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This bill — the Global Respect Act of 2019 — would require the U.S. to employ visa bans against foreign nationals who are complicit to violence against LGBTI individuals. A breakdown of its various provisions can be found below.

Specifically, this bill would:

Require the executive branch to biannually send Congress a list of foreign persons responsible for, or complicit in cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment of an individual; prolonged detention of an individual without charges or trials; causing the disappearance of an individual by abduction and clandestine detention of an individual; other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty or the security of an individual;
Deny or revoke visas to individuals placed on the list, with waivers for national security or to allow attendance at the United Nations;
Require the annual State Department Report on Human Rights to include a section on LGBTI international human rights, as well as an annual report to Congress on the status of the law’s effectiveness; and
Require the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor to designate a senior officer responsible for tracking violence, criminalization, and restrictions on the enjoyment of fundamental freedoms in foreign countries based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

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