In response to the release of the State Department’s annual International Religious Freedom Report, Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) expressed concern about the administration’s failure to prioritize religious freedom in the face of extreme abuse, as well as its refusal to condition aid on improvements in religious freedom. Covering nearly every country of the world, the International Religious Freedom Report was mandated by Congress to document religious freedom violations so that the U.S. government c... Read more

A bill addressing the plight of American children and desperate left behind parents who are victims of international child abduction to Japan passed the House of Representatives with overwhelming support today. Read more

The World Cup has drawn global attention to South Africa, but the House of Representatives took the occasion to bring some light to the dark world of the trafficking of women and children who can be victimized in large sporting venues. Read more

Congressmen Chris Smith (NJ-04) and Jim Moran (VA-08) today unveiled a bipartisan resolution focused on Japan that calls on the Asian nation to address the increasing problem of international parental child abduction and the sorrow and frustration suffered by the parents left behind. Read more

Congressmen Chris Smith (NJ-04) and Frank Wolf (VA-10) met with a group of leading human rights advocates Friday to discuss the importance of Internet freedom. The human rights advocates have endorsed Smith’s bill, the Global Online Freedom Act (GOFA), H.R. 2271, and discussed actions to promote the bill. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith painted a grim picture of human rights abuse in China, Cuba, Sudan, Vietnam and other nations, and called for increased U.S. pressure to bring about changes in the lives of human rights victims. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith and Congresswoman Kay Granger, co-chairs of the Congressional Human Trafficking Caucus, today asked the U.S. Attroney Genteral Eric Holder to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now’s (ACORN) activities, including possible involvement with actual sex trafficking ventures. Read more

Congressman Smith, a senior Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Ranking Member on the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, today called on free people every where to reject China’s self-aggrandizing “celebrations” of its 60 years of Communist rule. Read more

Left behind parents from across the country joined Rep. Smith (NJ-4th) and Frank Wolf (VA-10) at a press conference today to unveil the “International Child Abduction Prevention Act of 2009” in front of the U.S. Capitol Building. Read more

U.S. Rep. Smith has been re-appointed by the President of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), also called the Helsinki Commission, as the OSCE’s Special Representative on Human Trafficking. Read more