Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi:

Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi:
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

- Issues -

Burma: For the last 17 years, a military junta has brutally ruled Burma with repression and violence, accumulating one of the worst human rights records in the world.
It has held Aung San Suu Kyi, the democratically elected leader of the National League for Democracy party, under house arrest for 12 of the last 17 years.

Tibet: If freedom loving people throughout the world do not speak out against China’s oppression in Tibet we have lost all moral authority to speak on human rights anywhere in the world. The cause of Tibet is a challenge to the conscience of the world. A challenge we can help meet."
- Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Sudan: Each day that the genocide continues, and each day we wait, the hope that we saw in the eyes of the youngest children will disintegrate into disease, despair, and death."
- Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Japan: In June of 2007, Speaker Pelosi supported a resolution passed by the House Foreign Affairs Committee calling on Japan to formally acknowledge and apologize for its Imperial Armed Forces’ coercion of young ‘comfort women’ into sexual slavery during its occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands during the World War II era.

Pakistan: In January, 2008, the House passed a resolution condemning the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and reaffirming the commitment of the United States to assist the people of Pakistan in combating terrorist activity and promoting a free and democratic Pakistan.

East Timor: On February 19, 2008, Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats wrote to East Timor President José Ramos-Horta, after the recent attempt on his life. Ramos-Horta was a leading figure in his country’s liberation movement and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 for his efforts to bring freedom and human rights to his country.