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building, peacekeeping, humanitarian response, and 
postconflict reconstruction; 
(2) emphasizes the importance of protecting women 
and girls from, and ensuring justice for, all forms of con-
flict-related violence, including sexual violence; 
(3) stresses the importance of the equal participa-
tion and full involvement of women in efforts to both pro-
mote and maintain peace and security; and 
(4) urges member states to increase women’s rep-
resentation at all decision-making levels in national, re-
gional, and international institutions and mechanisms to 
prevent, mitigate, and resolve conflict; 
Whereas, since October 31, 2000, 88 countries and territories 
have developed national action plans to implement 
UNSCR 1325; 
Whereas countries with greater gender inequality suffer from 
a greater likelihood to engage in violence and more polit-
ical instability, corruption, and internal conflict; 
Whereas higher levels of gender equality are associated with 
a higher likelihood of peace talks in intrastate conflicts; 
Whereas countries are more peaceful and prosperous when 
women are accorded full and equal rights and opportuni-
ties; 
Whereas according to the United Nations, between 2000 and 
2020, women’s representation in national parliaments has 
increased from 13.1 percent to 24.9 percent; 
Whereas the University of Edinburgh found the percentage of 
peace agreements with gender equality provisions world-
wide has increased from 14 percent to 22 percent be-
tween 1995 and 2019; 
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Whereas, in 1993, women represented just one percent of 
uniformed United Nations peacekeepers and in 2020, 
women constitute 4.8 percent of military peacekeeping 
contingents and 10.9 percent of police units within 
United Nations peacekeeping missions; 
Whereas, on September 25, 2017, Congress passed the bipar-
tisan Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017, the first 
national legislation to implement UNSCR 1325, which 
was signed into public law on October 6, 2017 (Public 
Law 115–68); 
Whereas pursuant to Public Law 115–68, the United States 
Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security was released on 
June 11, 2019; 
Whereas, on June 11, 2020, the Department of State, the 
United States Agency for International Development, the 
Department of Defense, and the Department of Home-
land Security released their Women, Peace, and Security 
implementation plans; and 
Whereas, on January 24, 2020, the bipartisan Women, Peace 
and Security Congressional Caucus was established in the 
House of Representatives to— 
(1) ensure that the women, peace, and security pol-
icy goals set forth in UNSCR 1325 and the Women, 
Peace, and Security Act of 2017 remain national security 
and foreign policy priorities for the United States; 
(2) exercise congressional oversight of the implemen-
tation of the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017; 
(3) promote and support United States efforts to 
elevate women’s roles in, and contributions to, advancing 
peace and security globally; and 
(4) educate Members of Congress and the public on 
the importance of women, peace, and security initiatives, 
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giving women impacted by conflict a voice in Congress: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) commemorates the 20th anniversary of the 
passage of United Nations Security Council Resolu-
tion 1325 (2000); 
(2) recognizes that the empowerment of women 
and girls and their meaningful inclusion in policy- 
making, decision making, and conflict prevention 
and resolution efforts is directly connected to long- 
term peace and security; 
(3) calls on countries around the world to pro-
mote the meaningful participation of women at all 
decision-making levels as a critical foreign and do-
mestic policy priority; and 
(4) reaffirms the United States commitment to 
serve as a global leader in increasing the meaningful 
participation of women in processes to prevent, man-
age, resolve, and recover from conflict, in accordance 
with the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017 
(Public Law 115–68), including by— 
(A) consistently supporting the meaningful 
participation of women in peace and security 
processes and decision-making institutions; 
(B) promoting the physical safety, eco-
nomic security, and dignity of women and girls 
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and supporting the equal access of women to 
aid distribution mechanisms and services; 
(C) appropriately applying gender analysis 
to improve the design, targeting, and effective-
ness of United States Government policy and 
programs to advance peace and security, includ-
ing conflict-prevention activities and strategies; 
(D) training, equipping, and empowering 
United States diplomatic, defense, and develop-
ment personnel to promote women’s leadership 
in preventing and resolving conflicts around the 
world; 
(E) increasing women’s representation at 
all levels of the diplomatic, defense, and devel-
opment workforces across the United States 
Government; and 
(F) strengthening accountability and im-
proving outcomes by designating specific and 
measurable goals and monitoring, analyzing, 
and evaluating implementation efforts across 
the United States Government. 
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