Family Watch International works within the United Nations and with countries around the world to further anti-LGBT and anti-choice stances. Founder Sharon Slater promotes anti-LGBT pseudoscience that includes the falsehood that homosexuality is a mental disorder derived from childhood trauma, and that so-called “conversion therapy” can effectively eliminate same-sex attraction.
Founded in 1999 as Global Helping to Advance Women (Global HAWC), Family Watch International (FWI) is based in Gilbert, Arizona, and claims to be a nonprofit international educational organization. FWI is under the leadership of founder and longtime anti-LGBT and anti-choice activist Sharon Slater, who is Mormon.
"A
wide-ranging
investigation
by the Wall
Street
Journal has
uncovered
evidence
linking
Russian cash
to an
anti-LGBTQ+
U.S.
activist who
helped
promote
“Kill the
Gays” laws
in Uganda
and across
Africa. The
publication
found a
large
infusion of
Russian cash
helped fund
an
international
conference
in Uganda
organized by
Mormon
anti-LGBTQ+
activist
Sharon
Slater and
her
Arizona-based
Family
Watch
International
organization
to promote
deadly
queerphobic
laws in the
continent."
"Selective
condemnation
and silence
about actors
in Uganda’s
anti-gay
politics
stereotypes
it as a
Ugandan
problem. But
this is not
only a
Ugandan
problem. The
kind of hate
that we’re
seeing at
this moment
is really
inorganic.
It’s been
brought and
stirred by
outsiders,
and those
outsiders
need to be
held
accountable"
