US Congress House Bill 5905 (Prior Session Legislation)

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June 7 2012 - Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Pending: House Foreign Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

International Violence Against Women Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of State to designate an Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues. Directs the Secretary to develop a comprehensive strategy to identify countries with significant levels of violence against women and girls that have the government or nongovernmental organizational capacity to implement gender-based violence prevention and response program activities. Authorizes assistance for such countries and urges that 10% of such assistance go to community-based and women's nongovernmental organizations in recipient countries. Authorizes the Secretary to provide guidance to the Secretary of Defense (DOD) on how to: (1) incorporate training on prevention and response into the basic training curricula of foreign military forces and judicial officials, and (2) ensure that U.S. assistance to units involved in regional or multilateral peacekeeping operations includes such training. Directs the Secretary and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to ensure that: (1) assistance made available for humanitarian relief, conflict mitigation, and post-conflict reconstruction prevents and responds to violence against women and girls; and (2) assistance made available for disarmament, demobilization, and rehabilitation provides protection in demobilization and transit centers and essential medical care and psychosocial support. Directs the Secretary to: (1) identify critical or widespread incidents of violence against women and girls in situations of armed conflict; (2) determine emergency response measures; and (3) brief Congress, upon request, on the implementation of such emergency response measures.

International Violence Against Women Act of 2012

Rep Schakowsky, Janice D.	Rep Ackerman, Gary L.	Rep Baca, Joe	Rep Bass, Karen
Rep Berman, Howard L.	Rep Bordallo, Madeleine Z.	Rep Capps, Lois	Rep Capuano, Michael E.
Rep Carnahan, Russ	Rep Chu, Judy	Rep Cicilline, David N.	Rep Clarke, Yvette D.
Rep Cohen, Steve	Rep Courtney, Joe	Rep DeGette, Diana	Rep DeLauro, Rosa L.
Rep Edwards, Donna F.	Rep Ellison, Keith	Rep Engel, Eliot L.	Rep Farr, Sam
Rep Frank, Barney	Rep Garamendi, John	Rep Green, Al	Rep Grijalva, Raul M.
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D.	Rep Hirono, Mazie K.	Rep Holt, Rush D.	Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila
Rep Kucinich, Dennis J.	Rep Larsen, Rick	Rep Larson, John B.	Rep Lee, Barbara
Rep Lewis, John	Rep Lowey, Nita M.	Rep Maloney, Carolyn B.	Rep McCollum, Betty
Rep McGovern, James P.	Rep Miller, George	Rep Moore, Gwen	Rep Moran, James P.
Rep Murphy, Christopher S.	Rep Napolitano, Grace F.	Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes	Rep Olver, John W.
Rep Pingree, Chellie	Rep Rangel, Charles B.	Rep Richardson, Laura	Rep Schiff, Adam B.
Rep Sherman, Brad	Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh	Rep Speier, Jackie	Rep Stark, Fortney Pete
Rep Van Hollen, Chris	Rep Wasserman Schultz, Debbie	Rep Welch, Peter	Rep Woolsey, Lynn C.

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-06-07	House	Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN05905:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr5905ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr5905ih.pdf