Rally at the White House in support of the Tibetan People

Hundreds gathered to protest the recent Chinese
crackdown on dissent in Tibet and call on the
President to boycott the opening ceremonies of
the Beijing Olympics.


Attendees, including eleven Tibetan monks, traveled
from all across the East Coast.


Kathryn Cameron Porter, President of the Leadership
Council for Human Rights, spoke at the event.

Remembering Halabja Twenty Years Later

The commemoration was held at the Capitol, in

Speaker Pelosi's Dining Room

U.S. Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government

Qubad Talabany and LCHR President Kathryn Cameron Porter

Halabja Survivor Mohammed Aziz and Qubad Talabany

Attendees included Iraq's Ambassador to the U.S.,

Mr. Samir Sumaidaie (Second from Left)

LCHR Board Member Yakir Lubowsky

and Qubad Talabany

Mohammed Aziz

Images of shelling in Iraqi Kurdistan along Iran-Iraq border

Around Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, Summer 2007

Azadi Park

Throughout Sulaimaniya Governorate, Summer 2007

Dukan

Near Khalabag

View from Azmar mountain on the opposite side of Sulaimaniya

Khalabag, Iraq, 3 August 2007

Women in this village gather daily for half an hour between 5pm and 6pm to collect water for their family. The water pump was installed by the regional government.

Kalar, Iraq, 3 August 2007

Sarqalla, Iraq, 3 August 2007

Women picking okra.

Internally Displaced Persons within Iraq, Summer 2007

About 2 million people within Iraq have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the violence in the central and southern areas of the country. Some have no other option but to live in terrible conditions.

Torture Museum, Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, 15 July 2007

This building once was once where Saddam's forces tortured Kurds.


This hook, which hangs from the ceiling, was used as a torture tactic.






This hall commemorates the victims of Anfal. Each piece of glass on the wall, approximately 185,000, represents each person killed. Each light on the ceiling, between 4,000 and 5,000, represents each village destroyed.

LCHR's mother library, Sirwan, Kurdistan, Iraq, 18 July 2007

Children's reading room in the library.

Mother library in Sirwan, near Halabja.



Young man reading in one room of the library.

LCHR's mobile library project in Iraq, 18 July 2007

Mobile library visits Grde Go.

Mobile library visits Tapi Safai Xwaru.








Mobile library visits Tapi Safai Saru.

Press conference, Hotel Ashti, Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, 6 August 2007

Supporters for the release of Adnan Hassenpur and Hiwa Butimar, Iranian Kurdish journalists and civil society activists, speak at a press conference.

Halabja, Kurdistan, Iraq, 23 July 2007

Halabja Symbolic cemetary
This cemetary has 1,100 grave stones- one for each family who had at least one family member die in the chemical attacks in Halabja.
















Mass grave sites. Reportedly 200 people are buried in one and 1,000 in the other since there was not enough space to bury each individually.

Halabja Monument, Iraq, 23 July 2007

Halabja monument, burned in protest in March 2006 by 300 local protesters discontent with the government.
Part of the burned list of 5,000 names of the victims of the chemical attacks in Halabja.
The burned depiction of the city right after the attack.






















Burned pieces of metal outside of the monument, including chemical bomb casings. Approximately 200 bomb shells still exist around the city.

Sudan - one little girl's reality

Congressional Human Rights Caucus, Established in 1983

Pre-reception in the Cannon Caucus Room

LCHR Director Nadine Hoffman, opens the reception by recognizing the Caucus co-chairs Lantos (left) and Wolf on behalf of LCHR President.

Mrs. Annette Lantos remarks on the history of the Human Rights Caucus and the ongoing importance for human rights advocacy

Caucus co-chair, Congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia, discusses the importance of the Caucus and the continued support for human rights

Attendees enjoy the Vietnamese cuisine while hearing remarks from the reception's honored guests

Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida offers support for the work of the Caucus and its co-chairs

Co-sponsors of the event are recognized:LCHR, Amnesty Int. USA, IRPP, American Hellenic Institute, Armenian Assembly, Bahá'is, and the Coptic Assembly

Co-sponsors of the event are recognized: Amnesty Int. USA, IRPP, American Hellenic Institute, Armenian Assembly, Bahá'is, and the Coptic Assembly

Cameel Halim, Hoda Halim and Nora Brathol of the Coptic Assembly, co-sponsors of the reception, with colleagues following the reception

Event co-sponsors Bryan Ardouny of the Armenian Assembly (second from left) and Joe Grieboski of IRPP (center left)

Coptic Assembly and LCHR staff talk after the reception

Mobile library staff, family and friends in Sulimaniya

The damaged Halabja monument's exterior

The damaged Halabja monument - names of victims were destroyed when protestors burned the structure in March 2006

Pam, the volunteer mobile library coordinator for her village, is also the primary school teacher for 150 students

Women visit the mobile library in a village near Halabja, June 2007

LCHR director talks with mobile library staff member during June 2007 fact-finding mission