Family Watch International denies any involvement.
Greg Owen at LGBTQ Nation:
In Ghana last week, participants from 20 African nations advanced the latest iteration of the African Inter-Parliamentary âFamily, Sovereignty and Valuesâ Charter, a document African rights activists say threatens to dismantle protections for women, girls, and LGBTQ+ people in service of a Christian nationalist worldview.
Attendees at the annual conference have set an ambitious goal to realize the documentâs illiberal agenda: ratification of the charter by the African Union General Assembly. Organizers hope to take it to the pan-African governmental body next February, where it would be put to a vote.
âIt is a license to oppose, regress on, or refuse to implement existing commitments on sexual and reproductive health, and on LGBTQ rights,â Gilbert Mitullah, a Kenyan lawyer and board member at Queer African Network, told the Guardian. âThat is its operational function, even before any signature is placed on it.â
A comprehensive analysis of the latest charter by the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA), a pan-African feminist initiative, reveals that authors have distorted legitimate claims around sovereignty and colonialism in service of a neocolonial goal: the end of abortion, womenâs rights, and LGBTQ+ rights on the continent.
It defines a strict two-sex binary, recognizes marriage and family as heterosexual only, and would outlaw comprehensive sexuality education across Africa.
âThe charter is not a continental instrument that happens to share vocabulary with Western anti-rights groups,â Kenyan lawyer Mitullah asserted. âIt is a transplant.â
Activists point to the organizers of the annual draft-writing conferences. They say the events are supported, organized, and directed by right-wing American and European Christian nationalist organizations.
According to U.S.-based international reproductive rights organization Ipas, the events have been supported by Family Watch International (FWI), the Arizona-based Christian nationalist group run by co-founder Sharon Slater and designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Slater has repeatedly claimed that the UN and Western donor nations are imposing a âradical sexual rights agendaâ on Africans.
Writing in the Ghana-based Labari Journal, Professor Jeffrey Haynes of London Metropolitan University called FWI and the Netherlands-based Christian Council International two wealthy and influential Western far-right organizations âbehind the African faces and the âprotection-of-family-values-and-sovereigntyâ languageâ employed in the charter.
The new African Inter-Parliamentary âFamily, Sovereignty and Valuesâ Charter signed by 20 African nations is a colonialist imposition of anti-abortion, anti-sex education, anti-women, and anti-LGBTQ+ values on African nations backed by US religious right groups.
Americans are feeling pain at the pump and elsewhere thanks to the ongoing surge in oil and fuel prices from President Donald Trumpâs war on
Zachary Pleat and Gideon Taaffe at MMFA:
Americans are feeling pain at the pump and elsewhere thanks to the ongoing surge in oil and fuel prices from President Donald Trumpâs war on Iran, and local television news stations have been at the forefront of documenting that pain, with even some local stations owned by the right-wing Sinclair Broadcast Group airing such coverage. Sinclairâs national programming, however, has often applied a Trump-friendly spin while discussing high gas prices, downplaying the increases and suggesting they'll be short-lived.
Sinclairâs The National Desk, which airs on more than 70 stations, repeated administration claims early in the war that there would be only a small jump in prices and that the increase would be short-lived, and more recently has hyped seemingly every small drop in prices. And coverage from Sinclairâs Full Measure, which airs weekly on more than 130 stations, has featured a segment attacking Californiaâs energy and environmental policies, much like Fox did, and another segment pushing a promise from Trump that gas prices would soon come down.Â
Right-wing station group Sinclair Broadcast Groupâs national news segments pumped out pro-Trump propaganda about gas and oil prices. Meanwhile, local stations-- including those owned by Sinclair-- have focused on the harms of rising gas prices to American consumers.
The process to renew Daca immigration status used to take a few weeks â now it drags on for months
Michael Sainato at The Guardian:
Itâs been six months since Claudia first applied to renew her US immigration status â a process that, for the last 14 years, would only take a few weeks.
But now, the prolonged delay has put her life on hold. Claudia, who moved to the US when she was four, has maintained legal status as a âDreamerâ with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program, which was created in 2012 to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation.
In December, Claudia submitted her Daca renewal, as she is required to do every two years. Under the Trump administration, a process that typically takes just a few weeks has dragged on for months. The delay has meant years of work she put into her education and starting a career are now at risk because of the lapse in her work authorization.
âIt feels like a personal attack,â said Claudia, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation given her immigration status. âI renewed on time, completed my biometrics, followed every rule, but Iâm still waiting to hear back.â
Cesar, who requested anonymity due to his immigration status, has also been in a six-month limbo over his Daca renewal. After he lost his job in HR, he has been selling burritos on the street to make up for the lost income and has been sharing his story online.
âI feel like I lose everything. We grew up here, we built a community here, and we built our lives here. I lost my dream job,â said Cesar, who moved to the US when he was four. âItâs been very hard, especially since Iâm not making enough. Iâm barely scraping by.â
The processing delays come at a time when Daca Dreamers are face growing hostility from the Trump administration. Hundreds of Daca holders have been arrested by federal immigration enforcement and several have been deported over the last year amid the White Houseâs broader immigration crackdown.
Though the White House has said it is targeting immigrants with criminal records, a Guardian analysis from earlier this year found 77% of people who entered deportation proceedings in 2025 had no criminal conviction.
More than 500,000Â active Daca recipients reside in the US from nearly 200 different countries. To be eligible for the program, an individual must have entered and resided in the US before 15 June 2007, either in school or have a high school or equivalent degree, and no criminal record.
Donald Trump attempted to eliminate the Daca program during his first term, but was ultimately blocked by the supreme court in 2020. Despite the ruling, litigation against Daca is ongoing and the administration has remained focused on targeting program recipients through new work restrictions and processing delays, immigration advocates said.
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Along with the processing delays, the Trump administration recently proposed a new rule that would impose new work authorization restrictions on Daca holders, including a requirement that their employer be enrolled in using E-Verify. It also implemented a rule that prohibits Daca holders from obtaining commercial driverâs licenses.
DREAMers being forced out of jobs while waiting for DACA renewals is yet another part of the Trump Regimeâs assault on immigrants and immigrant rights.
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