Who We Need To Defend Us.

[SudieJD]

This my friends, is Barry Fisher. A true Human Rights Attorney. I met Mr. Fisher while working on Roma rights in America. I am a Hungarian Roma (Gypsy).

Mr. Fisher site is: http://www.freedommag.org/english/vol29I4/page36.htm

Fisher, a 1968 UCLA graduate, today is a member of the same small Century City law firm he helped found 20 years ago. But his other past and present titles, awards and capacities in which he has served say much more about his life’s work: He is the Senior Vice President of Human Rights Advocates International, an international public interest law firm; Vice Chairman of the First Amendment Committee of the American Bar Association and Chairman of its Religious Freedom Subcommittee; Consultant to the American Bar Association’s Central and East European Law Institution; Fellow of the International Academy for Freedom of Religion and Belief; Delegate to the 1993 UNESCO—United Nations Conference on the Implementation of the Vienna Declaration of Human Rights; Speaker and Working Subcommittee member of the 9th Circuit United States Court of Appeals’ Conference on Race Ethnicity and Religion; and many others, past and present.

He has assisted in drafting constitutions and legislation for numerous foreign nations and authored or co-authored numerous studies, articles and papers in publications including Law and the American Indian and Devotion, Damages and Deprogramming: Strategies and Counter-Strategies in the Cult Wars. Fisher and his partners have been counsel on nearly 300 reported state and federal cases, including a dozen before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Fisher, now 53, has focused his practice and his life on the establishment and free exercise clauses of the First Amendment. The National Council of Churches has called him one of the “top two dozen” First Amendment experts in the nation. Fisher notes that while larger, more orthodox beliefs in the United States can generally take their right to exist for granted, smaller religions must be constantly vigilant.


In America and abroad, the work of Barry Fisher (above, far right, at a symposium on German intolerance) has had a common thread: championing religious freedom and tolerance.


If anyone can help, he can.


Sudie in MN

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