Topic

Human rights

Bills 4,269 First seen 107th Most recent 119th

4,269 bills on this subject

Filed across 13 Congresses, from the 107th to the 119th, and most in the 116th at 531. A subject is a heading the Library of Congress assigns to a bill, and a bill usually carries several, so these are the bills that touch this subject rather than the bills only about it.

Bills by Congress 107th to 119th
4,269 bills across every Congress on file. Showing 1,111–1,140, newest first.
Bill Title Congress Latest action
S 398 Saudi Arabia Accountability and Yemen Act of 2019 116th July 30, 2019
S 357 Saudi Educational Transparency and Reform Act 116th February 6, 2019
S 238 Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act 116th June 3, 2020
S 178 UIGHUR Act of 2019 116th October 21, 2020
S 52 Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 116th March 11, 2020
S 2 Fair Trade with China Enforcement Act 116th February 27, 2019
S 1 Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act of 2019 116th February 6, 2019
SCONRES 50 A concurrent resolution urging the establishment of a United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation. 116th December 3, 2020
SCONRES 34 A concurrent resolution affirming the importance of religious freedom as a fundamental human right that is essential to a free society and protected for all people of the United States under the Constitution of the United States, and recognizing the 234th anniversary of the enactment of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. 116th January 15, 2020
SCONRES 21 A concurrent resolution strongly condemning human rights violations, violence against civilians, and cooperation with Iran by the Houthi movement and its allies in Yemen. 116th June 27, 2019
SCONRES 1 A concurrent resolution calling for credible, transparent, and safe elections in Nigeria, and for other purposes. 116th February 19, 2019
SJRES 59 A joint resolution expressing the sense of Congress on the precipitous withdrawal of United States Armed Forces from Syria and Afghanistan, and Turkey's unprovoked incursion into Syria. 116th October 23, 2019
SRES 807 A resolution urging the Government of Uganda and all parties to respect human, civil, and political rights and ensure free and fair elections in January 2021, and recognizing the importance of multiparty democracy in Uganda. 116th December 18, 2020
SRES 798 A resolution calling on the Government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People's Liberation Front to cease all hostilities, protect the human rights of all Ethiopians, and pursue a peaceful resolution of the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. 116th December 9, 2020
SRES 790 A resolution supporting efforts to strengthen protection, assistance, and solutions for Venezuelan women and children. 116th December 3, 2020
SRES 789 A resolution urging the Government of Thailand to protect and uphold democracy, human rights, the rule of law, and rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression, and for other purposes. 116th December 3, 2020
SRES 762 A resolution recognizing the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on women and girls globally. 116th October 26, 2020
SRES 760 A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the atrocities perpetrated by the Government of the People's Republic of China against Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region constitutes genocide. 116th October 26, 2020
SRES 756 A resolution urging the Government of Tanzania and all parties to respect human, civil, and political rights and ensure free and fair elections in October 2020, and recognizing the importance of multi-party democracy in Tanzania. 116th October 23, 2020
SRES 749 A resolution denouncing the Maduro regime's efforts to hold fraudulent legislative elections, the absence of acceptable conditions to ensure free, fair, and transparent electoral processes in Venezuela, and the further erosion of Venezuelan democracy. 116th October 20, 2020
SRES 729 A resolution recognizing the 25th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords. 116th December 18, 2020
SRES 725 A resolution establishing the Senate Human Rights Commission. 116th September 24, 2020
SRES 724 A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the practice of politically motivated imprisonment of women around the world and calling on governments for the immediate release of women who are political prisoners. 116th September 24, 2020
SRES 701 A resolution urging the Government of Burma to hold free, fair, inclusive, transparent, participatory, and credible elections on November 8, 2020. 116th September 17, 2020
SRES 689 A resolution condemning the crackdown on peaceful protestors in Belarus and calling for the imposition of sanctions on responsible officials. 116th September 14, 2020
SRES 684 A resolution calling on the Government of Cameroon and separatist armed groups from the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions to end all violence, respect the human rights of all Cameroonians, and pursue a genuinely inclusive dialogue toward resolving the ongoing civil conflict in Anglophone Cameroon. 116th January 1, 2021
SRES 667 A resolution calling for the immediate release of Trevor Reed, a United States Citizen who was unjustly sentenced to 9 years in a Russian prison. 116th August 5, 2020
SRES 665 A resolution reaffirming the strategic partnership between the United States and Mongolia and recognizing the 30th anniversary of democracy in Mongolia. 116th July 30, 2020
SRES 658 A resolution calling for a free, fair, and transparent presidential election in Belarus taking place on August 9, 2020, including the unimpeded participation of all presidential candidates. 116th August 5, 2020
SRES 627 A resolution recognizing June 2020 as "LGBTQ Pride Month". 116th June 17, 2020

Subjects are the headings the Library of Congress assigns to a bill, not labels written here, so the wording is theirs. Bills are listed newest first by their latest action. A bill carries several subjects, so it appears under each of them. Records come from Congress.gov.