Advocacy, designed to create change, is an essential component of Jewish World Watch’s work. By joining your fellow JWW Upstanders, you spoke out with passion about issues crucial to the safety and livelihood of survivors of genocide and mass atrocities around the world. Over the past year, your calls, emails and visits to elected officials to defend the rights of the world’s most vulnerable people have had a significant impact. Below are just three of the many ways your voice has made a difference through targeted actions offering your support, and demanding the same of our leaders, for policies that aid survivors.
- A resolution on Yemen, calling for the direct removal of U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities that have not been authorized by Congress, was moved forward by the Senate in November.
- The Iraq and Syria Act, that provides for the urgent humanitarian and stabilization needs of persecuted religious and ethnic minorities, has cleared both chambers of Congress — and was signed into law by President Trump today! — thanks in large part to local lawmakers, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA-28), Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA-39), and Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA-30), who were visited by JWW advocates who are also their constituents to push for the legislation.
- The DRC Democracy and Accountability Act, expressing U.S. security concerns over the political violence, corruption and humanitarian crises ravaging The Congo and destabilizing the region as well as codifying sanctions against senior Congolese political figures, has passed the House of Representatives.
As JWW advocates, you have worked to alert and inform your elected officials, bringing them new information and sharing the signatures of others that we’ve collected. As a result of our unique access to information on the ground in the conflict areas we serve, together we can all make a difference for at-risk populations and survivors of mass atrocities worldwide.
Your donations make possible this crucial advocacy work! Please donate today so we can continue to advocate together on behalf of those who need it most.
