WILPF/PeaceWomen themes covered:
General Women, Peace and Security: 1/14;
Conflict Prevention: 1/14;
Disarmament: 0/14;
Displacement and Humanitarian Response: 0/14;
Participation: 6/14;
Peace Processes: 3/14;
Peacekeeping: 2/14;
Protection: 6/14;
Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 2/14;
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 4/14;
Implementation: 1/14;
Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 6/14;
Human Rights: 5/14.

S/PV.6642: "In the prevention pillar, the United States has developed multiple programmes that seek to address the root causes of conflict, including a $26-million annual reconciliation programme that supports innovative programming in conflict-affected countries, and includes gender analysis."

**Note: Data is provided from 2012. There were no Security Council open debates on threats caused by terrorist acts in 2011. 

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: 1/2;
Peace Processes: 1/2;
Peacekeeping: 0/2;
Protection: 0/2;
Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 0/2;
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 1/2;
Implementation: 0/2;
Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 1/2;
Human Rights: 1/2.

S/PV.6479: "Poverty and the lack of economic opportunities also contribute to violence, as President Obama said at the Millennium Development Summit last September (see A/65/PV.9). When millions of fathers cannot provide for their families, it feeds the despair that can fuel instability and violent extremism. We have heard today that combating both poverty and conflict requires us to prioritise core State capacities, especially the rule of law, justice and security, and to create jobs and immediate economic opportunities. We have also heard about the need to bring women into decision-making on key political, security and economic issues."

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: 2/2;
Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 0/2;
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 2/2;
Implementation: 0/2;
Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 0/2;
Human Rights: 1/2.

S/PV.6650: "My Government welcomes the development by the United Nations of training materials focused on sexual and gender-based violence, as well as other tools to help missions improve their protection strategies. The United States helps the United Nations to survey current practices and has initiated a workshop for missions with civilian-protection mandates."

Draft resolution on the situation in the Middle East (S/2011/24) includes no gender-specific language.

Civil Society Engagement | Financial:
The United States will commit nearly $44 million to a set of initiatives designed to empower women. The largest portion, about $17 million, will support civil society groups that focus on women in Afghanistan.
$14 million will also go to nongovernmental organisations working to make clean water more available in conflict zones, because women and girls are at higher risk of being attacked when collecting water.

Financial | UN Engagement:
$1.7 million will help fund UN activities, including Special Representative Wallstrom’s office, and $11 million will help expand literacy, job training, and maternal health services for refugee women and girls.

Policy:
Develop our own National Action Plan with determined funding to accelerate the implementation of Resolution 1325 across our government and with our partners in civil society. But as several have already said: Action plans and funding are only steps toward a larger goal.

**Note: Data is provided for 2010. No WPS commitments have been made in 2011.

Arms Transfer Revenue in 2010: $8,098,000,000
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UN Women Government Total Contribution in 2010: $6,000,000

Congressional and USAID Budgets:

The FY 2010 budget gave attention to gender equality, women's empowerment, protection, health care to achieve U.S. foreign policy objectives. However, it did not specify any specific funding for WPS programmes;

USAID allocated $5 million for a new Feed the Future programme that will promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in agriculture and land use;

In Iraq, the U.S. continued partnering with the people of Iraq to bring women to the forefront of efforts to advance peace and security, promote economic growth, and ensure democratic governance. More than $17.3 million was dedicated to advance women’s civil, political, economic, cultural, and social rights through efforts such as the Iraqi Women’s Democracy Initiative.

HDI (Human Development Index):
The United States was ranked 4th.

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

State-level evidence across the United States suggests that greater inequality in power (measured by lower voter participation and educational attainment and weaker fiscal policies) leads to weaker environmental policies and more environmental degradation.
 

Women from the United States are on duty in the following peacekeeping missions:

MINUSTAH (6),

MONUSCO (2),

UNAMI (0),

UNMIL (3),

UNMIS (0),

UNTSO (1).

The representative of the United States made no statements at the meetings of the Security Council on its position on the sexual exploitation and abuse committed by peacekeepers.

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 1.58 million nonprofits were registered with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2011. An estimated $836.9 billion was contributed to the U.S. economy by the nonprofit sector in 2011, which made up 5.6 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

The USA hosted the following high-level events in 2011:
- Women & War Symposium;
- Meeting of the U.S. Civil Society Working Group on Women, Peace and Security;
- The Special Session on Gender at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness at Busan;
- National NOW Conference.

