{"id":4162,"date":"2019-05-22T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-foreign-relations-committee-passes-merkley-provision-on-potential-magnitsky-sanctions-for-uyghur-human-rights-violations-2019\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:07:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:07:44","slug":"senate-foreign-relations-committee-passes-merkley-provision-on-potential-magnitsky-sanctions-for-uyghur-human-rights-violations-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/senate-foreign-relations-committee-passes-merkley-provision-on-potential-magnitsky-sanctions-for-uyghur-human-rights-violations-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"El Comit\u00e9 de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado aprueba la disposici\u00f3n de Merkley sobre posibles sanciones Magnitsky por violaciones de los derechos humanos de los uigures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 El Comit\u00e9 de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado vot\u00f3 hoy con un fuerte apoyo bipartidista para aprobar una disposici\u00f3n redactada por el Senador de Oreg\u00f3n Jeff Merkley para considerar sanciones a las personas responsables de horribles abusos contra los derechos humanos contra la minor\u00eda uigur en China. Merkley, que forma parte del comit\u00e9, insert\u00f3 la disposici\u00f3n, que exige que la Administraci\u00f3n Trump considere las sanciones de la Ley Global Magnitsky a menos que China permita a los inspectores independientes de derechos humanos el acceso sin obst\u00e1culos para investigar sobre el terreno, en un paquete m\u00e1s amplio que aborda la crisis de derechos humanos de los uigures.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNo hay derecho humano m\u00e1s fundamental que el derecho a su propia identidad e historia\u201d, dijo Merkley. \u201cLa creciente vigilancia, el encarcelamiento, la tortura y los &#039;campos de reeducaci\u00f3n&#039; forzados a los que est\u00e1n sometidos los musulmanes uigures de China son violaciones atroces de los derechos humanos, privan a millones de personas de su libertad y tratan de despojar a toda una comunidad de su cultura y su pasado. Es hora de que EE. UU. tome una posici\u00f3n firme frente a estas violaciones, comenzando con una determinaci\u00f3n formal sobre las sanciones contra los responsables\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>En los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os, China ha intensificado dr\u00e1sticamente la represi\u00f3n contra los uigures y otras poblaciones minoritarias musulmanas turcas en la provincia de Xinjiang, en el noroeste de China. Adem\u00e1s de la vigilancia intensiva, la reubicaci\u00f3n forzosa y las restricciones a las pr\u00e1cticas religiosas y ling\u00fc\u00edsticas, se estima que entre uno y dos millones de musulmanes chinos han sido detenidos arbitrariamente y colocados en \u201ccampos de reeducaci\u00f3n\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>La disposici\u00f3n de Merkley requerir\u00eda que el Secretario de Estado presente un informe dentro de los 90 d\u00edas para determinar si las personas responsables de estas violaciones de los derechos humanos cumplen con los criterios para las sanciones en virtud de la Ley Global Magnitsky de Responsabilidad de los Derechos Humanos, a menos que el gobierno chino permita que las organizaciones internacionales de derechos humanos sean independientes, acceso sin restricciones ni supervisi\u00f3n a la Regi\u00f3n Aut\u00f3noma Uigur de Xinjiang para investigar estos abusos.<\/p>\n<p>La disposici\u00f3n de Merkley se insert\u00f3 en un proyecto de ley m\u00e1s amplio, la Ley de Pol\u00edtica de Derechos Humanos de los Uigures, que el Senador Merkley ha copatrocinado de manera bipartidista junto con el Senador Marco Rubio (R-FL), el Miembro de Rango del Comit\u00e9 de Relaciones Exteriores Bob Menendez (D-NJ) , y otros. La Ley de Pol\u00edtica de Derechos Humanos Uyghur recomendar\u00eda el nombramiento de un Coordinador Especial de EE. UU. para Xinjiang; apoyar los esfuerzos del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos para recibir acceso sin restricciones; presionar al Secretario de Comercio para que considere prohibir la venta de bienes y servicios estadounidenses a agentes estatales en Xinjiang; y explorar el establecimiento de una base de datos voluntaria de personas desaparecidas, entre otras disposiciones.<\/p>\n<p>Despu\u00e9s de ser aprobado por el comit\u00e9 hoy, el paquete ahora se dirige al pleno del Senado para su consideraci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Desde que se uni\u00f3 al Comit\u00e9 de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado en enero de 2017, el Senador Merkley ha utilizado su cargo para resaltar los problemas humanitarios y combatir los abusos contra los derechos humanos en todo el mundo. En noviembre de 2017, Merkley encabez\u00f3 la primera delegaci\u00f3n del Congreso a Birmania y Bangladesh para investigar las atrocidades cometidas contra la minor\u00eda rohingya en Birmania y reunirse con refugiados en Bangladesh. En 2018, dirigi\u00f3 una misi\u00f3n de investigaci\u00f3n para examinar las causas profundas y las respuestas a las hambrunas en varias regiones de \u00c1frica. Merkley tambi\u00e9n ha sido una voz destacada en denunciar los abusos de los derechos humanos de Arabia Saudita en el pa\u00eds y en el extranjero, y ha utilizado su posici\u00f3n para impulsar un trato humano y digno de los refugiados y solicitantes de asilo dentro de los EE. 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