A Brilliant Week of Bioethics
We just wrapped up our 4th Annual International Summer School of Bioethics and Human Rights. This year’s summer school—held in Šibenik, Croatia from August 5-11—was hosted by WYA Croatia and WYA Europe, supported by the Stiftung Ja Zum Leben. The focus was on abortion, assisted suicide and euthanasia, population control policies, and totalitarian ideologies. Forty […]
A Big Milestone for the Human Dignity Curriculum
New Research Highlights the Character Education Impact of the Human Dignity Curriculum For the first time ever, the Human Dignity Curriculum has been featured in an external research publication. Dr. Moira Law—an assistant professor at Saint Mary’s University in Canada—conducted this first formal evaluation of the HDC. Her focus was on educators’ experience teaching the […]
Surrogacy Is Not the Answer to Infertility
Infertility is a painful burden to bear and a growing problem globally. The World Health Organization estimates that currently, about 1 in 6 adults around the world experience infertility. As infertility rates rise and medical technology advances, couples are turning to new, alternative ways of bringing children into the world. One such method is surrogacy—a […]
WYA in Action at the United Nations
On the 30th Anniversary of the ICPD Since its founding, WYA has been a critical voice for human dignity at the United Nations. This year was no different. Our WYA advocacy team attended the 57th Session of the UN Commission on Population and Development from April 29-May 3 at the UN Headquarters in New York. […]
Ryszard Legutko’s Keynote Address on the ‘Totalitarian Tendencies in Contemporary Democracies’
What are Totalitarian Tendencies? The word ‘totalitarian’ seems blatantly inaccurate in the description of today’s Western civilization, and this conference clearly proves that. We would not be here if we lived in a totalitarian society. I vividly remember how aggressively and often brutally the communist government reacted to the dissenting initiatives, and it would be […]
Professor Carlo Lancellotti’s Keynote Address on the ‘New Form of Totalitarianism’
The Origins of Totalitarianism First of all, let me thank the World Youth Alliance for the invitation. I was asked to talk about the “New Totalitarianism,” and my remarks will largely be a re-elaboration of the insights on this topic by Augusto Del Noce. As some of you will know, Del Noce was an Italian Catholic […]
Persevere in the Truth: You’re Not Alone
The four days of the International Solidarity Forum (ISF) were packed with lectures and presentations from experts and distinguished speakers. Professor Carlo Lancelloti spoke about the “new form of totalitarianism” that has taken over our contemporary times; Dr. Ethan Haim, shared his story as a whistleblower, exposing the secret transgender program at the world’s largest […]
The Troubling Connection Between Foreign Aid and Harmful Healthcare Policies in Kenya
Foreign aid typically entails the transfer of capital, goods, or services from a country or international organization for the benefit of the recipient country. In targeted disaster relief and humanitarian efforts, it often succeeds. But it in itself is fraught with problems. Most troubling, it can be used as a tool for coercing recipient nations […]
“It changed everything:” Bringing the Human Dignity Curriculum to a Cameroon School
For the last three months, Jervis Lyonga has been commuting to Bishop Rogan College, an all-boys school in Cameroon, to volunteer teach the Human Dignity Curriculum (HDC). “The trip is only fifteen minutes,” he says modestly, before eventually admitting that “the roads are not the best, given the security challenges . . . and the […]
Little House, Big House (Nyumba Ndogo, Nyumba Kubwa)
Kisumu Juvenile Remand Home is a place where children in conflict with the law are committed by court until their matters are finalized. Some are orphans, others are from situations of neglect, living on the street. At the Remand Home, they are safe, they have accommodation and food, and now they also know that they […]