President Echoes ACLJ Call Against Genocide at UN
This week, President Trump delivered a powerful speech at the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly. To aid in the fight against ISIS and to help end the genocide against Christians, President Trump called for the creation of in-region safe zones, something we’ve long advocated. In his maiden...
Defending the Unborn at the U.N.
Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) states, “Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law.” However, as we recently reported , the U.N. Human Rights Committee is attempting to revise its General Comment on Article 6...
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Defending Christians Facing Genocide at the U.N.
As part of our ongoing efforts to end the ISIS genocide against Christians, we delivered an oral intervention before the United Nations Human Rights Council through our affiliate, the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), again urging the U.N. to act. In our intervention we told the story of...
Time to Reform the United Nations
This week President Trump took his robust agenda for reform to the United Nations (U.N.). President Trump said : “ … I am confident that if we work together and champion truly bold reforms, the United Nations will emerge as a stronger, more effective, more just and greater force for peace and...
Forced to Recite Islamic Prayer to Receive Food
Christian South Sudanese refugee children are denied food in Sudan’s refugee camps unless they recite Islamic prayers. The U.S. Department of State includes three nations on its “State Sponsor of Terrorism” list . Sudan is one of them, along with Syria and Iran. Sudan was designated a State Sponsor...
ACLJ Files Suit on Lynch/Clinton Meeting
Earlier this week, the ACLJ filed suit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for failing to respond to the ACLJ’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request as required by law. The ACLJ issued its first FOIA request on this issue to the FBI in July 2016. The request seeks all records...
New False Charges For Pastor Brunson
In an unexpected video conference with a judge last Thursday, American Pastor Andrew Brunson was informed that the prosecutor had added additional charges upon which his continued detainment was now based. These “new” charges, coming 322 days after his initial arrest in October of last year, are...
ACLJ Urges US Ambassador to Confront Genocide
The Islamic State’s (“ISIS”) genocide against Christians and other religious minorities not only continues in Iraq and Syria, but also is spreading around the world. This week, in our ongoing effort to engage the Executive branch in combating this genocide, we sent a letter to Kansas Governor Sam...
Admonishing the U.N. to Recognize ISIS Genocide
Boiled, beheaded, burned alive, raped, mutilated, deported en masse, kidnapped, enslaved, forced to convert to Islam, and ultimately punished by death – this is the plight of Christians across the Middle East, and alarmingly, ISIS’s atrocities are expanding globally. In response, we just filed our...
ISIS is the Greatest Threat to Religious Freedom
A staggering “ 80 percent of the global population live with restrictions on or hostilities to limit their freedom of religion.” On Tuesday, the Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, used this striking statistic to introduce the State Department’s 2016 International Religious Freedom (IRF) Report .
Blow to the Left: Refugee Pause Restored
Justice Kennedy just issued an order restoring another part of President Trump’s Executive Order to protect the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States : the 120 day pause on all refugees. In March, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13780, which has two components: 1)
Remembering 9/11: Why We Continue to Honor
On its 16th anniversary, let us pause and take a moment to remember 9/11. Even after 16 years, the tragic events of September 11, 2001, are still seared in our nation’s collective memory. 9/11 shook America to its core. Who could forget the pain, the suffering and the horror of what became the...
The First Step in “Extreme Vetting”
Finally, the United States will once again use the most direct, time-tested, commonsense method to vet incoming immigrants and refugees to keep our nation safe: in person interviews . In an era of ISIS urging jihadists worldwide to infiltrate and attack America, the idea that we would not at least...
North Korea's Strategic Gamble
Late Monday North Korea launched yet another ballistic missile, in clear violation of United Nations sanctions and in defiance of U.S. attempts to resolve issues with the rogue nation through diplomatic means. However, this latest North Korean provocation was more serious, as the missile flew...