One of the world's leading experts on the international pro-life movement, Joseph Meaney speaks French, Spanish, and Italian fluently and is HLI's Director of International Coordination. His bachelors and masters degrees from the Catholic University of Dallas and the University of Texas Institute of Latin American Studies prepared him for an international career that has included lectures and investigative journalism missions on all continents and over 64 countries. Before becoming Director of HLI's International Division, Joseph helped found and served four years as Vice Director of HLI's Rome Office.

Gendercide: Where have all the girls gone?
One of the most shocking global trends I have encountered in travels to over 54 countries
on all continents in the past five years is the practice of gendercide. This massive
"disappearance" of girls in the last few decades is an underreported international
scandal.  ... gendercide_where_have_girls_gone.pdf 101 kb

Women: Between Abortion, Cloning and Prostitution
Another Battle at the UN
The United Nations made a highly significant pro-life move on March 8, 2005. This will come as a surprise to many HLI Special Reports readers who have seen numerous accounts of the different anti-life activities by UN agencies and at UN meetings in the past decades. The United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning calls on all member states to "prohibit all forms of human cloning inasmuch as they are incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life."   Read More...

SEMINARIANS FOR LIFE INTERNATIONALTM
FACT SHEET - AIDS and the Big Lie About Condoms

The issue of condoms has become ideologically charged in recent years. A good example of this is the August 2004 statement by Timothy Wirth, president of Ted Turner's United Nations Foundation. Mr. Wirth states, "The United States and others have started questioning the efficacy of condoms. To condemn women by indifference to science and by failure to provide tools for their own protection may not meet the technical definition of crimes against humanity, but it is certainly gross negligence toward humanity." In point of fact, he and all others who promote condoms are the ones who will face the verdict of history as having done a grave wrong to humanity.  Read More ...