Founded in 1999, the organization opposes homosexuality, legal abortion, birth control, comprehensive sex education, and other things that it regards as threats to the divinely ordained "natural family.
[4] Under the name Global Helping to Advance Women and Children it is registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Gilbert, Arizona in the United States.
[1] The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies FWI as a hate group because it "promotes anti-LGBT pseudoscience that includes the falsehood that homosexuality is a mental disorder.
[6] Martin Ssempa, a FWI volunteer coordinator and pastor in Uganda, emerged in the 2010s as a prominent supporter of a bill making homosexuality punishable by death.
FWI produced a 2019 video claiming that a Tucson Unified School District comprehensive sex education program was a conspiracy to sexualize children for profit.
[11] Ethiopian surgeon Seyoum Antonios, the African director of FWI, created a viral video in 2020 that was part of the Stop CSE campaign.