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II 111TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION S. 2982 To combat international violence against women and girls.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES FEBRUARY 4, 2010 Mr. KERRY (for himself, Mrs. BOXER, Ms. SNOWE, and Ms. COLLINS) intro- duced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Com- mittee on Foreign Relations A BILL To combat international violence against women and girls.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1.

SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘International Violence Against Women Act of 2010’’.

(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec.

1.

Short title; table of contents.

Sec.

2.

Findings.

Sec.

3.

Statement of policy.

Sec.

4.

Definitions.


TITLE I—INTERNATIONAL PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS Subtitle A—Official Designations and Institutional Changes Sec.

101.

Duties of the Secretary of State.

Sec.

102.

Duties of the Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter- national Development.
Subtitle B—Strategy, Policy, and Programs Sec.

111.

Comprehensive international strategy and assistance to reduce and prevent violence against women and girls.

Sec.

112.

Assistance to reduce international violence against women and girls.

Sec.

113.

Ensuring accountability of the United States response to violence against women and girls internationally.

Sec.

114.

Enhancing United States training of foreign military and police forces and judicial officials on violence against women and girls.
Sec.

115.

Addressing violence against women and girls in humanitarian relief, peacekeeping, conflict, and post-conflict settings.

TITLE II—OTHER PROVISIONS Sec.

201.

Support for multilateral efforts to end violence against women and girls.

SEC.

2.

FINDINGS.

Congress makes the following findings: (1) According to the United Nations, approxi- mately 1 out of every 3 women throughout the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime.
The World Health Organiza- tion has reported that up to 70 percent of women in some countries report having been victims of do- mestic violence at some stage in their lives.

(2) According to the United Nations, engaging men and women to end violence against women and girls internationally should be a priority.
In recogni- tion of this priority, United Nations Secretary-Gen- eral Ban Ki-moon launched a multi-year campaign in 2009 to end violence against women and pledge •S 2982 IS resources to engage male leaders and to mobilize men and boys.
(3) Violence against women dramatically im- pedes progress in meeting all of our global health goals, including efforts to stem maternal mortality and the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Approximately 1 in 4 women are abused during pregnancy, which, accord- ing to the World Health Organization, has been linked to miscarriage, pre-term labor, low birth weight, fetal distress, and death.
Women who have experienced violence are also at higher risk for con- tracting HIV, and women living with HIV may be up to 3 times more likely to experience violence than other women.

Fear of violence also prevents women from accessing HIV/AIDS information and receiving treatment and counseling.

(4) Increasing women’s access to economic op- portunities is crucial to preventing and responding to domestic and sexual violence.
Microfinance-based interventions and increased asset control reduce lev- els of intimate partner violence and provide eco- nomic independence for survivors.
(5) Displaced, refugee, and stateless women and girls in humanitarian emergencies, conflict settings, •S 2982 IS and natural disasters face extreme violence and threats because of power inequities, including— (A) being forced to exchange sex for food and humanitarian supplies; and (B) being at increased risk of rape, sexual exploitation, and abuse.
(6) Rape and sexual assault against women and girls are used to torture, intimidate, and terrorize women and their communities.
(7) According to UNICEF, child marriage— (A) is a harmful practice that deprives girls of their dignity and human rights; (B) can result in bonded labor or enslave- ment, commercial sexual exploitation, and vio- lence against the victims; (C) significantly increases the risk of ma- ternal death and morbidity, infant mortality and morbidity, obstetric fistula, and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS; and (D) is perpetuated by poverty, a lack of educational or employment opportunities for girls, parental concerns to ensure sexual rela- tions within marriage, the dowry system, and the perceived lack of value of girls.
•S 2982 IS SEC.

3.

