NIAC's Human Rights Tracker

Dear John,

I want to share with you just how much we were able to achieve in 2019 thanks to NIAC supporters like you, despite the many challenges our community faced. We are gearing up for a huge new year full of opportunities but we are still nearly $19,000 short of reaching our end of year fundraising goal.

Today is the last day to give, and if you haven't yet, please make your donation today to ensure we have the resources necessary to start 2020 from a position of strength.

Our victories are your victories, and your support ensures we can continue building the political power needed to champion our community's priorities into 2020 and beyond. Read on for just a few of the many wins we collectively secured in 2019.

Thank you so much for your support.

Wishing you and yours a happy new year,

Jamal Abdi
President, NIAC

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Building Political Power

In 2019, we doubled down on building political power by:

Launching NIAC Action PAC to support candidates championing the priorities of our community.
Helping elect Iranian Americans to office, including Parisa Dehghani-Tafti who won her race for Commonwealth Attorney of Arlington County & the City of Falls Church.
Endorsing our largest slate of candidates yet, including incumbent Members of Congress and rising Iranian-American leaders.

📌 Help us build political power >

Advancing Peace & Diplomacy

This year, our fight to advance peace & diplomacy included:

Turning the tide against war with Iran by helping secure bipartisan support for the Khanna-Gaetz amendment in the House and Senate.
Advancing a U.S. return to the Iran nuclear deal by helping secure commitments from 2020 Presidential candidates to return the U.S. to the agreement.
Challenging Trump's use of sanctions to deliberately target humanitarian trade by working with Members of Congress to call for the protection of humanitarian trade with Iran.

📌 Help us advance peace & diplomacy >

Securing Equitable Immigration

This year, we worked to secure equitable immigration by:

Securing the first-ever Congressional oversight hearing on the Muslim ban and securing an Iranian-American victim of the ban to testify at the hearing.
Working with impacted individuals to share their stories with the press, most recently with the New York Times.
Leading the fight against legislation that would end the green card process for Iranians as we know it and which remains a significant threat in 2020.

📌 Help us secure equitable immigration >

Protecting Civil Rights

Our community faced numerous setbacks to our basic civil rights this year, but we took on the battles to preserve our rights by:

Petitioning the Department of Treasury for a formal rule change to license Americans to operate bank accounts from Iran.
Calling on Bank of America to halt its practice of shutting the accounts of individuals of Iranian national origin or heritage.

📌 Help us protect civil rights >

Spotlighting Human Rights in Iran

As an American organization, NIAC does not have a role to play in the domestic affairs of Iran--but we do have an obligation to support human rights standards. Our 2019 initiatives included:

Revitalizing our Human Rights Tracker to bring attention to human rights abuses that impact the lives of Iranian people.
Underscoring the impact of U.S. sanctions on human rights in Iran by working with groups like Human Rights Watch to host events illuminating the human cost of sanctions.

📌 Help us spotlight human rights in Iran >

Community & Culture

In 2019, we celebrated our community and culture by:

Showcasing the diversity of the Iranian-American community by creating a video featuring NIAC's staff and prominent Iranian Americans like Reza Aslan and Firoozeh Dumas.
Sharing narratives from LGBTQ+ Iranian Americans and other marginalized voices from within our community.
Celebrating Iranian-American artists of all stripes, from authors to filmmakers.

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