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This section of the website hosts an archive of our important announcements issued to the news media, the public, and other targeted publications for the purpose of presenting official statements, political positions, and other developments and events happening at Citizens for Global Solutions. The archive dates back to 2003. Use the key word search function below to find press releases specific issues or events that you care about. *Editors: Press Contact: Howard Salter, Director of Communications (202-546-3950 ext.112) |
Washington, D.C. -- Citizens for Global Solutions welcomes the compromise reached on climate change at the G8 Summit, but is disappointed by the G8 countries' failure to keep their promises in the fight against poverty and disease in Africa. This year, the G8 took an important step towards an effective international response to global climate change. President Bush's commitment...
Washington, D.C. -- Citizens for Global Solutions is pleased that President Bush has once again used the bully pulpit to talk about Darfur. The president?s statement today that he will impose sanctions on key Sudanese companies and individuals marks the second time in a month that he has announced stronger measures in response to Sudan?s lack of action in ending the on-going atrocities in the Darf...
Who Are the Global Leaders in Congress? The Answers are in Citizens for Global Solutions? 2007 Report Card Washington, DC ? Citizens for Global Solutions 2007 Congressional Report Card, is the most comprehensive tool for evaluating which legislators are true advocates of cooperative solutions to global problems. Not only has Citizens for Global Solutions analyzed legislators' voting reco...
- April 17, 2007 - WASHINGTON, D.C. ? Congressman Maurice Hinchey, (D-NY), introduced legislation today that would end subsidies to oil companies as part of U.S. foreign assistance initiatives. Citizens for Global Solutions is a Washington, D.C.-based foreign policy advocacy organization, with more that 40,000 supporters nationwide, endorses this legislation and applauds the leadershi...
- February 27, 2007 - Bush Administration Must Match Court?s Efforts on Darfur Citizens for Global Solutions, a leading U.S.-based advocacy group for a strong and effective International Criminal Court (ICC) welcomes the ICC?s identification of two perpetrators in the on-going Darfur atrocities. In his announcement from The Hague today, ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo requested a summ...
January 29, 2007 - Citizens for Global Solutions, one of the leading advocacy groups for a strong and effective International Criminal Court (ICC), applauds today?s decision by the ICC to proceed with a trial against Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. As founder and leader of the Union de Patriotes Congolais (UPC), Dyilo is charged with three counts of enlisting, forcibly recruiting, and se...
January 8, 2007 ? President George W. Bush recently nominated current U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, to be the new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. The move comes nearly one month after Ambassador John Bolton told President Bush that he would terminate his service in the Bush Administration after his recess appointment expired at the end of 2006. Mr. Bolton?s nomination was repe...
December 4, 2006 - Unable to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told President Bush today that he would resign from his recess appointed position. Mr. Bolton?s nomination has been repeatedly blocked by the Senate and was heavily contested by Citizens for Global Solutions and an array of other advocacy organizations that want to see t...
November 29, 2006 - Citizens for Global Solutions welcomes President Bush?s move on Tuesday to waive a U.S. law that prevents some nations that support the International Criminal Court from receiving U.S. foreign assistance. The waiver is recognition of a counterproductive U.S. policy toward ICC member states. Specifically, President Bush?s decision allows millions of dollars of Economic Support F...
October 10, 2006 - Citizens for Global Solutions welcomes Congressional passage of an amendment to the American Servicemembers Protection Act (ASPA) that recognizes the counterproductive U.S. policy toward ICC member states. Specifically the amendment exempts what senior military officials in the U.S. believe to be important international military education and training (IMET) aid from being c...
