VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC

HUMAN RIGHTS - VOC ACTIVELY EDUCATES THE PUBLIC ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA, CUBA, VENEZUELA, NORTH KOREA, AND OTHER PLACES WHERE COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM HAVE LED TO WIDESPREAD OPPRESSION. THROUGH IN-DEPTH RESEARCH, PARTNERSHIPS, ART EXHIBITS, GOVERNMENT TESTIMONY, AND PUBLIC CAMPAIGNS, VOC SHEDS LIGHT ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS CARRIED OUT BY THESE REGIMES. FOR EXAMPLE, OUR WORK ON CHINA HAS EXPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS CARRIED OUT BY THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, WITH A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON UYGHUR FORCED LABOR IN XINJIANG. OUR RESEARCH EXPOSED NEW EVIDENCE OF FORCED LABOR IN XINJIANG, GENERATING VAST GLOBAL MEDIA COVERAGE AND SWIFT ACTION FROM THE INTERNATIONAL POLICY COMMUNITIES. VOC HAS ALSO DOCUMENTED VICTIMS TORTURED BY THE COMMUNIST REGIME IN CUBA AND THE SOCIALIST REGIME IN VENEZUELA. ONE-FIFTH OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION STILL LIVES UNDER COMMUNIST REGIMES IN CHINA, CUBA, LAOS, NORTH KOREA, AND VIETNAM, AND FREEDOM IS LOSING GROUND IN HONG KONG, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA, AND SOME COUNTRIES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION. VOC STUDIES, RECORDS, AND BROADCASTS THE FACTSTO BRING THE TRUTH OF THE BRUTAL FAILURES OF COMMUNISM TO A FORGETFUL AND UNINFORMED PUBLIC.

MEMORIAL - IN 1993, THE U.S. CONGRESS PASSED LEGISLATION THAT WAS SIGNED INTO LAW BY PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON THAT BOTH FOUNDED THE VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION AND AUTHORIZED THE FUTURE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON, D.C. THE STATUE, UNVEILED BY PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH AND CONGRESSMAN TOM LANTOS IN 2007, IS LOCATED AT THE INTERSECTION OF MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, NEW JERSEY AVENUE, AND G STREET, NW, TWO BLOCKS FROM UNION STATION AND WITHIN VIEW OF THE U.S. CAPITOL. THE MEMORIAL'S FRONT PEDESTAL READS, "TO THE MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED MILLION VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM AND TO THOSE WHO LOVE LIBERTY." ITS BACK PEDESTAL READS, "TO THE FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE OF ALL CAPTIVE NATIONS AND PEOPLES." VOC HOSTS REMEMBRANCE EVENTS AT THE MEMORIAL STATUE, SUCH AS AN ANNUAL COMMEMORATION OF THE TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE IN 1989.