Session #100 · 1987–89

Speech #1000108633

Amnesty International. and the other groups which form the nongovernmental human rights organizations in this country. representing the Jews. Catholics. Lutherans. Moslems. and Baptists who are subject to persecution for attempting to exercise their faiths in the Soviet Union. The JacksonVanik and the Stevenson amendments are simply the highest profile expression of U.S. human rights concerns. Nowhere in the text of those amendments appear any words restricting their application to Soviet Jews. After all. Armenians and ethnic Germans have been denied the right to emigrate from the Soviet Union as well. They are covered by the terms of those amendments. If Mr.
Keywords matched
emigrate

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Armenians Ethnic Germans
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
ALFONSE DAMATO
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
1987-10-13
Speech ID
1000108633
Paragraph
#5
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