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HI HR162
Resolution
Status
3/12/2021
Primary Sponsor
Gene Ward
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AI Summary
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Encourages the People's Republic of China to treat ethnic Muslim minorities, especially Uyghurs, fairly and humanely in accordance with the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
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Calls on the US Government and US-owned companies to form global partnerships ensuring businesses do not support, enable, or profit from mass surveillance, forced labor, human trafficking, or inhumane treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups in China.
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Documents allegations including detention of approximately 1,800,000 Turkic Muslims since 2017, forced sterilization (60,000+ procedures from 2016-2018), forced separation of nearly 500,000 Muslim children, and forced labor transfers of approximately 80,000 people between 2017-2019.
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Directs transmission of certified resolution copies to the US Senate Majority Leader, US House Speaker, Hawaii's congressional delegation, Hawaii's governor, Hawaii's legislative leaders, and all Hawaii legislators.
Legislative Description
Urging Fair And Humane Treatment Of The Uyghurs, Ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, And Members Of Other Muslim Minority Groups In The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region In The Peoples Republic Of China
Last Action
Referred to JHA, FIN, referral sheet 25
3/15/2021