Hungary invests its 4% of GDP in the defence of families and becomes the reference for EU countries European leaders who support family policies met on Friday, November 18th in Madrid to participate in the seminar on Best International Practices to Support the Family, organized by the Familia y Dignidad Humana association. The meeting was…
10:00 – 10:30. Accreditations. 10:30. Welcome address. Manuel de Soroa y Suárez de Tangil. Vicepresident. Fundación Universitaria San Pablo CEU. Lourdes Méndez Monasterio, President of Familia y Dignidad Humana. 11:00 – 13:00. Round table 1. International Perspective. Best international practices on public support to the Family. Chair: Jaime Mayor Oreja, President of Fundación Valores y Sociedad and of the…
The debate on euthanasia is coming closer in Portugal and a proposal of law is expected in the first quarter of 2017. Meanwhile, a petition for “Assisted Death” is making its way on the parliament (nine thousand signatures) and an important prolife group of associations expect to deliver another petition at the parliament the first…
Three years ago, we submitted about 2 million signatures asking the European Union to stop funding both the elimination of human beings for research purposes and the promotion of abortion outside Europe. The European Commission did not want to take into account the request of these European citizens and they even refused to discuss the…
On Friday 4th. November, by a vote of 267 to 140, the Polish lower House passed the “Pro Life” bill offering help for women with difficult pregnancies. The program is supposed to kick in next year. The bill was passed in an unusually speedy parliamentary procedure. It provides a one-time financial aid payment of PLN…
Crisis of values in 21st century Europe Mr. Jaime Mayor Oreja, President of the European Federation One of Us, in defense of Life and Human Dignity, within the framework of the conference organized by the Sinthesys University Forum, stated the following: “The biggest mistake we are making today is that we still do not understand…
Between 2010 and 2015, the number of abortions in Hungary has fallen by 23 per cent; in nominal terms, over 9000 less pregnancies were terminated, and the decrease continued further in the first quarter of the running year by 4 per cent, according to the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of Human Capacities. In…
by Mr. Nils Muižnieks (1) The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr Nils Muižnieks, has published a Human Rights Comment on the need to protect women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights, highlighting that access to sexual and reproductive rights is a precondition for the realization of other human rights, including in the…
“Defending Family is the best way to defend Life” , One of Us General Assembly « Our Federation shouldn’t be virtual but rather a real organization” for life and human dignity has proclaimed Jaime Mayor Oreja – President of the One of Us Federation – at the General Assembly last October 19th at the European Parliament. The…
On September 28th. 2016, Arne Gericke, a German Member of the European Parliament from the Conservatives group, organized a Family Breakfast on the first European Day for Safe Birth and Motherhood. Despite pro-abortion groups calling on the UN to declare September 28 as the ‘International Safe Abortion Day’ and to celebrate this first European Day…