; Whereas gender-based violence has been a widespread problem in Myanmar, and sexual violence has become more brutal and widespread since the 2021 military coup, according to the Karenni National Women’s Organization; Whereas sexual- and gender-based violence against women and girls was highly prevalent during and since the conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia, that started in November 2020, according to several studies; Whereas armed gangs in Haiti have used sexual violence, including collective rapes, since at least 2018, to instill fear, punish, subjugate, and inflict pain on local populations to expand their control, according to the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner; Whereas abuse and assault targeting women and girls in Yemen has increased 63 percent since the start of the war in 2015, with adolescent girls among the most vulnerable, according to the United Nations; Whereas it is estimated that over 25,000 people were victims of sexual- and gender-based crimes in Uganda during the decades-long conflict with the Lord’s Resistance Army that began in 1987, according to the International Center for Transnational Justice, and high rates of gender-based violence across the country continue to jeopardize the lives of women; Whereas decades of conflict with Israel have resulted in high levels of poverty, instability, and deteriorating living conditions in Gaza that have increased the risk of violence for Palestinian women and girls, according to the United Nations Population Fund, and the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas and worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza is compounding the risks women and children already faced; Whereas 59 percent of Palestinian women and girls have reported experiencing at least one form of gender-based violence, according to the United Nations Population Fund, and news outlets have reported that Palestinian women have been harassed at checkpoints and while in custody, according to testimony submitted to the United Nations