Alliance Defending Freedom International (ADF International) is the global arm of the U.S.-based Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a conservative Christian nonprofit legal advocacy organization founded in 1993. Established around 2010, ADF International operates primarily from Vienna, Austria, as ADF International Austria gemeinnützige GmbH (commercial register FN 460299k), with affiliates in countries including Belgium (ADF International Belgium), Germany (ADF International Deutschland), France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and India (ADF India, est. 2012). In 2023, a separate ADF International entity was incorporated in Virginia, USA, as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It maintains a full-time presence at key international bodies, including the United Nations (accredited to ECOSOC), European Court of Human Rights, European Parliament, Organization of American States (OAS), and OSCE, and works with local partners for national-level advocacy. The organization engages in litigation, policy advocacy, training, and funding to promote religious freedom, free speech, sanctity of life, marriage and family, and parental rights, with ties to the Vatican and conservative Catholic movements. By 2015, it reported involvement in over 500 cases across tribunals in the U.S., Argentina, Honduras, India, Mexico, Peru, EU Court, and Inter-American Court of Human Rights; by 2017, 580 ongoing matters in 51 countries. Its worldwide budget was $11.5 million in 2020–2021. It has secured wins at the European Court of Human Rights and lobbies on issues like Christian persecution in Iraq and Myanmar. The organization adheres to a Christian statement of faith based on the Apostles’ Creed. Notable figures include Paul Coleman (executive director) and ties to conservative leaders like former Australian PM Tony Abbott. ADF International has faced criticism for its opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, same-sex marriage, transgender rights, and abortion, with allegations of promoting anti-LGBTQ legislation in over 70 countries and supporting efforts against conversion therapy bans. Critics, including the Southern Poverty Law Center (which ADF disputes as mischaracterizing it as a hate group), highlight its founders' history of equating homosexuality with pedophilia and advocating reparative therapy. It played a role in global conservative causes, including drafting Mississippi's Gestational Age Act central to the U.S. Dobbs v. Jackson case overturning Roe v. Wade.