The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – www.cusib.org) Executive Director Ann Noonan said that women and their families in China who are victims of human rights abuses need Voice of America (VOA) radio and Radio Free Asia (RFA) broadcasts. She made that comment Tuesday at a conference on family planning policy and population development […]
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CUSIB members sponsor a conference on women's rights in China
Women’s Rights in China and Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, headed by the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) members Jing Zhang and Reggie Littlejohn are sponsoring a Conference on Family Planning Policy and Population Development in the People’s Republic of China. This is an area of severe and widespread human rights abuses targeting women and […]
Smith-Mundt Act Modifications Lack Protections Against Abuse
Smith-Mundt Act Modifications Lack Protections Against Abuse by Ted Lipien While the independent, nonpartisan Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting supports some changes in the Smith-Mundt Act, we and many other media freedom advocates share grave concerns that officials of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) will use the new legislation to abandon some foreign audiences […]
CUSIB's Reggie Littlejohn talks to Chen Guangcheng during VOA interview
Blind Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng called while the Women’s Rights Without Frontiers president Reggie Littlejohn was being interviewed on Voice of America Monday. Reggie Littlejohn is an Advisory Board member of the independent Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) which has been working to keep Voice of America radio and television broadcasts to […]
Voice of America radio to China – the sounds of news silence from Broadcasting Board of Governors
Voice of America radio to China – the sounds of news silence from Broadcasting Board of Governors by Ann Noonan, Executive Director, Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – www.cusib.org) The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and its International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) management team have finally accomplished their goal of cutting into Voice of America […]
CUSIB's Jing Zhang's article on China's war on baby girls published in National Review Online
The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) Advisory Board member Jing Zhang published an article in National Review Online on China’s war on baby girls. She describes reprisals by the Chinese communist authorities against a charity helping Chinese women keep and feed their infants. These reprisals have intensified after the daring escape from house arrest […]
Breaking News: CUSIB's Reggie Littlejohn testifying in Congress on Chen Guangcheng
The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) Advisory Board member Reggie Littlejohn, founder and president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, is testifying at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China emergency hearing on Recent Developments and History of the Chen Guangcheng Case. Chen Guangcheng spoke during the hearing by phone. In a phone call lasting about eight […]
CUSIB's Reggie Littlejohn reported on Chen Guangcheng's escape from house arrest
The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) Advisory Board member Reggie Littlejohn reported that blind Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has escaped house arrest. Reggie Littlejohn, who is president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, has received the news about Chen Guangcheng’s escape from leading Chinese activist He Peirong and other human rights defenders in […]
Annette Lantos Defends Voice of America Broadcasts to China
Annette Lantos Defends Voice of America Broadcasts to China Annette Lantos, wife of the late Congressman Tom Lantos, has written a letter to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) defending Voice of America China broadcasts in Tibetan and Cantonese. The BBG put these broadcasts on the chopping block in its budget proposal earlier this […]
CUSIB's Tala Dowlatshahi on American perceptions of Iranians
The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) Advisory Board member Tala Dowlatshahi shared her views of American perceptions of Iranians in an Reporters Uncensored/Huffington Post article “Iranian Sunset.” I have been living in neutral Switzerland for a few months now. I must say I am fairly pleased that I am far away from the current […]