[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1277 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. RES. 1277
Recognizing, from Chicago to Palestine to the Democratic Republic of
the Congo to Puerto Rico, that the pain, violence, and oppression the
global majority experiences are interconnected, acknowledges that the
future must be self-determined, and affirms our humanity and dignity
through a renewed mandate for human rights.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 12, 2026
Mrs. Ramirez (for herself, Ms. Pressley, Ms. Vel?zquez, Ms. Tlaib, and
Ms. Clarke of New York) submitted the following resolution; which was
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the
Committees on Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security, Armed Services, House
Administration, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, Education and
Workforce, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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RESOLUTION
Recognizing, from Chicago to Palestine to the Democratic Republic of
the Congo to Puerto Rico, that the pain, violence, and oppression the
global majority experiences are interconnected, acknowledges that the
future must be self-determined, and affirms our humanity and dignity
through a renewed mandate for human rights.
Whereas the framework of national security has been co-opted to erode the
security of diverse communities in the United States and around the
world;
Whereas human security is the bedrock of inclusive democratic societies and
conflict prevention, and investments in human security are the most
effective investments in long-term national security;
Whereas the world we create must be rooted in peace, strengthened through
democracy and justice, and built on diplomacy and human rights;
Whereas, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights;
Whereas, through that document, representatives from across the world affirmed a
shared commitment to fundamental human rights, to the dignity and worth
of every human person, and to the equal rights of all members of our
communities;
Whereas, by 2020, all 193 member states of the United Nations had ratified at
least 1 of the 9 binding treaties influenced by the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, with the vast majority ratifying 4 or more;
Whereas, across the world, these treaties have equipped the global majority to
defend their dignity and rights against those powerful parties and
special interests who would seek their subjugation, emboldening the
people to call out atrocities, to fight back against dictators, and to
demand more, not less, of each other and world leaders;
Whereas, inspired by our communities, it is time for a renewed mandate for human
rights, which are too often abused or disregarded, in which--
(1) over the last year, across the United States, our neighbors have
been disappeared off the streets and placed in processing centers and
detention facilities for profit, continuing the United States long history
of forcibly disappearing various populations it has scapegoated in response
to external conflicts;
(2) detention facilities have systematically separated families, denied
vulnerable detainees--including children, the elderly, pregnant and nursing
individuals, disabled people, and the chronically ill--essential medical
care such as cancer treatment, reproductive care, and gender-affirming
care, held children for months in violation of the legal 20-day limit,
served moldy and unsuitable food, and subjected people to conditions that
amount to torture, including 24/7 lighting to prevent sleep;
(3) the Trump administration's willingness to inflict pain to extract
profit domestically and internationally reflects the same willingness of
despots, fascists, and authoritarians across the world to wage illegal
wars, raze communities, steal lands, unjustly imprison those who dissent,
and starve and exploit people across the world;
(4) we must draw a line in the sand, meet the moment, and reject all
those who would wield interconnected political and economic power to
advance our death and destruction;
(5) cuts to social services, humanitarian aid, expansions in mass
detention and mass incarceration, forced migration, displacement and
deportations, worker exploitation and slavery, and attacks on dissenters,
human rights defenders, and civil society are interconnected evils;
(6) from Chicago to Palestine to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
to Puerto Rico, the global majority are confronting the pain, fear, and
violence of unaccountable leaders waging connected campaigns of terror
against our neighbors, our families, and our loved ones, casting all those
they deem undesirable as the public enemy;
(7) from Chicago to Palestine to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
to Puerto Rico, unaccountable leaders and megacorporations want the
people's resources, the people's land, the people's freedoms, and the
people's lives to enrich themselves and advance their imperialist,
authoritarian agendas across the world;
(8) in the face of imperialist, colonial, and authoritarian agendas
across the world, the global majority continues to resist and create
systems of mutual care for one another, because every resource, every piece
of land, every freedom belongs to the people to ensure that the global
majority has every single thing they need to thrive;
(9) the future the global majority fights for is free from being priced
out, defrauded, displaced, expelled, or stripped of our land rights,
especially in service of private profit, corporate interest, or imperial
efforts;
(10) the future the global majority fights for is free from
