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/2012/05/24/house-to-hold-hearing-on-international-control-of-the-internet/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/house-to-hold-hearing-on-international-control-of-the-internet/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 17:47:31 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134604 The Hill: The House Energy and Commerce's subcommittee on Communications and Technology scheduled a hearing for next Thursday to examine international proposals to regulate the Internet. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/house-to-hold-hearing-on-international-control-of-the-internet/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/law-of-the-sea-treaty-is-found-on-capitol-hill-again/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/law-of-the-sea-treaty-is-found-on-capitol-hill-again/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 17:31:10 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134602 NY Times: So long has the “Law of the Sea” treaty been stalled on Capitol Hill that its opponents — a handful of conservative Republicans who view it as an infringement on American sovereignty — have taken to calling it “LOST, ” an uncharitable, if apt, acronym. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/law-of-the-sea-treaty-is-found-on-capitol-hill-again/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/23/obama-admin-pushes-for-sea-treaty/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/23/obama-admin-pushes-for-sea-treaty/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 15:41:17 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134418 AP: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the nation's top military leaders pleaded Wednesday for Senate approval of a long-spurned high seas treaty, arguing that the pact will boost U.S. national security and create much-needed American jobs. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/23/obama-admin-pushes-for-sea-treaty/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/jeremy-waldron-what-is-natural-law-like/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/jeremy-waldron-what-is-natural-law-like/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 18:58:09 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134232 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/21/jeremy-waldron-what-is-natural-law-like/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/analysis-a-strong-note-of-caution-on-reproductive-health-and-family-planning/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/analysis-a-strong-note-of-caution-on-reproductive-health-and-family-planning/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 20:00:22 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134002 C-FAM: And it is true that while family planning is mentioned in three hard law treaties, it is not defined as including contraception. Does it follow that we have nothing to fear from these phrases and that we should in fact embrace them? ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/analysis-a-strong-note-of-caution-on-reproductive-health-and-family-planning/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/defense-secretary-panetta-favors-united-nations-oversight-of-world-oceans/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/defense-secretary-panetta-favors-united-nations-oversight-of-world-oceans/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 19:13:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133480 Human Events: After regaling a group of environmentalists last week on military initiatives to pursue biofuels and prepare for climate change, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta advanced another tenet of a far-left military agenda Wednesday when he appeared at a forum to push for ratification of the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty. The treaty would create an international regime of law to dictate actions and activities on and in the oceans ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/10/defense-secretary-panetta-favors-united-nations-oversight-of-world-oceans/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/29/argentine-supreme-court-falls-prey-to-un-treaty-monitoring-bodies/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/29/argentine-supreme-court-falls-prey-to-un-treaty-monitoring-bodies/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:38:58 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129955 C-Fam: In a surprising ruling, the Supreme Court of Argentina has declared abortion is a woman’s right in case of rape under international law. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/29/argentine-supreme-court-falls-prey-to-un-treaty-monitoring-bodies/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/suit-based-on-international-law-filed-against-christian-pastor-for-speech-on-lgbt/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/suit-based-on-international-law-filed-against-christian-pastor-for-speech-on-lgbt/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:33:52 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129365 Liberty Counsel has agreed to represent Rev. Scott Lively, an evangelical pastor who was sued in a Massachusetts federal court by a foreign group called Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG). ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/suit-based-on-international-law-filed-against-christian-pastor-for-speech-on-lgbt/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/19/supreme-court-opens-the-door-to-abortion-in-argentina-in-an-embarrassing-failure/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/19/supreme-court-opens-the-door-to-abortion-in-argentina-in-an-embarrassing-failure/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:02:06 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128936 Argentinosalertos.org (Google translation from Spanish): The Supreme Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday March 13 unanimously that abortions in women who are raped are not punishable. You can get an abortion without judicial authorization. Women only need to complete an affidavit attesting to the violation for doctors performing the abortion " in a fast, accessible and safe . . . Institutions and relating to be presented in individual amicus curiae applying to reverse the judgment of the superior court of chubut . . . Alliance Defense Fund . