Global Respect Act

This bill directs the President to publish a biannual list of foreign individuals credibly found to be responsible for serious human rights violations against LGBTQI people, including torture, arbitrary detention, disappearances, or other denials of fundamental rights. Listed individuals would be barred from entering the United States. The bill also requires the State Department to track and include anti-LGBTQI violence and discrimination in its annual country human rights reports.

Foreign nationals who have committed human rights abuses against LGBTQI individuals, who would be subject to U.S. visa bans. It also affects U.S. foreign policy operations and the State Department's reporting obligations, and increases scrutiny of countries with laws that criminalize same-sex relations.

The U.S. government would establish a formal process to impose visa bans on foreign individuals who commit human rights abuses against LGBTQI people. Annual U.S. country human rights reports would include more detailed coverage of LGBTQI-related violence and criminalization worldwide.