exploitation, trafficking, segregation, deportation, detention, detainment
in for-profit prisons, or family separation, and occupation and genocide;
(11) the future in which the global majority can thrive is free from
the dominating violence and occupation of peace through strength and
instead practices security through community, rooted in mutual aid, human
dignity, and economic and social equity across race, gender, sexuality,
ethnicity, ability, and other backgrounds;
(12) the global majority recognizes human security as a precursor to
national security, recognizing that housing security, food security, health
security, environmental security, personal security, community security,
and political security are the building blocks of conflict prevention for a
safer and more secure world;
(13) the future the global majority fights for is free from economic
exploitation, slavery, inequality, wage abuse, discrimination, and
intimidation; and
(14) the future the global majority fights for is free from medical
debt, profit-making off our sickness, price-gouging at the grocery store,
pollution, and profit over people and planet;
Whereas the renewed mandate for human rights will use key definitions to affirm
its goal, including--
(1) the theory of intersectionality, coined by Kimberle Crenshaw, is
defined as various forms of discrimination centered on race, gender, class,
disability, sexuality, and other forms of identity do not work
independently, but interact to produce particularized forms of social
oppression, and centers the approach to development of this human rights
framework;
(2) the global majority is defined as people and communities who have
been systematically shut out from power, resources, civil participation,
self-determination, human rights, and freedoms;
(3) a renewed mandate for human rights is defined as a baseline for how
we treat one another, as both state and non-state actors commit overt
attacks on the human rights agenda, requires an explicit rejection of
racism, colonialism, capitalism, imperialism, White supremacy, and
patriarchy, and must be built on mutual recognition of our shared humanity;
(4) racism is defined as racial prejudice, hatred, or discrimination,
and recognizes that racism involves one group having the power to carry out
systematic discrimination through the institutional policies and practices
of the society and by shaping the cultural beliefs and values that support
those racist policies and practices;
(5) colonialism is defined as states or population groups that dominate
or subjugate other states or population groups while simultaneously
exploiting, appropriating, or extracting resources or benefits for
themselves;
(6) capitalism is defined as an economic system based on the
exploitation of working people;
(7) bodily autonomy is defined as the right to make decisions about
your own body, life, and future, without coercion or violence;
(8) imperialism is defined as expanding borders for an unending
political goal, where expansion becomes a permanent, self-perpetuating
condition;
(9) White supremacy is defined as an ideology that White people and the
ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and actions of White people are superior to
people of color and their ideas, thoughts, and beliefs;
(10) White supremacy, for the purpose of this framework, is also
defined as the political or socioeconomic system where White people enjoy
structural advantage and rights that other racial and ethnic groups do not,
both at a collective and an individual level; and
(11) patriarchy is defined as a social structure or system of
community, society, and government in which cishetero men's power and
values associated with masculinity are upheld as superior to and often
exclusive of the power of women, girls, and queer persons;
Whereas unaccountable leaders and megacorporations sustain systems of oppression
inclusive of racism, colonialism, capitalism, imperialism, White
supremacy, and patriarchy to exploit and keep the global majority from
achieving collective liberation, accessing their rights, and enjoying
their freedoms;
Whereas the renewed mandate for human rights has general objectives that provide
a framework and vision for how we build the world as we know it can be,
in which--
(1) the United States reckons with and addresses its role in its
blatant violations of human rights, its reckless attacks on global
cooperation and diplomacy, and its use of militarism and coercive economic
policies to suppress the freedom of people domestically and abroad;
(2) the United States recognizes the inherent dignity and shared
humanity of all people as the foundation of collective liberation, justice,
and peace in the world;
(3) the global majority realizes and enjoys all human rights and
fundamental freedoms;
(4) trust and mutual respect are strengthened and repaired between the
United States and our global neighbors to foster peace and security and
engage in intentional diplomacy;
(5) civil society and social movements are recognized as critical
partners to support and build democratic norms and strengthen democratic
institutions through cycles of locally-led community engagement;
(6) all people are able to thrive in their home country or migrate with
dignity, by choice and without coercion, through affirmative policy action
and an end to collective punishment that overwhelmingly impact civilians,
including broad-based economic sanctions and violent conflict;
(7) officials in the public and private sector, and incorporated
entities, that commit human rights violations are held accountable for
their exploitation of working people, regardless of gender, race,
