---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 7816"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "7816"
heading: "Establishment of regional framework"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/7816"
units:
  - "Chapter 85 — North Korean Human Rights"
  - "Subchapter I — Promoting the Human Rights of North Koreans"
---

# §7816. Establishment of regional framework

- (a) **Findings—** The Congress finds that human rights initiatives can be undertaken on a multilateral basis, such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which established a regional framework for discussing human rights, scientific and educational cooperation, and economic and trade issues.
- (b) **Sense of Congress—** It is the sense of Congress that the United Sates[^1] should explore the possibility of a regional human rights dialogue with [North Korea](/usc/22/7803.md?p=4) that is modeled on the Helsinki process, engaging all countries in the region in a common commitment to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “States”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–333, title I, § 106, Oct. 18, 2004, 118 Stat. 1292.)