Condemning the sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls in Ethiopia and emphasizing the urgent demand for humanitarian responses to meet their needs.

Advocacy in connection with gender equality and migration and refugee assistance, lobbying in connection with the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, policy measures related to the U.S. Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally, policy measures related to the Women, Peace, and Security Strategy and implementation of the executive order establishing the White House Gender Policy Council. Legislation: S. 765, Keeping Women and Girls Safe from the Start Act; forthcoming legislation regarding the status of women in Afghanistan; H.Res. 842 Condemning the Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Against Women and Girls in Ethiopia; H.R. 4350, National Defense Authorization Act; H.R. 571, the Safe from the Start Act, Forthcoming re-introduction of the International Violence Against Women Act; S.2880 National Defense Authorization Act and forthcoming legislation re: humanitarian assistance and women/girls in Afghanistan