sexuality, nationality, ability, or immigration status;
(8) equity and equality for the global majority are achieved through
fidelity to universal human rights and universal accountability for
violations of universal human rights;
(9) the global majority has access to intersecting systems of care and
a robust social safety net to have their basic needs met through socialized
programs and to participate in the economic, social, political, and public
life of their communities; and
(10) global society achieves collective liberation;
Whereas the global majority continues to be deprived of their human rights due
to various forms of harm that are individual, interpersonal,
institutional, systemic, and structural;
Whereas systems of oppression and exploitation experienced by working and
impoverished people in the United States are parallel systems of
oppression and exploitation faced by the working class throughout the
global majority;
Whereas the right to free movement has been proactively denied, in which--
(1) there have been 123,200,000 individuals forcibly displaced from
their homes, a growing number of which are due to man-made disasters,
including war, internal conflict, and climate change-induced natural
disasters;
(2) displacement rates doubled during the last 10 years;
(3) two-thirds of the total number of displaced persons globally come
from just 10 countries, all of which are sites of recent armed conflict and
prolonged economic sanctions, including Afghanistan, Colombia, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, Syria,
Ukraine, Venezuela, and Yemen;
(4) gentrification, racism, and forced displacement create material
obstacles for the global majority who want to stay in the places they call
home from the United States to territories to occupied land;
(5) United States domestic and foreign policy are factors that drive
and impact migration around the world;
(6) Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes
that everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the
borders of each State, and that everyone has the right to leave any
country, including their own, and to return to their country;
(7) Article 12 of the International Convention on Civil and Political
Rights recognizes that everyone lawfully within the territory of a State
shall, within that territory, have the right to liberty of movement and
freedom to choose their residence;
(8) the right of citizens to travel across State borders in the United
States is recognized as a constitutionally guaranteed right, recognized by
multiple court cases and referencing the Fourteenth Amendment and in
Article IV of the Constitution;
(9) the freedom of movement of the global majority has been
systematically undermined through a relentless campaign of fearmongering
and dehumanization of diverse communities by politicians around the world,
including in the United States;
(10) the freedom of movement is essential to full enjoyment of the
public, economic, political, and social life within any healthy society,
but political officials have erected institutional, legal, and physical
barriers to the freedom of movement, including checkpoints and
discriminatory restrictions on the freedom of movement on the basis of
gender and ethnicity; and
(11) the freedom of movement is especially critical for women and
LGBTQIA+ community members seeking health care while facing increasing
restrictions in their home State, recognizing that, since 2022, nearly 1 in
5 United States abortion patients travel out of State for care, and nearly
half of the transgender community have moved or are considering moving to
more trans-affirming States;
Whereas democracies across the globe are under attack, in which--
(1) Freedom House has reported that global freedoms have declined for
20 consecutive years, with 54 countries experiencing deterioration in their
political rights and civil liberties during 2025;
(2) the United States has experienced both legislative dysfunction and
executive dominance that have limited the people's ability to engage in
free expression and the political life of the country;
(3) the foreign policy practices of democracies have abandoned long-
term commitments to supporting human rights defenders and independent
journalists, working within multilateral institutions, supporting
international law, and calling out rigged elections;
(4) there are alarming levels of ``democratic backsliding'', where
governments are becoming increasingly repressive or corrupt;
(5) disinformation is a growing threat that misleads voters, promotes
conspiracy theories, and undermines trust in institutions;
(6) artificial intelligence and social media are tools of mis- and
disinformation; and
(7) dark money in politics continues to influence and erode the global
majority's power to meaningfully participate in democratic processes;
Whereas the global majority's right to safe, dignified, and affordable housing
is being denied, in which--
(1) 318,000,000 people are homeless, while 2,800,000,000 people (over a
third of the global population) lack access to adequate housing;
(2) every year, 2,000,000 people are forcibly evicted from their homes;
(3) decades of racial discrimination in the United States by real
estate agents, banks, insurers, and the Federal Government have made
homeownership difficult to obtain for people of color, and those
disadvantages have compounded over time;
(4) demographic disparities persist in unhoused populations, with Black
and Indigenous communities, and gender-expansive people, facing higher
rates of homelessness than the general population;
(5) racial discrimination and bias have fostered inequality through
