Press Releases
May 3, 2011
TLHRC Co-Chairs Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) and James P. McGovern (D-MA) join organizations around the world to commemorate World Press Freedom Day and urge strong global support for media freedom.
April 27, 2011
TLHRC Co-Chairmen Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) and James P. McGovern (D-MA) send a letter to Secretary Clinton and Secretary Geithner urging them to raise human rights in the annual Strategic and Economic Dialogue with China.
April 11, 2011
TLHRC Co-Chairs Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) and James P. McGovern (D-MA) send a letter to Secretary Clinton calling for the U.S. to support the creation of an independent and impartial human rights monitoring body in Western Sahara.
February 1, 2011
TLHRC Co-Chairs Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) and James P. McGovern (D-MA) send a letter to President Obama expressing concern about the recent attacks by Egyptian security forces against peaceful demonstrators and persecution against religious minorities, including Coptic Christians and Baha'is.
January 27, 2011
TLHRC Co-Chairs James P. McGovern (D-MA) and Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) urge Secretary Clinton to appoint U.S. embassy personnel dedicated solely to handle religious freedom issues in Baghdad, Iraq and Cairo, Egypt.
October 4, 2010
TLHRC Co-Chairs Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) and James P. McGovern (D-MA) called upon President Obama to raise the cases of two detained Chinese human rights defenders, Liu Xiaobo and Gao Zhisheng, to Chinese President Hu Jintao during the G-20 Summit in Seoul, South Korea.
August 26, 2010
Co-Chair McGovern commends the U.S. Human Rights Report to the UN, but calls for improvements in areas of hunger and malnutrition.
December 8, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Reps. Frank R. Wolf and James P. McGovern, Co-Chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, and four other Members of Congress released a letter to President Barack Obama requesting that he meet with left-behind parents whose children are victims of international parental child abduction.
February 25, 2009
Co-Chair McGovern recognizes the merits of the State Department's Annual Human Rights Report under Secretary Clinton's leadership and urged full recognition of human rights.
February 17, 2009
Commissioners call upon the President of Sri Lanka to protect the civilian population caught in between internal conflict.