That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that—
it is the policy of the United States to ensure and promote the full, equal, meaningful, and effective participation of women in all aspects of overseas conflict prevention, management, and resolution, and postconflict relief and recovery efforts;
it is the policy of the United States to work toward preventing the use of gender-based violence in armed conflict and work toward ensuring accountability for victims and survivors of gender-based violence;
it is the policy of the United States to promote the principles espoused in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace, and security, and all subsequent United Nations Security Council resolutions on women, peace, and security;
the United States should adopt, as a precondition for the achievement of our wider foreign development, assistance, and security policy objectives, a feminist foreign policy, defined as a strategy that places the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls at the center of its initiatives and investment and that focuses on promoting the rights of women and girls, challenging gender-based discrimination, and fighting gender inequality, which includes preventing gender-based violence and all forms of conflict-related sexual violence; and
the United States should—
respect, protect, and fulfill the rights of women and girls to bodily autonomy;
support all future efforts by international institutions and organizations to ensure universal access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information and services, free of discrimination, coercion, and violence;
update and implement the United States National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security, to include an increased focus on the full health of women and girls, including sexual and reproductive health and rights;
actively support and promote international efforts to prioritize the rights and needs of women and girls and ensure their full, equal, meaningful, and effective participation in all areas that affect them; and
create an enabling environment to—
ensure that women and girls human rights defenders can perform their important role of holding the government accountable to its legal obligations under international law, including under international human rights law;
prevent violations, abuses, threats, harassment, and violence against women and girls human rights defenders, who face particular risk because of their gender and their work;
combat impunity by ensuring that those responsible for violations and abuses, including gender-based violence and threats against women and girls human rights defenders, committed by state and nonstate actors, including online, are promptly brought to justice through impartial investigations; and
ensure accountability by respecting, protecting, and fulfilling victims’ and survivors’ right to an effective remedy.