1. Short title This Act may be cited as the International Children with Disabilities Protection Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), there are at least 240,000,000 children and youth with disabilities in the world, including approximately 53,000,000 children under age 5. (2) Families and children with disabilities together make up nearly 2,000,000,000 people, or 25 percent of the world's population. (3) Millions of children, particularly children with intellectual and other developmental disabilities, are placed in large or small residential institutions and most of those children are left to grow up without the love, support, and guidance of a family. The vast majority of children placed in residential institutions have at least one living parent or have extended family, many of whom would keep their children at home if they had the support and legal protections necessary to do so. (4) As described in the 2013 world report published by UNICEF, many parents who wish to keep their children with disabilities feel that they have no choice but to give up their child to a residential institution because of prejudice and stigma against disability, the lack of support and protection that families receive, and the fact that education and community services are often inaccessible or inappropriate for children with disabilities. (5) Extensive scientific research demonstrates that placing children in residential institutions may lead to psychological harm, increased developmental disabilities, stunted growth, rapid spread of infectious diseases, and high rates of mortality. (6) Leading child protection organizations have documented that children and adolescents raised without families in residential institutions face high risk of violence, trafficking for forced labor or the sex industry, forced abortion or sterilization, and criminal detention. (7) The danger of family breakup and institutionalization has grown enormously as a result