United States Department of State

This document articulates the policies the United States intends to implement toward a comprehensive, multi-sector strategy for preventing and responding to gender-based violence worldwide. The strategys stated objectives are: 1) coordination of gender-based violence prevention and response efforts among US government agencies and other stakeholders ;2) enhanced integration of gender-based violence prevention into foreign policy goals; 3) improvement of data gathering and research on response efforts; and 4) enhancement and expansion of programming to address gender-based violence.

This report on FGM covers the background necessary to understanding the practice, and focuses on how the United States has responded to its prevalence. International response is also reveiwed. The report covers the laws applicable to FGM in countries where it is practiced and in countries where immigrants from those cultures reside. Recommendations for ending the practice include education, empowerment, enforcement of laws banning FGM, and monitoring of effective programs for its elimination.

The fifth annual Trafficking in Persons Report provides an assessment of foreign governments' responses to trafficking and ranks states according to their levels of complicity with minimum standards to eradicate trafficking. The report takes the "three P" approach which revolves around prevention, prosecution and protection. It also emphasizes the victim-centered "three R" framework that focuses on rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration.