That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that—
the United States recommits to fighting discrimination, xenophobia, and human and civil rights abuses in both domestic and foreign policy;
the United States reaffirms its commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
the United States should give thorough review to domestic policy and legislative proposals that would improve the economic, social, political, cultural, and civil rights and lives of marginalized communities within the United States;
the Senate should give its advice and consent to the ratification of the UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and its Optional Protocol, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol, the UN Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the First Optional Protocol to the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment;
the Senate should give its advice and consent to the ratification of the ILO Convention on Forced or Compulsory Labour, the ILO Convention on Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, the ILO Convention on the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining, the ILO Convention on Equal Remuneration, the ILO Convention on Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation, and the ILO Convention on the Minimum Age for Admission to Employment;
the United States should fully support the Inter-American human rights system, especially hemispheric conventions regarding the rights of all persons, women, children, the disabled, marginalized communities, and the right to freedom of expression; and
it is the policy of the United States to oppose slavery, torture, racism, discrimination, and xenophobia in all forms.