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104TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION S. 643

To assist in implementing the Plan of Action adopted by the World Summit

for Children.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

MARCH 28 (legislative day, MARCH 27), 1995

Mr. JEFFORDS (for himself and Mrs. MURRAY) introduced the following bill;

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

A BILL

To assist in implementing the Plan of Action adopted by

the World Summit for Children.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘James P. Grant World

5 Summit for Children Implementation Act of 1995’’.

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

7 (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following:

8 (1) The World Summit for Children held in

9 1990, the largest gathering of heads of state and

10 heads of government up until that time, united the
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1 world in a commitment to protect the lives of chil2 dren, diminish their suffering, and enhance their fu3 tures.

4 (2) This commitment is reflected in specific

5 goals set forth in the Declaration and Plan of Action

6 of the 1990 World Summit for Children that require

7 international cooperation and the commitment of all

8 nations, goals which were endorsed in the World

9 Declaration on Nutrition adopted at the 1992 Inter10 national Conference on Nutrition and endorsed at

11 the 1994 Summit of the Americas.

12 (3) The United Nations Children’s Fund

13 (UNICEF) estimates that these goals could be im14 plemented by the year 2000 with a global commit15 ment of just $30,000,000,000 to $40,000,000,000

16 annually, to be achieved through reallocation of re17 sources to increase the proportion of resources going

18 to meet basic human needs, with two-thirds of those

19 resources coming from the developing nations them20 selves and one-third from the industrialized nations.

21 (4) In 1994 UNICEF estimated that only 10

22 percent of developing country budgets and less than

23 12 percent of bilateral United States development

24 assistance was devoted to meeting basic human

25 needs, as defined by the United Nations Develop-
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1 ment Program in their 1994 Human Development

2 Report.

3 (5) If that proportion were doubled to just 20

4 percent, through reallocation of current resources

5 and without requiring additional resources, this

6 would provide the resources UNICEF estimates is

7 required annually to achieve by the year 2000 the

8 goals of the World Summit for Children.

9 (6) The United States share of these resources

10 can be realized through a reallocation of bilateral

11 United States development assistance by increasing

12 the percentage of such development assistance to at

13 least 20 percent of the United States foreign assist14 ance budget without an overall increase in such for15 eign assistance budget.

16 (7) The United States Government participated

17 in the World Summit for Children and signed the

18 Declaration and Plan of Action adopted at that

19 Summit.

20 (8) Participants in the Summit committed

21 themselves and their governments—

22 (A) to prepare, before the end of 1991, na23 tional programs of action to help implement the

24 goals and objectives of the Summit; and
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1 (B) to take steps to ensure that child sur2 vival, protection, and development programs will

3 have a priority in the allocation of resources.

4 (9) The United States Government should im5 plement a plan of action to fulfill its commitment to

6 children, both at home and abroad.

7 (10) Public Law 103–227, enacted in 1994 as

8 the ‘‘Goals 2000: Educate America Act,’’ outlined

9 United States national goals for education for the

10 rest of the 20th century and beyond. The eight goals

11 outlined by the Act are:

12 (A) SCHOOL BUSINESS.—By the year

13 2000, all children in America will start school

14 ready to learn.

15 (B) SCHOOL COMPLETION.—By the year

16 2000, the high school graduation rate will in17 crease to at least 90 percent.

18 (C) STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND CITIZEN19 SHIP.—By the year 2000, all students will leave

20 grades 4, 8, and 12 having demonstrated com21 petency over challenging subject matter includ22 ing English, mathematics, science, foreign lan23 guages, civics and government, economics, arts,

24 history, and geography, and every school in

25 America will ensure that all students learn to
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1 use their minds well, so they may be prepared

2 for responsible citizenship, further learning, and

3 productive employment in our Nation’s modern

4 economy.

