Behind-the-scenes maneuvers in international politics are labyrinthine. How does an NGO influence the direction of a specific policy? Why do certain issues make it onto the global agenda while others do not? In many cases, the answer lies in the term “Core Group” — diplomatic parlance for a nucleus of countries that join forces to advance a specific, shared issue.

Now, the pro-life and pro-family faction of the international community is seeking to create a Core Group to help protect the right to life, as well as the institutions of family and marriage, within international bodies like the United Nations.

The road ahead is long and has only just begun, but its architects believe the time is right to launch this initiative. Led by the United States and with the acquiescence of other Global South nations, the alliance promises to challenge the conventions of the globalist bureaucracy.

A Rival Team for a High-Stakes Match

While such interest groups often focus on specific, short-term contexts, some endure as instruments of influence within the halls of globalism. One of the most impactful and long-lasting is the Pro-LGBTI+ Core Group.

“Although it began taking shape in the late 1970s, it was formally established in 2008 and currently comprises more than 40 countries,” explains Aarón Lara, leader of the Ibero-American Congress for Life and Family (CIVF, by its Spanish acronym). It is an interregional group of U.N. member states dedicated — according to its website — to promoting and defending the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people worldwide.

Lara believes the group’s political influence has grown beyond all expectations. “They have successfully established victimhood narratives and incorporated observances with global impact. They have also secured diversified funding sources, ensuring that finances are never a cause for concern,” he noted. Similarly, the Pro-LGBTI+ Core Group has established lobbies and “think tanks” composed of academics and intellectuals who “not only maintain the narrative but create a ‘Newspeak,’” Lara noted. “It has been so ‘successful’ that so-called sexual diversity appears to have no moral, legal, or physical limits today.”

For the CIVF leader, this impact has been possible — among other factors — because there has been no organized resistance in arenas like the U.N. “I always use this example: if it were a soccer match and one team failed to show up, the winner by default would be the team that was present.”

“Their influence has infiltrated practically every commission within the U.N., but they have gone much further,” he emphasized.

To establish a Core Group, there must be a proposing or sponsoring country, which requires the backing of at least two other member states.

“The more geopolitical weight a country has, the easier it is, obviously, to form a Core Group,” Lara summarized. That is why the current initiative seeks to have the United States — under the administration of President Donald Trump — spearhead the request.

Joining them, the CIVF leader estimates, would be the Latin American states that make up the so-called “Shield of the Americas.” They include Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, and Trinidad and Tobago. All have right-leaning governments and, for the most part, are committed to the pro-life cause.

A Core Group to Combat Neglect and Indifference

There appears to be momentum — not just regionally, but globally. A good indicator for the creation of this Core Group would be the progress of the Geneva Consensus Declaration, signed in 2020, which establishes that abortion is not a “right” and currently enjoys the support of 40 nations.

Valerie Huber, president of the Institute for Women’s Health and former U.S. Special representative for Global Women’s Health during the first Trump administration, is the leading proponent of the Consensus. Like others, she hopes that the member states that signed the Consensus will join the Pro-Life and Pro-Family Core Group.

To this end, the architects of the new Core Group are convening the Global Forum for Life, Family, and Freedoms, to be held on September 17 and 18 of this year, alongside the U.N. General Assembly in New York City.

There, according to Lara, they expect representatives from the U.S. State Department to attend what could mark the formal launch of the Pro-Life and Pro-Family Core Group at the U.N.

A source that connects the efforts of the CIVF with that of organizations in the United States, stressed that the organization currently urges Christians in Latin America to “demand that their governments represent the absolutely majority values of their nations,” including spaces in international mechanisms such as the Organization of American States (OAS) and the U.N.

The source, on condition of anonymity, expressed for this report: “It is precisely our carelessness and lack of understanding (and disdain?) for everything that has to do with politics that makes us ignorant — the ‘useful fools’ that Vladimir Ilich Lenin spoke of. For example, a quarter of the 41 countries that make up the Core Group Pro LGBTI+ are Ibero-American.”

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Spain, Portugal and Uruguay. “In fact, Argentina holds the Presidency of the Core Group,” he noted. “Therefore, those of us who are members of any of these nations have a duty to protest their membership in the pro-LGBTI Core Group, and we must press for our countries to truly reflect our values in the diplomatic sphere.”

For the interviewee, the initiative of the Core Group Profamilia and Provida “is going to remedy that,” and that is why “it deserves that we wake up to educate ourselves and act together.” In that sense, he called: “Let us pray for the leadership of President Trump and some Ibero-American countries to join others in Africa and Asia, in order to propose a plan for a Core Group that defends our values, in the U.N. first and then in the OAS.”