; (B) the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, ratified by the People’s Republic of China in 2001; and (C) the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol), to which China is a state party. 3. Statement of policy It is the policy of the United States— (1) to prohibit the import of all goods, wares, articles, or merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured, wholly or in part, by forced labor from the People’s Republic of China and particularly any such goods, wares, article, or merchandise produced in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; (2) to encourage the international community to reduce the import of any goods made with forced labor from China, particularly those goods mined, manufactured, or produced in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; (3) to actively work to prevent, publicly denounce, and end human trafficking as a horrific assault on human dignity and to restore the lives of those affected by human trafficking, a modern form of slavery; (4) to regard the prevention of atrocities as in its national interest, including efforts to prevent torture, enforced disappearances, severe deprivation of liberty, including mass internment, arbitrary detention, and widespread and systematic use of forced labor, and persecution targeting any identifiable ethnic or religious group