{"id":22148,"date":"2025-05-08T13:52:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=22148"},"modified":"2025-05-08T16:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:24:54","slug":"sens-rick-scott-jeff-merkley-introduce-legislation-targeting-global-use-of-forced-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/sens-rick-scott-jeff-merkley-introduce-legislation-targeting-global-use-of-forced-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Los senadores Rick Scott y Jeff Merkley presentan un proyecto de ley para combatir el uso global del trabajo forzoso."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON DC<\/strong>\u00a0Hoy, los senadores Rick Scott y Jeff Merkley presentaron la iniciativa bipartidista. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rickscott.senate.gov\/services\/files\/1AD122D8-EFA8-407C-BBFD-394E09AC2E55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ley de Prohibici\u00f3n de Fondos para el Trabajo Forzoso<\/a> <\/em>Exigir al Secretario del Tesoro que instruya al director ejecutivo estadounidense de las instituciones financieras internacionales para que se oponga a los proyectos que utilizan pr\u00e1cticas de trabajo forzoso, espec\u00edficamente en la regi\u00f3n de Xinjiang de la China comunista, conocida por el trabajo forzoso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Senador Rick Scott <\/strong>dijo: \u201cEntre sus muchos abusos contra los derechos humanos, la China comunista tiene un historial probado y repugnante de genocidio y trabajos forzados de uigures y otros grupos minoritarios. Esta es una crisis de derechos humanos, y Estados Unidos no ser\u00e1 c\u00f3mplice. Me enorgulleci\u00f3 liderar una <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rickscott.senate.gov\/2021\/12\/sen-rick-scott-applauds-bipartisan-passage-of-uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">esfuerzo<\/a> con el Secretario de Estado Marco Rubio durante su tiempo en el Senado para garantizar que los productos elaborados con mano de obra forzada uigur no ingresen a la cadena de suministro de los Estados Unidos. Nuestro proyecto de ley, el <em>No<\/em> <em>Ley de Fondos para el Trabajo Forzoso<\/em>, &quot;Daremos un paso m\u00e1s para garantizar que los impuestos de los estadounidenses no se gasten en apoyar estos graves abusos de la China comunista.&quot;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Senador Jeff Merkley<\/strong> dijo: \u201cSus impuestos nunca deber\u00edan financiar inadvertidamente el trabajo forzoso. Este proyecto de ley bipartidista se basa en mi <em>Ley de prevenci\u00f3n del trabajo forzoso uigur<\/em> y garantiza que Estados Unidos no sea c\u00f3mplice de horribles violaciones de los derechos humanos. Debemos enviar un mensaje contundente contra el trabajo esclavo dondequiera que se manifieste este mal.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0\u2014 Today, Senators Rick Scott and Jeff Merkley introduced the bipartisan No Funds for Forced Labor Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive director at international financial institutions to oppose projects that use forced labor practices, specifically in Communist China\u2019s Xinjiang region, known for forced labor. Senator Rick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":18847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[43,38,112],"class_list":["post-22148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-bipartisan-actions","tag-foreign-policy-and-national-security","tag-human-rights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sens. 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