SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Uyghur Stop Oppres-
sive Sterilizations Act’’ or the ‘‘Uyghur SOS Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Eyewitness accounts provide credible docu-
mentation of widespread forced sterilization and sex-
ual violence against Uyghur and Kazakh women in 
the People’s Republic of China, including investiga-
tions and independent interviews by global media 
outlets. 
(2) Women who survived internment camps re-
port that they were forced to undergo multiple injec-
tions of unknown medicines that caused temporary 
or permanent loss of menstrual cycles. 
(3) Chinese 
Government 
documents 
dem-
onstrate rapid declines in population in two predomi-
nately Uyghur prefectures of the Xinjiang Uyghur 
Autonomous Region between 2015 and 2018, and an 
unprecedented near-zero birth rate target for 2020 
in one district. Government documents mandate that 
birth 
control 
violations 
are 
punishable 
by 
extrajudicial internment in ‘‘training’’ camps. 
(4) Chinese Government documents from 2019 
reveal plans for a campaign of mass female steriliza-
tion in rural Uyghur populated regions of the 
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Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, to be contin-
ued in 2020 with increased funding. Publicly avail-
able budgets indicate that this project had sufficient 
funding to perform hundreds of thousands of tubal 
ligation sterilization procedures in 2019 and 2020. 
(5) In 2019, the Government of the Xinjiang 
Uyghur Autonomous Region planned to subject at 
least 80 percent of women of childbearing age in the 
four southern, rural, minority prefectures to intru-
sive birth-prevention surgeries. 
(6) A leaked report written by Nankai Univer-
sity researchers for the Chinese Government con-
firms the intent of intention of state-organized 
forced labor transfers as having the ultimate pur-
pose of assimilating Uyghurs, ‘‘breaking up’’ their 
society, and altering demographic trends. 
(7) The policy of state-sponsored forced popu-
lation-transfer program, which separates married 
couples and forcibly places unmarried individuals 
into controlled environments where they cannot 
marry or form a family, is a violation of the funda-
mental right ‘‘to marry and to found a family,’’ as 
codified by Article 16 of the Universal Declaration 
of Human Rights (1948). 
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(8) Under the ‘‘becoming family’’ homestay pro-
gram initiated by the government of the People’s 
Republic of China in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono-
mous Region, government workers and other Com-
munist Party members are assigned to live with eth-
nic minority families in their homes to conduct sur-
veillance and compile information on family mem-
bers, in arrangements which leave these families vul-
nerable to sexual violence and other types of abuse. 
(9) On January 7, 2021, an official social 
media account for the Government of China said 
that a ‘‘Study shows that in the process of eradi-
cating extremism, the minds of Uygur women in 
Xinjiang were emancipated and gender equality and 
reproductive health were promoted, making them no 
longer baby-making machines [and] . . . . They are 
more confident and independent.’’. 
(10) Uyghur and Kazakh women who have 
given testimony to reporters about sexual violence 
and forced sterilizations in mass internment camps 
have been intimidated and their families threatened 
by security officials from the People’s Republic of 
China. 
(11) Article Two of the Genocide Convention of 
1948, which China has signed and ratified, states 
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that ‘‘genocide means any of the following acts com-
mitted with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a 
national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: 
‘‘(A) Killing members of the group; 
‘‘(B) Causing serious bodily or mental 
harm to members of the group; 
‘‘(C) Deliberately inflicting on the group 
conditions of life calculated to bring about its 
physical destruction in whole or in part; 
‘‘(D) Imposing measures intended to pre-
vent births within the group; 
‘‘(E) Forcibly transferring children of the 
group to another group.’’. 
(12) On January 19, 2021, the Secretary of 
State released a determination about atrocities in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region that stat-
ed that the ‘‘ongoing’’ crimes against humanity 
against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and 
other members of ethnic and religious minority 
groups include forced sterilization, and called upon 
the PRC ‘‘immediately to release all arbitrarily de-
tained persons and abolish its system of internment, 
detention camps, house arrest and forced labor; 
cease coercive population control measures, including 
forced sterilizations, forced abortion, forced birth 
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control, and the removal of children from their fami-
lies; and end all torture and abuse in places of de-
tention . . . .’’ 