discriminatory economic, land ownership, and housing policies that have
locked Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities out of homes and
homeownership and have created racial inequalities;
(6) corporations and developers have priced people out of their homes
or have made it nearly impossible for working-class families to purchase
homes;
(7) income inequalities, limited housing, and lack of access to livable
wages drive homelessness;
(8) people experiencing homelessness are deprived of their right to
vote and unable to shape electoral outcomes that foster widespread
homelessness as a systemic outcome of limited social spending, thereby
weakening a representative democracy;
(9) people experiencing homelessness face a polycrisis of limited
access to health care, education, and food as a result of limited economic
means and an impermanent address, while simultaneously facing higher rates
of violence, including sexual and gender-based violence;
(10) challenges of urbanization, such as rising inequality, contribute
to a deterioration of basic human rights in cities; and
(11) across the world, limited housing security fosters political
fearmongering and human rights violations of refugee and immigrant
populations in urban settings, as politicians blame new populations for
housing insecurity faced by local communities instead of addressing limited
public investments in housing or corruption by developers;
Whereas our right to safety is actively undermined by the global prison
industrial complex, State-sanctioned violence, and disinformation
campaigns, in which--
(1) State-led violence that targets civilians has increased threefold
since 2020;
(2) State forces are now responsible for 35 percent of global violence
directed at civilians, compared to 20 percent in 2020;
(3) the United States has the highest incarceration rate of any
independent democracy on Earth, and every single State incarcerates more
people per capita than most nations globally;
(4) the United States, China, Brazil, India, the Russian Federation,
Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico, and Iran are among the top 10
countries with the highest prison populations;
(5) about 1 percent of the United States adult population is currently
behind bars;
(6) the United States spends approximately $182,000,000,000 annually on
incarceration;
(7) mass incarceration imposes significant social costs beyond
financial expenses, including family disruption, reduced employment
opportunities, community destabilization, and increased health risks;
(8) Black Americans make up about 13 percent of the United States
population but represent 37 percent of people incarcerated;
(9) Black Americans comprise 48 percent of those serving life, life
without parole, or virtual life sentences;
(10) the Native American incarceration rate is 763 per 100,000, more
than double the national average of 350 per 100,000;
(11) the arrest rate for Black Americans was 4,223 per 100,000,
compared to 2,092 per 100,000 for White Americans in 2020;
(12) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (``ICE'') received
$45,000,000,000 to expand immigration detention, including the purchase of
warehouses and funding for increased ICE presence across the United States;
(13) anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic hate groups spread disinformation,
prejudice, and conspiracy theories and are animated by United States
foreign policy in the Middle East, resulting in a dramatic rise of hate
crimes, including assault, intimidation, arson, and vandalism;
(14) global executions continue to rise, demonstrated by a record of
1,153 executions in 16 countries in 2023, marking a 31 percent increase
from the 883 recorded in 2022;
(15) globally, 1 in 3 women have experienced physical or sexual
violence at least once in their life; and
(16) failures to regulate the technology sector have resulted in
alarming rates of technology-facilitated gender-based violence, including
digital abuse, trolling, stalking, artificial intelligence-generated
pornographic images of women and girls, among others;
Whereas the right to health care is being denied by for-profit interests and
structural racism, in which--
(1) 2,100,000,000 people faced financial hardship, including
1,600,000,000 people living in poverty or pushed deeper into it due to out-
of-pocket health expenses, in 2022;
(2) about 4,600,000,000 people were not fully covered by health
insurance in 2023;
(3) there were over 26,000,000 Americans without health insurance, as
of 2023;
(4) approximately 1,300,000,000 individuals were pushed or further
pushed into poverty due to out-of-pocket medical costs, as of 2023;
(5) immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, pay taxes into
Federal health care programs but are legally barred from accessing
insurance coverage or benefitting from Affordable Care Act subsidies,
except certain ``qualified'' immigrants who are still subject to a five-
year waiting period before they may access Medicaid and CHIP, but otherwise
may still lack access to health care services due to language barriers,
cost barriers, and fear of immigration enforcement actions;
(6) racial, ethnic, and gender prejudice in the United States health
care system has resulted in significant health disparities, particularly
for Black Americans, who experience lower life expectancy, higher rates of
chronic disease, increased maternal mortality rate, and increased mortality
rates for diseases like heart disease, cancer, COVID-19, and stroke;
(7) 23 percent of United States adults are underinsured and do not have
access to affordable health care, as of 2024;
(8) 10,000,000 working-age Americans have families that spend more than
