On March 2, 2016, renowned environmental and Indigenous rights activist, Berta Cáceres, was viciously murdered in her home in Honduras. Today, Honduras has one of the highest murder rates in the world and remains one of the most dangerous places for activists.
Closely connected with this crisis is the deep corruption of its military and police forces – both of which have been accused of committing human rights abuses while facing no consequences.
Please join the International Workers’ Rights Caucus, which will serve as a voice for millions of working people around the globe. Through the Caucus, we will raise awareness of worker exploitation and promote the enforcement of labor rights internationally.
By now, you should have received an invitation to attend a briefing, “The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), how it has been misused to undermine civil rights, and the need to pass H.R. 1450, the Do No Harm Act,” from the American Civil Liberties
Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the Human Rights Campaign, and the National LGBTQ Task Force. The briefing will take place
June 20 at 2PM in Rayburn 2261.
In August 2017, the Burmese military and security forces perpetrated grave human rights abuses and unthinkable violence against ethnic Rohingya civilians in Burma’s Rakhine state. Since that time, over 740,000 Rohingya refugees, 80% of whom are women and
children, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh where they are tightly packed into one of the world’s largest refugee camps, facing extremely precarious circumstances. Almost 2 years after this crisis began, Bangladesh and the international community continue
to respond to this ongoing humanitarian crisis, while the military leaders in Burma have not been held accountable for their heinous crimes against humanity.
Please join me as an original cosponsor of the
LGBT Data Inclusion Act, a bill that would improve our Federal population surveys by requiring the collection of voluntary, self-disclosed information on sexual orientation and gender identity in certain federal surveys, including the Census.
I invite you to cosponsor H.R. 3018, the Ensuring Equal Access to Shelter Act, which would block the Trump administration’s recently announced proposal to rollback protections under the Equal Access Rule for transgender individuals seeking safe shelter.
I invite you to join me in urging a just resolution for Michael Nguyen and requesting that he be reunited with his wife and four daughters as soon as possible.
I invite you to become an original cosponsor of a bill to mint commemorative coins in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the integration of baseball.
I invite you to become an original sponsor of a House Resolution “Commemorating Juneteenth
which will be introduced this year on June 19, 2019, the 154th anniversary of the announcement of this year’s observance of Juneteenth.”
As representatives of the United States government, we have a solemn duty to protect the rights and civil liberties of our citizens.
The Terrorist Screening Database (TDSB, or “terrorist watchlist”) is shared with over 60 foreign governments, with no accountability or oversight over the way those governments use the information. An FBI official has acknowledged in sworn testimony that
it has never stopped disseminating watchlist information to a foreign government as a result of that government’s human rights abuses.