Whereas violence against women is a global crisis that causes devastating harm to women, their children, and their communities; Whereas there has been greater attention across the world on violence against women, especially when it is despicably used as a tool of war; Whereas rape, sexual violence, and gender-based violence are horrific in any context, but are especially heinous when weaponized during conflicts; Whereas rape and sexual violence have unjustly been used as weapons of war for centuries to target ethnic, political, or cultural rivals, torment civilian populations, and assert and maintain control; Whereas rape and sexual violence continue to be weaponized during modern conflicts; Whereas multiple news organizations have reported accounts of sexual violence against women perpetrated by Hamas during the October 7th terrorist attacks on Israel, a report from Physicians for Human Rights Israel has raised concerns that the October 7 Hamas attacks included many incidents of sexual assault following repetitive patterns, and photographic and eyewitness evidence of the sexual violence that was weaponized by Hamas during the attacks was presented during a United Nations session on sexual and gender-based violence; Whereas since fighting began in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023, United Nations experts have raised concerns about the reported escalation of violence against women, including sexual exploitation, slavery, trafficking, rape, and forced disappearances that appear to have been racially, ethnically, and politically motivated, according to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; Whereas the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine has evidence that Russian soldiers have raped and committed other forms of sexual violence against women between the ages of 16 and 83 since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022