Photo by Harout Kelechian, USA Armenian Life magazine. * * * * * PRESS ADVISORY * * * * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WHAT: Appo Jabarian Meets with Congressman Adam Schiff Regarding the Importance of Voice of America Radio Services and Transparency at Broadcasting Board of Governors WHEN : Monday, July 2, 2012 at 4:30 p.m. […]
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CUSIB Calls Upon the BBG to Restore Transparency
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 21, 2012 CUSIB Calls Upon the BBG to Restore Transparency The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) has released the following statement expressing deep concern that the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is pursuing a strategy of concealment and intimidation rather than respond to oversight by the U.S. Congress and […]
CUSIB's Reggie Littlejohn joined Annette Lantos to honor victims of communism
The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – www.cusib.org) Advisory Board member, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers Reggie Littlejohn, joined Annette Lantos and other distinguished guests to honor victims of communism at the ceremony at the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, DC on June 12. Reggie Littlejohn and Annette Lantos have been outspoken […]
CUSIB Congratulates Two Board Members Who Have Been Honored with the Visual Artists Guild Spirit of Tiananmen Awards
CUSIB Board Members, Jing Zhang and Jianglin Li at the Visual Artists Guild New York Chapter Tiananmen Square Commemoration Event Saturday, June 9, 2012. Jing Zhang was honored at this event for her work. Jianlin Li translated Jing’s speech. June 10, 2012 For Immediate Release CUSIB Congratulates Two Board Members Who Have Been Honored with […]
CUSIB members Ann Noonan and Jing Zhang speak at Tiananmen Memorial in New York City
In a speech delivered Sunday from the top of a tank at the Tiananmen Memorial observance in New York City, the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – www.CUSIB.org) Executive Director Ann Noonan vowed that CUSIB will continue to oppose the annual efforts by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to crackdown on Voice of […]
CUSIB's Ann Noonan speaks on importance of US radio for women in China
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 […]
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 […]
The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting Applauds Chen Guangcheng’s Freedom
For Immediate Release May 19, 2012 The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting Applauds Chen Guangcheng’s Freedom The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) extends a warm welcome to Chinese human rights legal activist Chen Guangcheng upon his arrival to the United States today. CUSIB Executive Director Ann Noonan stated: “We are overjoyed that Chen and […]
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 […]