Working for a Peaceful World
Washington, D.C. -- Today we remember and honor the lives lost during the Armenian Genocide - one of the darkest chapters in human history. We just commemorated Yom HaShoah - the Holocaust - and we were taught that to forget the name of the victim is as if to kill them again. That's why today we pause to honor and remember the 1.5 million Armenians who were tragically murdered in the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923 because genocide denial is the first step in the next genocide.
Washington, D.C. -- This week, Congressman Brad Sherman (CA-32), along with more than 20 lawmakers, joined together with several Holocaust survivors for an event on Capitol Hill in honor of Yom HaShoah, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Reps. David Kustoff (TN) and Brad Schneider (IL) hosted their colleagues for an emotional event that included remarks from Holocaust survivor Rachel Mutterperl Goldfarb, a candlelighting, a recitation of names of Jews who died in the Holocaust and remarks by Stuart Eizenstat, chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
Washington, D.C. -- Congressman Brad Sherman (CA-32), senior Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and former Chariman of the House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, authored a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken regarding Democracry and human rights in Pakistan.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Brad Sherman (CA-32), senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, led 19 members of Congress in re-introducing the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act – bipartisan legislation that calls for serious, urgent diplomatic engagement in pursuit of a formal end to the Korean War.
"To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time." – Elie Wiesel Yet on this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, less than half of Americans know how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust. As we take today to memorialize and mourn the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazi regime, and as antisemitism and ethnic hatred is on the rise around the world, we must reprioritize Holocaust education.
Washington, D.C. – I am deeply disturbed by reports of a humanitarian calamity currently unfolding in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) as a result of Azerbaijan's continued and unabated campaign of aggression against the Armenian people.
Azerbaijan has reportedly imposed a blockade on the only road connecting Artsakh with Armenia and the primary means by which food, medical supplies and other vital resources are transported to the region. As a result, the lives of Artsakh's 120,000 Armenians, and the prospect for peace in the region, remain in grave jeopardy.
Washington, D.C. -- On November 15th, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was joined by Representatives Judy Chu (D-CA) and Andy Kim (D-NJ), Members of the Korean Assembly and Casey Choi, President of the Korean American Public Action Committee (KAPAC), in front of the United States Capitol to speak on Sherman's bill: the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act.
Washington, D.C. -- Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) released the following statement after his discussion with White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan regarding the situation in Ethiopia.
"Last Thursday, I had an extensive discussion on Tigray and Ethiopia with National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who clearly has an extensive knowledge of this tragic conflict.
I urged that we continue to suspend AGOA and oppose international lending institution loans to Ethiopia until:
Washington, D.C. -- The United States will work to remove Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women, US Vice President Kamala Harris announced on November 2nd.
The effort to evict Iran form the 45-member intergovernmental body comes as the Iranian government has tried to suppress nationwide protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of that nation's so-called "morality police".