Group 48 member and also AIUSA Country Specialist for Indonesia and Timor-Lesté, Max White recently spent one week in Washington DC visiting Congressional offices. Below is a summary of his visit. On December 3rd through 5th, we visited 12 US Representatives, one Senator, and two State Department Desk Officers. “We” were: Edmund McWilliams, Coordinator of [...]
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Legislative work on Indonesia and West Papua
Posted in Indonesia, Legislative Action on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
China RAN action – August 2008
Posted in China, Legislative Action, Regional Action Network, tagged Global Online Freedom Act on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
China Regional Action Network – August 2008 Global Online Freedom Act Concerns: Freedom of expression, imprisonment of prisoners of conscience Summary: In many countries, the Internet has given people unprecedented opportunities to communicate with each other and to learn about the outside world. But repressive governments are making Internet and technology companies allies in their [...]
Congressional letter for Indonesian Prisoners of Conscience
Posted in Indonesia, Legislative Action, tagged Filep Karma, Yusak Pakage on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Congressman Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island has sponsored a Congressional Letter addressed to the President of Indonesia regarding Filep Karma and Yusak Pakage, Amnesty International’s Prisoners of Conscience. PLEASE call your Representative and ask him or her to sign on to the letter – your rep can do so by contacting Daniel Murphy in Representative [...]
End Sexual Violence in Democratic Republic of Congo
Posted in Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Legislative Action on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been a “war against women” in which thousands of women and girls have been raped with the intent to destroy their families and communities. All parties to the conflict have committed this violence but an overwhelming number of these crimes have gone unpunished. Last [...]
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