The powerful House International Relations Committee today adopted an amendment to the foreign operations authorization bill that aims to eliminate anti-Semitic messages and references from United Nations-sponsored education programs (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees. Read more

The House International Relations Committee today held a rare recess hearing calling on Cuban President Fidel Castro to free scores of human rights activists recently sentenced to draconian jail terms because of their pro-democracy views. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith, Vice Chairman of the House Committee on International Relations, today fought on the House floor to secure passage of a resolution condemning the regime of Fidel Castro in Cuba for its gross violations of human rights. Read more

The House International Relations Committee Europe Subcommittee today approved Vice Chairman Chris Smith’s (NJ-4) Belarus Democracy Act of 2003. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith, Vice Chairman of the House Committee on International Relations, has been joined by 30 bipartisan colleagues in reintroducing the Vietnam Human Rights Act today. Read more

The House International Relations Committee today passed a $15 billion AIDS bill that contains a key amendment authored by Vice Chairman Chris Smith that would bar any of the money in the bill from going to organizations that do not have policies opposing sex trafficking and prostitution. Smith, who wrote the nation’s first comprehensive law to address human trafficking and the sex slave industry, hailed the amendment as a win for human rights. “My amendment approved today addresses two of the m... Read more

The House of Representatives today passed legislation authored by Congressman Chris Smith that would expand the United State’s commitment to the peace process in Northern Ireland by authorizing $50 million over two years for the International Fund for Ireland. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith’s legislation that would help the poor – especially women – in developing nations obtain small business loans to improve their lives passed the International Relations Committee and was put on a fast track today. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-4) made the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decisions today regarding Internet Sex Offender Registries. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith, Vice Chairman of the House Committee on International Relations and the author of the first comprehensive U.S. law to address human trafficking, delivered the following remarks as the keynote speaker of the first International Conference on Trafficking, attended by delegates from more than 120 nations. Following are Rep. Smith’s remarks: Read more