PRESS RELEASE February 8, 2018 Burma Act (S.2060) of 2017 Passes Senate Foreign Relations Committee On February 7, 2018 Senate Bill 2060 was voted out of the Foreign Relations Committee, showing strong bipartisan support for addressing ongoing human rights violations against the Rohingya people of Burma. Since August 2017, more than 680,000 Rohingya have fled […]

Saba moved to Texas from Pakistan when she was just 11 years old and has resided in Texas ever since. Saba had originally come to the United States to visit her grandfather, a U.S. citizen, who had an established business in Fort Worth. Wanting to keep his extended family together, her grandfather petitioned for Saba […]

Dear Friends, As the year draws to an end, and despite the numerous challenges we have faced as people of conscience, compassion, and justice, I am still filled with hope for what we can do together in the New Year. From the Muslim Ban, to undermining the middle class, to abandoning our global leadership, I […]

Travel Ban On 4 December 2017, the Supreme Court allowed the third iteration of President Trump’s proposed travel ban go into full effect, affecting those from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. Already there has been a sharp decrease in Muslim immigration, especially from the countries cited in the ban. This […]

Joint Appeal to the UN Security Council to Act on Burma’s Rohingya Crisis Emgage Action signs on to urge the Security Council to protect and “never again” allow atrocities in Burma    In advance of the United Nations Security Council’s December 12 meeting on the situation in Burma, we, a global coalition of 69 human […]

Emgage commends the passage of the Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act of 2017 (H.R. 1730), a bill that Emgage has supported, by the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill was adopted by a vote of 402-2, and will expand coverage of federal hate crime laws protecting houses of worship to include religiously affiliated institutions, which […]

EASTPORT, Maine — For the 15th year, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) spent July 4 marching through this town of 1,331, a short boat ride away from Canada. She walked and waved, next to marching bands and Shriner-driven lobster boats. Her constituents cheered — and then asked whether she would vote against repealing the Affordable Care […]

Inequality may well be the issue of our time. But is it inequality of income we care about, or inequality of opportunity? And what is opportunity — the opportunity to do better than our parents, or better than ourselves at an earlier age, or does it mean doing better relative to everyone else? Can some […]

As the United States confronts global warming in the decades ahead, not all states will suffer equally. Maine may benefit from milder winters. Florida, by contrast, could face major losses, as deadly heat waves flare up in the summer and rising sea levels eat away at valuable coastal properties. In a new study in the journal Science, […]