienating traditionalist nations and could reshape civil society participation at the U.N., potentially sidelining a significant bloc of global perspectives on contentious social issues like abortion and family rights.

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At an event on “addressing backlash,” one speaker said that “sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) faces fierce resistance by the so-called anti-gender movement,” and connected the “backlash” to conservatism more broadly.

Another panelist said that there is no point in engaging with “extremists.” When a C-Fam volunteer asked how productive it has been so far to label pro-life voices as “anti-rights” or “fascists” simply for sharing a different view that seeks to protect human life from conception, the panelists replied by stating that they cannot compromise on “human rights.”

Another C-Fam volunteer was kicked out of an event sponsored by Sweden titled “Religion, Rights and Resistance: How to Reclaim Gender Equality in Times of Backlash.”

Meanwhile, the issues of family and religion have emerged as themes in events sponsored by progressive countries and organizations, if only to subvert them.  One event proposed to redefine “families” to encompass any sort of household or relationship configuration.  When an attendee pointed out that social science shows that children fare best when raised by their own parents, a panelist responded by saying that what children need is not a mother and a father but “two types of energy” — masculine and feminine — but “it doesn’t matter from where that energy comes….maybe they can get lucky, they can get three parents or four parents.”  Another attendee later denounced that question as “racist.”

Meanwhile, the groups that have historically championed the family and faith in UN settings are targeted for exclusion and having their funding sources cut off.  At one parallel event, a panelist discussed “anti-rights research” into groups that are “hubs for anti-gender anti-abortion rhetoric.”  She called on her allies to “get these groups to be finally defunded let’s see what happens.”

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