; Whereas 20 years later and after approximately 20,000 individuals raped, there has only been one perpetrator brought to justice, Zoran Vukotic, by the Prishtina Basic Court on July 5, 2021; Whereas the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1820 was unanimously adopted on June 19, 2008, condemning the use of sexual violence as a tool of war, and declared that rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide ; Whereas the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2467 was adopted on April 23, 2019, recalling the responsibilities of States to end impunity and to prosecute those responsible for crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, perpetrated against civilians ; Whereas Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman testified before the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives on April 30, 2019, in a hearing titled Kosovo’s Wartime Victims: The Quest for Justice , testifying for justice on behalf of her case and the 20,000 individuals raped during the Kosovo war; Whereas the Republic of Kosovo marked for the first time on April 14, 2023, the Day of Survivors of Sexual Violence During the War in Kosovo that coincides with the date Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman was abducted by Serbian police and subsequently sexually assaulted; and Whereas the United States recognizes that preventing and responding to gender-based violence around the world is not only a matter of human rights, justice, equity, and equality, but is also a moral imperative and the strategic national interest of the United States and its global partners: Now, therefore, be it