1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Global Voices of Freedom Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Seventy-five years ago, the United Nations General Assembly, with leadership from the United States, adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, done at Paris December 10, 1948 (referred to in this section as the Declaration ), and since the adoption of the Declaration, human rights defenders have mobilized communities around the vision of a world free and equal in dignity and rights described in the Declaration. (2) Twenty-five years ago, the United Nations unanimously adopted the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, which calls upon all States to respect the role of individual citizens and civil society organizations in defending human rights and democratic principles. (3) Human rights defenders advocate for human rights and democratic principles, fight corruption, support good governance, seek to end impunity, support victims of human rights violations, and speak truth to power, creating safeguards against autocratic regimes and backsliding democracies. (4) Increasingly, human rights defenders around the world face threats and violence in retaliation for exercising their civil and political rights, and reprisals against such defenders have grown in number, scale, and sophistication, with online and digital threats evolving rapidly. (5) According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, every year hundreds of human rights defenders are murdered and thousands more are subjected to torture, enforced disappearance, sexual violence, hate crimes, unlawful or arbitrary detention, judicial harassment, unlawful or arbitrary digital surveillance, and forced exile. (6) Today, autocratic regimes are engaging in increasingly brutal crackdowns on human rights defenders by co-opting states or collaborating with transnational criminal organizations, paramilitary groups, and other actors to silence critical voices. (7) Such tactics are not limited to