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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3571 
To prevent international violence against women, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 21, 2013 
Ms. SCHAKOWSKY (for herself, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. ENGEL, Ms. WASSERMAN 
SCHULTZ, Mr. HANNA, and Mr. GIBSON) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To prevent international violence against women, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘International Violence Against Women Act of 2013’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
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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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 vio-
lence globally. 
Sec. 112. Implementation of the United States strategy to prevent and respond 
to gender-based violence globally. 
Sec. 113. Monitoring the United States strategy to prevent and respond to gen-
der-based violence globally. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) An estimated 1 out of every 3 women 
throughout the world will be beaten, coerced into 
sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime. 
(2) Up to 70 percent of women in some coun-
tries report having been victims of domestic violence 
at some stage in their lives. 
(3) Sexual violence among adolescents and pre- 
adolescents is alarmingly high. In 2010, the first na-
tionally representative survey of violence against 
children in Tanzania found that nearly 3 in 10 fe-
males and 1 in 7 males experienced sexual violence 
prior to the age of 18. 
(4) The International Men and Gender Equality 
Survey dataset shows that adult male respondents in 
6 countries who had experienced violence as children 
were significantly more likely to report perpetrating 
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intimate partner violence themselves than their peers 
who did not experience violence as children. 
(5) Violence against women and girls impedes 
progress in meeting many United States global de-
velopment goals, including efforts to stem maternal 
mortality and the spread of HIV/AIDS. Approxi-
mately 1 in 4 women are abused during pregnancy 
which has been linked to miscarriage, pre-term 
labor, low birth weight, fetal distress, and death. 
(6) Country studies indicate that the risk of 
HIV among women who have experienced violence 
may be up to 3 times higher than among those who 
have not. Women who have experienced violence are 
also at higher risk for contracting HIV, and women 
living with HIV may be up to 3 times more likely 
to experience violence than other women. Fear of vi-
olence also prevents women from accessing HIV/ 
AIDS information and receiving treatment and 
counseling. 
(7) The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS 
Relief (PEPFAR) supports significant work in the 
field to mainstream gender-based violence into exist-
ing HIV programs. Addressing gender norms and 
inequities is essential to reducing HIV risk and in-
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creasing access to HIV prevention, care and treat-
ment services for women and men. 
(8) Increasing women’s access to economic op-
portunities and food security is crucial to preventing 
and responding to domestic and sexual violence. In-
clusive finance and micro-enterprise reduce levels of 
intimate partner violence and provide economic inde-
pendence for survivors. 
(9) Prevalence of sexual violence is higher 
among persons with disabilities, particularly for ado-
lescents and intimate partners with disabilities, and 
for men and women with intellectual impairments 
living in institutions. 
(10) Displaced, refugee, and stateless women 
and girls in humanitarian emergencies, conflict set-
tings, and natural disasters face extreme violence 
and threats, including— 
(A) being forced to exchange sex for food 
and humanitarian supplies; and 
(B) being at increased risk of rape, sexual 
exploitation, and abuse. 
(11) Rape and sexual assault against women 
and girls are used to torture, intimidate, and ter-
rorize women and their communities. 
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(12) Early and forced marriage of the girl- 
child— 
(A) is a violation of human rights as it de-
nies girls the right to decide when and with 
whom to marry; 
(B) is a harmful practice that deprives 
girls of their dignity, bringing childhood and 
adolescence to a premature and unnatural end; 
(C) can end girls’ education and can result 
in bonded labor or enslavement, commercial 
sexual exploitation, and violence against the vic-
tims; 
(D) significantly increases the risk of ma-
ternal death and morbidity, infant mortality 
and morbidity, obstetric fistula, and sexually 
transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS; and 
(E) is perpetuated by poverty, a lack of 
educational or employment opportunities for 
girls, parental concerns to ensure sexual rela-
tions within marriage, the dowry system, and 
the perceived lack of value of girls. 
(13) World Bank data shows that gender in-
equality directly corresponds to increased levels of 
political and economic instability within states. 