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/19/supreme-court-opens-the-door-to-abortion-in-argentina-in-an-embarrassing-failure/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/adf-comment-on-argentina-supreme-court-ruling-in-abortion-case/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/adf-comment-on-argentina-supreme-court-ruling-in-abortion-case/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:26:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128882 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/adf-comment-on-argentina-supreme-court-ruling-in-abortion-case/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/08/penetta-and-sen-jeff-sessions-spar-over-congressional-role-in-decision-to-go-to-war/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/08/penetta-and-sen-jeff-sessions-spar-over-congressional-role-in-decision-to-go-to-war/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:12:58 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127965 Breitbart has posted video of the exchange between Secretary of Defense Penetta and Sen. Jeff Sessions. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/08/penetta-and-sen-jeff-sessions-spar-over-congressional-role-in-decision-to-go-to-war/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/07/just-war-and-the-iran-crisis/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/07/just-war-and-the-iran-crisis/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:44:12 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127856 Public Discourse: It would be wrong for the United States to engage at this time in an attack on Iran or to participate substantially in an Israeli action. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/07/just-war-and-the-iran-crisis/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/milestone-ave-maria-school-of-law-publishes-inaugural-international-law-journal/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/milestone-ave-maria-school-of-law-publishes-inaugural-international-law-journal/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:42:32 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127710 Christian Newswire: Ave Maria School of Law (AMSL) announced today that the inaugural issue of the International Law Journal has been published. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/milestone-ave-maria-school-of-law-publishes-inaugural-international-law-journal/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/13/noah-feldman-ginsburg%e2%80%99s-right-u-s-constitution-is-a-bad-model/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/13/noah-feldman-ginsburg%e2%80%99s-right-u-s-constitution-is-a-bad-model/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:57:48 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=125558 Bloomberg: Today, however, such advice is treated as a national scandal. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent the last two weeks in hot water for telling an Egyptian TV interviewer that Egypt might do better to emulate the up-to-date South African constitution rather than our 223-year-old model. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/13/noah-feldman-ginsburg%e2%80%99s-right-u-s-constitution-is-a-bad-model/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/09/ilya-somin-ginsburg-and-scalia-on-foreign-constitutions/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/09/ilya-somin-ginsburg-and-scalia-on-foreign-constitutions/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:36:13 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=125223 Volokh Conspiracy: Conservative columnist Jeff Jacoby has a good article today on the somewhat overwrought criticism of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for saying, in Cairo, that the US Constitution is not a good model for other countries in 2012. As Jacoby points out, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia recently actually said that “[t]he bill of rights of the former ‘evil empire,’ the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was much better than ours,” without raising any such hackles. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/09/ilya-somin-ginsburg-and-scalia-on-foreign-constitutions/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/09/resolving-conflicting-legal-norms-between-us-and-foreign-courts-uva-symposium/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/09/resolving-conflicting-legal-norms-between-us-and-foreign-courts-uva-symposium/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:29:10 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=125218 symposium on how to resolve conflicting legal norms in US and foreign courts . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/09/resolving-conflicting-legal-norms-between-us-and-foreign-courts-uva-symposium/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/21/british-judges-uk-has-4-weeks-to-free-us-held-pakistani/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/21/british-judges-uk-has-4-weeks-to-free-us-held-pakistani/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:09:28 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=121421 News from The Associated Press: British judges Wednesday gave the government four weeks to obtain the release of a Pakistani man held in U.S. custody in Afghanistan - a ruling that could make for prickly discussions between Britain and the U.S. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/21/british-judges-uk-has-4-weeks-to-free-us-held-pakistani/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/28/legal-periodical-acculturation-through-the-middle-ages-the-islamic-law-of-nations-and-its-place-in-the-history-of-international-law/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/28/legal-periodical-acculturation-through-the-middle-ages-the-islamic-law-of-nations-and-its-place-in-the-history-of-international-law/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:21:57 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=119534 Acculturation Through the Middle Ages: The Islamic Law of Nations and its Place in the History of International Law (October 10, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1941775 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/28/legal-periodical-acculturation-through-the-middle-ages-the-islamic-law-of-nations-and-its-place-in-the-history-of-international-law/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/21/roger-kiska-at-european-parliament-press-conference-there-is-no-international-right-to-abortion/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/21/roger-kiska-at-european-parliament-press-conference-there-is-no-international-right-to-abortion/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:18:49 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=119118 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/21/roger-kiska-at-european-parliament-press-conference-there-is-no-international-right-to-abortion/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/international-conference-declares-%e2%80%98war%e2%80%99-on-culture-of-death-lifesitenews-com/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/international-conference-declares-%e2%80%98war%e2%80%99-on-culture-of-death-lifesitenews-com/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:54:21 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118436 LifeSiteNews.com: Speakers included HLI President Fr. Shenan Bouquet, Brazilian pro-life activists Fr. Paulo Ricardo de Azevedo and Fr. Lodi da Cruz, Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Piero Tozzi, Ecuador’s Fr. Juan Carlos Chavez, and LifeSiteNews’ Latin America Correspondent Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, among many others. It was organized by Felipe Nery, director of the St. Benedict School at the same monastery. