Title

Implementation Of The Helsinki Accords Vol. VIII – U.S. Compliance: Human Rights

Tuesday, April 03, 1979
10:00am
1202 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC
United States
Members: 
Name: 
Hon. Clairborne Pell
Title Text: 
Co-Chairman
Body: 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name: 
Hon. Jacob Javits
Title Text: 
Commissioner
Body: 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name: 
Hon. Jonathan Bingham
Title Text: 
Commissioner
Body: 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name: 
Hon. John Buchanan
Title Text: 
Commissioner
Body: 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name: 
Hon. Millicent Fenwick
Title Text: 
Commissioner
Body: 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Witnesses: 
Name: 
Peter Bell
Title: 
Deputy Undersecretary
Body: 
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Name: 
Louis Nunez
Title: 
Staff Director
Body: 
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Name: 
Sarah Weddington
Title: 
Special Assistant to the President
Body: 
White House
Name: 
Ray Marshall
Title: 
Secretary
Body: 
Department of Labor
Name: 
John Huerta
Title: 
Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
Body: 
Department of Justice
Name: 
Robert Bernstein
Title: 
Chairman
Body: 
Helsinki WATCH
Name: 
John Carey
Title: 
Chairman
Body: 
Helsinki WATCH Subcommittee on Domestic Compliance
Name: 
Brent Simons
Title: 
Staff Attorney
Body: 
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Name: 
Phyllis Segal
Title: 
Legal Director
Body: 
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund
Name: 
Gilbert Padilla
Title: 
Secretary-Treasurer
Body: 
United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO
Name: 
Amy Young-Anawaty
Title: 
Executive Director
Body: 
International Human Rights Law Group
Name: 
Morton Sklar
Title: 
Chairman
Body: 
Washington Helsinki WATCH Committee for the United States
Name: 
Dale Swartz
Title: 
Director
Body: 
Alien Rights Law Project of Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Name: 
Robert T. Coulter
Title: 
Executive Director
Body: 
Indian Law Resource Center
Name: 
Maudine Cooper
Title: 
Assistant Vice-President for Public Policy
Body: 
National Urban League
Name: 
Alvin Bronstein
Title: 
Executive Director
Body: 
American Civil Liberties Union, National Prison Project
Name: 
Ted Mitchell
Title: 
Executive Director
Body: 
Micronesia Legal Services Corporation.

Commissioner Claiborne Pell and others in attendance, in this series of hearings, looked at their own country’s record on the Helsinki Final Act of 1975. This hearing signified the first time that a state belonging to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), or the “Conference,” had looked at its own record in such a manner, taking into account criticism by other signatories and private domestic monitoring groups, no less.

This series of hearings’ purpose was to ascertain progress accomplished, learn what more needs to be achieved, and proclaim a reaffirmation of the U.S. commitment to the Helsinki Final Act’s full implementation.