简报：拜登总统宣布就针对亚裔的暴力、仇视行为和偏见进一步采取行动
白宫（WHITE HOUSE）
华盛顿哥伦比亚特区（Washington, D.C.）
2021年3月30日
“太多的美国亚裔在街道上行走时总感到忧心忡忡，一年来每天早上醒来时都担心个人安全和亲人的安全面临威胁。他们遭到攻击，受人指责，沦为替罪羊并受到骚扰。他们遭到恶语相向、人身攻击，被杀害……今天，我们与美国亚裔和太平洋诸岛（AAPI）领导人进行的对话，我们听到全国各地的议论纷纷，都指出光天化日之下发生的仇恨和暴力往往被视而不见，且人们经常对此默不作声。这种现象在我国历史上已屡见不鲜，但必须得到改变——因为我们的沉默等于同流合污。我们不能助恶为虐。我们必须大声疾呼。我们必须行动起来。”
–          总统乔·拜登（Joe Biden），2021年3月19日
在我国各地，美国亚裔群体，特别是美国亚裔妇女和女孩遭到骇人听闻的暴力和仇视行为，人们对这种现象的悲痛和愤怒正继续蔓延。拜登总统第一次在黄金时段发表演说时表示，针对亚裔的暴力和仇视行为是错误的，不是美国应有的素质，必须得到制止。
今天，拜登总统宣布对暴力攻击亚裔事件的增长采取新的行动，要求为全体美国亚裔、夏威夷原住民（Native Hawaiian）和太平洋诸岛（Pacific Islander）群体倡导安全、包容和归属。这些是继总统上任后第一个星期发布《谴责和抗击针对美国亚裔和太平洋诸岛居民的种族主义、仇视和偏狭行为备忘录》（Memorandum Condemning and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States）后采取的行动。总统在上任后65天内曾宣布，谴责针对亚裔的偏见和暴力是本届政府的既定政策；另与副总统在亚特兰大（Atlanta t）会见美国亚裔和太平洋诸岛领导人，谴责针对亚裔的暴力和性暴力；同时要求国会（Congress）批准参议员广野（Hirono ）和众议员孟昭文（Meng）提出的《COVID-19 仇恨犯罪法》（COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act）；并创建了具有历史意义的多样性政府，在所有接受任命的人员中有15%是美国亚裔和太平洋诸岛居民。
今天宣布的行动包括：
重申和加强《白宫关于美国亚裔和太平洋诸岛居民的倡议》（White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders），以制止针对亚裔的偏见和暴力为基本要点：总统将重建和扩大该倡议的基本授权，要求协调各联邦机构制止针对亚裔的偏见和暴力，特别是与性暴力交集的针对亚裔的暴力。该倡议将扩大授权范围，为全体美国亚裔、夏威夷原住民和太平洋诸岛群体倡导包容、归属和机会。今后几个星期，本届政府将会见美国亚裔、夏威夷原住民和太平洋诸岛领导人和有关组织，听取他们对倡议的使命、结构和社区联系等事务提出的建议。同时，总统将任命一名常设主任负责倡议的领导工作，与涉及美国亚裔、夏威夷原住民和太平洋诸岛群体的联邦政府各部协调相关的政策。
为美国亚裔和太平洋诸岛居民的家庭暴力和性攻击幸存者提供资助：卫生与公众服务部（Department of Health and Human Services）从美国纾困计划（American Rescue Plan）中拨款4,900万美元用于为社区基层文化专项服务和项目提供捐赠的计划。这些专项服务和项目的对象是在获得服务和安全方面遭遇更多障碍的家庭暴力和性攻击事件幸存者。例如语言沟通障碍等。这个项目将为美国亚裔、夏威夷原住民和太平洋诸岛群体的家庭暴力幸存者扩大有关的服务。
建立COVID-19 新冠病毒公平事务特别工作组（COVID-19 Equity Task Force）委员会，解决和制止针对美国亚裔的仇视行为：拜登总统于2021年1月21日发布《关于保障疫情公平应对和复元的行政命令》（Executive Order on Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery），建立COVID-19 新冠病毒平等事务特别工作组，负责为总统消除因COVID-19 新冠病毒疾病的接触、患病、住院和死亡比率较高导致的卫生和社会差距及防止今后这类不平等现象提出建议。
为开展这项工作，卫生与公众服务部今天宣布，特别工作组成立《卫生不平等和仇视行为结构因素小组委员会》（subcommittee on Structural Drivers of Health Inequity and Xenophobia）。这个小组委员会将提出有关建议，确保联邦政府对2019冠状病毒疾病的反应缓解对亚裔的仇视和偏见，体现《总统谴责和抗击针对美国亚裔和太平洋诸岛居民的种族主义、仇视和偏狭行为备忘录》的宗旨。
除了解决对美国亚裔社区的偏见和仇视行为外，这个小组委员会还将推动针对具体美国亚裔群体的卫生平等，其中包括太平洋诸岛居民和夏威夷原住民群体，2019冠状病毒疾病在这些群体中的感染率和造成的死亡超乎寻常。小组委员会将带领快速政策行动，制定可实施的行动建议，在美国结束并从2019冠状病毒疫情中恢复的过程中，增进对美国亚裔、夏威夷原住民和太平洋诸岛居民的文化理解、语言沟通和包容。
