22 U.S.C. § 262d–1 — Congressional statement of policy of human rights and United States assistance policies with international institutions

This section is one undivided sense-of-Congress provision, built around exceptions. Congress's position is that, where other approaches haven't proven effective in promoting international human rights, U.S. representatives at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the African Development Fund, the Asian Development Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank should oppose loans and other financial or technical assistance to any country that persists in a systematic pattern of gross human-rights violations. This doesn't apply, though, if the President decides that international human rights would actually be served more effectively by some action other than voting against the assistance, or if the assistance is directed to programs that serve the basic needs of the country's impoverished majority.