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H.R. 5905: International Violence Against Women Act of 2012

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H.R. 5905: International Violence Against Women Act of 2012

112th Congress · introduced 2012-06-07 · International Affairs · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2012-06-07 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

International Violence Against Women Act of 2012

Plain summary

International Violence Against Women Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of State to designate an Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues. Directs the Secretary to develop a comprehensive strategy to identify countries with significant levels of violence against women and girls that have the government or nongovernmental organizational capacity to implement gender-based violence prevention and response program activities. Authorizes assistance for such countries and urges that 10% of such assistance go to community-based and women's nongovernmental organizations in recipient countries. Authorizes the Secretary to provide guidance to the Secretary of Defense (DOD) on how to: (1) incorporate training on prevention and response into the basic training curricula of foreign military forces and judicial officials, and (2) ensure that U.S. assistance to units involved in regional or multilateral peacekeeping operations includes such training. Directs the Secretary and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to ensure that: (1) assistance made available for humanitarian relief, conflict mitigation, and post-conflict reconstruction prevents and responds to violence against women and girls; and (2) assistance made available for disarmament, demobilization, and rehabilitation provides protection in demobilization and transit centers and essential medical care and psychosocial support. Directs the Secretary to: (1) identify critical or widespread incidents of violence against women and girls in situations of armed conflict; (2) determine emergency response measures; and (3) brief Congress, upon request, on the implementation of such emergency response measures.

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Official text

International Violence Against Women Act of 2012

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] · 55 cosponsors

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Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), John B. Larson (D-CT), Betty McCollum (D-MN), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Christopher Murphy (D-CT), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Peter Welch (D-VT), John Garamendi (D-CA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Judy Chu (D-CA), Al Green (D-TX), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Steve Cohen (D-TN)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] reported raising $415,385 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong112-hr5905 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112