A resolution condemning the ongoing sexual violence against women and children from Yezidi, Christian, Shabak, Turkmen, and other religious communities by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants and urging the prosecution of the perpetrators and those complicit in these crimes.

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• H.Res. 447Calling upon the President to use the United States' voice and vote in the United Nations Security Council to condemn the ongoing sexual violence against women and children from Yezidi, Christian, Shabak, and other religious communities by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants as crimes against humanity, to prosecute all perpetrators and those complicit in these crimes, and to support other United Nations member states prosecuting these perpetrators and those complicit.

  2015-10-05Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

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1. 2015-11-09

   Introduced in Senate

2. 2015-11-09

   Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7862)

3. 2015-11-17

   Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Corker without amendment. Without written report.

4. 2015-11-17

   Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Corker without amendment. Without written report.

5. 2015-11-17

   Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 297.

6. 2015-12-16

   Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S8730-8732)

7. 2015-12-16

   Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate with amendments and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S8732)

8. 2015-12-16

   Resolution agreed to in Senate with amendments and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S8732)