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…
Four new members from different countries joined the One Of Us Federation. It has been approved by the General Assembly. Associazione Medici Cattolici (Italy) Life Network (Malta) Fundaçao AjB – A Junção do Bem (Portugal) Foro Universitario Synthesis (Spain) This growth continues. There are six more applicants going to become members very soon.
The Federation ONE of us has taken part at the “Europe pregnancy help leaders conference”, held in Bibione (Venice) Italy, from the 19th to 21st October. The conference was organized by Movimento per la vita italiano-MpV and Heartbeat International. Ana del Pino, European coordinator of the ONE of us Federation, intervened officially during the Plenary…
“To combat anti-abortion legislation throughout Europe” is our target claims Astra, a pro-abortion network in Central and Eastern Europe which asks for “a stronger European parliamentary response to increasingly regressive legislation in Europe.” Astra held a meeting with MEPs and policy-makers on October 11th and 12th in order to try to counteract right-to-life legislation throughout Europe.…
On September 28th at the European Parliament, so-called “All of Us”, created to be a direct rival of One of Us, held a conference against conscientious objection of healthcare providers. “All of Us” was created in 2015 to counteract One of Us and held a single conference at the European Parliament for abortion rights on…
On October 13th, French socialist deputies proposed a bill “to widen the offence of forming an obstacle to the voluntary interruption of pregnancy through the online dissemination of “false information” on abortion”. Created by a 1993 law, the offence of ‘obstacle’ sanctions both preventing and attempting to prevent an abortion, by interfering with access to…
At the European Parliament, Dutch MEP Sophia In’t Veld is promoting a motion for a resolution asking the European Commission to establish a permanent mechanism to monitor the state of democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights in each Member State. If adopted, this mechanism will be used by the European Union to sanction…
