1. United States
2. Colo.
3. Letter

Support for human rights should not be a partisan stance. I expect to see you reach across the aisle and push H.Res. 1277 forward, or introduce companion legislation in the senate. The Renewed Mandate for Human Rights’ principles are as follows: Recognize U.S. responsibility for policies that impact the global majority. End inhumane immigration policies, including deportation, detention, border militarization, and restrictions on legal entry. Dismantle the Department of Homeland Security. Create humane legal pathways to citizenship for migrants. Affirm the right of return. Reinstate nondiscriminatory TPS, work permit, and asylum policies. Support sovereignty for unincorporated territories, colonies, and occupied territories. Replace militarism with a global pro-peace agenda centered on human security. Redirect funding and material support away from genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Redirect resources toward humane and safe migration worldwide. Redress harms caused by U.S. foreign policy, including exploitation, resource extraction, colonialism, and imperialism. Redirect Department of Defense funding from militarism to peace initiatives and global partnerships. End military aid to countries reasonably believed to be committing human rights violations or obstructing humanitarian aid. Redirect State Department deportation funding toward humane migration. Protect self-governance, self-determination, democratic participation, and free and fair elections. Repeal voter suppression and implement voter protections. Protect freedom of speech and dissent. Strengthen campaign finance and international rules to prevent dark money interference. Combat misinformation and disinformation, including harms worsened by AI and social media. Address unaffordability through an intersectional human-rights framework. Confront spatial segregation and unequal access to services, education, and transportation. Protect people from forced evictions. Ensure public housing access regardless of documentation or immigration status. Abolish mass incarceration, detention, mass deportation, the prison-industrial complex, torture, slavery, unusual punishment, carceral punishment, and state executions. Build restorative justice systems. Expand care-based violence prevention. Adopt universal health care globally. Remove documentation/status barriers to health care. Provide free universal health care, including reproductive and gender-affirming care. Recognize land rights of the global majority. Give communities decision-making power over land use and ownership. Create democratic, community-driven land-use processes. Protect human rights, land, and environmental defenders. Expand civic space for land-rights advocacy. Challenge heteronormativity and patriarchy. Provide legal protections and cultural recognition for all genders, sexual orientations, and abilities. Ensure pay parity for the global majority. Restore U.S. domestic and global support for gender equity and LGBTQIA+ communities. Preserve the history, memory, and cultural practices of the global majority. Protect memory through storytelling, song, art, and dance. Protect communities’ right to speak their chosen languages. End discrimination against Indigenous Peoples. Guarantee fair, living wages and dignified work. Establish living, family-sustaining minimum wages. Protect collective bargaining, organizing, assembly, union formation, and strikes. Protect workers from retaliation. Ensure dignified retirement through pensions. Invest in green infrastructure and clean communal spaces. Address environmental racism, infrastructure neglect, and underfunded public spaces. Tax billionaires and megacorporations fairly. Invest in social benefits instead of relief for unaccountable leaders and megacorporations. Defund billionaire power in global economies. Adopt a cooperative U.S. posture toward the global economy to advance economic equity. Create a U.S. Human Rights Commission to monitor and respond to U.S. human-rights violations at home and abroad. Build an affirmative legislative platform for a just global society.