(13) That same determination concluded that, 
after careful examination of the facts, the Govern-
ment of China was committing ‘‘genocide’’ against 
Uyghur, Kazakh, and other ethnic minority groups 
in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 
(14) Secretary of State Tony Blinken affirmed 
that the United States Government recognizes the 
atrocities faced by Uyghurs and other ethnic and re-
ligious minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono-
mous Region as ongoing genocide and crimes 
against humanity and said the United States will 
hold the Government of China responsible for the 
‘‘atrocities’’ committed in the Xinjiang Uyghur Au-
tonomous Region. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States— 
(1) to regard the prevention of genocide and 
other atrocity crimes as a national interest particu-
larly when those actions target Uyghurs, Kazakhs, 
and Kyrgyz and other predominately Muslim ethnic 
minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Re-
gion through mass arbitrary detentions, forced labor, 
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forced sterilizations, forced abortions and other coer-
cive birth restrictions policies, sexual violence and 
other torture in detention, and forced transfer of 
children to orphanages and boarding schools; 
(2) to condemn genocide and work diplomati-
cally to end genocide and other atrocity crimes, in-
cluding by calling on foreign governments, through 
both bilateral discussions and in multilateral organi-
zations, to denounce and take actions to end the 
atrocity crimes perpetuated in the Xinjiang Uyghur 
Autonomous Region; 
(3) to raise the issue of state-sanctioned vio-
lence against women, including rape, torture, and 
coercively enforced population control policies in the 
People’s Republic of China, in all multilateral orga-
nizations where the United States and the People’s 
Republic of China are members, including at the 
United Nations Security Council; 
(4) 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 inter-
nationally-recognized human rights; and 
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(5) to use all the existing United States au-
thorities, including visa and financial sanctions, to 
hold accountable individuals and entities responsible 
for genocide and other atrocity crimes in the Peo-
ple’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 (sub-
title F of title XII of the National Defense Author-
ization Act for Fiscal Year 2017; 22 U.S.C. 2656 
note). 
SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS CONCERNING ATROCITY 
CRIMES IN THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONO-
MOUS REGION. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the atrocities perpetrated by the Govern-
ment of the People’s Republic of China against 
Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other predominately 
Muslim ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur 
Autonomous Region are horrific and ongoing and 
constitute genocide and crimes against humanity; 
(2) all governments, including the United 
States, and international organizations, such as the 
United Nations and the Office of the Secretary-Gen-
eral, should call the atrocities perpetuated by the 
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Government of the People’s Republic of China, in-
cluding the mass arbitrary detention of ethnic mi-
norities; forced sterilizations and forced abortions 
and other sexual violence; and forced labor, as geno-
cide and crimes against humanity; 
(3) the United States, in coordination with al-
lies and partners, should strongly condemn the in-
timidation and threats targeting Uyghur and 
Kazakh women who provide public evidence of sexual 
violence and forced sterilizations and forced abor-
tions in mass internment camps and the journalist 
who report these stories; 
(4) member states of the United Nations should 
consider all Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities de-
tained and imprisoned through the justice system in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as arbi-
trarily detained due to the severe restrictions on in-
formation regarding the cases and because research 
by human rights organizations indicate that long 
prison sentences were given to individuals for prac-
ticing their religion or engaging in other internation-
ally-recognized human rights; 
(5) member states of the United Nations should 
condemn the atrocities committed by the Govern-
ment of the People’s Republic China, including 
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forced sterilizations and other state-sanctioned vio-
lence against women, and take steps to prevent fur-
ther crimes against humanity and genocide in the 
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region including by 
demanding that the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China— 
(A) immediately adhere to its commitments 
under the Convention on the Prevention and 
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; 
(B) end all forced sterilization, forced 
abortions, and other state-sanctioned violence 
against women; 
(C) release all individuals from internment 
camps, and all others who are unjustly or arbi-
trarily detained, including those engaged in 
forced labor programs or separated from their 
families in state-run boarding schools; 
(D) end harassment and restrictions on 
foreign journalists while they are traveling in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and 
immediately end any threats and intimidation 
directed at journalists for reporting about con-
ditions there; and 
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(E) guarantee the right to the freedom of 
religion, including by rebuilding mosques and 
restoring holy sites and cemeteries; 
(6) member states of the United Nations should 
take action to collect and preserve evidence of geno-
cide and crimes against humanity and establish ap-
propriate special mechanisms and tribunals to hold 
accountable officials responsible for genocide and 
crimes against humanity, including through the es-
tablishment of an international Commission on In-
quiry on Atrocity Crimes in the Xinjiang Uyghur 
Autonomous Region; and 
(7) the Department of State should be com-
mended for raising the issue of atrocity crimes and 
its public determination that the Government of the 
People’s Republic of China is responsible for an on-
going genocide and for crimes against humanity in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 
SEC. 
5. 
STRATEGY 
TO 
ADDRESS 
GENOCIDE 
IN 
THE 
XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION. 
(a) FINDING.—Congress finds that— 
(1) the determination of the Secretary of State 
that the Government of the People’s Republic of 
China is responsible for perpetrating both genocide 
and crimes against humanity targeting Uyghurs and 
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