5 percent of their household income on medical bills for 2 years in a row,
and, when paired with costs of insurance, health care takes 14 to 15
percent of their income; and
(9) higher income is correlated with longer life expectancy;
Whereas the right to land is granted to private profit, corporate interests, and
imperialist governments but is stripped from our communities, in which--
(1) around 18 percent of the world's land, or 2,400,000,000 hectares,
is owned by private individuals and corporations;
(2) States have legal ownership of more than 64 percent of land
worldwide;
(3) less than 1 in 5 landholders worldwide are women, and women's
rights to inherit the property of their husbands continues to be denied in
more than 100 countries, leaving women vulnerable to eviction,
homelessness, and at increased risk of food insecurity and sexual and
gender-based violence;
(4) 2,500,000,000 Indigenous Peoples and local communities customarily
claim and manage over 50 percent of the world's lands, yet they legally own
just 10 percent;
(5) Indigenous Peoples' right to self-determination has been
continuously violated;
(6) 99 percent of Native Tribes in the United States have lost the land
they have historically occupied;
(7) Indigenous Peoples are forcibly relocated to areas that are more
prone to climate-related disasters;
(8) Indigenous Peoples have demanded Free, Prior, and Informed Consent
on policies impacting Tribal lands and these demands have been recognized
in international forums; and
(9) land leases for extraction, agriculture, and commercial development
continue to occur, further displacing Indigenous and low-income
communities;
Whereas the right to peace is impeded by militarism and unaccountable leaders
who profit from the pain of the global majority, in which--
(1) the United States faces an unprecedented crisis of expanding
militarism in foreign and domestic policy through the dismantling of human
rights, international law, and national and multinational institutions that
served as bulwarks against fascist consolidation and champions of
diplomatic power to prevent conflict and work toward war as an option of
last resort;
(2) the military-first approach of peace through strength endangers
democratic movements and human rights defenders working in fragile
contexts, erodes existing United States commitments to conflict prevention
through diplomacy, trade, and development, and ignores decades of
documented best practice in nation-building through locally-led programs,
inclusive peace processes, and partnerships;
(3) over 940,000 people, including at least 432,000 civilians, were
killed by direct post-9/11 war violence in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan
between 2001 and 2023, and an estimated 3,600,000 to 3,800,000 people were
killed due to the devastating impact of conflict on economic opportunity,
health care systems, infrastructure, and the environment;
(4) over 75,000 people were killed in Gaza, as verified by independent
scientific journals, and 56.2 percent of those killed were women, children,
and the elderly between October 7, 2023, and early 2025;
(5) United States weapons have been used in violation of United States
and international law by the United States and its allies in attacks on
hospitals, schools, funeral halls, and markets throughout the Middle East;
(6) United States foreign policy is responsible for mass displacement
crises in the Middle East and Latin America, with millions forced to flee
their homes due to insecurity from conflict, United States-backed military
coups, and economic warfare;
(7) the United States has spent more than $21,000,000,000,000 on wars
and homeland security since 2001, despite funding shortages for
transportation, education, health care, and housing, creating an
affordability crisis that erodes domestic security and opportunity;
(8) a bipartisan consensus of inevitable military and economic
competition with China threatens to further erode United States security by
building an endless war budget for an arms race and nuclear modernization
at the cost of domestic programs;
(9) the international community has systematically failed to include
women human rights defenders in transitional peace processes and has
underfunded women-led civil society organizations, despite existing
commitments to women, peace, and security;
(10) the United States military globally has inflicted trauma and human
rights abuses upon women overseas and has systematically failed to
recognize survivors or offer avenues for redress;
(11) government forces were directly involved in 74 percent of violent
events worldwide in 2025;
(12) countries in the Americas accounted for 40 percent of all military
expenditures by countries around the world in 2024;
(13) 56 percent of United States adults support cutting Pentagon
spending, citing reinvesting those funds in programs that benefit everyone
(pandemic recovery, health care, jobs, housing, and education);
(14) 47 percent of American adults agree that spending $422,000,000,000
annually on defense contracts wastes public funds;
(15) violence globally cost $19,970,000,000,000 in 2025, which
encompasses not only the direct impact of conflict and crime but also the
expenses involved in preventing, containing, and responding to violence,
including the maintenance of international security structures;
(16) improved peacefulness is strongly correlated with economic growth,
and reductions in violence allow governments to reallocate resources from
security to productive sectors, boosting gross domestic product and
returns; and
(17) expanding United States militarism domestically, including
deployments of the National Guard, ICE, and troops to assist in immigration
