Sec. 3. Statement of policy
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It is the policy of the United States— to regard the prevention of genocide and other atrocity crimes as a national interest particularly when those actions target Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz and other predominately Muslim ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region through mass arbitrary detentions, forced labor, forced sterilizations, forced abortions and other coercive birth restrictions policies, sexual violence and other torture in detention, and forced transfer of children to orphanages and boarding schools; to condemn genocide and work diplomatically to end genocide and other atrocity crimes, including by calling on foreign governments, through both bilateral discussions and in multilateral organizations, to denounce and take actions to end the atrocity crimes perpetuated in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; to raise the issue of state-sanctioned violence against women, including rape, torture, and coercively enforced population control policies in the People’s Republic of China, in all multilateral organizations where the United States and the People’s Republic of China are members, including at the United Nations Security Council; to consider state-sanctioned violence against women, including forced sterilizations and forced abortions and the systematic use of rape and torture in mass internment camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as a gross violation of internationally-recognized human rights; and to use all the existing United States authorities, including visa and financial sanctions, to hold accountable individuals and entities responsible for genocide and other atrocity crimes in the People’s Republic of China, section 6 of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act (Public Law No: 116–145) and including section 1263 of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (subtitle F of title XII of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note).
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