TOM LANTOS FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

The lantos congressional fellowship program gives outstanding students and young professionals from around the world the opportunity to serve fellowships at the united states congress. Participants are given an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the role of human rights in american legislative process and provide the u.s. Congress with an international perspective on human rights and to ensure that human rights remain an important focus of the congressional legislative agenda.

Engagement in international human rights initiatives that support our mission, which include, but are not limited to: freedom of religion, conscience, and belief, combatting anti-semitism and holocaust denial around the world, rule of law, advancing the cause of internet freedom globally, fighting human rights abuses in russia and china, and supporting human rights and minority rights in hungary.