International Women's Freedom Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6293
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Admission of nonimmigrants
Advice and consent of the Senate
Aliens
Awards, medals, prizes
Business ethics
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Deportation
Detention of persons
Development credit institutions
Diplomacy
Diplomats
Discrimination in education
Discrimination in employment
Discrimination in medical care
Economic assistance
Education
Educational exchanges
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Employee rights
Equality before the law
Evidence (Law)
Exchange of persons programs
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Export controls
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Federal officials
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign leaders
Foreign loans
Foreign service
Fringe benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health education
Higher education
Human rights
Immigration
International broadcasting
International corporations
Judges
Labor and Employment
Law
Military assistance
Negotiations
Nongovernmental organizations
Political prisoners
President and foreign policy
Presidential appointments
Refugees
Right of asylum
Right to travel
Sanctions (International law)
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex discrimination
Translating and interpreting
Transportation and Public Works
Treaties
Visas
Voting rights
Web sites
Women
Women's education
Women's employment
Women's health
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
International Women's Freedom Act of 2006 - Establishes within the Department of State an Office of International Women's Rights to be headed by an Ambassador at Large for International Women's Rights.
 
Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) establish a women's rights Internet site; and (2) maintain prisoner lists and issue briefs on women's rights concerns.
 
Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to include instruction on the internationally recognized rights of women and the various aspects and manifestations of violations of women's rights in Foreign Service officer training.
 
Establishes the United States Commission on International Women's Rights. (Terminates the Commission four years after the date of the initial appointment of its members.)
 
Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to express the sense of Congress that there should be within the National Security Council (NSC) staff a Special Adviser to the President on International Women's Rights. 
 
Directs the President to take specified actions in response to women's rights violations, including actions in response to particularly severe rights violations.
 
Provides for prohibition of economic, multilateral, military, and export assistance in instances of particularly severe women's rights violations.
 
Provides for the promotion of women's rights.
 
Provides for women's rights-related training with respect to refugee, asylum, and consular matters.
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the inadmissibility of foreign government officials who have engaged in particularly severe women's rights violations.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that transnational corporations operating overseas should adopt codes of conduct upholding the rights of their female employees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House