Tell Congress to pass the Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act.

Millions of Uyghurs in China have been placed in camps where they have been subjected to forced labor, torture, and organ harvesting. The United States Congress needs to do more to end these atrocities.

Introduced in both the Senate (S.1770) and the House (H.R.8124), the Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act, or UGASA would expand existing sanctions and other measures to hold accountable the Chinese government for its horrific human rights atrocities against Uyghurs and other ethnic minority groups in China.

Amongst other provisions, the Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act would:

• Strengthen sanctions authorities to deny entry into the US for Chinese officials complicit in atrocities.
• Direct the Department of State and USAID to support—including through financial and technical assistance— efforts to document atrocities in China.
• Establish a Repressed Cultures Preservation Initiative within the Smithsonian Institution to invest in research, exhibitions, and education related to the cultural and linguistic heritage of ethnic and religious groups threatened by repressive regimes.
• Direct the Department of the Treasury to determine whether select Chinese companies have directly or indirectly engaged in serious human rights abuses against Uyghurs or other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups, and impose sanctions on liable entities.
• Direct the Department of State and the Director of U.S. Agency for Global Media to submit a strategy for countering propaganda from the government of China, denying complicity in atrocities in China
• Direct the Department of State to submit to Congress a strategy to deter and disrupt forced organ harvesting in China.

Please take action today to tell your Members of Congress to support and co-sponsor the Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act.