WILPF/PeaceWomen themes covered:

General Women, Peace and Security: 2/17

Conflict Prevention: 3/17

Disarmament: 2/17

Displacement and Humanitarian Response: 4/17

Participation: 3/17

Peace Processes: 1/17

Peacekeeping: 3/17

Protection: 4/17

Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 0/17

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 2/17

Implementation: 3/17

Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 4/17

Human Rights: 3/17

S/PV.7938: "We know that an essential element of preventing sexual violence in the first place starts with empowering women to be leaders in building and maintaining peace."

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WILPF/PeaceWomen themes covered:

General Women, Peace and Security: 0/5

Conflict Prevention: 1/5

Disarmament: 0/5

Displacement and Humanitarian Response: 0/5

Participation: 0/5

Peace Processes: 0/5

Peacekeeping: 1/5

Protection: 2/5

Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 0/5

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 1/5

Implementation: 2/5

Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 2/5

Human Rights: 0/5

S/PV.8144: " To more comprehensively promote peace and protect human lives, we must look first at underlying challenges to peace and security, including a failure to promote development or human rights or to meet humanitarian needs. When left unaddressed, those shortcomings can develop into threats to international peace and security. Those factors can not only exacerbate conflict but, in many instances, directly lead to instability — a vicious cycle that is often largely man-made and preventable."

WILPF/PeaceWomen themes covered:

General Women, Peace and Security: 0/5

Conflict Prevention: 1/5

Disarmament: 0/5

Displacement and Humanitarian Response: 0/5

Participation: 0/5

Peace Processes: 0/5

Peacekeeping: 1/5

Protection: 2/5

Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 0/5

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 1/5

Implementation: 2/5

Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 2/5

Human Rights: 0/5

S/PV.8144: " To more comprehensively promote peace and protect human lives, we must look first at underlying challenges to peace and security, including a failure to promote development or human rights or to meet humanitarian needs. When left unaddressed, those shortcomings can develop into threats to international peace and security. Those factors can not only exacerbate conflict but, in many instances, directly lead to instability — a vicious cycle that is often largely man-made and preventable."

Draft resolutions on Palestine and the city of Jerusalem (S/2017/1060) has no gender-specific language.

Implementation:

The US signed the Women, Peace and Security Act of 2017 into law.

Relief and Recovery:

a) The US has helped spearhead the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, which already has $340 million in donor commitments.

b) The US will support women entrepreneurs in developing countries by increasing their access to finance, markets, technology and networks — everything they need to start and grow a business.

Profit from Arms Transfer in 2016: $9,894,000,000

UN Women Total Contribution in 2016: $14,898,379

HDI (Human Development Index)

The United States was ranked 13.

The United States is included in the "Very High Human Development" category.

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The United States provided female peacekeepers to MINUSCA (2 women), MINUSMA (2 women), MINUSTAH (2 women), MONUSCO (0 women), UNMIL (0 women), UNMISS (3 women), UNSMIL (0 women), UNTSO (0 women).

S/PV.8218: "Peacekeeping missions need to support political solutions. They need host country cooperation. Mandates must be realistic and achievable. Missions need to have an exit strategy. And we need to be willing to change mandates when things are not working."

Key women's organisation's (National Organisation for Women) efforts in regard to gender issues include the following:

- Number of conferences: 1 national annual conference, with 500 local and campus affiliates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia hosting numerous conferences and events per year;

- Social services provided: advocacy for reproductive rights and justice, economic justice, ending violence against women, racial justice, LGBTQ rights, and constitutional equality, training and education, lobbying and policymaking.

Types of social support provided:

Education: Yes

Anti-violence: Yes

Women's empowerment: Yes

Gender-related training: Yes

Political participation: Yes

Anti-human trafficking: No

Women's health: Yes

Lobbying and policymaking: Yes

Fundraising: Yes

More than 1.5 million NGOs operate in the United States. These NGOs undertake a wide array of activities, including political advocacy on issues such as foreign policy, elections, the environment, healthcare, women’s rights, economic development, and many other issues. Human services groups—such as food banks, homeless shelters, youth services, sports organisations, and family or legal services—composed over one-third of all public charities (35.5 percent).

The US is rated as "narrowed" on the CIVICUS Monitor & has been placed on the Monitor’s Watch List due to alarming developments. The United States in turn was placed under closer scrutiny as nineteen state legislatures either proposed or passed bills to limit certain protest tactics or increase penalties for ‘illegal’ protests. Various local police departments are also reportedly conducting surveillance of protesters, including members of the Black Lives Matter movement and those arrested during President Donald Trump’s inauguration. This is in addition to the repression and arbitrary arrests experienced in 2016 by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe members and activists protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Later reports confirmed that the Inauguration Day protests had been infiltrated by undercover police agents. It was also reported that two-thirds of US non-profits working internationally have experienced banking issues as a result of recent anti-money laundering and terror-financing laws.

Department of Defense Diversity & Inclusion Strategic Plan 2012-2017: “The Foreign Service Institute trained foreign and civil service officers on gender policies, including WPS, and launched an online training module on gender equality as a foreign policy priority, which significantly expanded its reach. In addition, several bureaus and missions developed specialized positions for gender advisors, coordinated gender policies through devoted working groups, drafted country-specific gender strategies, implemented specialized in-country training, and integrated WPS-related material into existing training. The Secretary of State’s Full Participation Fund, an initiative that promotes gender mainstreaming across the Department, supported 16 active programs in conflict-affected countries.”

