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That the House of Representatives— reaffirms the commitment of the United States to promoting religious freedom globally and calls on the President and the Secretary of State, in accordance with the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, as amended by the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act of 2016 ( Public Law 114–281 ), to strengthen United States religious freedom diplomacy on behalf of individuals facing restrictions, imprisonment, and violence in foreign countries on account of their religious belief or practice; calls on the President to appoint a new Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom at the Department of State and to name a Special Advisor for International Religious Freedom at the National Security Council, as urged by section 201 of the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act ( Public Law 114–281 ); calls on the President, the Secretary of State, and the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom to develop a national security strategy on international religious freedom and to integrate that strategy into United States diplomatic, development, and national security strategies, including by incorporating international religious freedom policy into the strategic plans of all executive agencies with foreign policy responsibilities, including the Department of Defense Quadrennial Defense Review; urges the President to incorporate the national security strategy on international religious freedom into the National Security Strategy of the United States; urges the President, the Secretary of State, and the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom to provide strong support for international religious freedom in existing United Nations institutions that have a specialized expertise on the issue and leverage the growing network of foreign international religious freedom focused institutions including such bodies as the International Contact Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief, the Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief at the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the European Parliament Intergroup on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Religious Tolerance, the International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief, and the Commonwealth Initiative for Freedom of Religion or Belief; calls on the President, in collaboration with the Secretary of State, the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, in accordance with section 106 of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 ( 22 U.S.C. 6415 ), to develop a strategic plan for United States diplomatic missions to promote and protect international religious freedom and to direct grants to civil society, nongovernmental organizations, and both majority and minority religious groups that are engaged in innovative programs to build and strengthen pluralistic societies, protect the universally guaranteed right to the freedom of religion, reduce conflict, and counter violent religious extremism and terrorism; urges the Secretary of State to implement the requirements of section 103 of the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act ( Public Law 114–281 ) and develop a training curriculum for all American diplomats in international religious freedom policy; calls on the President, in collaboration with the Secretary of State, the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, the Chief Executive Officer of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, to develop a comprehensive and multiyear strategy that partners with civil society, businesses, key technology industries, religious leaders, and human rights defenders to achieve rapid levels of closed society access to the Internet in promotion of democracy and human rights, including religious freedom; urges that not less than 5 percent of funds appropriated for the Broadcasting Board of Governors is used to support Internet firewall and censorship circumvention activities; urges the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and other relevant agencies to develop a comprehensive response to protect the victims of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes and to provide humanitarian, stabilization, and recovery assistance to all individuals from religious and ethnic groups so effected in Iraq and Syria; and urges the Secretary of State to reestablish the Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group within the Department of State’s Federal Advisory Committee established by the previous administration, bringing together experts from government, universities, religious and other nongovernment organizations to develop an effective multiyear plan to address religious persecution globally and protect and promote international religious freedom.
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