A Selected List of Congressional Hearings and Testimony on Women’s Rights in US Foreign Policy, 1993-2016 Elizabeth V. Robinson Economics and International Relations || Security Studies Tufts University, Class of 2015 Anna Weissman Political Science, German, and Philosophy Tufts University, Class of 2017 Version 3 October 12, 2016 Please contact the following with questions, comments, or suggestions of additional entries:
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[email protected] A Compendium of Congressional Hearings and Testimony on Women’s Rights in US Foreign Policy Elizabeth V. Robinson Anna Weissman Introduction This document comprises what we believe to be the most comprehensive listing available of Congressional hearings and testimonies on the subject of Women’s Rights in US Foreign Policy from the beginning of the first Clinton administration through the end of 2013 (the last updates were made in October 2016). We have taken a broad view of the subject and included hearings and testimonies that may not be directly related to US foreign policy but which do focus on women’s rights in a domestic or general context. However, we have not included hearings and testimonies in which women’s rights were simply mentioned in the context of another issue. In other words, a hearing was only included if women’s rights or issues were the central topic focus of the hearing or testimony. The primary source that we employed to find hearings and testimony was ProQuest Congressional. We employed the following search terms: “‘women’ OR ‘female’ OR ‘gender,’” and we searched in “all fields except full text.” Hearings that had no witnesses were not included.