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AI Disappointed that Supreme Court Decision Fails to Determine Scope Law Student's 1st Amendment Freedoms in CLS v. Martinez (Ju

The United States Supreme Court announced a narrow ruling today holding that public universities may override a religious student group’s right to determine its leadership only if it denies that right to all student groups in the name of “diversity.” The Court remanded to the courts below the remaining factual questions of whether the government‘s so-called ‘all-comers policy’ lately imposed by the University of California’s Hastings College of Law to exclude recognition of a Christian law student organization at the school is unconstitutional, as applied.

FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL REINSTATES CASE TO STOP FEDERAL FUNDING OF RESEARCH INVOLVING THE DESTRUCTION OF LIVING HUMAN EMBRYOS

WASHINGTON, DC (June 25, 2010). Today the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued its decision finding that doctors doing adult stem cell research have ‘competitive standing’ to sue. Therefore, the court reinstated the doctors’ federal lawsuit, filed last summer that seeks to preliminarily enjoin and ultimately overturn the controversial guidelines for public funding of embryonic stem cell research that the National Institutes of Health issued on July 7, 2009. The implementation of these guidelines marks the first time that taxpayer dollars will be used to fund research that will result in the destruction of human embryos. Since 1994, Congress has expressly banned NIH from funding research in which human embryos “are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.”

AI Supports Freedoms of Expression, Religion and Association in CLS v. Martinez (April 18, 2010)

The United States Supreme Court hears oral arguments tomorrow in a case to decide whether a government ‘non-discrimination policy’ being imposed by the University of California’s Hastings College of Law to exclude recognition of a Christian law student organization at the school, based upon its Statement of Christian Faith, constitutes a discriminatory and unconstitutional deprivation of law students rights of free expression, religious free exercise and association.

AI Decries the Sectarian Violence in Nigeria and Announces its Justice for Jos Project

CLASFON, the Christian Lawyers Fellowship of Nigeria, joins with Advocates International to form an on-going project -The Justice for Jos Project – to provide humanitarian and legal assistance to the survivors of the unprovoked attacks and monitoring

AI Files Amicus Brief Supporting Freedom of Expression, Religion and Association in CLS v. Martinez

Supreme Court poised to decide whether a state non-discrimination policy constitutes a discriminatory and unconstitutional deprivation of law students rights of free expression, religion and association

 

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, in support of Christian Legal Society’s opening brief in the case, Advocates International (AI) filed its amicus curiae (‘friend of the court’) brief with the U.S. Supreme Court. AI is asking the Court to defend the First Amendment rights of expression, religion and association by overturning the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' unpublished decision in Christian Legal Society v. Kane, which allowed University of California Hastings College of the Law to forbid its chapter of the Christian Legal Society to organize around shared religious and cultural beliefs. AI’s brief, which was one of 22 amicus briefs filed in support of reversing the Ninth Circuit’s decision, uniquely advised the Court that international law and applicable foreign law all weigh in favor of reversing the judgment below.

AI Calls on the Chinese Government To Follow its Constitution and Laws by Ending its Unlawful Detention of Gao Zhiseng

Advocates International, ChinaAid and Jubilee Campaign Urge the  Peoples Republic of China to free world-renowned human rights advocate, Gao Zhiseng, or tell the world where he is and why he is being coercively detained in violation of Chinese law.

Washington, DC— Earlier today, on the one-year anniversary of Gao’s disappearance, Freedom Now partnered with international human rights specialists Jerome A. Cohen, Irwin Cotler MP, David Matas, and David Kilgour to file a petition with the UN WORKING GROUP ON INVOLUNTARY DISAPPEARANCES.

The petition informs the UN Working Group of the violations of Criminal Procedure in Gao’s case and requests immediate assistance from the UN in ascertaining the whereabouts and condition of Gao Zhisheng. (See Freedom Now’s petition and press release.)

September 17, 2009 WAKE-UP CALLS TO PAKISTANI GOVERNMENT GO UNHEEDED WITH DEADLY RESULTS

Advocates International and Jubilee Campaign Plead with Pakistan to End the Unlawful Impunity, Police Brutality and Religious Persecution Caused by its Blasphemy Laws
Washington, DC— In the shocking light of the horrific police torture and falsely alleged “suicide” in police custody of a falsely accused Pakistani Christian, Fanish Robert, this past week in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, Advocates International and the Jubilee Campaign USA again join many other in the international community urging Pakistan to end the impunity, police brutality and religious persecution caused by its blasphemy laws by immediately suspending all blasphemy arrests and prosecutions and abolishing its unjust blasphemy laws.

Advocates International Joins Many in the International Community Urging Pakistan to End the Violence and Religious Persecution

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11  Advocates International joined many in the international community today, including the Jubilee Campaign USA, urging Pakistan to end the mob violence and religious persecution caused by its blasphemy and other so-called 'defamation of religion laws'.

(August 19, 2009) SUIT FILED TO STOP FEDERAL FUNDING OF DESTRUCTIVE HUMAN EMBRYO RESEARCH

WASHINGTON, DC  A lawsuit filed today in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia seeks to enjoin and overturn the controversial guidelines for public funding of embryonic stem cell research that the National Institutes of Health issued on July 7, 2009. The implementation of these guidelines marks the first time that taxpayer dollars will be used to fund research that will result in the destruction of human embryos. Since 1994, Congress has expressly banned NIH from funding research in which human embryos “are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.”

 

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