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population plummeted by 24 percent, compared to a 4.2 
percent decline nationwide; 
Whereas the People’s Republic of China set a near-zero birth-
rate target of 1.05 per 1,000 people for one majority- 
Uyghur and Kazakh region for 2020, compared to 19.66 
per 1,000 in 2018; 
Whereas, in 2018, 80 percent of intrauterine device (IUD) 
insertions in China were performed in Xinjiang, which 
only makes up 1.8 percent of the nation’s population, up 
from only 2.5 percent in 2014; 
Whereas Chinese IUDs are designed without strings so that 
they can only be removed through surgical procedures by 
state-approved medical practitioners, and unauthorized 
removals are punished with prison sentences and fines; 
Whereas the People’s Republic of China’s policies incentivize 
interethnic marriages between ethnic minorities and Han 
that effectively assimilate minorities into the Han cul-
ture; 
Whereas the Pair Up and Become Family program sends 
male Han Chinese officials to live in and surveil Uyghur 
and other Muslim ethnic minorities’ homes, sometimes 
forcing Uyghur women to sleep alongside the Han offi-
cials sent to observe them; 
Whereas Xinjiang policies disrupt every facet of ethnic minor-
ity women’s lives beginning with sending young girls to 
Chinese boarding school, then pressuring marriage to 
Han Chinese men, pregnancy checks, and forced birth 
control or sterilization as a means of population control; 
Whereas the Programme of Action adopted at the Inter-
national Conference on Population and Development in 
1994 affirmed the right of individuals to make decisions 
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concerning reproduction free of all forms of discrimina-
tion, violence, or coercion, and reproductive coercion in-
cludes, but is not limited to, use of incentives or disincen-
tives to lower or raise fertility, withholding of information 
on reproductive health options, coerced or forced abor-
tion, involuntary sterilization or use of contraception, or 
forced pregnancy; 
Whereas, on October 6, 2020, 39 countries delivered a cross- 
regional joint statement to the United States Mission to 
the United Nations on the human rights abuses on 
Uyghurs and other minorities for forced birth control in-
cluding sterilization; 
Whereas, on January 19, 2021, the Department of State de-
termined that the People’s Republic of China committed 
crimes against humanity and genocide against Uyghurs 
and other ethnic and religious minority groups in 
Xinjiang, citing forced sterilizations, forced abortions, co-
erced marriages, and separation of Uyghur children from 
their families; 
Whereas the Department of State’s 2020 Country Reports on 
Human Rights Practices affirmed the genocide deter-
mination and noted coercive population control measures 
inflicted on ethnic and religious minority women in 
China, including forced injections with ‘‘drugs that cause 
temporary or permanent end to their menstrual cycles 
and fertility’’; and 
Whereas the United States ratified the United Nations Con-
vention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide 
in 1988, recognizing that ‘‘imposing measures intended 
to prevent births within the group’’ with intent to destroy 
a group in whole or part is an act that constitutes geno-
cide: Now, therefore, be it 
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Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the atrocities against religious 
and ethnic minority women in the Xinjiang Uyghur 
Autonomous Region by the Government of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China; 
(2) calls on the People’s Republic of China— 
(A) to uphold its obligations as a signatory 
to the Convention on the Prevention and Pun-
ishment of Genocide and the International Con-
vention on the Elimination of All Forms of Ra-
cial Discrimination, and cease violations of the 
Conventions’ acts; 
(B) to halt all forms of forced or coercive 
population-control practices and end all coercive 
policies; and 
(C) to release all individuals detained in in-
ternment camps and forced-labor programs, in-
cluding women interned for violations of birth 
control regulations; 
(3) condemns performing unwanted, unneces-
sary medical procedures on individuals without their 
full, informed consent and recognizes that everyone 
has a right to control their own reproductive choices 
and make informed choices about their bodies; and 
(4) urges the President of the United States— 
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(A) to take all available actions to prevent 
atrocities against religious and ethnic minority 
women in the People’s Republic of China; 
(B) to encourage and engage in a United 
Nations-led full investigation of state-sponsored 
atrocities against women in the Xinjiang 
Uyghur Autonomous Region, including meas-
ures intended to prevent births within specific 
ethnic and religious groups; 
(C) to use interagency partnerships and 
existing 
authorities, 
including 
the 
Global 
Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, 
to impose targeted sanctions against individuals 
and entities responsible for coercive population- 
control measures and other human rights 
abuses against women in the Xinjiang Uyghur 
Autonomous Region; 
(D) to address atrocities against religious 
and ethnic minority women in the People’s Re-
public of China through bilateral relations and 
engagement with multilateral institutions and 
conventions to which both the United States 
and the People’s Republic of China are parties; 
(E) to use all existing authorities to pro-
vide protection to ethnic and religious minority 
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women who escape the People’s Republic of 
China, including the authority to include 
Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and certain others 
who are or were nationals and residents of the 
People’s Republic of China as Priority 2 refu-
gees of special humanitarian concern; and 
(F) to use all existing authorities to inves-
tigate and provide protection to individuals cur-
rently unjustly detained by the People’s Repub-
lic of China, including at least 21 of whom have 
ties to the United States, 5 of which are 
women. 
Æ 
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