Tom Lantos

U.S. Reps. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Frank Wolf (R-VA), co-chairs of the House Human Rights Caucus, today hailed House passage of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Establishment Act. The bill, House Resolution 1451, institutionalizes the Human Rights panel as a Commission established by an act...  

The human rights community mourns the loss of Tom Lantos, an extraordinary human rights leader and unwavering advocate for fundamental rights. As the executive directors of the 12 organizations that form the Human Rights Leadership Coalition, we are ...  

The Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights applauds the landmark action to create the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission within the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  

The Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights applauds the landmark action to create the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission within the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  

"The Tom Lantos Commission will elevate human rights in US law and policy," said E. Robert Goodkind, chair of the Jacob Blaustein Institute, AJC's principal ...  

Tom Lantos, acknowledged by state Sen. Leland Yee as the "heart and soul" of the effort. "(Lantos) made sure everyone in the state Legislature knew the ...  

Feb. 11: Rep. Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in Congress, has died. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports. WASHINGTON - Rep. Tom Lantos, who as a teenager twice escaped from a Nazi-run forced labor camp in Hungary and ...  

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He emphasized his personal links to the late Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor who later became a US congressman from California. Lantos, who died earlier ...  

President Bush walks off stage with Annette Lantos , the widow of Rep. Tom Lantos, on Wednesday after signing the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and ...  

One of her former pupils, Annette Lantos, the wife of US Senator Tom Lantos, formed the US Congressional Human Rights Caucus in memory of the Scottish ...  

The procession will go to Granite Falls and travel past the Veterans Memorial and Yellow Medicine East High School before halting at the Wing-Bain Funeral Home.  

Congressman Tom Lantos was on CNN's Lou Dobbs tonight promising to carry Bush's catastrophic foreign policy sword against Venezuela and Iran. That Lantos, an unapologetic, unwavering supporter of Israeli's conservative government is threatening Iran isn't surprising. But he may be biting off...  

The US Customs & Border Protection has issued its first phase of enforcing the “Tom Lantos Block Burmese JADE Act of 2008.” Phase one includes detailed ...