Leahy Laws

The Leahy Law, also known as the Leahy amendments, is a U.S. human rights law that prohibits the U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense from providing military assistance to foreign security force units that violate human rights with impunity. The law was first introduced in 1997 by Senator Patrick Leahy and has undergone several revisions since then. To implement this law, the U.S. embassies, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, and the appropriate regional bureau of the U.S. Department of State vet potential recipients of security assistance, and assistance is denied if a unit is found to have been credibly implicated in a serious abuse of human rights. The law has been used to deny assistance to security force and national defense force units in several countries, including Australia, Bangladesh, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nigeria, and Turkey, but not to Israel.learn more on wikipedia