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In April 2020, President Donald J. Trump halted funding to the World Health Organization for mishandling the novel coronavirus crisis, the virus that causes COVID-19. In the aftermath of that decision, policy analysts focused on ways to reform the WHO, circumvent it, or scuttle it with a view to creating a new organization. In this International Organizations Research Group White Paper, Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. examines an often-overlooked department withing WHO that has had outsized influence in promoting a particular agenda, widespread legal and accessible abortion. Dr. Oas argues that this violates the mandate of the organization, impinges upon national sovereignty, and runs counter to, often deliberately misinterpreting, agreed upon international human rights.   

UN Submission

In the previous two cycles of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), the United States of America (U.S.) received recommendations that it change its laws and policies regarding funding for foreign assistance in order to fund abortions in other countries.