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(14) Domestic violence is the most prevalent 
form of violence against women and prevents women 
from playing more active roles in the social, eco-
nomic, and political development of their commu-
nities. In humanitarian crises, this global scourge 
becomes acute, preventing women from helping to 
rebuild their countries. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States— 
(1) to take effective action to prevent and re-
spond to violence against women and girls around 
the world, as a matter of basic human rights as well 
as to promote gender equality, economic growth, and 
improved public health; 
(2) to systematically integrate and coordinate 
efforts to prevent and respond to violence against 
women and girls internationally into United States 
foreign policy and foreign assistance programs, in-
cluding peacebuilding efforts and humanitarian relief 
and recovery; 
(3) to support and build local capacity in devel-
oping countries, including of governments at all lev-
els and nongovernmental organizations, especially 
women-led organizations, to prevent and respond to 
violence against women and girls; 
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(4) to consult, cooperate, coordinate, and col-
laborate with a wide variety of nongovernmental 
partners with demonstrated experience in preventing 
and responding to violence against women and girls, 
including faith-based organizations and women-led 
organizations; 
(5) to employ a multisectoral approach to pre-
venting and responding to violence against women 
and girls internationally, including activities in the 
economic, education, health, nutrition, legal, and ju-
dicial sectors; 
(6) to work at all levels, from the individual to 
the family, community, local, national and inter-
national levels, to prevent and respond to violence 
against women and girls around the globe; 
(7) to enhance training by United States per-
sonnel of professional foreign military and police 
forces and judicial officials to include specific and 
thorough instruction on preventing and responding 
to violence against women and girls around the 
world; 
(8) to engage men and boys as partners, as an 
essential element of making sustained reductions in 
violence against women and girls; 
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(9) to include the prevention of early and forced 
marriage as an important part of United States 
Government efforts to prevent violence against girls 
and promote gender equality and global health; 
(10) to require that all United States contrac-
tors and grantees establish appropriate policies and 
take effective measures to prevent violence against 
women and girls and sexual exploitation and abuse 
within their workforce; 
(11) to exert sustained international leadership 
to prevent and respond to violence against women 
and girls, including in bilateral and multilateral fora; 
(12) to implement the United States Strategy 
to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence 
Globally; and 
(13) to implement the United States National 
Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security. 
TITLE I—INTERNATIONAL PRE-
VENTION 
OF 
VIOLENCE 
AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS 
Subtitle A—Official Designations 
and Institutional Changes 
SEC. 101. OFFICE OF GLOBAL WOMEN’S ISSUES. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of State shall 
establish in the Office of the Secretary of the Department 
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of State an Office of Global Women’s Issues (in this sec-
tion referred to as the ‘‘Office’’). The Office shall be head-
ed by an Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, 
who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate. The Ambassador-at- 
Large shall report directly to the Secretary and shall have 
the rank and status of Ambassador-at-Large. 
(b) PURPOSE.—In addition to the duties described in 
subsection (c) and those duties determined by the Sec-
retary of State, the Ambassador-at-Large shall coordinate 
efforts of the United States Government as directed by 
the Secretary regarding gender integration and advancing 
the status of women and girls in United States foreign 
policy. 
(c) DUTIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Ambassador-at-Large— 
(A) shall direct activities, policies, pro-
grams, and funding relating to gender equality 
and the advancement of women and girls inter-
nationally, including those intended to prevent 
and respond to violence against women and 
girls, for all bureaus and offices of the Depart-
ment of State and in the international pro-
grams of all other Federal agencies; 
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(B) shall actively promote and advance the 
full integration of gender analysis into the pro-
grams, structures, processes, and capacities of 
all bureaus and offices of the Department of 
State and in the international programs of 
other Federal agencies; 
(C) shall direct, as appropriate, United 
States Government resources to respond to 
needs for gender integration and empowerment 
of women in United States Government foreign 
policies and international programs, including 
to prevent and respond to violence against 
women and girls internationally; 
(D) may design, support, and implement 
activities regarding empowerment of women 
internationally, including for the prevention of 
and response to violence against women and 
girls internationally; 
(E) shall conduct regular consultation with 
civil society organizations working to prevent 
and respond to violence against women and 
girls internationally; 
(F) shall ensure that programs, projects, 
and activities designed to prevent and respond 
to violence against women and girls internation-
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ally are subject to rigorous monitoring and eval-
uation, and that there is a uniform set of indi-
cators and standards for such monitoring and 
evaluation that is used across all Federal agen-
cies; 
(G) shall serve as the principal advisor to 
the Secretary of State regarding gender equal-
ity, 
women’s 
empowerment, 
and 
violence 
against women and girls as a foreign policy 
matter; and 
(H) is authorized to represent the United 
States in diplomatic and multilateral fora on 
matters relevant to the status of women and 
girls, including violence against women and 
girls internationally. 
(2) 
INFORMATION
SHARING
AND
TRANS-
PARENCY.—The Office shall be the central reposi-
tory of data on all United States programs, projects, 
and activities that relate to prevention and response 
to violence against women and girls, and shall 
produce a full accounting of United States Govern-
ment spending on such programs, projects, and ac-
tivities. 
