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of labor activists during 2004, including Chen Kehai, 
Zhao Yong, and Zhu Guo; 
Whereas the United States has not yet sought to schedule a 
new round of its bilateral human rights dialogue with 
China due to a lack of sufficient concrete results from 
the last round in December 2002; 
Whereas in March 2004 the Chinese Government announced 
the suspension of bilateral human rights dialogue with 
the United States because of the decision by the United 
States to table a resolution on China at the 60th Session 
of the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Ge-
neva; 
Whereas the People’s Republic of China has signed the Inter-
national Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, but has 
yet to take the necessary steps to make the treaty legally 
binding; 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
is a party to the 1951 United Nations Convention Relat-
ing to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol; 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
is a party to the United Nations Convention Against Tor-
ture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading 
Treatment or Punishment; and 
Whereas the Constitution and laws of the People’s Republic 
of China purport to provide for fundamental human 
rights, however, the protections of these rights are often 
ignored in practice: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That— 
(1) it is the sense of Congress that—
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(A) the United States Government should 
continue to insist that the People’s Republic of 
China respect the fundamental human rights of 
its citizens; 
(B) as a forum dedicated solely to human 
rights concerns, the United Nations Human 
Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland, is 
an appropriate venue for the United States and 
other countries to raise the situation of human 
rights inside China, without regard to ancillary 
strategic considerations; 
(C) the failure of the United Nations 
Human Rights Commission to formally recog-
nize human rights violations as extensive as 
those occurring in China reflects poorly on the 
ability of the Commission to fulfill its core pur-
poses; 
(D) at the 61st Session of the United Na-
tions Human Rights Commission in Geneva, 
Switzerland, the appropriate representative of 
the United States should introduce a resolution 
detailing the human rights situation within the 
People’s Republic of China and urging the Gov-
ernment of China to abide by internationally 
recognized human rights standards;
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(E) the United States Government should 
take the lead in organizing multilateral support 
to obtain passage by the Commission of such a 
resolution and should draft the resolution in 
such a way as to highlight specific human 
rights abuses; 
(F) all countries with representatives at 
the 61st Session of the United Nations Human 
Rights Commission should support passage of 
such a resolution and resist efforts by rep-
resentatives of the People’s Republic of China 
to oppose the consideration or passage of such 
a resolution; and 
(G) United States Government officials 
and officials from other governments should 
continue to speak out in international fora and 
elsewhere against the Chinese Government’s 
suppression of religious and political freedoms, 
its persecution of Tibetans, Falun Gong practi-
tioners, Catholics, Protestants, and Uighur 
Muslims, its unjust arrest and detention of reli-
gious leaders and political dissidents, its harsh 
prison conditions, its coercive family planning 
policies, and its forced return of North Korean 
refugees; and
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(2) Congress urges the Government of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China— 
(A) to take the necessary measures to stop 
the persecution of all religious practitioners and 
to safeguard fundamental human rights; 
(B) to stop the forced return of North Ko-
rean refugees, to allow the United Nations 
High Commissioner for Refugees access to 
North Koreans inside China, and to work with 
the United Nations High Commissioner for 
Refugees to develop a viable solution to the hu-
manitarian crisis involving North Korean refu-
gees; 
(C) to end its coercive one-child per family 
policy and ensure that no national, provincial, 
or local government officials subject women to 
forced abortions or sterilizations; 
(D) to immediately hold an open and 
transparent investigation into the 1989 crack-
down 
on 
pro-democracy 
demonstrators 
in 
Tiananmen Square, to release all the prisoners 
held in connection with that event, and to pay 
compensation to the families who lost their 
loved ones;
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(E) to release from detention all prisoners 
of conscience, persons held because of their reli-
gious activities, and persons of humanitarian 
concern; 
(F) to release the 11th Panchen Lama 
identified by Dalai Lama and allow him to un-
dertake his rightful role; 
(G) to allow the Chinese people to freely 
and openly practice their religious beliefs and 
organize their religious communities according 
to the dictates of conscience, free from govern-
ment coercion; 
(H) to adhere to the provisions and guide-
lines of the International Covenant on Civil and 
Political Rights, the United Nations Convention 
Against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, In-
human, or Degrading Treatment or Punish-
ment, and the 1951 Convention Relating to the 
Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol; and 
(I) to allow, immediately and without re-
strictions, visits to China by the United States 
Commission on International Religious Free-
dom, the United Nations Special Rapporteurs