Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102
§262d–1 Congressional Statement of Policy of Human Rights and United States Assistance Policies with International Institutions
Title 22 › CHAPTER 7 — INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC. › § 262d–1
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U.S. representatives to international development banks should oppose loans and aid to countries that keep committing systematic, gross human-rights abuses when other means fail. The President can choose a different action or allow aid that meets the basic needs of the country's poor majority.
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Title 22, §262d–1
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It is the sense of the Congress that, where other means have proven ineffective in promoting international human rights, and except where the President determines that the cause of international human rights is served more effectively by actions other than voting against such assistance or where the assistance is directed to programs that serve the basic needs of the impoverished majority of the country in question, United States representatives to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the African Development Fund, the Asian Development Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank should oppose loans and other financial or technical assistance to any country that persists in a systematic pattern of gross violations of fundamental human rights.
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22 U.S.C. § 262d–1
Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102