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2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: According to the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, the United States Government contributed $18,095,456,587 to the United Nations system in 2022, the most recent year for which the United Nations has made data available. The United States is the single largest financial contributor to the United Nations system. All United Nations member states must certify that they will adhere to the United Nations Charter, Chapter 1, Article 1, which states that the United Nations will promote and encourage respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion. The United Nations Human Rights Council (in this Act referred to as the Council) is responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe and for addressing situations of human rights violations and making recommendations on them. The Council possesses the power to establish independent investigative bodies to respond to situations of serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law. The Council has never established an independent body to investigate the human rights abuses of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The Council’s failure to establish a body to investigate the human rights abuses of the CCP constitutes bystander behavior. Following the Council’s 2018 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of China, Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet wrote a letter to Former Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi welcoming his government’s efforts to promote and protect human rights. The Council has established 38 investigative bodies since the Council was created in 2006. The Council has established an independent investigative body to investigate Israel nine times. The CCP has committed a number of grave human rights violations, including— the forced labor of ethnic Uyghur and other Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, as detailed in the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 (Public Law 116–145); mass arrests of pro-democracy advocates peacefully exercising their freedoms of assembly and expression in Hong Kong; and widespread censorship and detainment of citizens protesting draconian zero-COVID restrictions.