The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) commends the Obama administration for expeditiously signing the bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which includes the bill to reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). AALDEF’s Anti-Trafficking In...
New Report Launch: NYPD Spying and its Impact on American Muslims
_Press Conference March 11, 2013 _at 1 Police Plaza
New York, NY – On March 11, 2013, members of the American Muslim community will release findings from a ground-breaking new report, Mapping Muslims: NYPD Spying and its Impact on...
February 28, 2013 — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) released detailed findings from its nonpartisan multilingual exit poll of 361 Asian American voters in Georgia in the November 2012 elections, the largest survey of its kind in the nation. The results indicated t...
February 26, 2013 — On Thursday, February 28 in Atlanta, Georgia, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will release detailed findings on Asian American voters in Georgia in the 2012 Presidential Election. The results will be presented as part of the Advocacy Training Panel at...
February 20, 2013 – Congressman John Lewis, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Georgia), Jose Antonio Vargas of Define American, and Simone Wu of Choice Hotels International, Inc. were honored with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s (AALDEF) 2013 Justice in Action Awar...
Congressman John Lewis, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Simone Wu to Receive 2013 Justice in Action Awards Featuring Rep. Grace Meng, David Henry Hwang, Gordon Smith, Juju Chang, and Sree Sreenivasan
New York, NY — On Tuesday, February 19, 2013, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)...
Civil Rights Advocates Discuss Why African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans Must Defend Their Right to Vote Before the Supreme Court
The right to vote is a fundamental American value that must be protected. For generations, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) has provided protections to ensure that ...
Yesterday, the NYC Districting Commission released its final redistricting plan, the “February 6 Plan,” for NYC Council. The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), which jointly proposed the NYC Council Unity Map with a multiracial coalition of civil rights groups, is disappoint...
Section 5 ensures new rules do not discriminate against or disenfranchise minority voters; allows enforcement by U.S. Department of Justice
Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), member of the Asian American Center for Advan...
Today, President Obama endorsed several provisions of comprehensive “common-sense” immigration reform offered yesterday by a bipartisan group of eight senators. We commend the President and members of the Senate for taking action to fix our broken immigration system.
The Asian American Legal Defe...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) filed an amici curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, challenging the legality of Arizona’s Proposition 200, the state’s new restrictive voter registration law. AALDEF contends that Proposit...
AALDEF’s Multilingual Exit Poll of 9,096 Asian Americans in 14 States Reveals Voting Preferences, Party Affiliation, Key Issues of Concern, and Need for Language Assistance
January 17, 2013 — Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) released detailed findings from its non...
On Thursday, January 17 in Washington, DC, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will release detailed findings from its 14-state multilingual exit poll of 9,096 Asian American voters in the November 2012 presidential elections.
The briefing will take place at 11AM — 12 Noon....
In 2004, Arizona voters adopted Proposition 200, which requires voters to present documentary proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote. Proposition 200 requires new voter registration applicants to present a U.S. birth certificate, passport, or naturalization certificate. (Other docum...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) is urging the Supreme Court to review a Second Circuit statute of limitations holding in a discrimination lawsuit filed by the Asian Jade Society on behalf of Asian American Port Authority officers in New York and New Jersey. The lawsuit ...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) announced that Filipina immigrant worker Elizabeth Ballesteros, represented by AALDEF’s Anti-Trafficking Initiative, has been awarded $1.2 million in damages in a human trafficking civil suit against Colonel Arif Mohamed Saeed Mohamed Al-...
A Caribbean immigrant of South Asian descent, “Sarah,” represented by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), recently reached a settlement with her former employers, a Long Island couple who paid her as little as $2 dollars an hour to work as a live-in housekeeper and nanny fo...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, along with other anti-trafficking advocacy organizations, submitted an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs in ACLU of Massachusetts v. Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). USCCB, a subcontractor for the Departme...
This morning, the NYC Districting Commission withdrew the proposed NYC Council redistricting plan that it submitted to the NYC Council on November 16, 2012. The Commission then unexpectedly voted on two changes to the map, an alteration to the Brooklyn districts 34 and 37, involved with the Vito Lop...
This evening, the New York City Council Districting Commission released its proposed map for new NYC Council district lines to the City Council for approval. The Commission announced that the map would be submitted directly to NYC Council, without further hearings.
On August 30, 2012, the Asian Am...
