http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/21/armenian-women-still-have-average-of-8-and-as-high-as-20-abortions-in-lifetime/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/21/armenian-women-still-have-average-of-8-and-as-high-as-20-abortions-in-lifetime/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:35:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=121495 LifeSiteNews.com: A new report produced by the United Nations Population Fund, the Armenian ministry of health, and the Institute of Perinatology found that 7,000 Armenian women - or 0.8 percent of all Armenian women of child-bearing age - had elected to have sex-selective abortions since 2006. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/21/armenian-women-still-have-average-of-8-and-as-high-as-20-abortions-in-lifetime/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/20/unfpa-armenia-report-7000-women-have-sex-selective-abortions-preferring-boys-turtle-bay-and-beyond-%e2%80%93-international-law-policy-and-institutions/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/20/unfpa-armenia-report-7000-women-have-sex-selective-abortions-preferring-boys-turtle-bay-and-beyond-%e2%80%93-international-law-policy-and-institutions/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:03:06 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=121378 Turtle Bay and Beyond – International Law, Policy, and Institutions: A report conducted by UNFPA and the Armenian government health ministry revealed that women are aborting their female unborn children. Over the last 5 years over 7,000 women have had sex-selective abortions. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/20/unfpa-armenia-report-7000-women-have-sex-selective-abortions-preferring-boys-turtle-bay-and-beyond-%e2%80%93-international-law-policy-and-institutions/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/07/echr-ruling-recognizes-right-to-conscientious-objection/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/07/echr-ruling-recognizes-right-to-conscientious-objection/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:08:36 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=107759 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/07/echr-ruling-recognizes-right-to-conscientious-objection/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/04/turkey-renovates-armenian-monuments-as-gesture/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/04/turkey-renovates-armenian-monuments-as-gesture/#comments Wed, 04 May 2011 15:52:12 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=102693 AP: Turkey has launched a project to conserve an ancient Armenian cathedral and church in what is seen as a gesture of reconciliation toward its neighbor. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/04/turkey-renovates-armenian-monuments-as-gesture/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/09/groups-criticize-armenias-proposed-amendments-to-religious-organizations-law/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/09/groups-criticize-armenias-proposed-amendments-to-religious-organizations-law/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:42:34 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=85618 Religion Clause: "Forum 18 reported yesterday that human rights activists and religious groups are strongly criticizing proposed amendments to Armenia's Law on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations (full text) and proposed amendments to the country's Administrative Offenses Code, Law on Charity, and Criminal Code (full text)." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/09/groups-criticize-armenias-proposed-amendments-to-religious-organizations-law/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/30/ban-on-crucifixes-in-italian-schools-is-appealed/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/30/ban-on-crucifixes-in-italian-schools-is-appealed/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:15:23 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=64730 Associated Press: "A European ruling banning crucifixes in Italian schools should be overturned, nine European governments said in an appeal Wednesday. ... The decisions of the court -- an arm of the Council of Europe, the continent's premier human rights watchdog -- are binding on the council's 47 member states and therefore have an impact far beyond Italy." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/30/ban-on-crucifixes-in-italian-schools-is-appealed/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/29/coptic-solidarity-founding-conference/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/29/coptic-solidarity-founding-conference/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:36:14 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=64531 ChristianNewsWire: "Founding members of 'Coptic Solidarity,' coming from the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe, held their conference on June 19-20, at Virginia, USA., to launch the activities of the new organization. ... A large number of presentations and discussions, focused on concrete future actions, took place during the first day of the conference. Besides founding members, invited guest speakers took part: Dr. Dwight Bashir, deputy director of USCIRF; Tina Ramirez, congressional fellow; Taniel Koushakjian, director of grassroots at the Armenian Assembly; and Pierro Tozzi, senior legal counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/29/coptic-solidarity-founding-conference/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/02/ten-member-states-join-italy-in-support-of-the-crucifix/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/02/ten-member-states-join-italy-in-support-of-the-crucifix/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:58:10 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/02/ten-member-states-join-italy-in-support-of-the-crucifix/ European Center for Law and Justice: "For the first time in the record of the ECHR, ten member States are simultaneously intervening as 'third party' in one single case. The case at stake is the Lautsi case - also known as the 'crucifix case' - which will go before the Grand Chamber of the ECHR on June 30th. The Court has communicated to the ECLJ the list of the following Member States: Armenia; Bulgaria; Cyprus; Greece; Lithuania; Malta; Monaco; San-Marino; Romania; The Russian Federation." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/02/ten-member-states-join-italy-in-support-of-the-crucifix/feed/ 0