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The request makes the case that surrogacy fits the definition laid out in the 1926 Slavery Convention that the practice entails the rights of ownership of a person. [...]
Read →The Casablanca group of experts and the French NGO Juristes Pour l’Enfance have requested the United Nations to recognize surrogacy as a new form of slavery involving women and children, based on the 1926 Slavery Convention's definition of ownership over a person. They argue that surrogacy reduces the child in utero to an object and subjects the surrogate mother’s body to control by third parties, with several UN bodies and the Catholic Church also condemning the practice and calling for its abolition.
Read →Ilva Myriam Hoyos Castañeda has been appointed as Colombia's new Minister of Education, succeeding Vivian Morales, and is known for her pro-life and pro-family stance as well as her previous advisory role to the Pontifical Council for the Family. She faces challenges including reviewing school textbooks to remove 'woke' ideology, addressing educational quality declines, restoring earthquake-damaged infrastructure, and managing debates over religious involvement in public education.
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