47. 一些国家对赔偿问题的政治反对立场极为顽固，甚至对这一问题的研究都立法加以被阻。例如，在 1989 年至 2017 年期间，美国国会议员 John Conyers 多次向众议院提出题为“研究和发展向非裔美国人赔偿提案法委员会”的 H.R.40 法案。157 在此期间，国会阻止了该倡议的进展，而该倡议仅试图推进对赔偿问题的理解，甚至没有核准任何实际的赔偿措施。这种对取得赔偿方面知识本身的政治抵制背离了上文讨论的国际人权原则和标准。
47. Political opposition to the subject of reparations in some countries is so deep that even attempts to study the issue have been consistently blocked at the legislative level. For example, between 1989 and 2017, United States Congressman John Conyers repeatedly introduced bill H.R. 40, entitled “Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act”, to the House of Representatives. 157 During that period Congress blocked the progress of the initiative – which sought only to advance understanding of the issue of reparations, and did not even authorize any actual measures for reparations. That sort of political resistance to the very production of knowledge on reparations is incompatible with the international human rights principles and standards canvassed above.