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Concerns Raised As Burma Targets Refugees in Thailand
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 12:50 pm | Center for Public Policy Analysis
The Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) has issued a statement today welcoming the retirement of Burma’s General Than Shwe and called on the new Burmese hybrid government, in its road map to “disciplined democracy”, to adopt true political, ... More >>
Aquino, Philippines Urged to Halt Attacks on Journalists
Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 9:59 am | Center for Public Policy Analysis
The Center for Public Policy Analysis in Washington, D.C., has issued an international appeal today calling upon President Benigno Aquino and the Philippine government to make it a higher national priority to address political violence directed against ... More >>
Laos Groups Issue Appeal Before Communist Party Congress
Thursday, 17 March 2011, 10:20 am | Center for Public Policy Analysis
The Center for Public Policy Analysis and a coalition of Lao and Hmong non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have issued an international appeal urging Laos to release political and religious dissidents, and jailed Americans, prior to the beginning of the ninth ... More >>
Philippines Urged To Assist Families of Slain Journalists
Friday, 11 February 2011, 11:47 am | Center for Public Policy Analysis
Citing the unprecedented murder of journalists in the Philippines, the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Public Policy Analysis issued an appeal to the government of the Philippines and a Quezon City Court to grant assistance to the family members ... More >>
Mubarak Urged to Halt Attacks on Journalists, Internet
Saturday, 29 January 2011, 12:13 pm | Center for Public Policy Analysis
Mubarak Urged to Halt Attacks on Journalists, Internet For Immediate Release, Washington, D.C., Friday, January 28 2011 Center for Public Policy Analysis The Washington, D.C.-based Center for Public Policy Analysis is calling on Egyptian President Mubarak, and his ... More >>
Laos Visit Sparks Talk Of Release Of Dissidents
Saturday, 17 July 2010, 12:32 pm | Center for Public Policy Analysis
The Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), the United League for Democracy in Laos (ULDL) and a coalition of Lao and Hmong non-governmental and non-profit organizations have released a joint communiqué in Washington, D.C. More >>
35th Anniversary Of Vietnam War
Saturday, 15 May 2010, 12:11 pm | Center for Public Policy Analysis
“This is the 35th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, we are here in Washington, D.C. and Arlington National Cemetery to pay tribute to our fallen soldiers who shed their blood and lives for today’s freedom in the world.." More >>
Rally Urges Release of Dissidents, Hmong Refugees
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 3:33 pm | Center for Public Policy Analysis
A demonstration at the Lao Embassy as well as a week-long series of policy events in Washington, D.C. were concluded today by Laotian-Americans. The events were held in cooperation with American policymakers, Members of Congress and non- governmental ... More >>
Congressman Charlie Wilson Remembered
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 3:00 pm | Center for Public Policy Analysis
The Washington, D.C.-based Afghanistan Foundation and the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) today marked the passing of former U.S. Congressman Charles Wilson (D-TX) and offered a statement honoring and remembering him. More >>
Congress, Hmong Scholar Urge Laos To Admit UNHCR
Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 5:34 pm | Center for Public Policy Analysis
U.S. Congressman Howard Berman (CA - Dem.), Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, and eleven senior Members of the House of Representatives, have sent a high-level letter to the Lao government in Vientiane asking it to grant the United ... More >>
Congress, Hmong Scholar Urge Laos To Admit UNHCR
Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 5:25 pm | Center for Public Policy Analysis
U.S. Congressman Howard Berman (CA - Dem.), Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, and eleven senior Members of the House of Representatives, have sent a high-level letter to the Lao government in Vientiane asking it to grant the United ... More >>
Laos' Secret Prison Camps: Hmong Appeal
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 10:31 am | Center for Public Policy Analysis
Hmong families from St. Paul, Minnesota and across the United States are appealing for the release of their relatives held in a secret nextwork of prisons and camps in Laos by the Lao Peoples Army (LPA). More >>
UN Plea To Save World's Life-Supporting Ecosystems
Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 10:02 am | Center for Public Policy Analysis
the United Nations is marking 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity, with a slew of events highlighting the vital role the phenomenon plays in maintaining the life support system on Planet Earth. More >>
Laos: Hmong Refugees Recently Forced Back To Laos.
Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 9:56 am | Center for Public Policy Analysis
U.S.-based, non-governmental human rights, refugee and policy organizations are urging Laos to grant emergency access to over 4,000 Hmong refugees recently forced from Thailand back to Laos. More >>
Laos, Hmong Refugee Crisis
Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 2:57 pm | Center for Public Policy Analysis
As the Southeast Asia (SEA) Games open in Laos, The Honorable Howard Eugene Douglas, the former Ambassador at Large and U.S. Refugee Affairs Coordinator, has issued a statement on the Lao Hmong refugee crisis in Thailand and Laos. More >>
Hmong Refugee Crisis in Thailand, Laos Deepens
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 12:51 pm | Center for Public Policy Analysis
Thailand's Army Commander, General Anupong Paochinda, as well as Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, have mobilized over 320 heavily-armed troops to the Lao Hmong refugee camp at Ban Huay Nam Khao, Thailand, and are reportedly preparing for the potential ... More >>
Thailand to Force 500 Hmong Refugees to Laos
Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 11:31 am | Center for Public Policy Analysis
Thai military and security forces are actively preparing for the mass forced repatriation of some 500 Lao Hmong refugees in the coming days and weeks according to sources in Thailand and Laos. More >>
Seven Hmong Families Forced to Laos Amid Tear Gas
Thursday, 13 August 2009, 5:52 pm | Center for Public Policy Analysis
Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) www.centerforpublicpolicyanalysis.org United States Senator Jim Webb, of Virginia, is visiting Burma, Thailand, Laos and Southeast Asia this week and, like U.S. Secretary of State Clinton, is expected to seek to ... More >>
Laos: Military Attacks Lao Hmong Civilians
Monday, 3 August 2009, 11:28 pm | Center for Public Policy Analysis
"On July 26-27, the green jungle foliage in the Phou Da Phao mountain area where many Lao Hmong women, children and other civilians were hiding was ripped apart by bursts of machine gun fire, exploding mortar shells and handgrenades of the attacking ... More >>
Thailand Dip Backs US Congress Laos, Hmong Plan
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 11:17 am | Center for Public Policy Analysis
A senior U.S. foreign officer, Edmund McWilliams, who served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, today commented upon and hailed a Congressional letter sent recently to the U.S. Department of State and Obama Administration regarding the Lao-Hmong ... More >>
