Bill > HR2407

Introduced Session

To promote human rights for Palestinian children living under Israeli military occupation and require that United States funds do not support military detention, interrogation, abuse, or ill-treatment of Palestinian children, and for other purposes. This bill prohibits the use of certain foreign-assistance funds to support the military detention, interrogation, abuse, or ill treatment of children in violation of international humanitarian law. The bill also prohibits such funds from being used to support certain practices against children, including torture, sensory deprivation, solitary confinement, and arbitrary detention. The bill also authorizes the Department of State to provide funding to nongovernmental organizations to (1) monitor and assess incidents of Palestinian children being subjected to Israeli military detention, and (2) provide treatment and rehabilitation for Palestinians under 21 years of age who have been subject to military detention as children.

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Betty McCollum (D)*,  Karen Bass (D),  Don Beyer (D),  André Carson (D),  Yvette Clarke (D),  Danny Davis (D),  Mark DeSaulnier (D),  Dwight Evans (D),  Chuy García (D),  Raúl Grijalva (D),  Pramila Jayapal (D),  Eddie Johnson (D),  Hank Johnson (D),  Barbara Lee (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D),  Ilhan Omar (D),  Donald Payne (D),  Chellie Pingree (D),  Mark Pocan (D),  Ayanna Pressley (D),  Bobby Rush (D),  Rashida Tlaib (D),  Maxine Waters (D),  Bonnie Watson Coleman (D), 

Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. (on 04/30/2019)

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