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

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 US 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 US 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 US NAP comes across as relatively unspecific because it delegates issues to the future. 

Military Expenditure in 2010: $698,180,000,000

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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: 16.8%;

Upper: 17.0% .

Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.50

Total law enforcement officers: 1,001,984

United States Supreme Court:
3 women out of 9 seats (33.3%).

Circuit Court of Appeals:
48 women out of 179 seats/20 vacancies (30.2%).

Federal Court Judges in the U.S.:
409 women out of 1,832 seats (22.3%).

Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.85

Unemployment rate (percentage of female/male labour force):
Female: 8%;
Male: 6%.

Estimated earned income (PPP US$):
Female: 35,346;
Male: 40,000;
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.88

Legislators, senior officials, and managers (%):
Female: 43, Male: 57;
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.88

Professional and technical workers (%):
Female: 55, Male: 45;
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.20

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): 1.02

Enrolment in secondary education:
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.02

Enrolment in tertiary education:
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.40

While gender perspectives within the legal frameworks exist, they are not always fully effective, and discrimination (i.e.: gender, racial, and economic discrimination) can cause some groups to have disproportionate challenges equally accessing justice and utilising their rights.

Legal Framework in the United States includes:
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.

Executive Order 13595 and the U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security to support women’s voices and perspectives in decision-making in countries threatened and affected by war, violence, and insecurity are implemented.

While legal frameworks exist, they are not always fully effective, and discrimination (i.e.: gender, racial, and economic discrimination) can cause some groups to have disproportionate challenges equally accessing justice and utilising their rights.

Legal Framework in the United States includes:
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 government sustained strong federal law enforcement efforts, strengthening support for federal task forces and initiating efforts to improve coordination and proactively identify cases. The government continued to provide funding to NGOs for services to victims and identified an increased number of victims. Immigration relief, which may lead to residency and eventual citizenship, is offered to qualified victims and immediate family members. The government sustained its prevention efforts, continuing to examine federal procurement and specific visa categories for vulnerabilities as well as to undertake public awareness efforts. 

While specialised services to support victims/survivors of sexual violence exist, the service quality, resource provision, geographic availability, adequate service availability based on national demand, and the functionality of national mechanism are not fully effective. 

Number of women's shelters: 67,339 (data based on point-in-time census data via the National Network to End Domestic Violence).

While veterans services for women veterans exist, the quality of service, outreach to engage female veterans in service access and utalisation, and the availability of gender-sensitive services at all locations are not fully effective.

While specialised services to support victims/survivors of sexual violence exist, the service quality, resource provision, geographic availability, adequate service availability based on national demand, and the functionality of national mechanism are not fully effective. 

While specialised services to support victims/survivors of human trafficking exist, the service quality, resource provision, geographic availability, adequate service availability based on national demand, and the functionality of national mechanism are not fully effective.

The U.S. government has formal procedures to guide officials in victim identification and referrals to victim services provided by NGOs, and funds an NGO-operated national hotline and referral service. The U.S. government and its federally funded trafficking victim service providers encouraged foreign national and U.S. citizen victims to assist with investigations and prosecutions. Federally funded victim assistance included services coordination and referrals, medical care, dental care, mental health treatment, sustenance and shelter, translation and interpretation, immigration and legal assistance, and transportation. In FY 2010, DOJ provided grant funding to 34 NGO service providers to assist foreign nationals and six to assist U.S. citizen and lawful permanent resident victims, and HHS provided funding for services that were delivered by more than 100 NGO service providers. The Department of Education increased efforts to provide educational resources to school districts to help them prevent, identify and respond to human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children, training chiefs of school police forces and surveying school districts for promising practices that can be disseminated nationwide. States have not yet created programmes to increase awareness or identification within schools.

While a wide range of services and resources are made available to refugees, asylum seekers, and IDPs, these services are usually provided by local service providers, therefore, making these services and resources less available in some geographic locations.

A total of 56,384 persons were admitted to the United States as refugees during 2011.

According to US Homeland Security, 26,948 (47.8%) female refugees were admitted into the United States.

In 2011, the United States resettled almost half of the UNHCR women-at-risk referrals worldwide. These women-at-risk referrals now make up approximately 4% of total US refugee admissions programme(USRAP).