We must not turn a blind eye to the atrocities being committed against the Uighur people.
Jim McGovern
The Public Record
Jim McGovern is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district since 1997. He has been a strong advocate for issues such as hunger, human rights, and healthcare. Throughout his tenure, McGovern has focused on policies aimed at reducing food insecurity and promoting social justice. He has also been involved in various legislative efforts to improve access to healthcare for all Americans.
Raise with Chinese officials, during all appropriate bilateral discussions, the cost to U.S.-China relations.
Sustain, and where appropriate expand, programs that develop and widely distribute technologies that will assist Chinese human rights advocates.
Give greater public expression, including at the highest levels of the U.S. Government, to the issue of press freedom in China.
The Administration should consider creating a Special Advisor for Religious and Political Prisoners to coordinate interagency resources.
Members of Congress and Administration officials at the highest levels should raise specific prisoner cases in meetings with Chinese government officials.
The Special Representative for North Korea at the Department of State should provide Congress with a strategy to protect North Korean refugees in China.
The Administration should employ the tools available in the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 to expand efforts to channel uncensored news.
To respond to China's 'Tier 3' designation for failing to meet minimum standards for addressing human trafficking, the Administration should use all the tools available.
The Administration should create public diplomacy campaigns and support media efforts to raise global awareness about the detention of political and religious prisoners.
The Administration should prioritize an end to torture in detention and all forms of arbitrary detention in China.
The Administration should seek a rules-of-the-road agreement that will correct longstanding diplomatic, investment, media, and cultural and academic exchange imbalances.
The Administration should also consider as part of such strategy: Creating a public mechanism for coordinating human rights diplomacy.
The Administration should send to Congress a multilateral human rights diplomacy strategy on China.
The Administration should develop a comprehensive interagency action plan to promote internet freedom through the funding and wide distribution of effective technologies that provide the greatest possible access to the internet within…
The Congress should pass the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019.
It is also essential that the President of the United States express support for human rights and democracy in China.
The Hong Kong government limited the freedoms of expression, association, and assembly by banning the pro-independence Hong Kong National Party (HKNP).
As the world commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 2019, China's leaders not only refused to provide a full, public, and independent accounting of events.
The system integrates facial recognition cameras and real-time monitoring of cell phones into an Orwellian policing platform.
We need to ensure that the rights of all individuals are protected, regardless of their background.
The legislation should make clear that Chinese officials who interfere in the process of recognizing a successor or reincarnation of the Dalai Lama will be subject to targeted financial, economic, and visa-related sanctions like those in…
Congress should strengthen existing sanctions prohibiting the sale of 'crime control and detection' equipment to the Chinese government.





