September 9, 2025, 2:00 PM EDT - Livestream

The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission will hold a two-panel hearing entitled, Laws Regulating Foreign NGOs: Human Rights Implications. Witness will be: Gina Romero, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Professor Suparna Chaudhry, Lewis & Clark College; Daniel Hegedüs, German Marshall Fund; Ana María Méndez Dardón,  Washington Office on Latin America; Michael Shellenberger, University of Austin; and Almut Rochowanski, Independent researcher; for 20 years manager of U.S., UK and European NGOs for civil society development in former Soviet Union