STATEMENT OF POLICY.
5 It is the policy of the United States to— (1) systematically integrate and coordinate ef- forts to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls internationally into United States foreign policy and foreign assistance programs; (2) expand the implementation of effective prac- tices and programs; (3) promote women’s political, economic, edu- cational, social, cultural, civil, and human rights and opportunities throughout the world; (4) support and build capacity of indigenous nongovernmental organizations that are working to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls internationally, particularly women’s non- governmental organizations and groups involving male advocates; (5) support and encourage United States orga- nizations working in partnership with nongovern- mental organizations described in paragraph (4); (6) prevent and respond to violence against women and girls internationally through multisec- toral methods, working at individual, family, commu- nity, local, national, and international levels and in- corporating service, prevention, training, and advo- •S 2982 IS cacy activities and economic, education, health, legal, and protective intervention services; (7) enhance training and other prevention and response to violence against women and girls inter- nationally in humanitarian relief, conflict, and post- conflict settings; (8) enhance training by United States personnel of professional foreign military and police forces and judicial officials to include specific and thorough in- struction on preventing and responding to violence against women and girls internationally; (9) increase communication and cooperation with nongovernmental organizations with dem- onstrated
 experience in women’s empowerment, com- bating violence against women and girls internation- ally, and engaging men and boys as partners, includ- ing consulting with such organizations during stra- tegic planning exercises; (10) more regularly engage men and boys as community leaders, partners, and advocates in end- ing violence against women and girls; (11) include— (A) prevention of child marriage as an im- portant part of preventing violence against girls; and •S 2982 IS (B) ending the practice of child marriage by promoting education and skills building for girls, community programs, and increased eco- nomic opportunities for women to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and United States global health and development objectives; (12) ensure that private security firms con- tracted for service in conflict, humanitarian, and post-conflict settings appropriately report on, and re- spond to, violence against women and girls inter- nationally; and (13) continue United States leadership and in- novative efforts at the United Nations to address vi- olence against women and girls internationally, par- ticularly through urging the United Nations Sec- retary-General and United Nations member states to fully implement the provisions of United Nations Se- curity Council Resolutions 1325, 1820, and 1888, and other relevant United Nations agreements and initiatives.
SEC.

4.

DEFINITIONS.
In this Act: (1) CHILD MARRIAGE.—The term ‘‘child mar- riage’’ means the marriage of a girl or a boy, who •S 2982 IS has not reached the minimum legal age for marriage in the country in which the girl or boy is a resident.
(2) ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES.—The term ‘‘eligible countries’’ means countries that are not classified as high-income countries in the most recent edition of the World Development Report for Reconstruction and Development, published by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

(3) PREVENTION AND RESPONSE.—The term ‘‘prevention and response’’ means activities designed to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls.
(4) USAID ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘USAID Administrator’’ means the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Devel- opment.
(5) VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.— The term ‘‘violence against women and girls’’— (A) means any act of violence against women or girls that results in, or is likely to re- sult in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women or girls, including threats of such acts, coercion, or arbitrary deprivations of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life; and •S 2982 IS (B) includes— (i) physical, sexual, and psychological violence occurring in the family, including battering, sexual abuse of female children in the household, dowry-related violence, marital rape, female genital cutting and mutilation, forced child marriage, and other traditional practices harmful to women and girls, nonspousal violence, and violence related to exploitation; (ii) physical, sexual, and psychological violence occurring within the general com- munity, including rape, sexual abuse, sex- ual harassment and intimidation at work, in educational institutions and elsewhere, trafficking in women and girls, and forced prostitution; and (iii) physical, sexual, and psycho- logical violence perpetrated or condoned by the government of the country of which the victim is a resident, regardless of where the violence occurs.
•S 2982 IS 10 TITLE I—INTERNATIONAL PRE- VIOLENCE OF VENTION AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS Subtitle A—Official Designations and Institutional Changes SEC.

101.

DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.


(a) DESIGNATION.—The Secretary of State, in ful- filling the duties and purposes of this Act, shall designate a senior official in the Department of State to conduct the relevant activities pursuant to this Act.

For the pur- poses of this Act, that designee shall be referred to as the ‘‘Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues’’.

