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Witnesses testified at an emergency hearing on recent developments concerning Chinese blind dissident Chen Guangcheng, who escaped from his 19 month house arrest to the U.S. Embassy in…

The wives of Chinese dissidents testified on their husbands' stories before the commission on China’s human rights abuses. Geng Ho detailed some of the horrific abuses endured by her…

Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) talked about his new memoir, Prisoner of Conscience: One Man’s Crusade for Global Human and Religious Rights, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic…

Representatives Chris Smith and Frank Wolf led a news conference on human rights in China. Former Chinese political prisoners and human rights activists talked about various issues,…

Witnesses testified about the Tienanmen Square crackdown in 1989. They talked about the events leading up to the crackdown, the actual crackdown, and the trends of human rights and…

A bipartisan conference was held on “Human Rights: Uncommon Leadership for Common Values.” Participants discussed aiding the disadvantage through bipartisan leadership and the mobilization from all sectors…

Witnesses testified about human rights violations in Cuba. Among the topics they addressed were treatment of dissidents and journalists, the Cuban justice system, and recent implementation…

At an international conference held at the State Department, Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) talked about efforts to end trafficking in persons and strategies to improve human rights.

Participants talked about their investigative trip to Sierra Leone where they toured diamond mines to survey human rights abuses. They focused on the human abuses by military operations…

The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and the House Select Committee on Hunger held a joint committee hearing on the continuing famine and violence occurring in the horn of Africa. The…

Rep. Wolf, who recently returned from China, discussed human rights and religious freedom in China. He delivered a letter from 110 U.S. congressmen to the premier of China asking him to…

The Helsinki Commission, known as the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, held a conference entitled "The New and Improved Supreme Soviet and the Institutionalization of Human…