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/14/international-conference-declares-%e2%80%98war%e2%80%99-on-culture-of-death-lifesitenews-com/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/video-piero-tozzi-speaks-at-human-life-international%e2%80%99s-second-international-congress-for-truth-and-life-in-brazil/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/video-piero-tozzi-speaks-at-human-life-international%e2%80%99s-second-international-congress-for-truth-and-life-in-brazil/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:00:33 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118385 Turtle Bay and Beyond – International Law, Policy, and Institutions has embedded the video. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/video-piero-tozzi-speaks-at-human-life-international%e2%80%99s-second-international-congress-for-truth-and-life-in-brazil/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/video-global-right-to-abortion-rejected-at-brazilian-pro-life-conference/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/video-global-right-to-abortion-rejected-at-brazilian-pro-life-conference/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:41:40 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118254 Catholic News Agency (CNA): “This is (the) strategy of the opposition – manipulate the truth by claiming that there is a global right to abortion and repeat it over and over again,” said Piero A. Tozzi, senior legal council at the Alliance Defense Fund, in a speech to Human Life International's Second International Congress for Truth and Life. “Repeated enough, perception becomes reality,” he warned, as he described the attempt to raise non-binding statements about abortion “rights” into “something that must be followed and obeyed.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/10/video-global-right-to-abortion-rejected-at-brazilian-pro-life-conference/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/american-expert-there-are-no-international-laws-that-guarantee-abortion-as-a-right/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/american-expert-there-are-no-international-laws-that-guarantee-abortion-as-a-right/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:00:04 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118180 Second Union News: (translated from Portuguese by Google) To counter what some pro-abortion groups that practice anti-life must be approved in Brazil because of international agreements that the woman's right to propose Dr. Piero Tozzi of the Alliance Defense Fund in the U.S., offered a lecture at the Second Congress Life for Justice and Human Life International in Sao Paulo this weekend, which ensured that there is no international law requiring the approval of abortion and that this is not a "right" reproductive. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/american-expert-there-are-no-international-laws-that-guarantee-abortion-as-a-right/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/26/piero-a-tozzi-meaning-relativism-pickled-herring-tyranny%e2%80%a6/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/26/piero-a-tozzi-meaning-relativism-pickled-herring-tyranny%e2%80%a6/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:02:24 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=116860 Piero A. Tozzi at Turtle Bay and Beyond – International Law, Policy, and Institutions: My colleague Susan Yoshihara recently posted on the browbeating Ireland has taken for its constitutional protection of unborn children during that country’s Universal Periodic Review. Norway – the “Pickled Herring” in the above caption – demanded that Ireland “bring its abortion laws in line with the [International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights].” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/26/piero-a-tozzi-meaning-relativism-pickled-herring-tyranny%e2%80%a6/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/european-court-opinion-u-s-airlines-must-buy-carbon-allowances/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/european-court-opinion-u-s-airlines-must-buy-carbon-allowances/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:05:21 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=115995 TriplePundit.com: Europe’s highest court released an opinion on October 6th, finding that the proposed mandatory inclusion of non-European based airlines in the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), is compatible with international law. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/european-court-opinion-u-s-airlines-must-buy-carbon-allowances/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/10/is-the-un-stamping-out-religious-freedom-in-poor-catholic-countries/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/10/is-the-un-stamping-out-religious-freedom-in-poor-catholic-countries/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:14:58 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=115852 Telegraph Blogs: The UN plumps for the rights of women over the rights of the unborn. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/10/is-the-un-stamping-out-religious-freedom-in-poor-catholic-countries/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/06/major-pro-life-legalscientific-document-launched-at-un-headquarters/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/06/major-pro-life-legalscientific-document-launched-at-un-headquarters/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:58:09 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=115596 C-Fam: It is commonplace now for UN officials and American law professors to tell foreign governments that they are required by international law to liberalize their abortion laws . . . Enter the San Jose Articles, which were launched today in the UN press briefing room at UN headquarters in New York. Professor Robert George told UN press and observers that the San Jose Articles were drafted for the purpose of helping government officials fight back against such assertions. