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Fund for Reconciliation and Development
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Down to the wire: the final round of US-Vietnam WTO negotiations end successfully but time is tight for the US Congress to grant Permanent Normal Trade Relations, which will enable Vietnam to enter the WTO this year. However, business groups; NGO’s; diplomats from both countries; and Congress itself are moving rapidly toward the PNTR debate and vote. Meanwhile, legislative relief in the form of trade preferences for Cambodia, Laos and other Asian-Pacific LDC’s looks increasingly unlikely as this Congress heads into the homestretch. Cambodia and the United States reach a watershed when they agree to launch a Peace Corps program in 2007. On another front, the plaintiffs’ appeal in the lawsuit on behalf of Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange appears bogged down in the courts, with no hearing likely until late in the year.
In March 2006 FRD co-sponsored an international conference on the social, economic and psychological impacts of Agent Orange/Dioxin. The conference was coordinated by the Center for Gender, Family, and Environment in Development, a Vietnamese research institution. More...
FRD Agent Orange Art Exhibit: The Fund for Reconciliation and Development is coordinating a nation-wide traveling art exhibit that will focus on the human health and environmental impacts of the use of Agent Orange and other dioxin-laced herbicides during the Vietnam war. The exhibit will bring together works of art done by Vietnamese throughout Vietnam, US veterans, children and spouses of US veterans, Vietnamese-Americans, peace activists, local activists from US dioxin hot-spots, and others who have been impacted in one way or another by the toxic legacy of Agent Orange/dioxin. We are currently looking for submissions of works of art as well as venues for the show when it is complete. We currently have 30 posters on Agent Orange done by Vietnamese artists that are now available as a stand alone show, or combined with works by several American artists. More...
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English
Contact
- FundforReconciliation and Development
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- New York NY
- United States 10018
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- +1.2127609903
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