enforcement activities at the border, has already resulted in loss of life
and significant, recurring violations of rights guaranteed by the
Constitution and existing domestic and international law;
Whereas the right to equality is under attack from unaccountable leaders who
benefit from creating a public enemy and eroding their rights, in
which--
(1) it will take 123 years to reach full gender parity globally;
(2) the wage gap in the United States is further exacerbated by race
and ethnicity, with Black and Hispanic women earning only 68 percent and 62
percent, respectively, of Asian women's median weekly wages;
(3) bodily autonomy is a fundamental component of equity and
reproductive freedom, yet abortion is banned or at risk of being severely
limited in 23 States and 3 territories, which disproportionately harms low-
income women, women of color, and rural residents;
(4) 801,000,000 women of reproductive age live under restrictive laws;
(5) governments in 15 countries proposed or enacted laws restricting
gender-affirming care, codifying binary sex definitions, rolling back
gender recognition, and censoring LGBTQIA+ expression;
(6) the United States withdrawal of support for LGBTQIA+ equality has
emboldened anti-gender actors globally;
(7) the expanded Global Gag Rule, introduced by the Trump
administration in 2026, further erodes the ability of women, girls, and
members of the LGBTQIA+ community to access essential health care,
including in humanitarian emergencies;
(8) when women lead peace processes, peace agreements are more likely
to be sustainable, with lasting positive outcomes;
(9) approximately 75 percent of individuals with a disability were not
in the labor force, compared to only 32 percent of those without a
disability in 2024;
(10) individuals in low-income households with disabilities did not
receive any or enough legal help for 91 percent of their civil legal
problems in 2022; and
(11) women in the workforce continue to earn significantly less than
men, with median earnings in quarter 1 of 2025 at $1,096 for women versus
$1,307 for men, amounting to a gender earnings ratio of approximately 84
percent;
Whereas the right to history and memory of the global majority is under constant
attack due to policies that erase, deny, alter, or ban their stories,
histories, and practices, in which--
(1) there have been over 820 attempts to censor library materials and
services, targeting 2,452 unique book titles--a historic high that
disproportionately affected books by and about LGBTQIA+ people, people of
color, and marginalized communities in the United States;
(2) unaccountable leaders that include elected officials, board
members, and administrators initiated 72 percent of demands to censor books
in schools and public libraries in the United States;
(3) there have been blatant efforts to remove references to critical
pieces of history, including slavery and Tribal recognition;
(4) culturally significant and symbolic monuments and murals are
consistently under attack, resulting in their removal, like the Black Lives
Matter Plaza;
(5) 38 States have passed laws to limit the ability of businesses,
universities, and individuals to criticize human rights violations
committed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories; and
(6) any policy, action, or agenda by unaccountable leaders and
megacorporations that results in the erosion of the right to history and
memory must be met with creation;
Whereas the right to work is denied by exploitation, abuse, and discrimination,
in which--
(1) extreme poverty persists, affecting 1 in 10 people worldwide;
(2) 8.9 percent of the global population will still be living in
extreme poverty by 2030;
(3) women are explicitly banned from working in various industries by
state actors around the world;
(4) the unemployment rate for people with a disability was double the
rate for those with no disability in 2025;
(5) workers had no or reduced access to justice in 72 percent of
countries in 2025, a sharp increase from 65 percent in 2024;
(6) attacks on the rights to free speech and assembly were reported in
45 percent of countries in 2025, an increase from 43 percent in 2024;
(7) the right to strike was violated in 87 percent of countries in
2025;
(8) workers in 3 out of every 4 countries were denied the right to
freedom of association and to organize in 2024 and 2025; and
(9) trade union membership continues to decline;
Whereas the right to sustainable communities is denied in service to pollution
and profit over people and the planet, in which--
(1) approximately 3,300,000,000 to 3,600,000,000 people live in
contexts that are highly vulnerable to climate change;
(2) 1,000,000,000 people lived in areas prone to severe riverine
flooding, half of them in cities, in 2025;
(3) the United States military is the greatest greenhouse gas polluter
in the world;
(4) women are leading rural climate adaptive strategies globally but
are excluded from climate adaptation strategies of private businesses and
utility companies;
(5) women are socially, culturally, and economically disadvantaged from
learning climate change survival tactics, including swimming;
(6) only half of the world's urban population had convenient access to
public transportation in 2022;
(7) urban sprawl, air pollution, and limited open public spaces persist
in cities;
(8) 2,200,000 Americans live in homes without running water or basic
plumbing, also known as ``plumbing poverty'';
(9) in the 100 most populated United States cities, wealthier and
Whiter cities have more access to acreage, facilities, and programs, while
more diverse, lower-income cities lag behind;
