On March 28th, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) wrote to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to express appreciation for efforts to support Cubans fighting for democracy, and to request help in freeing political prisoners wrongfully detained. Rep Wasserman Schultz is the co-chair of the newly reestablished VOC Caucus.
Stephanie Salazar Landaeta is a human rights lawyer from Venezuela. After her country was ensnared by socialism under Hugo Chávez, her once prosperous home spiraled into oppression, poverty, and the slow erasure of democracy. Stephanie refused to remain silent and… Read More
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation mourns the passing of Senator Joseph Lieberman. A lifelong advocate of liberty, a staunch anti-communist, and a recipient of VOC’s Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom, Lieberman leaves behind an enduring legacy that will be remembered… Read More
On March 20, VOC’s Ethan Gutmann and Matthew Robertson testified to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CEEC) in a hearing entitled “Stopping the Crime of Organ Harvesting—What More Must Be Done?” The event was live-streamed on the CECC’s YouTube channel. The Commission writes, “The issue of the systematic, widespread,… Read More
On March 15, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation hosted an opening ceremony for the VOC Museum’s latest temporary gallery, “From the Soviet Red Flag to the Lithuanian Tricolor: 50 Years of Struggle for Freedom.”
VOC’s President and CEO, Dr. Eric Patterson, is quoted in a bipartisan resolution introduced by VOC Caucus member Rep. Michelle Steel (CA-45), that urges the Biden administration to protect North Korean defectors.
VOC’s Eric Patterson and Ken Pope argue that the United States is locked in a new Cold War-style ideological struggle with our adversaries — authoritarianism and communism versus the Western liberal order — and that we need to catch up,… Read More
On March 20, VOC’s Ethan Gutmann and Matthew Robertson will testify before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CEEC) in a hearing entitled “Stopping the Crime of Organ Harvesting—What More Must Be Done?”
On the latest episode of VOC’s Profiles In Freedom, Amb. Andrew Bremberg sits down with a foreign policy expert, a long-time fighter of totalitarianism, and VOC’s new President and CEO, Dr. Eric Patterson.
Groundbreaking research by VOC’s Matthew P. Robertson on China’s organ harvesting industry has prompted a new expose by The Telegraph that shows “Oxford University organised training programmes attended by Chinese transplant doctors facing allegations of illegally harvesting human organs.” As… Read More
