Resolution 502 was adopted by the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates at the August 2024 Annual Meeting in Chicago:

RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urges the United States Department of State Office of Global Criminal Justice to investigate and publish updated findings on the question of genocide, crimes against humanity, and other human rights violations in Tibet; and

FURTHER RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urges the United Nations Human Rights Council to appoint a special rapporteur on the situation concerning Tibet and to include the situation of Tibet on its agenda.

The adoption of this Resolution by the House of Delegates establishes it as officially binding policy of the American Bar Association.

This Resolution was originally introduced by the International Criminal Law Committee, and was sponsored by the ABA International Law Section with co-sponsorship from the Section of Civil Rights And Social Justice, the Center For Human Rights, and the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association.

You can read the full text of Resolution 502, as adopted (with the accompanying Report) here.