According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, human trafficking, the subject of our hearing today, is the world’s fastest-growing international organized crime.It is also one of the...
Rendition to Torture: The Case of Maher Arar
Crisis in Burma: Can the U.S. Bring about a Peaceful Resolution?
Lantos Announces Tough New Sanctions to Halt Imports of Burmese Gemstones
Washington, DC – Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, announced today that he will introduce sanctions designed to pressure the military junta currently...
Remarks of Chairman Lantos at the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony for His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama
Almost a quarter century ago, my wife, Annette, and I were in Nepal where we met the Tibetan community. And it was through their passionate commitment to this incredible man of peace that Annette...
Committee Asks Yahoo! Executives to Testify About False Information Given to Congress in China Human Rights Case
Washington, DC – The House Foreign Affairs Committee today asked top officials of Yahoo! Inc. to testify at a hearing on how the Internet company gave false information to Congress about its role in...
Lantos Lauds Nobel Laureates Al Gore and United Nations Authorities on Climate Change
October 12, 2007Lantos Lauds Nobel Laureates Al Gore and United Nations Authorities on Climate ChangeWashington, DC – Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign...
Opening Statement by Chairman Lantos at markup of H. Res. 106
October 10, 2007Verbatim, as deliveredToday we are not considering whether the Armenian people were persecuted and died in huge numbers at the hands of Ottoman troops in the early 20th Century....