Sec. 8. Addressing authoritarians in the multilateral system
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It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State and the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations should use the voice, vote, and influence of the United States at the United Nations and with other multilateral bodies— to promote the full participation of civil society actors within the United National Human Rights Council and other multilateral bodies; to closely monitor instances of reprisals against such actors; and to support the use of targeted sanctions, censure of member states, and other diplomatic measures to hold responsible any person who engages in reprisals against human rights defenders and civil society within such multilateral bodies; to reform the process for suspending the rights of membership in the United Nations Human Rights Council for member states that commit gross and systemic violations of human rights, including— ensuring information detailing the member state’s human rights record is publicly available before a vote for membership or a vote on suspending the rights of membership of such member state; and making publicly available the vote of each member state on the suspension of rights of membership from the United Nations Human Rights Council; to reform the rules for electing members to the United Nations Human Rights Council to seek to ensure that member states that have committed gross and systemic violations of human rights are not elected to the Human Rights Council; and to oppose the election to the United Nations Human Rights Council of any member state— that engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, as determined pursuant to section 116 or 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n and 2304); the government of which has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism, as determined pursuant to section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2371 ); that is designated as a Tier 3 country under section 110(b)(1)(C) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7107(b)(1)(C) ); that is included on the list published by the Secretary of State pursuant to section 404(b)(1) of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 ( 22 U.S.C. 2370c–1(b)(1) ) as a government that recruits and uses child soldiers; or the government of which the United States determines to have committed genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, or ethnic cleansing.
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Sec. 8
Addressing authoritarians in the multilateral system
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