Indian Health Service Hiring Freeze Exemption Act

Act S. 3227 Senate meetings on Family Separation Reunite Every Unaccompanied Newborn Infant, Toddler and Other Children Expeditiously (REUNITE) HR 6135 Keep Family Together Act Refugees, including congressional consultation for PD, influencing final PD, and appropriations for humanitarian assistance and refugee resettlement Asylum issues, including family separation & family detention, Asylum & refugee cases Cameroon: Worked on human right violations by the armed forces and armed separatist groups. Briefed department of State and Congressional staff. Ethiopia: Briefed Congressional staff on ongoing human rights concerns and agenda for human rights reform. Mauritania: Engaged with Department of State around issue of ongoing slavery. Worked in coalition to press ICE to refrain from deportation of Black Mauritanians back to Mauritania including issuing public statement. Yemen: lobbying - appropriations. Call on congress to use Senate Foreign Operations and Related Programs Process to end all military sales and support to the Saudi led coalition issue advocacy- raising awareness of the cost of the war in Yemen and the need for U.S. government to pay attention to relevant equities Turkey: Issue Advocacy- Raise awareness with Senate and House and White House about Human Rights violations in Turkey including arrests, detentions, and forcible dismissals. Call for statements. Ukraine: Issue Advocacy - Advocate for an end to impunity for far right groups engaging in violence by lobbying White House NSC, State Department Saudi Arabia: Womens right to drive activists, HRDs, Jamal Khashoggi Poland: issue advocacy: raise awareness with Amnesty International membership on Polands crackdown on judiciary Hungary: lobbying: Lobby for reinstitution of $700,000 DRL NOFO media freedom in Hungary Russia: issue advocacy - communicate importance of continued engagement on Russia human rights violations to membership base North Korea - pushing for North Korea human rights abuses to be raised in the context of the North Korea discussions China - pushing China to release human rights defenders currently detained, to support the close of Xinjiang so-called re-education centers, and to uphold its international human rights commitments S.2060 Bill (Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act) the Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act. H.R.4223, the Burma Act. This bill would hold senior military officials accountable for the ethnic cleansing that took place in Rakhine State. Lobbying consisted of pushing the legislation to pass onto the National Defense Authorization Act and to pass it out of the Senate. Myanmar - Legislation, Sharing Amnesty press releases, supporting humanitarian assistance for the Rohingya Issue advocacy: Advocated on behalf of Amnesty International prisoners of conscience, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sada, Loujain al-Hathloul, Iman al-Nafjan and Aziza al-Yousef Asylum legislation, stopping family separation and immigration detention Prepared submission on US foreign policy and human rights in Western Hemisphere Senate: Human Rights in Central America Briefing on Family Reunification Briefing on family detention Senate briefing on family separation H.R.6193 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): Central America Family Protection and Reunification Act. H.R. 981 Condemning the violence, persecution, intimidation, and murders committed by the Government of Nicaragua against its citizens. State Department: human rights in Honduras State Department: human rights in Colombia Temporary Protected Status US Foreign Assistance to Guatemala Latin American Human Rights SFRC Argentina Reviewed a piece of draft legislation for the "Alternatives to Detention Act of 2018" to determine whether we could support and/or endorse. Reviewed the "Family Case Management Program Act" for endorsement when introduced in the Senate by Senator Gillibrand. Reviewed a draft of the "Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act" by Senator Murray H.R. 6193: Central America Family Protection and Reunification Act to determine whether Amnesty International could endorse/support. Reviewed coalition letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen regarding potential changes to asylum regulations Meeting with Department of Indian Health Services Sexual and Reproductive healthcare Meeting with Senate and House on IHS and Sexual and Reproductive healthcare Meetings with Senate and House staff on IHS and Destro nomination VAWA reauthorization meeting, House meetings IVAWA Tribal Law and Order with Indian Affairs meetings