由司法部（Department of Justice）成立跨部门行动项目处理针对亚裔的暴力：为贯彻总统第一周的备忘录，抗击针对美国亚裔和太平洋诸岛居民的仇视行为，司法部成立了一个全部门行动项目，回应针对亚裔的暴力。迄今的行动包括：
启动一个新的联邦资助项目在线图书馆，介绍并表彰美国亚裔对美国的贡献：国家人文基金会（National Endowment for the Humanities）正在启动一个在线图书馆，其中包括可供教育工作者、公民领导人、艺术和人文机构以及家庭用于了解美国亚裔历史的资源，并应对美国针对亚裔的歧视和种族主义的历史以及持续存在的挑战。
资助至关重要的研究工作，来防止并应对针对美国亚裔社区的偏见及仇视行为。国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）正在采取一种综合全面的方针投入于了解、应对并终止偏见、歧视和仇视现象的研究，其中包括针对美国亚裔和太平洋诸岛社区的有关现象。国家科学基金会目前正在全国各地支持100多项赠款，投入总额超过了3,300万美元。这些多样性的研究人员正在推进创新性研究，以展示更有效的新战略，来降低在历史上缺乏代表性的群体所遭受的歧视的频繁及严重程度，并减轻针对包括美国亚裔社区在内的历史上缺乏代表性的社区和个人的行径以及对他们施以暴力的行径。这项工作延续着国家科学基金会致力于支持在这些关键领域的根本性研究的历史传统。
今天宣布的是拜登政府为通过全政府齐努力实现种族公正的方针来增进美国亚裔、夏威夷原住民和太平洋诸岛社区的平等而进一步采取的举措。拜登总统在就职第一天就签署了《通过联邦政府增进种族平等以及对缺乏服务的社区的支持的行政命令》（Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government）。作为这项行政令的一部分，总统责成联邦机构采取一项综合全面的方针，增进美国亚裔和太平洋诸岛居民的平等。从减少语言障碍，到改善有关美国亚裔和太平洋诸岛个人和家庭的数据收集和分类，拜登政府正致力于同美国亚裔领导人、民权组织和社区携手努力，以增进所有人都享有的公平、机遇和包容。

FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Additional Actions to Respond to Anti-Asian Violence, Xenophobia and Bias
MARCH 30, 2021
STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
“Too many Asian Americans have been walking up and down the streets and worrying, waking up each morning the past year feeling their safety and the safety of their loved ones are at stake. They’ve been attacked, blamed, scapegoated, and harassed. They’ve been verbally assaulted, physically assaulted, killed… The conversation we had today with the AAPI leaders, and that we’re hearing all across the country, is that hate and violence often hide in plain sight. And it’s often met with silence. That’s been true throughout our history, but that has to change — because our silence is complicity. We cannot be complicit. We have to speak out. We have to act.”
– President Joe Biden, March 19, 2021
Across our nation, an outpouring of grief and outrage continues at the horrific violence and xenophobia perpetrated against Asian American communities, especially Asian American women and girls. As President Biden said during his first prime time address, anti-Asian violence and xenophobia is wrong, it’s un-American, and it must stop.