(10) the average person of color resides in a census tract that
experiences higher summer daytime Surface Urban Heat Island intensity than
that of non-Hispanic White residents in 169 of the 175 largest urbanized
areas in the continental United States, as of 2021;
(11) over 65,000 census tracts reveal that communities located in
States with larger Black-White disparities experience significantly greater
environmental health risks from outdoor air pollution in the United States;
and
(12) the State-level racism index accounts for between 4 and 10 percent
of the variation in both carcinogenic and noncarcinogenic respiratory
health risks at the county and State levels due to exposure to outdoor air
toxins in the United States;
Whereas the right to economically thrive is denied by historic, extreme, and
destabilizing levels of economic inequality, in which--
(1) the global majority is deprived of economic opportunities that are
not exploitative, which is driven by megacorporations;
(2) over half of the global workforce remains in informal employment,
with numbers still rising;
(3) continued erosion of compliance with labor rights undermines
progress toward decent-work objectives;
(4) more than 1 in 4 countries are subject to sanctions by the United
Nations or Western governments, and 29 percent of global gross domestic
product is produced in sanctioned countries;
(5) United States sanctions include blocking access to critical
humanitarian aid and free movement of peoples to visit families and loved
ones;
(6) hundreds of millions of children and women are affected by
malnutrition, and dietary diversity remains inadequate for both women and
young children;
(7) most countries are off track to meet education targets for access,
completion, and learning outcomes;
(8) there are 3,028 billionaires globally who control
$16,100,000,000,000; and
(9) the richest 1 percent have more wealth than the bottom 95 percent
of the world's population put together;
Whereas we recognize the urgent need for a renewed mandate for human rights in
which the global majority has everything they need to thrive--
(1) from Chicago to Palestine to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
to Puerto Rico, the systematic and structural inequities and challenges the
global majority faces are exacerbated by United States intervention and
broad-based economic sanctions policies;
(2) despite violent attempts to oppress the global majority, the people
continue to create and build forward;
(3) to continue to create communities, systems, and movements rooted in
radical love for the people, that defy authoritarian control, and that
reflect the people's commitment to justice, equity, and human dignity; and
(4) to build a future that affirms a renewed mandate for human rights;
Whereas this moment demands a renewed mandate for human rights;
Whereas the global majority has the right to--
(1) live where community-driven, democratic processes drive land use,
and where everyone is guaranteed safe, dignified, and affordable housing;
(2) free movement, to seek asylum and protection, and to migrate and
return to the places they call home in the interest of safety, security,
and opportunity;
(3) economically thrive, to access the securities and social
protections that ensure their health and vitality, to unionize, and to work
and rest in ways that are self-determined and affirm our humanity and
dignity;
(4) health, safety, and wellbeing, access to comprehensive health care,
adequate, affordable, nutritious food, and sustainable communities with
clean air and water, and green, climate-resilient infrastructure;
(5) multiracial, multicultural, multigenerational democracy that works
for all people, to the freedom of dissent, free speech, and assembly, and
to free and fair democratic elections;
(6) live without fear of violence, including gender-based violence,
State violence, capital punishment, torture, cruelty, inhumane or degrading
treatment or punishment, and be free from mass incarceration and unjust
detention systems;
(7) peace and to live in a global society free from genocide, crimes
against humanity, and war crimes;
(8) expression and equal treatment without discrimination, and must be
free to show up in the world as their most authentic selves, and be free
from all discrimination based on gender, gender expression, and sexual
orientation;
(9) have their history accurately preserved, and to enjoy their
cultural practices, including but not limited to storytelling, song, art,
language, dress, and dance, free from the fear of violence or persecution;
(10) sustainable communities that prioritize green infrastructure and
clean, communal spaces, and are free from environmental racism,
infrastructural neglect, and systemic underfunding of public areas; and
(11) a just economy that centers basic needs driven by solidarity and
cooperation; and
Whereas our futures are interconnected, and that realization can provide a path
to true liberation: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
(1) recognizes the role and responsibility of the United
States in enacting policies that impact the global majority;
(2) declares that the United States must--
(A) end its inhumane immigration policies,
including deportation, immigration detention,
militarizing the border, and repealing legal pathways
of entry into the country;
(B) dismantle the Department of Homeland Security;
(C) create a humane, legal pathway to citizenship
for anyone who chooses to migrate to the United States;
(D) acknowledge and affirm the right to return;
(E) reinstate non-discriminatory policies for
temporary protected status, work permits, and asylum;
(F) give all unincorporated territories, colonies,
