International Violence Against Women Act 2014

– In support of this bill

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https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s2307/text
) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and re-
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
A BILL
To prevent international violence against women, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
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tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
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(a) S
HORT
T
ITLE
.—This Act may be cited as the
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‘‘International Violence Against Women Act of 2014’’.
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(b) T
ABLE OF
C
ONTENTS
.—The table of contents for
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this Act is as follows:
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Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Findings.
Sec. 3. Statement of policy.
TITLE I—INTERNATIONAL PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST
WOMEN AND GIRLS
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S 2307 IS
Subtitle A—Official Designations and Institutional Changes
Sec. 101. Office for Global Women’s Issues.
Sec. 102. Senior Coordinator for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment.
Sec. 103. Briefing.
Subtitle B—Strategy, Policy, and Programs
Sec. 111. United States Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Vi-
olence Globally.
Sec. 112. Implementation of the United States Strategy to Prevent and Re-
spond to Gender-Based Violence Globally.
Sec. 113. Monitoring the United States Strategy to Prevent and Respond to
Gender-Based Violence Globally.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
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Congress makes the following findings:
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(1) An estimated 1 out of every 3 women
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throughout the world will be beaten, coerced into
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sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime.
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(2) Up to 70 percent of women in some coun-
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tries report having been victims of domestic violence
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at some stage in their lives.
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(3) Sexual violence among adolescents and pre-
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adolescents is alarmingly high. In 2010, the first na-
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tionally representative survey of violence against
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children in Tanzania found that nearly 3 in 10 fe-
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males and 1 in 7 males experienced sexual violence
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prior to the age of 18.
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(4) The International Men and Gender Equality
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Survey dataset shows that adult male respondents in
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6 countries who had experienced violence as children
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were significantly more likely to report perpetrating
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