Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that protecting and advancing the rights of women and girls in the Republic of Haiti is critical to the success of Haiti's transition from crisis and its future stability, condemning the failure to center women's leadership and distinct needs to date, and calling for urgent measures to secure all human rights of women and girls in Haiti.
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Latest Action · January 22, 2026
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
H.Res. 1018 is a congressional resolution expressing the House's position that women's rights and leadership are essential to Haiti's stability and democratic recovery. The resolution condemns widespread sexual violence against Haitian women and girls, their systematic exclusion from Haiti's transitional government (including zero women on the seven-member Transitional Presidential Council), and the international community's failure to prioritize women's needs in support efforts. It also criticizes recent U.S. State Department and Defense Department decisions to dismantle institutional commitments to women's peace and security initiatives, which the resolution argues contradicts the 2017 Women, Peace, and Security Act that Congress passed. The resolution calls for urgent action to ensure women hold at least 30 percent of all government positions per Haiti's constitution, to fund survivor services and prosecutions of gender-based violence, to protect women in displacement sites, and to rebuild the State Department's Office of Global Women's Issues and the Defense Department's Women, Peace, and Security program. While this is a sense-of-the-House resolution without direct funding or legal force, it represents Congress expressing its expectations for U.S. policy toward Haiti and criticizing recent executive branch actions on women's rights initiatives.
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