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HR2766 – Uyghur Policy Act of 2023
Bill particulars
- April 20, 2023 Sponsored by Congressman Young Kim (R-CA)
- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) has launched a companion invoice within the Senate.
- Committee: House Foreign Affairs
- House of Representatives: Not but voted
- Senate: Not but voted
- PRESIDENT: Haven’t signed it but.
Summary of the invoice
- A bicameral, bipartisan invoice that helps the human rights of the Muslim Uyghur minority, primarily residing in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Approximately 11 million Uighurs reside on this area. steadily talked about From cultural suppression to pressured labor to authorities oppression.
- Both Secretary of State Antony Blinken and former Secretary of State Michael Pompeo confirmed The Chinese authorities has dedicated genocide and crimes towards humanity towards the Uighur folks.
- Create a complete and multifaceted technique, elevate worldwide consciousness and directs the State Department to successfully handle human rights challenges.
- Directs the U.S. State Department to incorporate Uyghur human rights activists within the U.S. Chair’s Program to talk at public diplomacy boards in Muslim-majority international locations in regards to the oppression of Uyghurs and different ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
- Uyghur coverage legislation handed the House of Representatives It obtained overwhelming bipartisan help within the final Congress.
Contents of the invoice
Raise your voice and protest towards oppression
- It opposes the efforts of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to silence the voices of the Uyghur folks, and advocates for enhancing the scenario of the Uyghur folks, who are suffering from human rights violations in China.
- Support U.S. fundraising efforts Uighur problem Contribute to work on the United Nations, together with supporting the appointment of a Special Rapporteur on human rights violations.
- The Chinese authorities has imprisoned greater than 1 million folks since 2017, and topics those that usually are not detained to intense surveillance, non secular restrictions, and compelled labor. and compelled sterilization.
mobilize the state division
- Provide the United States with the instruments it must help the elemental human rights and distinct identities of Uyghurs and different ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
- Direct the U.S. Agency for Global Media to: disseminate info For Uighurs and different ethnic minorities, go to Muslim-majority international locations.
- Requires the State Department to supply Uyghur language coaching to diplomats and appoint Uyghur-fluent personnel to U.S. diplomatic and consular posts in China.
Establishment of a particular coordinator for Uyghur points inside the State Department
- The Special Coordinator will work intently with Uyghur non secular, cultural and political leaders, together with requiring common journey to Xinjiang and Uyghur areas in Central Asia, Turkey, Albania, Germany and different components of Europe. preserve shut contact with the Uyghurs and lead Uyghur coordination efforts. launch of political prisoners.
- Consult with Congress on insurance policies associated to the Uyghur folks.
Pressure China to shut detention facilities
- We name on the U.S. authorities to: devise a techniquegoals to work with like-minded international locations to strain China to shut all detention amenities and facilitate the quick launch of detainees.
Supporter’s voice
“Uyghurs and different ethnic minorities are repeatedly silenced, detained, imprisoned, tortured and brainwashed in Chinese Communist Party-led focus camps merely due to their id. We should say no to genocide and the Chinese Communist Party’s repeated disinformation, coercion, coercion, and abuse.”
“The Chinese Communist Party is waging an abhorrent marketing campaign of genocide and human rights abuses towards Uyghurs and different predominantly Muslim ethnic teams. The United States stays silent within the face of those horrific human rights abuses. I’m proud to reintroduce a invoice that might improve human rights abuses.” I urge my colleagues to rapidly go this invoice, selling consciousness and advocacy for Uyghurs. Masu. ”
- Congressman Ami Bera (D-Calif.), Ranking member stated the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Indo-Pacific.
“Despite widespread worldwide condemnation, the Chinese Communist Party continues to focus on Uyghur Muslims and different ethnic and non secular minorities in Xinjiang due to their tradition and beliefs. Our nation should lead by instance and work intently with the worldwide group to “shield and advance human rights and freedoms. The Uyghur Policy Act reaffirms America’s dedication to defending democratic values overseas, This will strengthen our response to those atrocities by guaranteeing cooperation between the 2 international locations and offering the State Department with the assets to reply successfully to this disaster.”
Opposition opinion
- China denies any crimes on the worldwide stage. However, in May 2014, the Chinese authorities launched an “all-out marketing campaign towards violent terrorism” focusing on the Uyghur inhabitants.
- Maisamjian Maimuah, a Chinese non secular affairs official, stated: I wrote in regards to the Uyghurs. On the Xinhua Weibo web page on August 10, 2017:
“Cut off the lineage, reduce off the roots, reduce off the ties, reduce off the roots. I vow to totally dig up and dig up the roots of the ‘two-faced folks’ and combat towards the two-faced folks to the tip.”
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