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“I am proud to introduce the No Funds for Forced Labor Act, a bipartisan, bicameral bill to protect human rights and prevent forced labor of Uyghurs and other religious communities. A recent annual report by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China found that authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region "maintained a system of forced labor that involved former mass internment camp detainees." This comes while China has targeted Uyghurs and other religious minorities, threatening detainees with physical violence, abuse, and torture. Despite companies' due diligence, these forced labor networks can be so extensive that the World Bank's International Finance Corporation has financed companies who have inadvertently employed forced laborers in the region. This bill addresses that risk. It allows the Treasury Secretary to instruct the U.S. director at each international financial institution to oppose provisions of any loan that would risk using forced labor. I thank all our cosponsors, and I encourage my colleagues to join us in supporting and advancing this bipartisan bill.”