New York—As the push to renew the Voting Rights Act intensifies, hundreds of voters and activists from the Tri-State area gathered today at the SEIUs Local 32BJ to discuss the need to stop key provisions of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) from expiring, and underscore the critical role those protections...
Dear Friends,
We are asking for your support for the Justice for Jiang Zhenxing Campaign.
The Justice for Jiang Zhenxing Campaign believes that every human being is entitled to human rights and that current current Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) practices have shown utter disregard for ...
Downtown Residents and Office Workers, 9/11 Environmental Action, WTC Residents Coalition, and Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Call on Newly Appointed Federal 9/11 Health Czar for Monitoring and Treatment of WTC-Related Illnesses
New York, NY—Today, New Yorkers sick from their 9/11-...
New York, NY—The civil rights group Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) joined residents, advocates, and workers today in testifying before the New York City Council regarding critical defects in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s proposed final Test and Clean Program f...
New York—More than 850 friends, both old and new, joined the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) on Thursday, Feb. 2nd to usher in the Year of the Dog 4704 at its annual Lunar New Year Gala at PIER SIXTY, Chelsea Piers. Table by table, guests leapt to their feet three times this...
Case of Waheed Saleh Asserts First Amendment “Right to Petition” in NYPD’s Enforcement of Immigration Laws
New York—The Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund (AALDEF) today filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York asserting that the First Amendment right ...
New York Times, February 7, 2006
“Saying they were fed up after ‘many years of frustration’ in dealing with the New York City Board of Elections, four Asian-American voters’ organizations filed a federal lawsuit yesterday to force the board to provide properly translated voting materials and the re...
Cites Nearly a Decade of Violations of the Act’s Language Assistance Provisions
New York—In federal court today in Manhattan, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), along with pro bono co-counsel Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, filed a lawsuit against the New York City Board of E...
Boston, MA—The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 32-year-old civil rights organization, released detailed findings today from its multilingual exit poll of Asian American voters in the 2005 city council elections in Massachusetts.
Approximately 300 Asian American voters pa...
The Korean Workers Project, a collaboration between the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and YKASECEmpowering the Korean American Community, announced today a back-wage settlement of $17,500 on behalf of a former nail salon worker from Flushing, Queens.
AALDEF Attorney Steve...
New York—The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 31-year-old civil rights organization that provides immigrant workers with legal advice and representation, reminds workers and business owners that the minimum wage in New York State has increased from $6.00 per hour to $6.75 ...
A Publication of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and the National Employment Law Project (NELP), and revised by NELP in 2006
The purpose of this handbook is to help domestic workers protect themselves within the context of existing employment laws. While the laws do not...
New York—The Korean Workers Project, a collaboration between the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and YKASEC Empowering Korean Communities, today demanded payment on behalf of 13 cooks, waitresses, waiters, busboys, and other workers at the Queens restaurant Seoul Plaza and Y...
New York—On Tuesday, December 13, residents, workers, environmentalists and community advocates will head into the final panel meeting of the EPA’s WTC Expert Panel to denounce the EPA’s WTC test and clean program. The EPA will come under heavy criticism for the rigged program, which the WTC Communi...
Federal Judge Awards Full $71,000 in Back Wages and Damages
New York—In a precedent-setting decision released yesterday, federal court Judge Leonard B. Sand ruled in favor of immigrant worker Doo Nam Yang, and ordered Yang’s former employer—jewelry company ACBL Corp. of Manhattan—to pay the full cl...
Urges Communities to Use AALDEF Hotline for Survivors in Need of Assistance
New York—The Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund (AALDEF) announced the filing of its first T Visa petition yesterday on behalf of Sara, a trafficking survivor, under the civil rights groups newly launched Anti-Tr...
Monitors Document Concerns in NY, NJ, and MA
New York, NY—More than 275 volunteers from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and a coalition of Asian American advocacy groups monitored yesterdays elections at approximately 80 poll sites in New York, New Jersey, and Massachus...
New York—The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) this week urged Congress to reauthorize and expand Language Assistance Provisions under Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act. The historic federal provisions require that certain jurisdictions guarantee translated voting materials...
AALDEF Backgrounder on the Voting Rights Act in English, Chinese, Khmer, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has the prepared the following backgrounder on the Section 203 language access provisions of the Voting Rights Act. Click to download:
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New York—Mr. C, a waiter from Bangladesh and a client of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), won a major victory against a prominent downtown Manhattan Indian restaurant recently, receiving $75,000 to settle his claim for back wages he was owed for years of 70-hour weeks wi...