(b) SUPPORT STAFF.—The Secretary of State shall designate appropriate staff to support the efforts of the 15 Ambassador.
(c) DUTIES.—The Ambassador shall coordinate and advise, and where relevant lead— (1) State Department activities and policies, in- cluding as they affect programs and funding relating to prevention and response, including gender inte- gration and women’s development internationally as relates to prevention and response; (2) the design, and as appropriate, implementa- tion of projects regarding prevention and response, including gender integration and women’s develop- •S 2982 IS 11 ment internationally as relates to prevention and re- sponse; (3) the integration of prevention and response analysis into U.S. Government departments’ and agencies’ international programs, structures, proc- esses and capacities; (4) allocation of State Department resources for— (A) prevention and response; and (B) development of the comprehensive international strategy described in section 300G to reduce violence against women and girls; (5) on behalf of the Secretary, conduct regular cooperation with civil society with demonstrated ex- perience in prevention and response and women’s de- velopment issues internationally as relates to preven- tion and response; (6) serve as the principal advisor to the Sec- retary of State regarding violence against women and girls as a foreign policy matter; and (7) at the direction of the Secretary of State, represent the United States in bilateral, inter- national and nongovernmental fora in matters rel- evant to violence against women and girls including •S 2982 IS 12 the status of women internationally as relates to pre- vention and response.
(d) INFORMATION-SHARING AND TRANSPARENCY.— On behalf of the Secretary, the Ambassador shall be the central repository of evaluation and monitoring data on Department of State programs that relate to prevention and response, and also for Federal Government agencies engaged in international prevention and response, in order to produce a full accounting of United States Government spending on prevention and response, and to prepare the comprehensive strategy developed under section 111.
(e) CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGS.—Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Ambassador shall brief Congress on the integration of gender considerations and prevention and response into its strategies, programming, and associ- ated outcomes, and shall present Congress with an assess- ment of human and financial resources necessary to fulfill the purposes and duties of this section.
(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is authorized to be appropriated, for each of fiscal years 22 2011 through 2015— 23 24 (1) $5,000,000 for administration, staffing, travel, and related expenditures; and •S 2982 IS 13 (2) $5,000,000 in program funds to carry out activities under this section.

SEC.
SEC.

102.

DUTIES OF THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DE- VELOPMENT.

(a) IN GENERAL.—The USAID Administrator, in fulfilling the duties and purposes of this Act, shall des- ignate a senior official (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘Women’s Development Advisor’’ or the ‘‘Advisor’’), who shall report directly to the USAID Administrator to co- ordinate and conduct prevention and response activities 12 described in this Act.
13 14 15 16 (b) SUPPORT STAFF.—The USAID Administrator shall designate appropriate staff to support the efforts of the Women’s Development Advisor.
(c) DUTIES.—The Advisor shall coordinate and guide 17 all USAID efforts to— (1) integrate prevention and response, as well as broader gender issues in foreign assistance; (2) coordinate and consult with the Ambassador and USAID mission directors in carrying out (c)(1); (3) provide high level guidance to USAID mis- sions, offices, and bureaus on prevention and re- sponse, gender integration, design, strategy and pro- gramming; and •S 2982 IS 14 (4) participate in agency-wide monitoring and evaluation on gender integration activities and strat- egies, including prevention and response.
(d) COORDINATED USAID REPORTING.— (1) IN GENERAL.—USAID technical and re- gional bureaus identified by the USAID Adminis- trator and the Advisor shall annually provide the Advisor with such data and findings collected under subsection (c)(4) as may be requested by the Advi- sor.
(2) SCOPE OF DATA.—The data and findings provided under paragraph (1)— (A) shall include relevant contractors, sub- contractors, grantees, and subgrantees receiving program funds made available for prevention and response, and women’s development glob- ally as a method of prevention; and (B) shall be made publicly available.
(3) SECURITY CONCERNS.—In determining the data and findings to be provided under this sub- section, the Advisor shall take into account the secu- rity concerns of USAID grantees and subgrantees.
(e) CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGS.—Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Advisor, in coordination with the •S 2982 IS 15 Ambassador, shall brief Congress on the integration of gender considerations and prevention and response into its strategies, programming, and associated outcomes, using data collected under subsection (d), and shall present Con- gress with an assessment of human and financial re- sources necessary to fulfill the purposes and duties of this section.
(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— (1) IN GENERAL.—In addition to amounts oth- erwise available, there is authorized to be appro- priated, for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 2015— (A) $5,000,000 for operations, administra- tion, and related expenditures; and (B) $5,000,000 in program funds to carry out the activities under this section.

(2) SUPERVISION OF EXPENDITURES.— Amounts appropriated pursuant to this subsection shall be expended under the direction of the Advisor.
•S 2982 IS 16 Subtitle B—Strategy, Policy, and Programs SEC.

111.

