Since 2013, Helsinki Commission Co-Chairman Chris Smith has chaired 10 hearings -- in either the Helsinki Commission or the House Foreign Affairs Committee subcommittee that he chairs -- on atrocities driving refugees into the OSCE region.

• Hearing: Iraq and Syria Genocide Emergency Relief and Accountability (October 3,2017)
• Hearing: Atrocities in Iraq and Syria: Relief for Survivors and Accountability for Perpetrators (September 22, 2016)
• Hearing: The Global Religious Freedom Crisis and Its Challenge to U.S. Foreign Policy (June 16, 2016)
• Hearing: The ISIS Genocide Declaration: What Next? (May 26, 2016)
• Hearing: Fulfilling the Humanitarian Imperative: Assisting Victims of ISIS Violence (December 9, 2015)
• Hearing: The Global Crisis of Religious Freedom (October 27, 2015)
• Hearing: The Syrian Humanitarian Crisis: Four Years Later and No End in Sight (February 12, 2015)
• Hearing: Genocidal Attacks against Christian and Other Religious Minorities in Syria and Iraq (September 10, 2014)   
• Hearing: Establishing a Syrian War Crimes Tribunal? (September 30, 2013)
• Hearing: Religious Minorities in Syria: Caught in the Middle (June 25, 2013)