•HRES 162 IH 
(1) indicates that the Trafficking in Victims Protec-
tion Act defines ‘‘severe forms’’ of trafficking in persons 
as: sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is in-
duced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person 
induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years 
of age; or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, 
provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, 
through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the pur-
pose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt 
bondage, or slavery; 
(2) states that Tier 3 is the most severe category for 
trafficking activity and defines Tier 3 as ‘‘countries 
whose governments do not fully comply with the min-
imum standards and are not making significant efforts to 
do so’’; and 
(3) indicates that the Government of China has been 
designated in Tier 3 by the Department of State in the 
TIP since 2017; 
Whereas, on February 3, 2021, the British Broadcasting 
Corporation (BBC) reported several shocking and appall-
ing firsthand accounts of an organized system of mass 
rape, sexual abuse, and torture of the Uyghurs in the 
XUAR; 
Whereas, on February 11, 2021, the PRC banned the BBC 
for its reporting on human rights abuses in XUAR; 
Whereas, in October 2020, United Kingdom Foreign Sec-
retary Dominic Raab stated, regarding a potential boy-
cott of the 2022 Winter Olympics due to human rights 
violations against the Uyghurs, that ‘‘my instinct is to 
separate sport from diplomacy and politics, but there 
comes a point where that may not be possible’’; 
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•HRES 162 IH 
Whereas, in September 2020, an international coalition of 
human rights organizations wrote to the International 
Olympic Committee requesting the committee ‘‘reverse its 
mistake in awarding Beijing the honor of hosting the 
Winter Olympic Games in 2022’’; 
Whereas, in November 2020, the Australian Parliament de-
bated a motion calling on the ‘‘Australian Government to 
work with the Australian Olympic Committee to ensure 
Australia boycotts the 2022 Winter Olympics games in 
Beijing’’; 
Whereas, in January 2020, the editorial board of The Wash-
ington Post opposed the Government of China hosting 
the 2022 Winter Olympics and stated, ‘‘the world must 
ask whether China, slowly strangling an entire people, 
has the moral standing to host the 2022 Winter Olympic 
Games. We think not.’’; 
Whereas, in 1980, in H. Con. Res. 249, the House of Rep-
resentatives voted 386 to 12, and the Senate voted 88 to 
4, to urge the United States Olympic Committee to pro-
pose the transfer or cancellation of the 1980 Summer 
Olympics in Moscow; to urge the International Olympic 
Committee to adopt such a proposal; and, if the Inter-
national Olympic Committee rejected the proposal, to 
urge the United States Olympic Committee and those of 
other countries not to participate in the Games and to 
conduct alternative games of their own, due to concerns 
over the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan; 
Whereas since the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, 
the human rights record and global authoritarian influ-
ence of China have severely worsened and do not meet 
the values of Olympism; and 
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Whereas the Olympic Games is a celebration of international 
culture, a festival of humanity, and is intended to be 
independent of political, ideological, and diplomatic dis-
agreements, but hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics 
Games in the PRC, where organized atrocities in the 
XUAR are ongoing, where the freedoms of Hong Kong’s 
citizens are being trampled, where the fundamental right 
to worship is brutally persecuted, and in the wake of the 
ongoing global devastation from COVID–19, would be 
immoral, unethical, and wrong: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) supports the achievements of the athletes, 
coaches, and personnel of the United States Olympic 
& Paralympic Committee; 
(2) affirms the values and goals of Olympism; 
(3) urges the International Olympic Committee 
to rebid the 2022 Winter Olympics to a country that 
recognizes and respects human rights; 
(4) calls on the United States Olympic & 
Paralympic Committee to support human rights and 
boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics if held in the 
People’s Republic of China; and 
(5) calls on the Administration to support inter-
national efforts toward a boycott of the 2022 Olym-
pic Winter Games if they are held in China. 
Æ 
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