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/06/major-pro-life-legalscientific-document-launched-at-un-headquarters/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/09/chile-pro-family-advocates-rally-to-support-embattled-father/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/09/chile-pro-family-advocates-rally-to-support-embattled-father/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:51:18 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=113086 Spero News: The IACHR concluded Chile’s courts impermissibly violated the American Convention on Human Rights by denying Atala custody because of her “sexual orientation.” The commission’s non-binding decision is now before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which has authority under the American Convention on Human Rights to issue binding rulings. On Sept. 8, the Alliance Defense Fund submitted a carefully-researched amicus legal brief to the Court detailing four fundamental flaws in the IACHR’s findings. [ADF brief quoted] ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/09/chile-pro-family-advocates-rally-to-support-embattled-father/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/18/international-tribunal-rules-that-u-s-courts-failed-mom-of-3-castle-rock-children-in-1999-case/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/18/international-tribunal-rules-that-u-s-courts-failed-mom-of-3-castle-rock-children-in-1999-case/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:54:11 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=111168 The Denver Post: In 2007, the ACLU filed the case with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a seven-member panel that issues opinions and recommendations, but has no legal authority to overturn the Supreme Court's decision. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/18/international-tribunal-rules-that-u-s-courts-failed-mom-of-3-castle-rock-children-in-1999-case/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/16/legal-periodical-international-law-%e2%80%93-vector-to-uniformization-of-legal-cultures/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/16/legal-periodical-international-law-%e2%80%93-vector-to-uniformization-of-legal-cultures/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:34:12 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=110957 International Law – Vector to Uniformization of Legal Cultures (May 1, 2010). Studii de Drept Românesc – Serie Nouă, Vol. 22, No. 55, 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1903974 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/16/legal-periodical-international-law-%e2%80%93-vector-to-uniformization-of-legal-cultures/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/05/latin-american-nations-pressured-by-europe-to-weaken-pro-life-laws/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/05/latin-american-nations-pressured-by-europe-to-weaken-pro-life-laws/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:26:47 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=110041 LifeNews.com: However, these assertions have no support in international law, either by treaty or custom. Piero Tozzi, a senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund told the Friday Fax, “No ‘right’ to abortion exists in international law. Consistent with international treaties and customary norms, nations can (and should) protect the unborn child. UN bodies and outside actors grossly exceed their competence when they demand that sovereign nations alter their domestic laws protecting the unborn, and states should categorically reject such unwarranted claims.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/08/05/latin-american-nations-pressured-by-europe-to-weaken-pro-life-laws/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/28/u-n-wants-to-make-abortion-a-human-right-for-10-year-olds/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/28/u-n-wants-to-make-abortion-a-human-right-for-10-year-olds/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:05:43 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=109378 CNS News on Fox Nation: Y-PEER, a youth initiative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has issued a call to make access to abortion and contraception an international human right for children as young as 10 years old. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/28/u-n-wants-to-make-abortion-a-human-right-for-10-year-olds/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/19/poland-abortion-ban-would-comply-with-international-law/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/19/poland-abortion-ban-would-comply-with-international-law/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:22:40 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=108456 LifeNews:In Poland, a nation-wide grassroots effort has lead to the proposal of bold, new legislation aimed at removing all exceptions to the country’s abortion laws thus protecting children from the moment of conception. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/19/poland-abortion-ban-would-comply-with-international-law/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/08/top-un-rights-official-says-us-breached-international-law-by-executing-mexican-humberto-leal/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/08/top-un-rights-official-says-us-breached-international-law-by-executing-mexican-humberto-leal/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:02:37 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=107868 The Washington Post: U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Friday the Texas execution of Humberto Leal “raises particular legal concerns,” including whether he had access to consular services and a fair trial. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/08/top-un-rights-official-says-us-breached-international-law-by-executing-mexican-humberto-leal/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/07/should-texas-execute-a-mexican-rick-perry-will-decide/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/07/should-texas-execute-a-mexican-rick-perry-will-decide/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:04:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=107777 The Atlantic: The case of a Mexican man scheduled to be executed on Thursday in Texas threatens to disrupt U.S. diplomatic relations abroad and creates a politically volatile dilemma for Republican Gov. Rick Perry, who is considering a run for president. Unless Perry or the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes to stay the execution, Texas plans to execute Humberto Leal Jr. at 6 p.m. Central Time for the 1994 murder of 16-year-old Adria Sauceda. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/07/07/should-texas-execute-a-mexican-rick-perry-will-decide/feed/ 0