A beautiful “Dear Future Mom” video has been banned by the French Broadcasting Council and the French State Council because it includes smiling children with Down syndrome. The award-winning video, produced in 2014, was made to encourage and alleviate the fears of pregnant mothers who have been given a Down syndrome diagnosis. It shows children…
ONE OF US applauds this recognition because this recognition, with the inherent rights, is the origin and reason of our Federation. The recognition of the unborn as “ONE OF US“, with the inherent rights of every human being. The Austrian government allows parents to register children who died before birth with a weight less than…
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…