1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Uighur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response Act of 2018 or the UIGHUR Act of 2018 . 2. Findings and statement of policy (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The continued commitment of the United States to the international promotion of fundamental rights and freedoms is critical to global stability and the security and prosperity of the American people. (2) The relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China is of immense geopolitical and economic importance, and it is imperative that bilateral engagement encompass the full spectrum of contested issues, including human rights matters such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion. (3) The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has cited estimates that approximately 1,000,000 ethnic or religious minorities within the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China are currently being arbitrarily detained in political re-education camps , including members of the Uighur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Tartar communities, among others. (4) The mass arbitrary detention of persons on the basis of their religious or ethnic background, without due process of law or individualized credible allegations of wrongdoing against each detained individual, is not a credible or effective counterterrorism strategy and constitutes a severe violation of international norms and standards. (5) Turkic Muslims within the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, and elsewhere within the People’s Republic of China and globally, have further been subjected to discriminatory policies and practices that seek to limit or otherwise restrict their exercise of universal rights. (b) Statement of policy It is the policy of the United States to— (1) oppose the mass arbitrary detention of Turkic Muslims within the People’s Republic of China on the basis of their religion, ethnicity, or actual or perceived political views and without due process protections