First American to head Rome's Angelicum University says task is 'daunting'
- Jun 17, 2021
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Blinken ends Trump rights plan promoting conservative agenda
- Mar 31, 2021
In a sharp rebuke to Trump-era policies, Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday formally scrapped a blueprint championed by his predecessor to limit U.S. promotion of human rights abroad to causes favored by conservatives like religious freedom and property matters while dismissing reproductive and LGBTQ rights.
Pompeo says US should focus defense of human rights, cites property rights and religious freedom
- Jul 17, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo argued Thursday for a more limited U.S. view of global human rights advocacy based on the principals laid out by America’s Founding Fathers, a suggestion critics assumed meant stepping away from more modern concepts such as support for women and the LGBQT communities around the world.
Former U.S. envoy to Vatican opposes new commission headed by predecessor
- Jul 23, 2019
Two former U.S. ambassadors to the Vatican are at odds over a new State Department commission.
Former U.S. ambassador to Vatican heads commission on ‘Unalienable Rights’
- Jul 8, 2019
A former Vatican ambassador will head a new U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights.
Expert says human rights created ‘iron shield’ shared by Catholic Church
- Dec 5, 2018
Legal experts and historians marked the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations on Tuesday.
New skepticism targets right to religious freedom, expert says
- Nov 19, 2018
Former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon has said the entire human rights movement has fallen victim to a new form of skepticism that risks bringing it to collapse, with religious freedom being in the most precarious position.
Accepting UND award, Glendon lauds female role in pro-life movement
- Apr 30, 2018
Harvard Law Professor Mary Ann Glendon received the nation’s most prestigious pro-life award on Saturday evening at the University of Notre Dame.
Notre Dame honoring pro-life scholar who rejected award in 2009
- Oct 3, 2017
Notre Dame says Harvard Law School professor Mary Ann Glendon will receive the Evangelium Vitae Medal in April. The school says the medal honors those who “proclaim the Gospel of human life by steadfastly affirming and defending its sanctity from its earliest stages.”
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