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SEC. 102. SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR GENDER EQUALITY 
AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the 
United States Agency for International Development a 
Senior Coordinator for Gender Equality and Women’s 
Empowerment, who shall report to the Administrator of 
the United States Agency for International Development 
and who shall conduct the activities of the Administrator 
under this Act. 
(b) IN GENERAL.—The Senior Coordinator for Gen-
der Equality and Women’s Empowerment— 
(1) shall direct activities, policies, programs, 
and funding of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development relating to gender equality 
and women’s empowerment, including those intended 
to prevent and respond to violence against women 
and girls; 
(2) shall actively promote and advance the full 
integration of gender analysis into the programs, 
structures, processes, and capacities of all bureaus 
and offices of the Agency as dictated by the USAID 
Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy; 
(3) shall direct Agency resources for gender 
equality and women’s empowerment, including to 
prevent and respond to violence against women and 
girls internationally; 
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(4) may design, support, and implement activi-
ties led by the Agency regarding gender equality and 
women’s empowerment, including for the prevention 
and response of violence against women and girls 
internationally; 
(5) shall conduct regular consultation with civil 
society organizations working to prevent and re-
spond to violence against women and girls inter-
nationally; 
(6) shall serve as the principal advisor to the 
Administrator regarding gender equality, women’s 
empowerment, and violence against women and girls; 
and 
(7) shall track and analyze monitoring and eval-
uation data and findings on international prevention 
and response programs of the Agency, consistent 
with Agency-wide monitoring and evaluation activi-
ties, and in order to assist in the preparation of the 
comprehensive strategy developed under section 111. 
SEC. 103. BRIEFING. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Ambas-
sador-at-Large and Senior Coordinator shall brief the ap-
propriate congressional committees on international vio-
lence against women and girls prevention and response 
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strategies, programming, and associated outcomes, and 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
an assessment of human and financial resources necessary 
to fulfill the purposes and duties of this Act. 
Subtitle B—Strategy, Policy, and 
Programs 
SEC. 111. UNITED STATES STRATEGY TO PREVENT AND RE-
SPOND TO GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE GLOB-
ALLY. 
(a) GLOBAL STRATEGY REQUIREMENT.—Not later 
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
and annually thereafter for five years, the Ambassador- 
at-Large, in consultation with the Senior Coordinator, 
shall develop or update a United States global strategy 
to prevent and respond to violence against women and 
girls. Such strategy shall be transmitted to the appro-
priate congressional committees and made publicly avail-
able on the Internet. 
(b) INITIAL STRATEGY.—For the purposes of this 
section, the ‘‘United States Strategy to Prevent and Re-
spond to Gender-Based Violence Globally’’, issued in Au-
gust 2012, shall be deemed to fulfill the initial require-
ment of subsection (a). 
(c) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.—Not later than 60 
days after submission of the strategy under subsection (a), 
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the Ambassador-at-Large, in consultation with the Senior 
Coordinator, shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees an implementation plan detailing how the 
strategy will be implemented in the upcoming five fiscal 
years, including the budget resources requested, and the 
specific activities to be supported, by each Executive agen-
cy under the strategy. 
(d) COLLABORATION AND COORDINATION.—In devel-
oping the strategy under subsection (a), the Ambassador- 
at-Large and Senior Coordinator shall consult with— 
(1) the heads of relevant Federal agencies; 
(2) the Senior Policy Operating Group on Traf-
ficking in Persons; and 
(3) representatives of civil society and multi-lat-
eral organizations with demonstrated experience in 
addressing violence against women and girls or pro-
moting gender equality internationally. 
(e) CONTENT.—The implementation plan required 
under subsection (c) shall— 
(1) identify eligible low-income and lower-mid-
dle income countries with significant levels of vio-
lence against women and girls, including within dis-
placed communities, that have the governmental or 
nongovernmental organizational capacity to manage 
and implement gender-based violence prevention and 
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response program activities and should, when pos-
sible, be geographically, ethnically, and culturally di-
verse from one another; 
(2) select 5 to 20 of the eligible countries iden-
tified under paragraph (1) in which to develop com-
prehensive and holistic individual country plans that 
incorporate at least two of the program activities 
listed in section 112(b); 
(3) assess and describe the current or potential 
capacity of the government of each eligible country 
selected under paragraph (2) and civil society orga-
nizations in each such eligible country to address 
and respond to violence against women and girls; 
(4) identify coordination mechanisms with Fed-
eral agencies that— 
(A) have existing programs relevant to the 
strategy; 
(B) will be involved in new program activi-
ties; and 
(C) are engaged in broader United States 
strategies around development; 
(5) describe the monitoring and evaluation 
mechanisms established for each eligible country, 
and their intended use in assessing overall progress 
in prevention and response; 
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(6) project general levels of resources needed to 
achieve the stated objectives in each eligible country, 
including an accounting of— 
(A) activities and funding already ex-
pended by the Department of State, the United 
States Agency for International Development, 
other Federal agencies, other donor country 
governments, and other multilateral institu-
tions; and 
(B) leveraged private sector resources; 
(7) integrate gender analysis into the strategy 
for each country; and 
(8) include, as appropriate, strategies designed 
to accommodate the needs of stateless, disabled, in-
ternally displaced, refugee, or religious or ethnic mi-
nority women and girls. 