COMPREHENSIVE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY AND ASSISTANCE TO REDUCE AND PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.
(a) DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF STRATEGY.—Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, under the direction of the President and with the assistance of the USAID Administrator, shall— (1) develop a comprehensive, 5-year inter- national strategy to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls internationally; and (2) submit the strategy developed under para- graph (1) to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
(b) COLLABORATION AND COORDINATION.—In devel- oping the strategy under subsection (a), the Secretary of State, with the assistance of the USAID Administrator, shall consult with— 22 23 24 25 (1) executive branch agencies and entities ad- ministering international programs; (2) the Senior Policy Operating Group on Traf- ficking in Persons; •S 2982 IS 17 (3) representatives of civil society with dem- onstrated experience combating violence against women and girls or promoting women’s health or women’s development issues internationally.
(c) CONTENT.—The strategy developed under sub- section (a) shall— (1) identify countries with significant levels of violence against women and girls that have the gov- ernment or nongovernment organizational capacity to manage and implement gender-based violence pre- vention and response program activities; (2) select up to 20 of the countries described in paragraph (1) in which to develop a gender-inte- grated, comprehensive, and holistic individual coun- try plan that incorporates at least 2 of the program activities listed in subsection (d); (3) assess and describe the current or potential capacity of each government or civil society to ad- dress and respond to violence against women and girls; (4) identify and coordinate with Federal depart- ments and agencies that— (A) have existing programs relevant to the strategy; or •S 2982 IS 18 (B) will be involved in new program activi- ties; (5) describe the monitoring and evaluation mechanisms established for each country, and their use in assessing overall progress in prevention and response; (6) project general levels of resources needed to achieve the stated objectives in each country, includ- ing an accounting of— (A) activities and funding already ex- pended by the Department of State, USAID, other Federal agencies, other donor country governments, and other multilateral institu- tions; and (B) leveraged private sector resources; (7) include capacity-building and technical as- sistance for community-based women’s nongovern- mental organizations and community-based organi- zations with demonstrated expertise in women’s em- powerment, including combating violence against women and girls internationally; (8) identify and coordinate with existing non- governmental and multilateral programs, initiatives, and groups with
 demonstrated experience on pre- venting and responding to violence against women •S 2982 IS 19 and girls internationally, particularly coordinating with women’s organizations and community-based groups; and (9) integrate gender analysis into the strategy for each country to ensure that the roles of women, girls, men, and boys are appropriately addressed.
(d) PROGRAM ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED.—Assistance provided under this section shall be used to carry out country-specific strategies under subsection (a) through multi-sectoral prevention and response activities specified by the Ambassador and Advisor and that fall under at least 2 of the following broad categories: (1) Enhancing the capacity of the health sector to respond to violence against women and girls.
(2) Development and enforcement of civil and criminal legal and judicial sanctions, protections, trainings, and capacity.

(3) Development of programs affecting social norms, community attitudes, and male and female participation in violence and response to victims.

(4) Ensuring accessible quality educational and literacy opportunities for women and girls.
(5) Promotion of access to economic oppor- tunity projects, including increasing distribution, •S 2982 IS 20 credit, property, and inheritance rights for women and girls.

SEC.

112.

