"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." --Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Many of the students board at the school for fear of being of forced into child marriages if they remained in their villages. Here they receive nutrit...
Congressman Jim McGovern investigates human rights abuses, environmental abuses and the refugee crisis in the Amazon basin of Ecuador.
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Congressman McGovern joined other lawmakers and activists in getting arrested outside Sudan's Embassy to protest the humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
Rep. Frank Wolf meets with refugees at Camp Yida, South Sudan who fled the aerial bombing and violent attacks in Sudan.
This woman's village had been destroyed by Sudanese Janjaweed and her husband killed before her eyes; she does not know what happened to her children.
Congressmen Frank Wolf and Chris Smith present a list of Chinese political prisoners at a press conference in Beijing.
Congressmen Frank Wolf and Joseph Pitts meet with members of the Ninewa Provincial Council in Iraq.
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