House Hearing Seeks Paths to Ease Strife in Mali & Sahel Region of Africa May 21, 2013  - Ongoing terrorist attacks, reconciling ethnic groups and other challenges to finding how a lasting peace might be achieved in Mali and the rest of the Sahel region were the topics of a hearing held Tuesday by Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04), Chairman of the House congressional panel that oversees Af... More

Actor Sean Penn Testifies before Congressional Panel on Jacob Ostreicher Case May 20, 2013  - The quest for justice and freedom for Jacob Ostreicher, an American businessman imprisoned without formal charges for 20 months in Bolivia, continued at a hearing today where American actor and activist Sean Penn came before the human rights subcommittee chaired by Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04), a... More

Hearing Set for Monday, May 20 @ 3 p.m.Actor Sean Penn to Testify before House Panel on American Trapped in Bolivia May 17, 2013  - The long, ongoing struggle of Jacob Ostreicher, an American businessman detained for nearly two years in Bolivia without formal charges, will be the focus of a congressional hearing Monday held by Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04), chairman of the House panel that oversees international human rights. ... More

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