ASSISTANCE TO REDUCE INTERNATIONAL VIO- LENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.
(a) COORDINATION OF EXISTING ASSISTANCE PRO- GRAMS.—The Ambassador, working with the Advisor, shall, to the fullest extent practicable, coordinate activities and measures to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls internationally into existing programs, contracts, grants, agreements, and foreign assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and other Acts authorizing and appropriating foreign assistance, as appli- cable.
(b) AUTHORITY.—To implement and execute the comprehensive international strategy developed pursuant to section 111, the Secretary of State and the USAID Ad- ministrator, in consultation with the Ambassador and the Advisor, may provide assistance to nongovernmental orga- nizations, multilateral institutions, and foreign countries for program activities described in section 111(d).
(c) ALLOCATION OF NEW FUNDING.—The Secretary of State and the USAID Administrator, based on guidance from the Ambassador and the Advisor, may allocate funds to implement and execute the comprehensive international strategy developed pursuant to section 111.
•S 2982 IS 21 (d) USE OF FUNDS.— (1) IN GENERAL.—Any funds made available under this section to nongovernmental organizations should be designated to organizations that— (A) have demonstrated experience regard- ing violence against women and girls inter- nationally or have entered into a partnership with an organization with such experience; and (B) have demonstrated capabilities or ex- perience in a particular program activity de- scribed in section 111(d).
(2) CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGS.—The Sec- retary of State and the USAID Administrator shall brief Congress upon request, on the transparent mechanisms used to ensure that funds made avail- able under this section through nongovernmental or- ganizations are awarded to organizations described in paragraph (1).
(e) GRANTS TO WOMEN’S NONGOVERNMENTAL OR- GANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZA- TIONS.—Special efforts shall be made to award amounts appropriated to carry out this Act to community-based and women’s nongovernmental organizations in recipient countries.
The Advisor shall brief Congress, upon request, •S 2982 IS 22 on efforts made to assist such organizations to be eligible for such funds.
(f) AWARD PROCESS.—Grant amounts awarded under this section shall be provided through an open, com- petitive, and transparent process to the extent possible.
(g) CONDITIONS.—Entities receiving grants under this section— (1) shall allocate a reasonable portion of such grants for data collection and the evaluation of pro- gram effectiveness; (2) shall be responsible for developing and re- porting on outcomes and impacts relating to pre- venting and responding to violence against women and girls internationally; (3) should gather input from women’s non- governmental organizations or community-based or- ganizations in recipient countries, including organi- zations with experience in working with men and boys to prevent violence; and (4) shall consider the safety of women and girls as a primary concern in deciding how to design, im- plement, monitor, and evaluate programs.
(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— (1) IN GENERAL.—In addition to amounts oth- erwise available for such purposes, there is author- •S 2982 IS 23 ized to be appropriated to the President $175,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 2015 to carry out this section and section 111.
(2) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Amounts appro- priated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall remain available until expended.

SEC.

113.

ENSURING ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE UNITED STATES RESPONSE TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS INTERNATIONALLY.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the implementation of the comprehensive strategy under sec- tion 111, the Secretary of State, assisted by the Ambas- sador, shall prepare a public report on best practices for preventing and addressing violence against women and girls internationally, which shall include— (1) a description of successful efforts by govern- ments of countries with significant levels of violence against women and girls, nongovernmental organiza- tions, and United States, bilateral, and multilateral donors in prevention and response; (2) recommendations related to best practices, effective strategies, and improvements to enhance the impact of prevention and response efforts; and •S 2982 IS 24 (3) the impact of activities funded by the strat- egy in preventing and reducing violence against women and girls internationally.
(b) AMENDMENTS.—Section 116(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.

2151n(d)) is amend- ed— end; (1) in paragraph (10), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the (2) in paragraph (11)(C), by striking the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and (3) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(12) wherever applicable, the nature and ex- tent of violence against women and girls (as defined in section 4 of the International Violence Against Women Act of 2010).’’.
(c) TRANSPARENCY.—Upon request, the Secretary of State shall provide to Congress the information made available under sections 101(d) and 102(d), including out- comes and impacts related to prevention and response to violence against women and girls internationally submitted by contractors, subcontractors, grantees and subgrantees, unless such disclosure would inhibit the security or effec- tiveness of such entities.
24 25 (d) RESEARCH AND DATA COLLECTION.—The Am- bassador, assisted by the USAID Administrator and the •S 2982 IS 25 heads of relevant bureaus and offices of the Department of State and in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General— (1) shall work to improve the quality and co- ordination of existing data collection and evaluations of current violence against women and girls inter- nationally programs; and (2) may provide financial assistance for original research or analysis of effective interventions to pre- vent or respond to violence against women and girls internationally.
(e) USE OF FUNDS.—Amounts authorized to be ap- propriated in this section may be used to— (1) collect and analyze new or existing data on the scope and extent of all forms of violence against women and girls internationally, including under- documented forms of violence and violence against marginalized groups; (2) conduct research on effective interventions to respond to violence against women and girls inter- nationally, including efforts to scale up effective pro- gramming; and (3) support systemic data collection using inter- nationally comparable indicators, norms, and meth- odologies for measuring the scope, prevalence, and •S 2982 IS 26 incidence of violence against women and girls inter- nationally, working through— (A) governments of foreign countries; and (B) federally funded development assist- ance and health assistance.
(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of State $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 2015 to carry out the activities under this section.

SEC.

114.

