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militants in their attack on Mount Sinjar was premedi-
tated; 
Whereas ISIL’s enslavement of religious minorities con-
stitutes human trafficking under the Protocol to Prevent, 
Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially 
Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations 
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime; 
Whereas in August 2015, the United Nations Security Coun-
cil was briefed by Special Representative of the Sec-
retary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab 
Bangura on her visit to the Middle East and Council 
President U. Joy Ogwu (Nigeria) said in a press state-
ment, ‘‘Council members recalled that rape and other 
forms of sexual violence in armed conflict are war crimes 
and constitute grave breaches of the Geneva Conven-
tions’’ and they ‘‘urged the international community to 
remain united in the goal of holding those responsible for 
such crimes accountable’’; 
Whereas, on March 13, 2015, the ‘‘Report of the Office of 
the United Nations High Commissioner for Human 
Rights on the human rights situation in Iraq in the light 
of abuses committed by the so-called Islamic State in 
Iraq and the Levant and associated groups’’ summarized 
evidence of ‘‘acts of violence perpetrated against civilians 
because of their affiliation or perceived affiliation to an 
ethnic or religious group . . . Ethnic and religious 
groups targeted by ISIL include Yezidis, Christians, 
Turkmen, Sabea-Mandeans, Kaka’e, Kurds and Shi’a 
. . . The following crimes may have been committed . . . 
Crimes against humanity such as murder, enslavement, 
deportation or forcible transfer of population, imprison-
ment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty, tor-
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ture, rape, sexual slavery, sexual violence and persecu-
tion, committed as part of widespread and systematic at-
tacks directed against civilian populations pursuant to, or 
in furtherance of an organisational policy to commit such 
attacks’’; 
Whereas ISIL has initiated the mass killing of men and boys, 
the sexual violence and enslavement of women and chil-
dren, the desecration of historic religious sites, and the 
forced displacement of Yezidi, Christian, Shabak, and 
other religious communities; 
Whereas the reach of ISIL extends beyond Iraq and Syria 
into the rest of the world and is a threat to international 
peace, as demonstrated by ISIL affiliated attacks and re-
cruitment of foreign fighters from the United States, Eu-
rope, Central Asia, and Africa; 
Whereas according to reports it is possible that one of the 
ISIL militants involved in the sexual slavery of Yezidi 
women and children is a United States citizen; 
Whereas the United States has an obligation to investigate 
and prosecute United States citizens who are perpetra-
tors of or complicit in such crimes; 
Whereas the United States may, as a member of the United 
Nations Security Council, call for action under Chapter 
VII of the Charter of the United Nations which states, 
‘‘The Security Council shall determine the existence of 
any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of 
aggression and shall make recommendations, or decide 
what measures shall be taken in accordance with Articles 
41 and 42, to maintain or restore international peace and 
security’’; and 
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Whereas the United Nations Security Council may take ac-
tions under a Chapter VII resolution including but not 
limited to, calling for prosecution of those responsible and 
anyone complicit with these crimes, establishing financial 
and travel sanctions to cut off resources to, and restrict 
the [movement] of, those perpetrating or complicit in 
these crimes, providing security for eyewitnesses, and 
calling for arrest warrants of anyone involved: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the ongoing sexual violence 
against women and children from Yezidi, Christian, 
Shabak, and other religious communities as crimes 
against humanity; 
(2) calls on the Attorney General to commence 
the investigation and prosecution of any United 
States citizens alleged to be perpetrators of or 
complicit in these crimes and to report back to the 
United States Congress what steps are being taken 
to investigate and prosecute those involved; 
(3) calls on the President to direct the United 
States Permanent Representative to the United Na-
tions to use the voice and vote of the United States 
to present and support a draft resolution in the 
United Nations Security Council condemning the ac-
tions of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) 
militants in Iraq and Syria as crimes against hu-
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manity and calling for the arrest and prosecution of 
individual perpetrators responsible for these crimes; 
and 
(4) calls on Iraq and other nations to identify 
individual perpetrators and individuals complicit in 
these crimes and take appropriate measures to ar-
rest and prosecute those individuals. 
Æ 
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