1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stop Gendercide Act . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) Women and girls possess the same fundamental human rights and civil rights as men and are essential to the formation of stable, peaceful societies. Violence against women and girls, reinforced by and rooted in the social and cultural devaluation of women and girls, has skewed sex ratios in many parts of the world. (2) Approximately 126,000,000 women and girls are missing from the world population due to systematic gender-based violence, according to the United Nations Population Fund, which constitutes an egregious example of gendercide. (3) Since gendercide is a relatively recent phenomenon, the implications of the crisis have yet to fully reverberate through affected countries. But it is already clear that increased instances of human trafficking, sexual violence, and child marriage are linked to gendercide. (4) Statistics published biennially in the United Nations Population Division’s World Population Prospects indicate that skewed sex ratios at birth will persist for decades, even after they reach an apex in certain countries. This may be driving significant changes in human trafficking patterns in affected regions. Because the dynamics of gendercide and its relationship to human trafficking are poorly understood, governments, international institutions, and civil society organizations are not prepared to adequately prevent and respond to human trafficking crimes. 3. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the lack of research on the relationship between gendercide and human trafficking undermines national and international response mechanisms critical to preventing exploitation of women and girls