ENHANCING UNITED STATES TRAINING OF FOR- EIGN MILITARY AND POLICE FORCES AND JU- DICIAL OFFICIALS ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.
(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to en- sure that United States programs to train foreign mili- tary, police, and judicial officials include instruction on prevention of and response to violence against women and girls.

19 (b) COVERED PROGRAMS.—The programs referred to 20 in subsection (a) include— 21 22 23 24 (1) activities authorized under the Foreign As- sistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.

2151 et seq.
2151 et seq.

); and (2) activities under section 1206 of the Na- tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year •S 2982 IS 27 2006 (Public Law 109–163; 119 Stat.

3456), as amended.
3456), as amended.

(c) GUIDANCE.—The Secretary of State and the Sec- retary of Defense shall, as appropriate— (1) incorporate training on prevention and re- sponse into the basic training curricula of foreign military forces and judicial officials; and (2) ensure that United States assistance to units involved in regional or multilateral peace- keeping operations includes training on prevention and response.
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be nec- essary for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 2015 to carry out the activities under this section.

SEC.

115.

ADDRESSING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS IN HUMANITARIAN RELIEF, PEACE- KEEPING, CONFLICT, AND POST-CONFLICT SETTINGS.
(a) DEFINED TERM.—In this section, the term ‘‘Inter-Agency Standing Committee’’ means the committee established in response to United Nations General Assem- bly Resolution 46/182, adopted at New York on December 19, 1991.
•S 2982 IS 28 (b) ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE WITH THE UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTER- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.— (1) GUIDANCE.—Under the direction of the Secretary of State, the Ambassador is authorized to provide guidance to the USAID Administrator and the Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration.
(2) DUTIES.—The USAID Administrator and the Assistant Secretary shall— (A) consider the Ambassador’s guidance to the extent practicable; (B) provide assistance to programs carried out by international organizations, international and local nongovernmental organizations, and governments, as appropriate, that— (i) prevent and respond to violence against women and girls in humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict settings; (ii) adhere to the Inter-Agency Stand- ing Committee’s Guidelines for Gender- based Violence Interventions in Humani- tarian Settings; (iii) build the capacity of humani- tarian organizations and government au- •S 2982 IS 29 thorities, as appropriate, to address the special protection needs of women and chil- dren; (iv) support efforts to provide imme- diate assistance to survivors of violence and reintegrate such individuals through education, psychosocial assistance, trauma counseling, family and community reinser- tion and reunification, medical assistance, and economic opportunity programs; and (v) provide legal services for women and girls who are victims of violence; (C) ensure that activities to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls internationally are incorporated into any multi- lateral or bilateral disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation, and reintegration efforts by— (i) providing protection and suitable separate facilities in demobilization and transit centers for women and girls for- merly involved in, or associated with, fight- ing forces; (ii) ensuring equitable reintegration activities and opportunities for such women and girls, including access to
Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S2982.IS S2982 •S 2982 IS 30 schooling, vocational training, employment, and childcare; (iii) providing essential medical care and psychosocial support for such women and girls who are victims of violence; and (iv) incorporating prevention and re- sponse to violence against women and girls into programs for former combatants; (D) designate and deploy specialists in vio- lence against women and girls, as appropriate, as an integral part of the United States Agency for International Development’s Disaster As- sistance Response Teams to ensure the integra- tion of prevention and response to violence against women and girls internationally in strategies and programming; and (E) strive to ensure that all grantees de- ployed in humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict operations— (i) comply with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s Six Core Principles Relating to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse; (ii) train all humanitarian workers in preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including in the •S 2982 IS 31 use of mechanisms to report violence against women and girls; (iii) conduct appropriate public out- reach to make known to the host commu- nity the mechanisms to report violence against women and girls; and (iv) promptly and appropriately re- spond to reports of violence against women and girls and treat survivors in accordance with best practices regarding confiden- tiality.
(3) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— (A) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State and the United States Agency for International De- velopment $40,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 2015 for programs de- scribed in paragraph (2)(C) that prevent and respond to violence against women and girls in humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict operations, in addition to amounts otherwise available for such purposes.
(B) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that amounts appropriated pursu- ant to paragraph (1) should not affect the •S 2982 IS 32 amount appropriated for other humanitarian programs.