In June 2016, the United States of America (USA) adopted their second NAP which was developed on the basis of reviewing policy and programming as well as challenges and lessons learned from the implementation of the first NAP. Consultations were also held with civil society stakeholders during the drafting of the revised NAP. Recently, the USA enacted the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017, which was signed into law on October 6. The USA NAP is unique in setting a timeline for the three main departments in charge of implementation - Department of State, Department of Defense, and USAID – to develop their own departmental implementation plans. In August 2012 both State and USAID launched their organizational action plans. Moreover, the NAP mentions that the Interagency Policy Committee dedicated to Women, Peace and Security (WPS IPC) will later develop specific indicators for the purpose of monitoring implementation. Thus, the USA NAP comes across as relatively unspecific because it delegates issues to the future. The revised NAP of the USA has the following five objectives:

National Integration and Institutionalization: Through interagency coordination, policy development, enhanced professional training and education, and evaluation, the United States Government will institutionalize a gender-responsive approach to its diplomatic, development, and defense-related work in conflict-affected environments.

Participation in Peace Processes and Decision-making: The United States Government will improve the prospects for inclusive, just, and sustainable peace by promoting and strengthening women’s rights and effective leadership and substantive participation in peace processes, conflict prevention, peacebuilding, transitional processes, and decision-making institutions in conflict-affected environments.

Protection from Violence: The United States Government will strengthen its efforts to prevent —and protect women and children from—harm, exploitation, discrimination, and abuse, including gender-based violence and trafficking in persons, and to hold perpetrators accountable in conflict-affected environments.

Conflict Prevention: The United States Government will promote women’s roles in preventing conflict, mass atrocities, and violent extremism, including by improving conflict early-warning and response systems through the integration of gender perspectives, and invest in women and girls’ health, education, and economic opportunity to create conditions for stable societies and lasting peace.

Access to Relief and Recovery: The United States Government will respond to the distinct needs of women and girls in both natural and conflict-affected disasters and crises, including by providing safe, equitable access to humanitarian assistance. Source: http://peacewomen.org/sites/default/files/women-national-action-plan.pdf

Military Expenditure in 2016: $612,889,000,000

The NAP contains no allocated or estimated budget.

Lower: 19.4%; Upper: 21%

Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.200

Women represent 26.8% of the US federal law enforcement jobs. 

US Supreme Court: 3 women, 37.5%

Circuit Court of Appeals: 35.9%

Federal District Court Judges: 33%

All State court judges in US: 31.1%

Total representation of women - federal & state judgeships: 27.1%

Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.86

Unemployment rate (percentage of female/male labour force): Female: 4.8% Male: 4.9% Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.97

Estimated earned income (PPP US$): Female: 45,287 Male: 69,901 Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.65

Legislators, senior officials, and managers (%): Female: 43.4, Male: 56.6 Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.77

Professional and technical workers (%): Female: 57.1, Male: 42.9 Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.33

The enrolment difference between males and females is provided below (The theoretical maximum value is 100%. Increasing trends are considered a reflection of improving coverage at the specified level of education):

Literacy rate (%): Female: 99 Male: 99 Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1

Enrolment in primary education Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.01 Female: 94.1 Male: 93.4

Enrolment in secondary education Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.03 Female:92.0 Male:89.0

Enrolment in tertiary education Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.37 Female: 99.6 Male: 72.8

Legal Framework:

Equal Pay Act, 1963;

Civil Rights Act, 1964;

The affirmative action policy of 1965 was expanded in 1967 to cover women as well as racial minorities;

Roe v. Wade, 1973; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission;

Sex-segregated job advertisements were declared illegal by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1968), upheld by the Supreme Court in 1973;

Title IX of the Education Amendment, 1972;

1986, in the decision of Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, sexual harassment was established as illegal and discriminatory;

The Family Medical Leave Act, 1993; Violence Against Women Act, 1994; Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, 2009. Presence a non-discrimination by sex clause in the constitution of the United States of America:

- The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. (Amendment XIX). The U.S. Constitution does not guarantee equal rights for women.

Only 3 out of 9 Supreme Court judges in the US are women.

There is also no legislation that specifically criminalises marital rape, even though victims can file complaints against their spouses for sexual assault or rape.

The U.S. government fully complies with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. The government sustained strong law enforcement efforts and continued to encourage a victim-centreed approach among local, state, and federal law enforcement.

Most reliable information based on point-in-time census counts on one specific day each year, with research focusing on victims/survivors helped rather than specific numbers of shelters/centres.

In 2017, 11,441 unmet Requests for Services in One Day, of which 7,416 (65%) were for Housing Victims made 11,441 requests for services – including emergency shelter, housing, transportation, childcare, legal representation, and more – that could not be provided because programs lacked the resources to meet victims’ needs.

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In addition to reporting the number of survivors served in one day, responding women shelter programs report on the number of requests they received that they could not meet. Nearly 12,00011 requests for services were unmet due to a lack of program resources. Domestic violence programs and shelters across the country are operating with less funding, fewer resources, and even fewer staff. The economic environment of the last decade has resulted in a combination of fewer private funds, fewer community donations, and reduced state and local funding. While some funding streams have been increased at the federal level, the distribution of those funds had not yet reached most programs by September 14, 2016. This long-term shortage of resources has been compounded by a reduction in funding for other social services upon which victims often rely, such as low-income housing, mental health services, and more.

Total population of refugees, stateless persons, IDPs, and asylum-seekers: x. According to US Homeland Security, y (z%) female refugees were admitted into the United States.