Bill > S2180

This bill, known as the Global Respect Act of 2025, establishes a comprehensive framework to address human rights violations against LGBTQI individuals worldwide by creating a mechanism for identifying and sanctioning foreign persons responsible for such abuses. The bill requires the President to submit a list every 180 days identifying foreign persons who engage in, are complicit in, or incite conduct such as torture, prolonged detention without trial, forced disappearances, or other flagrant denials of human rights based on an individual's actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex characteristics. These identified individuals will be ineligible to receive U.S. visas and can be removed from the United States, though the President retains the ability to waive these restrictions for national security or international obligation reasons. The bill also mandates that the State Department track and report on violence and discrimination against LGBTQI individuals globally, amends existing human rights reporting requirements to include specific language about sexual orientation and gender identity-based violations, and encourages the use of additional targeted sanctions against those who commit such human rights abuses. The legislation is motivated by findings that approximately one-third of countries criminalize consensual same-sex relations, with some even allowing the death penalty, and that LGBTQI individuals frequently face discrimination, harassment, and violence with little accountability.

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