Pornography
Much of the pornography currently produced and made available through the Internet stands in serious conflict with gender equality, tackling stereotypes, protection of vulnerable persons and the promotion of human rights. Harmful effects produced by the consumption and production of pornography have been documented. Pornography has been found to desensitize the consumer to sexual aggression, causing sexual aggression towards women, normalizing sexual assault, and also producing rape myths, all of which has serious consequences for any attempt to reach gender equality.The current legal reality is that there are very few effective regulations governing pornography either domestically in the European Parliament or Council of Europe region or internationally. We are trying to make awareness in this section of our site of this phenomenon in our today society which affects our families and our children.
Surrogacy: the slippery slope towards ‘the right to a child’
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Press Release | Irish Referendum On The Redefinition Of Marriage
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Press Release | Rights of late abortion survivors to be considered by Council of Europe Body
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“Good marriages, lasting families are not only the Church’s treasures, but also the society’s treasures.”- Homily by Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki
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Support, promote and protect the family
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FAFCE-COMECE joint Webinar: “Without intergenerational solidarity, there is no real human, economic and social development”
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