H. Res. 1147 (Introduced in House) — Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the importance of taking a feminist approach to all aspects of foreign policy, including foreign assistance and humanitarian response, trade, diplomacy, defense, immigration, funding, and accountability mechanisms.

That the House of Representatives—

(1)

supports the goals of a feminist foreign policy;

(2)

recognizes that a whole of government effort that ensures coherence of a feminist approach across all streams of foreign policy is necessary to achieve those goals, and must include—

(A)

high-level leadership with a mandate to design and implement a feminist foreign policy with clearly articulated objectives;

(B)

commitment to gender parity, diversity, equity, and inclusion, both internally among leadership and staff and externally, cocreated with feminist civil society groups and other stakeholders outside of government;

(C)

the adoption of a zero-tolerance policy on gender-based violence and workplace harassment, immediately eliminating policies that allow abusers to move from one post to another once accused without facing consequences related to their employment or promotion;

(D)

training and capacity-building to ensure robust implementation;

(E)

gender analysis underlying all aspects of foreign policy;

(F)

adequate resourcing to ensure all of the above; and

(G)

regular and public reporting on efforts and outcomes; and

(3)

commits to work with feminist civil society groups and other stakeholders inside and outside of government to advance a more feminist foreign policy in the United States.

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Sep 23, 2020viewing Introduced in House Ms. Speier (for herself, Ms. Lee of California, Ms. Frankel, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Wild, Ms. Meng, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Ms. Norton, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Ms. Omar, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Sherman, Ms. Houlahan, Ms. Velázquez, Ms. Haaland, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Welch, Ms. Sánchez, Mrs. Lowey, and Mr. Kennedy) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the importance of taking a feminist approach to all aspects of foreign policy, including foreign assistance and humanitarian response, trade, diplomacy, defense, immigration, funding, and accountability mechanisms.

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