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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
2. Address
Address1 | 42020 Village Center Plaza |
Address2 | Suite 120-200 |
City | Stone Ridge |
State | VA |
Zip Code | 20105 |
Country | USA |
3. Principal place of business (if different than line 2)
City | Chantilly |
State | VA |
Zip Code | 20152 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 91650-12
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6. House ID# 368070000
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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2013 |
Q1 (1/1 - 3/31) | Q2 (4/1 - 6/30) | Q3 (7/1 - 9/30) | Q4 (10/1 - 12/31) |
9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report
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Provide a good faith estimate, rounded to the nearest $10,000, of all lobbying related income for the client (including all payments to the registrant by any other entity for lobbying activities on behalf of the client). | 14. REPORTING Check box to indicate expense accounting method. See instructions for description of options. | ||||||||
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Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code Method C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code |
Signature | Digitally Signed By: GREG MITCHELL, PRESIDENT |
Date | 07/22/2013 |
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
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16. Specific lobbying issues
On behalf of 14 religious and human rights organizations and leaders of varying faiths, including the client, who signed a multi-faith letter to the Secretary of State, made contacts to express concern about religious freedom in Greece. We urged the Secretary of State to call upon Greece to ratify the European Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and to actively and in good faith secure religious freedom for all religious minorities in Greece.
Worked with 15 religious and human rights organizations and leaders of varying faiths, including the client, to sign a multi-faith letter to members of Congress, which expressed profound concern over the recent escalating violence and intolerance towards religious minorities in Bangladesh, and requested House and Senate hearings on the ongoing persecution of religious minorities in Bangladesh. These hearings would address the mounting violence in Bangladesh in an effort to generate awareness about this issue. We firmly believe that promoting religious freedom and human rights must be an essential component of U.S. engagement with Bangladesh.
On behalf of 28 religious and human rights organizations and leaders of varying faiths, including the client, who previously signed a multi-faith letter to members of Congress and the Administration, made contacts to express our continuing concerns about rising restrictions on religion in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Asked U.S. government leaders to raise the issue of the repressive Religion Law when they visit with and talk to Kazakh government leaders.
On behalf of 30 religious and human rights organizations and leaders of varying faiths, including the client, who previously signed a multi-faith letter to members of Congress and the Administration, made contacts to express our continuing concerns about the increasing misuse of the 2002 Extremism Law to censor religious scriptures and disrupt religious organizations in Russia. Asked U.S. government leaders to raise this issue when they visit with and talk to Russian government leaders.
On behalf of 23 religious and human rights organizations and leaders of varying faiths, including the client, who previously signed a multi-faith letter to members of Congress and the Administration, made contacts to express our continuing concerns about the restrictive new religion law in Hungary. Asked U.S. government leaders to raise this issue when they visit with and talk to Hungarian government leaders. And asked congressional leaders to follow up specifically with the Prime Minister of Hungary regarding Hungarian lawmakers recent approval of an amendment to the Fundamental Law of Hungary in response to decisions of the Constitutional Court to declare certain provisions of Hungarys new religion law unconstitutional. This amendment enshrines in the Fundamental Law a number of policies that were struck down as unconstitutional, including those of the religion law. Congress should urge the Prime Minister and the government of Hungary to work with European institutions to address these concerns and revise the religion law to make it consistent with the European Convention on Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which the Republic of Hungary is a party.
Worked with 29 religious and human rights organizations and leaders of varying faiths, including the client, to sign a multi-faith letter to members of Congress to support the time-sensitive Internet freedom recommendations contained in a congresssional letter to members and senior staff of the Board of Broadcast Governors (BBG). The BBG initiative called for by the congressional letter to bypass the Internet firewalls of today's closed society regimes can greatly and peacefully advance the cause of freedom throughout the world. Repeated statements and actions of closed society regimes confirm that today's Internet firewall systems are 21st century equivalents of the brick and barbed wire Berlin Walls of the 20th century. As such, the congressional letter is a call to achieve peaceful, historic change on behalf of political, cultural and religous freedom. The BBG now dedicates less than 2% of its budget to anti-Internet censorship activities and as the congressional letter makes clear, such an underinvestment of resources is unacceptable. Likewise, we endorse the request for the BBG to determine the feasibility and cost of deploying technology that would enable safe and uncensored interactive public meetings with large numbers of participants.
Worked with 30 religious and human rights organizations and leaders of varying faiths, including the client, to sign a multi-faith letter to the President to urge him to call for the release of a list of 16 prisoners of conscience during his bilateral summit with teh President of China. The "China 16" leaders whose cases we cite are representative of thousands of men and women in China who, at great cost and peril to themselves and their families, have courageously spoken for the freedom of all - in China and, as a result, for the world at large. By raising the cases of these 16, we believe the President will increase their chances for freedom, and will greatly enhance the prospects for freedom of similarly situated prisoners of conscience.
On behalf of the 30 religious and human rights organizations and leaders of varying faiths, including the client, who signed the above-described multi-faith letter to the President, made contacts with congressional leaders to urge them to support our letter urging the President to raise the cases of the "China 16" by name during his bilateral summit with the President of China, and to call for their immediate and unconditional release.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, State - Dept of (DOS), U.S. Commission on International Religous Freedom
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
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