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40th Anniversary of the U.S. Helsinki Commission

May 26, 2016

Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, on June 3, 1976, U.S. President Gerald Ford signed into law a bill establishing the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, more commonly known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission. I bring this 40th anniversary next week to my colleagues’ attention today because the commission has played a particularly significant role […]

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Publications

U.S. HELSINKI COMMISSION DELEGATION TO BOSNIA-HERZEG...

Oct 26, 1994

The Commission delegation travelled to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo to assess the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina as the third winter of the conflict in that country approached. Specifically, the delegation was interested in local observations of the prospects for peace, international policies to enhance those prospects quickly and effectively, and the continuing humanitarian crisis that […]

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Hearings

Disability Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy

Sep 21, 1994

With passage of the American Disability Act (ADA) of 1990 the U.S. government established new legal standards to ensure unprecedented equality of opportunity to people with disabilities in this country. The U.S. Helsinki Commission largely influenced Russia and other OSCE member states to adapt similar language and policies to that of the ADA. The hearing […]

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2006
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Human Rights and Democratization in Romania

Jun 01, 1994

Romania’s ongoing journey toward democracy is generally viewed, even by the government of Romania, as slower and more circuitous than that of its neighbors. Romania has certainly had farther to go; Nicolae Ceausescu’s regime was the most repressive and demoralizing of the Warsaw Pact countries. Yet Romania’s gloomy distinctiveness carried into the post-Ceausescu era. The […]

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Hearings

Russia and its Neighbors

May 24, 1994

Dennis Deconcini (D-AZ) and other legislators discussed Russia’s relations with its neighboring countries. More specifically, concerning democratic reform, the hearing contrasted the economic criteria of privatization, the rate of inflation, currency emission, and subsidies to enterprises with Moscow’s policies vis-à-vis its neighbors. Of course, Russia’s neighbors are referred to as the New Independent States, and, […]

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1998
Hearings

Bosnia’s Second Winter Siege

Feb 08, 1994

After two years of genocide and starvation and despite the best efforts of Western Europe and the United States, the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina has not ended. A robust discussion on the best policies toward Bosnia-Herzegovina the United States should implement will ensue.

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Hearings

The Current State and Future Prospects of Democracy ...

Nov 03, 1993

As its name suggests, this hearing, which Steny H. Hoyer presided over, dealt with the prospect for the implementation of democratic institutions in the former Soviet Union. In addition, though, part of the hearing focused on the Russian legislature’s dissolution after the presidency of Mikhail Gorbachev (i.e. post-Communism), as well as, of course, Russia and […]

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1998
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THE FATE OF THE PEOPLE OF BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA –...

Oct 23, 1993

President of Intertect Relief and Reconstruction Corp, Frederick Cuny, and former special envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, José Maria Mendiluce, gave testimony in front of the U.S. Helsinki Commission in regards to the civilian populations of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In their testimony, each witness covered the humanitarian efforts on the ground and its effects […]

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1996
Hearings

THE FATE OF THE PEOPLE OF BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA- PART 2

Oct 21, 1993

President of Intertect Relief and Reconstruction Corp, Frederick Cuny, and former special envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, José Maria Mendiluce, gave testimony in front of the U.S. Helsinki Commission in regards to the civilian populations of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In their testimony, each witness covered the humanitarian efforts on the ground and its effects […]

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1993
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Ethnic Violence in Trans-Caucasia

Aug 11, 1993

Chairman Dennis DeConcini addressed rising ethnic violence in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia and emphasized this region as more violent than other post-Soviet states. He referred to the continuing violence in Abkhazia, a separatist region in Georgia, and the rising concerns about further deterioration of stability in the region and Russia’s role in the conflict. Witnesses […]

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Hearings

The Yugoslavia Conflict: Potential for Spillover in ...

Jul 21, 1993

This hearing reviewed the potential for spillover in the Yugoslav conflict. In particular, the hearing examined the aggression in Bosnia- Herzegovina and the possible effects of this on its own ethnic communities and on those of neighboring countries. The economic decline that followed the disintegration of Yugoslavia provided additional hardships for the large refugee population […]

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Human Rights Policy Under the New Administration

Jun 10, 1993

The purpose of this hearing was to examine the euphoria of the post-Cold War age in regards to the lack of confidence and political drive on how to promote commitments made in the Charter of Paris agreement. The hearing reviewed the actions made in the Balkans and Serbia’s continual territorial aggression and also developed democratic […]

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