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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.”

Advocates International Joins Many in the International Community Urging Peru to End the Violence against its Indigenous People

Washington, DC— Advocates International expressed its concern in a

To NIH: Neither Ethical, Scientific nor Currently Lawful to Expand Taxpayer Funding for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Washington, DC—Along with DO NO HARM: THE COALITION OF

Medical and Legal Professionals Urge HHS to Enforce the Law as Obama Administration Poised to Rescind Conscience Protection

WASHINGTON, DC — Representing a coalition of medical and legal professionals, attorneys for Advocates International (AI) and the Christian Legal Society (CLS) today warned

March 9, 2009 President Obama Kills Ban on Federal Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research And a Few Other Good Things, As Well

Washington, DC—Advocates International expressed its dismay and astonishment today that President Obama not only ordered the NATIONAL INSTITUTES FOR HEALTH (NIH) to revoke and reverse the ethical administration policy established in 2001 and begin for the first time using federal tax dollars to encourage researchers to destroy living human embryos for stem cell research in violation of existing federal law, but, without explanation, also revoked the previous administration’s

February 3, 2009 Women and Medical Professionals Intervene in Federal Case to Protect the Right to Conscience

HARTFORD, CT. —Representing Concerned Women for America, America’s largest women’s advocacy group and four other groups of pro-life medical professionals, attorneys with Advocates International filed a motion to intervene yesterday in three lawsuits commenced on January 15 that seek to invalidate a federal law protecting medical professionals from discrimination because they refuse to participate in abortions.