SEC. 112. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UNITED STATES 
STRATEGY TO PREVENT AND RESPOND TO 
GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE GLOBALLY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State and the 
Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development are authorized to provide assistance 
to prevent and respond to violence against women and 
girls internationally. 
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(b) PROGRAM ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED.—Assistance 
provided to each country selected under subsection 
111(e)(2) should include at least two of the following ac-
tivities: 
(1) Development and implementation of pro-
grams that work to change social norms and atti-
tudes so that violence against women and girls is 
neither condoned nor tolerated. 
(2) Promotion of accessible quality educational 
and literacy opportunities for women and girls. 
(3) Promotion of access to economic opportuni-
ties, including by increasing distribution, credit, 
property, and inheritance rights for women and 
girls. 
(4) Development and enforcement of civil and 
criminal legal and judicial sanctions, protections, 
trainings, and capacity. 
(5) Enhancement of the health sector capacity 
to detect, prevent, and respond to violence against 
women and girls. 
(c) BUILDING LOCAL CAPACITY.—Not less than 10 
percent of the amount of assistance provided to an eligible 
country under this section should be provided to commu-
nity-based nongovernmental organizations, with priority 
given to nongovernmental organizations led by women. 
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SEC. 113. MONITORING THE UNITED STATES STRATEGY TO 
PREVENT AND RESPOND TO GENDER-BASED 
VIOLENCE GLOBALLY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In each strategy submitted under 
section 111(a), the Ambassador-at-Large and Senior Co-
ordinator shall include an analysis of best practices for 
preventing and addressing violence against women and 
girls internationally, which shall include— 
(1) a description of successful efforts by foreign 
governments, multilateral institutions, nongovern-
mental organizations, educational organizations, and 
faith-based organizations in preventing and respond-
ing to violence against women and girls; 
(2) recommendations related to best practices, 
effective strategies, and improvements to enhance 
the impact of prevention and response efforts; and 
(3) the impact of activities funded by the strat-
egy in preventing and reducing violence against 
women and girls internationally. 
(b) AMENDMENTS.—The Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 is amended— 
(1) in section 116(d) (22 U.S.C. 2151n(d))— 
(A) in paragraph (11)(C), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
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(B) in paragraph (12)(C)(ii), by striking 
the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; 
and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(13) wherever applicable, the nature and ex-
tent of violence against women and girls.’’; and 
(2) in section 502B (22 U.S.C. 2304)— 
(A) by redesignating the second subsection 
designated as subsection (i) as subsection (j); 
and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
subsection: 
‘‘(k) INCLUSION OF INFORMATION RELATING TO VI-
OLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.—The report re-
quired by subsection (b) shall include, wherever applicable, 
the nature and extent of violence against women and 
girls.’’. 
(c) MONITORING AND EVALUATION.—In coordination 
with relevant officials, and consistent with the monitoring 
and evaluation policies of their respective agencies, the 
Ambassador-at-Large and the Senior Coordinator shall 
develop a plan for monitoring and independent evaluation 
of programs, projects, and activities carried out under this 
Act. The plan shall— 
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(1) apply rigorous monitoring and evaluation 
methodologies to focus on learning, accountability, 
and policymaking, choosing from among a wide vari-
ety of qualitative, quantitative, summative, and 
formative methods common in the field of social sci-
entific inquiry, including impact evaluations; and 
(2) be included in the implementation plan re-
quired under section 111(c). 
(d) RESEARCH AND DATA COLLECTION.—The Sec-
retary and the Administrator shall— 
(1) produce original research or analysis of ef-
fective interventions to prevent or respond to vio-
lence against women and girls internationally; 
(2) collect and analyze new or existing data on 
the scope and extent of all forms of violence against 
women and girls internationally, including under- 
documented forms of violence and violence against 
marginalized groups; 
(3) conduct research on effective interventions 
to respond to violence against women and girls inter-
nationally, including efforts to scale up effective pro-
gramming; and 
(4) support systemic data collection using inter-
nationally comparable indicators, norms, and meth-
odologies for measuring the scope, prevalence, and 
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incidence of violence against women and girls inter-
nationally. 
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