and occupied territories their sovereignty;
(G) adopt a pro-peace agenda globally to advance
human security in place of militarism;
(H) redirect global direct and indirect funding and
material assistance used in the commission of genocide,
war crimes, or other crimes against humanity to humane,
safe migration around the world;
(I) redress the harms of its foreign policies,
which include exploitation, resource extraction, and
blatant colonialism and imperialism;
(J) completely redirect Department of Defense
funding toward pro-peace initiatives;
(K) redirect all Department of Defense funding
spent on militarism to strengthening global
partnerships through peace initiatives;
(L) end military aid to nations reasonably believed
to be committing human rights violations domestically
or interfering with the delivery of humanitarian
assistance, as codified under existing United States
law, including the Foreign Assistance Act and the Leahy
Laws; and
(M) redirect Department of State funding used for
deportation toward humane migration;
(3) calls for--
(A) the global majority to have a protected means
to self-governance and self-determination, including
democratic participation and free and fair elections;
(B) the global majority to be able to meaningfully
participate in democratic processes, including voting;
(C) all policies or actions that suppress or
intentionally exclude the vote of the global majority
be repealed and voter protections be implemented;
(D) policies to be implemented that protect freedom
of speech and to dissent;
(E) international and campaign finance laws to
ensure dark money does not interfere with democratic
processes;
(F) stronger regulations and policies that combat
mis- and disinformation due to the growth of artificial
intelligence and social media;
(G) the unaffordability crisis to be addressed
through an intersectional framework that acknowledges
the disproportionate impact on the global majority;
(H) policy action that addresses spatial
segregation, which excludes many residents from equal
access to public services, education, and
transportation;
(I) policies to be put in place to protect against
forced evictions;
(J) eligibility to access to public housing to be
determined regardless of documentation or status;
(K) abolishing systems in order to achieve safety,
including--
(i) mass incarceration;
(ii) detention;
(iii) mass deportation;
(iv) the prison industrial complex;
(v) torture, slavery, and unusual
punishments; and
(vi) carceral punishment and State
executions;
(L) systems that center restorative justice be
built;
(M) the expansion of care-based violence
prevention;
(N) the global adoption of universal health care;
(O) eliminating barriers to accessing health care,
such as documentation statuses;
(P) free universal health care;
(Q) universal health care that includes access and
coverage of reproductive health care and gender
affirming care;
(R) acknowledging the global majority's land
rights;
(S) the global majority to have decision making
power over land use and ownership at the community
level;
(T) the creation of community-driven, democratic
processes that drive land use in place;
(U) the creation of policies and practices that
honor and protect human rights, land, and environmental
defenders;
(V) civil society to be empowered to expand civic
spaces for land rights development for the global
majority;
(W) global society to challenge the cultural
hegemony of heteronormativity and patriarchy to achieve
equality and authentic expression;
(X) legal protections and cultural recognition for
all genders, sexual orientations, and abilities;
(Y) pay parity amongst the global majority; and
(Z) the United States to reinstate its global and
domestic support for gender equity and the LGBTQIA+
community;
(4) the history and memory of the global majority to be
preserved and the erasure of cultural practices to be
prevented;
(5) policies that protect the preservation of memory
through storytelling, song, art, and dance;
(6) policies that allow the freedom to speak the language
of a given community's choice;
(7) the end of discriminatory practices against Indigenous
Peoples in the global majority;
(8) the global majority to have fair and living wages to
achieve the right to dignified work;
(9) living, family-sustaining minimum wages;
(10) the global majority to have collective bargaining
power and the ability to organize and assemble;
(11) global policies that empower the global majority to
form or join unions to act together;
(12) protection against retaliation;
(13) policies that empower the global majority to strike;
(14) the global majority to have access to dignified
retirement through pensions;
(15) States to invest in policies that prioritize green
infrastructure and clean, communal spaces to achieve the right
to sustainable communities;
(16) policies that address environmental racism,
infrastructural neglect, and the systemic underfunding of
public areas;
(17) corporate billionaires and megacorporations to be
taxed at a fair rate to achieve the right to a just economy;
(18) investment in social benefits programs instead of
providing relief to unaccountable leaders and megacorporations;
(19) global economies to defund billionaires;
(20) the United States to take a cooperative posture
towards the global economy to move towards economic equity;
(21) the creation of a United States Human Rights
Commission to monitor and respond to United States violations
of human rights domestically and abroad; and
(22) the United States House of Representatives to build an
affirmative legislative platform that works towards a just
global society.
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