Amid the growing human rights crisis in Nicaragua, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) recently chaired a bipartisan congressional hearing calling attention to the extreme political repression and incarceration of political opponents by President Daniel Ortega.
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Rep. Smith (R-NJ) announced that he will seek a recorded vote by the entire House of Representatives on his legislation to empower U.S. citizens with the right to sue China for its large-scale misrepresentation campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic, following vote by House Foreign Affairs Committee....
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Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) recently addressed the International Religious Freedom Summit, where he called attention to the urgent need to hold the Chinese Communist Party to account for its crime of genocide, persecution against religious believers and other ongoing egregious human rights violations.
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At a recent bipartisan human rights hearing, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) condemned the egregious genocide and other atrocities perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), calling upon the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to find a new host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics or face a boycott.
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Rep. Chris Smith, author of the landmark Trafficking Victims Protection Act and four other trafficking laws, and founder of the Human Trafficking Caucus, was the opening speaker at the 2021 Human Trafficking Conference held by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd and US Catholic Conference of Bishops.
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U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) spoke at the virtual rally held as part of a Day of Action Against Anti-Semitism, jointly coordinated by the Orthodox Union, Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, Jewish Federations of North America, Hadassah and other organizations on May 27, 2021.
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Rep. Chris Smith's (R-NJ) Belarus Democracy, Human Rights and Sovereignty Act was passed by the House of Representatives on Nov. 18, 2020, and was later included in the omnibus package passed by both houses Dec. 21-22. PHOTO: Smith with VOA reporter Daria Dieguts on Oct. 2, 2020 discuss the bill.
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Rep. Chris Smith calls on his colleagues to pass "Sami's Law," named after Samantha Josephson of Robbinsville, NJ, who was killed by a man posing as her Uber ride in 2019. Smith worked with the Josephson family to craft a bipartisan bill to improve ride-share safety.
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The atrocities and continuing threats to Nigerian peace and stability—especially to Christians under seemingly relentless attacks by radical Islamists—were at the core of testimony by State Department officials and human rights groups at a Dec. 17, 2020 hearing held by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ).
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Rep. Smith chaired a hearing in 2020 focused on the case of missing Bishop James Su Zhimin, who has endured 40 years in prison in China for exercising his universally-recognized human right of religious freedom. At the hearing, Smith openly asked President Xi Jinping: "Where is Bishop Su?" "
Learn MoreRep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) this week reintroduced Braeden’s Commission: Protect our Athletes from Exertional Heat Stroke (H.R. 4855)—bipartisan legislation named in honor of Braeden Bradforth, the college football player from Smith’s congressional district who died suddenly from exertional heat stroke following a team practice at a Kansas c... READ MORE
Marking this year’s World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), author of the landmark Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA - P.L. 106-386), today called on the United States and nations around the world to bolster and expand their efforts to combat the worldwide scourge of human trafficking and protect... READ MORE
By Jonathan D. Salant | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com As coronavirus-related travel restrictions subside, Americans wishing to travel overseas face a new hurdle: Their passports are expiring and a huge backlog of applications means it will take months to get new ones. The State Department’s website says to expect a wait of 18 weeks to rene... READ MORE
By Carly Baldwin, Patch Staff Robert Trionfo and his wife Eileen had been planning the Cancun trip since early spring. After living through the past seventeen months, all this Millstone Twp. couple wanted to do was take the entire family — their three kids, six grandchildren and various spouses, boyfriends/girlfriends, etc. — to Mexico i... READ MORE
Below are excerpts of opening remarks by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Ranking Member of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, at the bicameral, bipartisan congressional hearing held on Tuesday, July 27th on "Corporate Sponsorship of the 2022 Beijing Olympics." In 2018, Smith had written a letter to International Olympic Committee (... READ MORE
When pressed by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) at a bicameral, bipartisan congressional hearing today, representatives from corporate sponsors of the 2022 Winter Olympics refused to say that the Beijing Games—dubbed the “Genocide Olympics”—should be moved to a venue in another country due to the ongoing genocide and other egregious human rights... READ MORE