A resolution requesting information on the Republic of Guinea-Bissau's human rights practices pursuant to section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
Sponsored By: Senator Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
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Summary
This bill would require a State Department report on Guinea-Bissau’s treatment of people the U.S. has removed to that country. It would gather credible information on alleged arrests, torture, disappearances, trafficking, and the legal status and treatment of non-citizens removed by the United States.
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- Non-citizens removed to Guinea-Bissau: The report would compile allegations of arbitrary arrest, unlawful detention, torture, enforced disappearances, trafficking, and the legal rights given to those people.
- State Department process: The Secretary of State would have 30 days to submit a formal statement prepared with the Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and the Office of the Legal Adviser describing U.S. steps to assess and respond to these risks.
- U.S. policy and assistance oversight: The report would assess whether U.S. security assistance could be used to support rendition, detention, trafficking, or imprisonment and would include analyses of detention conditions and summaries of meetings with Guinea-Bissau officials in 2025 and 2026.
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Report on Guinea-Bissau human rights
This resolution would ask the State Department to send Congress a report within 30 days after the resolution is adopted. The report would be prepared with the Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and the State Department legal adviser. It would collect credible information on alleged abuses in Guinea-Bissau, including arbitrary arrest, detention, torture, enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killing, and trafficking. The report would also cover treatment of non-citizens the U.S. removed, pre-removal assessments, risks that U.S. security assistance could enable abuses, any agreements or payments related to removals, and a list of individuals the U.S. sent in 2025 and 2026. It would be submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs committees.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
VA • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
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