Press Release Archives for March, 2009

Center For Inquiry Condemns UN Resolution on “Defamation of Religions”

March 27, 2009

UN Human Rights Council statement prepares the way for international criminalization of religiously offensive speech

March 26, 2009 (New York)—The United Nations Human Rights Council has handed another victory to Islamic states in their decade-long push to limit freedom of expression out of “respect” for religious beliefs. …Full Release »

Center for Inquiry Applauds Stem Cell Funding Reversal

March 09, 2009

CFI Lends Support To Memorandum Assuring Scientific Integrity

The Center for Inquiry (CFI), a secularist think tank and leading advocate of embryonic stem cell research, applauds President Barack Obama’s executive order reversing the eight-year-old ban on federal research funding for stem cell lines created after August 2001. …Full Release »