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The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, Inc. (UCCA) is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization as defined under Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code |
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Monday, 16 April 2007 |
| Since its establishment, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, Inc. has raised U.S. awareness of Ukraine as well as represented the interests of Ukrainian Americans before the government. It worked for the enactment of the law admitting displaced persons from Europe to America, which was adopted in Congress in 1948 and resulted in 110,000 Ukrainians admitted into the United States. It has organized cultural events and educational seminars. As a result of the UCCA's initiative, both the House and the Senate passed a Public Law to erect in a monument in Washington D.C. to Taras Shevchenko, the bard of Ukraine. President Dwight D. Eisenhower presided over its unveiling in 1964. |
The UCCA has published extensively, from newsletters to academic journals such as the Ukrainian Quarterly: A Journal of Ukrainian and International Affairs. |
| Since its first issue hit the stands in 1944, The Ukrainian Quarterly  Your Source for Analysis | | | | The UCCA has provided timely analysis to U.S. lawmakers, mass media and business leaders. During the height of the Cold War, the UCCA spoke out against Soviet human rights violations and was instrumental in promoting the Captive Nations Week Resolution (Public Law 86-90). Its Ukrainian National Information Service, based in Washington, D.C., monitored U.S. policy towards the Soviet Union, and later, independent Ukraine, and disseminated information about Ukraine to lawmakers and the media. |
Through its efforts, the Congress of the United States passed the Resolution commemorating the victims of the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the UCCA has redirected its efforts toward supporting Ukraine's democratic development and encouraging free-market reform while sustaining a vibrant Ukrainian community in the United States.
| | | | Due to its unique status as an broad-based American institution comprised largely of ethnic Ukrainians, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, Inc. has succeeded in incorporating its own acute understanding of both the traditions and sensibilities of Ukrainian culture and attitudes with American values and standards. The UCCA is dedicated to strengthening the relationship between both nations and insuring Ukraine's role as a cornerstone of its strategic region's stability. As a result, the UCCA has secured a reputation as not only a committed and highly regarded resource in the furtherance of Ukraine's democratic development, but also, an organization that profoundly understands the trials and difficulties related to that process. Thus, the UCCA commands a level of trust, both in and out of Ukrainian government circles, which is unparalleled. As a result, it has helped to create and sustain channels of communication between the governments of the United States and Ukraine, worked to foster a secure and positive business environment for both Ukrainian and foreign businesses through its high level Ukrainian government and Fortune 500 contacts and strove to promote awareness, support and participation of Ukrainian citizens in civic processes. |
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At the height of the Holodomor:Ukrainian villages were dying at the rate of 25,000 per day or 1,000 per hour or 17 per minute;The Soviet regime dumped 1.7 million tons of grain on the Western markets - nearly a quarter of a ton of grain for every Ukrainian who starved to death;Among the children, one in three perished as a result of rapid collectivization and the forced famine-genocide; The 1933 Famine-Genocide was geographically focused for political ends as it stopped precisely at the Ukrainian-Russian ethnographic border |
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