Today, President Biden is announcing new actions to respond to the increase in acts of anti-Asian violence, and to advance safety, inclusion, and belonging for all Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities. These actions build on the President’s Memorandum Condemning and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States, issued his first week in office. In his first 65 days, the President announced that it is the official policy of this Administration to condemn anti-Asian bias and violence; visited AAPI leaders in Atlanta to denounce anti-Asian violence and gender-based violence with the Vice President; called on Congress to pass the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act introduced by Senator Hirono and Congresswoman Meng; and created a historically diverse Administration in which 15 percent of all appointees identify as Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Today’s announcements include:
Reinstating and reinvigorating the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, with initial focus on anti-Asian bias and violence: The President will re-establish and expand the initiative’s initial mandate to coordinate across federal agencies to combat anti-Asian bias and violence, especially anti-Asian violence at the intersection of gender-based violence. The initiative will have an expanded mandate to promote inclusion, belonging, and opportunity for all Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities. Over the coming weeks, the Administration will meet with Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander leaders and organizations to hear their recommendations for the initiative’s mission, structure, and community engagement. And, the President will appoint a permanent Director to lead the Initiative in the coordination of policies across the federal government impacting Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities.
Funding for AAPI survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault: The Department of Health and Human Services is allocating $49.5 million from the American Rescue Plan to a new grant program for community based, culturally specific services and programs for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault who face additional barriers to services and safety, such as language access barriers. This program will expand services to domestic violence survivors from Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities.
Establishing a COVID-19 Equity Task Force committee on addressing and ending xenophobia against Asian Americans: President Biden established a COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force through his Executive Order on Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery on January 21, 2021. The Task Force is charged with making recommendations to the President to eliminate health and social disparities that result in disproportionately higher rates of exposure, illness, hospitalization and death related to COVID-19, and for preventing such inequities in the future.
To carry out this work, today HHS is announcing that the Task Force has established a subcommittee on Structural Drivers of Health Inequity and Xenophobia. This subcommittee will provide recommendations to ensure the Federal Government’s response to COVID-19 mitigates anti-Asian xenophobia and bias, as established by the Presidential Memorandum Condemning and Combatting Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance Against Asian American and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
In addition to addressing bias and xenophobia against Asian American communities, the subcommittee will advance health equity for specific Asian American communities, including Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian communities who have disproportionately been infected by and died from COVID-19. The subcommittee will lead policy sprints to develop actionable recommendations for advancing cultural competency, language access, and inclusion towards Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders as the United States ends and recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Establishment of a Department of Justice cross-agency initiative to address anti-Asian violence: To implement the President’s week-one Memorandum combatting AAPI xenophobia, DOJ has established a whole agency initiative to respond to anti-Asian violence. Actions to date include:
Launching a new virtual bookshelf of federally-funded projects that explore and celebrate Asian Americans’ contributions to the United States: The National Endowment for the Humanities is launching a virtual library including resources for educators, civic leaders, arts and humanities institutions, and families to explore Asian American history, and address the history and ongoing challenge of anti-Asian discrimination and racism in the United States.
Funding critical research to prevent and address bias and xenophobia against Asian American communities. The National Science Foundation is taking a comprehensive approach to investing in research to understand, address, and end bias, discrimination and xenophobia, including against AAPI communities. NSF is currently supporting more than 100 grants across the country totaling more than $33 million dollars of investment. These diverse researchers are advancing innovative studies to reveal new and more effective strategies for reducing the frequency and severity of discrimination experienced by historically underrepresented groups, and reduce targeting of, and violence towards, historically underrepresented communities and individuals, including Asian American communities. This work continues NSF’s history of commitment to supporting fundamental research in these vital areas.
Today’s announcements are additional steps in the Biden Administration’s work to advance equity for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities through a whole-of-government approach to racial justice. On his first day in office, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government. As part of this Order, the President charged federal agencies with taking a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for AAPI communities. From reducing language access barriers, to improving the collection and disaggregation of data on AAPI individuals and households, the Biden Administration is committed to working hand in hand with Asian American leaders, civil rights organizations, and communities to advance fairness, opportunity, and inclusion for all.
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