WILPF/PeaceWomen themes covered:

General Women, Peace and Security: 3/25;

Conflict Prevention: 0/25;

Disarmament: 0/25;

Displacement and Humanitarian Response: 1/25;

Participation: 3/25;

Peace Processes: 2/25;

Peacekeeping: 0/25;

Protection: 5/25;

Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 0/25;

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 2/25;

Implementation: 1/25;

Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 3/25;

Human Rights: 3/25.

S/PV.7658: "The Security Council’s active engagement remains absolutely vital in order to achieve real and tangible gains for women yearning to be included in peace processes, even as we recognize that we still have much work to do."

WILPF/PeaceWomen themes covered:

General Women, Peace and Security: 0/5;

Conflict Prevention: 0/5;

Disarmament: 0/5;

Displacement and Humanitarian Response: 0/5;

Participation: 0/5;

Peace Processes: 0/5;

Peacekeeping: 0/5;

Protection: 1/5;

Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 0/5;

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 1/5;

Implementation: 0/5;

Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 1/5;

Human Rights: 2/5.

S/PV.7847: "Thanks to the courageous work of Special Representative Bangura and her staff, the United Nations has incontrovertible proof that young women are bought, sold and horrifically abused on a daily basis. The United States appreciates the initiative of the United Kingdom in the pursuit of justice for Da’esh’s victims, and is working with it and Iraq to explore the best ways to hold Da’esh accountable, including gathering and preserving evidence of its crimes."

WILPF/PeaceWomen themes covered:

General Women, Peace and Security: 0/2;

Conflict Prevention: 0/2;

Disarmament: 0/2;

Displacement and Humanitarian Response: 0/2;

Participation: 0/2;

Peace Processes: 0/2;

Peacekeeping: 0/2;

Protection: 1/2;

Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 0/2;

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 0/2;

Implementation: 0/2;

Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 0/2;

Human Rights: 0/2.

S/PV.7606: "Starving civilians, burning villages, sexually enslaving women: these are not the costs of war or the inevitable consequences of war; these are heinous, willful, barbaric acts."

The US allocated 31 million dollars to "new initiatives" in 2016

Profit from Arms Transfer in 2015: $10,184,000,000
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UN Women Government Total Contribution: $9,333,858

The United States was ranked 55th in 2015. 

**Note: Data is provided for 2015. Collection of the most recent data is underway. 

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HDI (Human Development Index):
The United States was ranked 10.

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

In the United States female financial specialists earn only 66 percent of what their male counterparts earn. For dentists the proportion is 74 percent, and for accountants 76 percent.

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), UNTSO (1 woman).

S/PV.7643: "All of us have a responsibility with respect to individuals who serve us overseas, in the same way that we have a responsibility within our own borders to ensure that these kinds of crimes are never carried out and that when they are carried out the perpetrators are held accountable."

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

Approximately 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 nonprofit sector contributed an estimated $905.9 billion to the US economy in 2013, composing 5.4 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Almost half (47.5 percent) of the total revenue for public charities came from fees for services and goods from private sources, the second largest proportion of public charities’ revenue came from fees from government sources, such as government contracts and Medicare and Medicaid payments, private charitable giving represented 13.3 percent of total revenues, and government grants represented another 8 percent. The remainder of revenue came from investment (4.8 percent) and other income (1.9 percent).

The USA hosted the following high-level events in 2016: - Gender Equality for Sustainable Infrastructure and Services, March 16 - Combatting the Trafficking of Women and Girls: What Role Can the Private Sector Play in Addressing and Preventing Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery? March 16 - Equity In and Through Tech: Moving from Conversation to Implementation March 21 - Empowering Muslim Women through Storytelling: A Roundtable Discussion - March 21 - Women of African Descent: Shaping Racial Identity- March 23
- Women Changing the World: Global Symposium 2016;
- National NOW Conference.