(c) ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.— Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, acting through the Am- bassador, shall brief Congress on activities and efforts to— (1) create a mechanism to ensure that contrac- tors and grantees deployed in humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict settings— (A) comply with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s Six Core Principles Relating to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse; (B) train their humanitarian workers in prevention and response, including proper mechanisms to report gender-based violence; and (C) promptly and appropriately respond to reports of violence against women and girls and treat survivors in accordance with best practices regarding confidentiality; and (2) carry out the activities described in sub- section (b)(2).
(d) COORDINATION OF UNITED STATES GOVERN- MENT EFFORTS.—Under the direction of the President, •S 2982 IS 33 the Secretary of State is authorized to provide guidance on preventing and responding to violence against women and girls to the Secretary of Defense when United States military personnel, military contractors, and military ob- servers are to be deployed in humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict settings.
The Ambassador shall regularly consult with counterparts at the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice to coordinate design and implementation of programs relevant to the purposes of 10 this section.
(e) ENHANCING UNITED STATES LEADERSHIP AND ADVOCACY IN THE UNITED NATIONS.— (1) RESOURCE SHARING.—The Secretary of State, in consultation with the USAID Adminis- trator, the Ambassador, the United States Rep- resentative to the United Nations, the Assistant Sec- retary for International Organization Affairs, and the Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration shall make available United States fi- nancial, material, human, and other resources to as- sist United Nations efforts to— (A) develop and implement appropriate training programs in prevention and response to violence against women and girls internation- •S 2982 IS 34 ally for peacekeeping and humanitarian per- sonnel; (B) meet staffing goals for women military and police peacekeepers, including all-women teams and units; (C) enhance the deployment of civilian women at all levels to serve in peacekeeping missions, including through innovative staffing formulas; (D) improve protection mechanisms in and around United Nations managed refugee and internally displaced persons camps; (E) implement a zero tolerance policy for sexual exploitation and abuse in United Nations peacekeeping and humanitarian operations; (F) support troop and police contributing countries in— (i) taking appropriate actions to pre- vent violence and abuse; (ii) providing materials for pre-deploy- ment and in-theater awareness training; and (iii) taking other actions to promote full accountability in cases of abusive con- •S 2982 IS 35 duct involving the personnel of such coun- tries; (G) continue to expand appropriate mecha- nisms to permit individuals to safely bring alle- gations of violence against women and girls internationally to the attention of United Na- tions peacekeeping commanders and heads of humanitarian missions; and (H) ensure the capacity of the United Na- tions Office of Internal Oversight to investigate all credible allegations in a timely and efficient manner, while protecting the whistleblower.
(2) REPORT.—Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs and the United States Representative to the United Nations, in consultation with the Ambas- sador-at-Large of the Office for Global Women’s Issues, shall submit a report to Congress that de- scribes United States efforts to support the imple- mentation of United Nations Security Council Reso- lutions 1325, 1820, and 1888.
(f) EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO WIDESPREAD RE- PORTS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN.— •S 2982 IS 36 (1) EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO CREDIBLE RE- PORTS OF CRITICAL OR WIDESPREAD VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.—The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Ambassador and in coordination with relevant bureaus of the Depart- ment of State, shall— (A) identify critical or widespread incidents of violence against women and girls in situa- tions of armed conflict when they occur, through consultation with other Federal agen- cies, the United Nations, international organi- zations, and nongovernmental organizations; (B) determine emergency response meas- ures not later than 45 days after such identi- fication; and (C) brief Congress on the implementation of such emergency response measures and out- comes not later than 30 days after such deter- mination.
(2) CONTENT.—The emergency measures devel- oped under paragraph (1) shall include a description of— •S 2982 IS (A) bilateral diplomatic efforts with— (i) the government of the country in which the violence is occurring 37 (ii) governments in the region in which the violence is occurring; and (iii) other donor governments.
(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—In addi- tion to amounts authorized to be appropriated under sub- section (c), there is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for emergency measures, in- cluding the expansion of reporting mechanisms and pro- grams, for each situation identified under this section.

TITLE II—OTHER PROVISIONS SEC.

201.

SUPPORT FOR MULTILATERAL EFFORTS TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Inter- national Organizations and Programs Account 15 16 17 $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 2015 to support the United Nations Development Fund for Women Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate 18 Violence Against Women.
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