The European Union announced works on a document demanding from Member States to acknowledge foreign adoptions of children by single-sex partnerships. According to EC plans, such provisions could be implemented as a regulation, which would be binding on all EU members. This would be contrary to the national law of several states, including Poland. The Ordo Iuris Institute has drawn up a petition to the EC authorities calling for them to abandon these plans.

The Sejm Foreign Affairs Committee and the Justice and Human Rights Committee have not yet begun works on the citizens’ initiative ‘Yes to Family, No to Gender’. Its aim is to denounce the Istanbul Convention and replace it with the Convention on the Rights of the Family.

The Italian Senate has approved a decree introducing a universal child benefit. Payments are scheduled to start on 1 July this year. The benefit will be paid monthly for every child from the seventh month of pregnancy until twenty-one years of age.

The United Nations once again tried to smuggle such concepts as reproductive and sexual rights, sex education or right to abortion into the international discourse. The first part of the Generation Equality Forum, postponed due to the pandemic, was held in Mexico.

The European Parliament has adopted a Resolution to make the European Union an ‘LGBTIQ freedom zone’. The declaration was intended as a reaction to ‘LGBT free zones’ that supposedly exist in Poland. The Resolution was adopted as a result of leftist activists and Polish MEPs manipulating other members of the European Parliament. Prior to the debate, the Ordo Iuris Institute submitted to the MEPs a memorandum on, inter alia, the actual situation of persons with homosexual inclinations and gender identity disorders in Poland.

The United Nations Population Fund has published a manual on the implementation of ideological content in ‘out-of-school education’. The publication is part of a programme intended to ensure access to sexuality education to pupils who do not go to school on a regular basis, for example because of being home-schooled. Some educators are to be selected from the peer group of pupils. This may significantly limit the parents’ right to raise their children in accordance with their own beliefs.