**Note: The information about the high-level events has been collected using available media sources.

Department of Defense Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2012-2017:
- "Goal 1: Ensure Leadership Commitment to an Accountable and Sustained Diversity Effort Develop structures and strategies to equip leadership with the ability to manage diversity, be accountable, and engender an inclusive work environment that cultivates innovation and optimisation within the Department."
- "Goal 3: Sustainability. Federal agencies shall develop structures and strategies to equip leaders with the ability to manage diversity, be accountable, measure results, re- fine approaches on the basis of such data, and engender a culture of inclusion."

Department of Defense Military Leadership Diversity Commission: "The Services should provide diversity leadership education and training, distinct from traditional forms of general diversity training, to service members at every level."

The USA NAP gives five objectives:
National Integration and Institutionalisation;
Participation in Peace Processes and Decision-making;
Protection from Violence;
Conflict Prevention;
Access to Relief and Recovery.

The NAP contains no allocated or estimated budget. Instead, each responsible department is required to resource the actions within existing budgets. The primary implementation agencies (Department of State, Defense and USAID) are required to submit fully resourced individual implementation plans.

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 organisational 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. (Miller, Pournik, & Swaine, 2014)

Military Expenditure in 2015: $596,024,000,000
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The NAP contains no allocated or estimated budget. Instead, each responsible department is required to resource the actions within existing budgets. The primary implementation agencies (Department of State, Defense and USAID) are required to submit fully resourced individual implementation plans.

Lower: 19.2%; 

Upper: 21.2%.

Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): .35

Total law enforcement officers: 913,161.

Only 11.6 % of the United States' 635,781 full time police officers were women, however 60% of the United States' 277,380 civilian officers were women.

United States Supreme Court:
3 women out of 8 seats (37.5%).

Circuit Court of Appeals:
60 women out of 170 active seats (35.3%).

Unemployment rate (percentage of female/male labour force):
Female: 4%
Male: 4%

Estimated earned income (PPP US$):
Female: 43,122
Male: 66,338
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1

Legislators, senior officials, and managers (%):
Female: 43, Male: 57
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.77

Professional and technical workers (%):
Female: 57, Male: 43
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.33

The enrollment 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

Enrollment in primary education (%):
Female: 93
Male: 93
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.01

Enrollment in secondary education (%):
Female: 92
Male: 89
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.03

Enrollment in tertiary education (%):
Female: 101
Male: 76
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.37

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.
 

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 of gender perspective 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. government fully complies with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. The federal government continued to investigate and prosecute both sex and labour trafficking, sustaining high prosecution rates. It also continued to provide various types of specialised services to a greater number of trafficking victims, as well as various types of immigration relief for foreign national victims, including a pathway to citizenship. Prevention efforts included amendment of the Federal Acquisition Regulation to strengthen protections against trafficking in federal contracts. Challenges remain: some NGOs continued to express concern that government officials did not consistently take a victim-centreed approach. Some trafficking victims, including those under the age of 18 years, were detained or prosecuted by state or local officials for criminal activity related to their being subjected to trafficking, notwithstanding “safe harbour” laws in some states or the federal policy that victims should not be penalised solely for unlawful acts committed as a direct result of being subjected to trafficking.

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.

Number of women's shelters: 1,894

There is a shelter crisis for trafficking victims in the United States. The Home Foundation estimates that there are less than 100 beds nationally for an estimated 100,000 annually identified trafficking victims. Placing trafficking victims in existing homeless or domestic violence shelters is not an adequate solution due to the unique needs of this population.

Like France and the United Kingdom, the United States have a long tradition of offering asylum to foreign refugees. When UNHCR refers a refugee applicant to the United States for resettlement, the case is first received and processed by a Resettlement Support Center (RSC). The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) funds and manages nine RSCs around the world, operated by international and nongovernmental organisations and one U.S. interests section. Under PRM’s guidance, the RSCs prepare eligible refugee applications for U.S. resettlement consideration.

From the date of arrival, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) provides short-term cash and medical assistance to new arrivals, as well as case management services, English as a Foreign Language classes, and job readiness and employment services – all designed to facilitate refugees’ successful transition in the U.S., and help them to attain self-sufficiency.

Organisations such as the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants also supports the new-comers in their new city, helping them getting jobs and integrating them in their local community.