5 (D) TEACHER EDUCATION AND PROFES6 SIONAL DEVELOPMENT.—By the year 2000, the

7 Nation’s teaching force will have access to pro8 grams for the continued improvement of their

9 professional skills and the opportunity to ac10 quire the knowledge and skills needed to in11 struct and prepare all American students for

12 the next century.

13 (E) MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE.—By the

14 year 2000, United States students will be first

15 in the world in mathematics and science

16 achievement.

17 (F) ADULT LITERACY AND LIFELONG

18 LEARNING.—By the year 2000, every adult

19 American will be literate and will possess the

20 knowledge and skills necessary to compete in a

21 global economy and exercise the rights and re22 sponsibilities of citizenship.

23 (G) SAFE, DISCIPLINED, AND ALCOHOL24 AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS.—By the year 2000,

25 every school in the United States will be free of
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1 drugs, violence, and the unauthorized presence

2 of firearms and alcohol and will offer a dis3 ciplined environment conducive to learning.

4 (H) PARENTAL PARTICIPATION.—By the

5 year 2000, every school will promote partner6 ships that will increase parental involvement

7 and participation in promoting the social, emo8 tional, and academic growth of children.

9 (11) Achievement of the National Education

10 Goals contained in paragraph (10) will contribute to

11 implementation by the United States of the plan of

12 action.

13 (b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are—

14 (1) to help fulfill the commitment of the United

15 States Government to children; and

16 (2) to provide the necessary authorities to im17 plement that plan of action.

18 SEC. 3. SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL FOOD PROGRAM FOR

19 WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN (WIC).

20 (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following:

21 (1) In 1990, the Surgeon General and the

22 United States Public Health Service announced

23 Healthy People 2000 goals for America’s children.

24 These goals include reducing the United States in-
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1 fant mortality rate and the incidence of low

birthweight by 1 2 ⁄3 by the year 2000.

3 (2) The special supplemental nutrition program

4 for women, infants, and children authorized under

5 section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42

6 U.S.C. 1786) (referred to in this section as the

7 ‘‘WIC Program’’) is intended to benefit low-income

8 infants and children at risk to be born at low

9 birthweight (a proven cause of mental retardation)

10 and who have a mortality rate at least twice as high

11 as infants and children from higher income families.

12 (3) It has been demonstrated that participation

13 in the WIC Program reduces, in a cost-effective

14 manner, the infant mortality rate, the number of

15 premature births, and the percentage of infants born

16 at low birthweight or with developmental disabilities.

17 (4) The WIC Program currently serves slightly

more than 1 18 ⁄2 of the eligible population and actions

19 need to be taken to move toward service to the en20 tire eligible population.

21 (b) FULL PARTICIPATION IN THE WIC PROGRAM.—

22 It is the sense of the Congress that—

23 (1) the United States Government should make

24 a commitment to achieving full participation in the

25 WIC Program by the end of fiscal year 1996; and
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1 (2) in order to reach the goal of full participa2 tion, not less than $3,820,000,000 for fiscal year

3 1996 and not less than $4,166,000,000 for fiscal

4 year 1997 should be appropriated to carry out the

5 WIC Program.

6 SEC. 4. PROGRAMS UNDER THE HEAD START ACT.

7 (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following:

8 (1) In 1989, the President and the Governors

9 of the 50 States met at the Education Summit and

10 set United States education goals for the year 2000.

11 United States National Education Goals were en12 acted into permanent law in 1994 with the passage

13 of the Goals 2000: Educate America Act (20 U.S.C.

14 5801 et seq.). Among the goals was the goal that all

15 children in America would start school ready to

16 learn.

17 (2) Since their inception in 1964, programs

18 under the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9831 et seq.)

19 have established an impressive record in providing

20 preschool-age children from low-income families with

21 comprehensive services to address educational, so22 cial, nutritional, and health needs.

(3) Head Start programs serve less than 1 23 ⁄3 of

24 eligible children between 3 and 5 years of age.
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1 (b) FULL FUNDING FOR THE HEAD START ACT.—

2 It is the sense of the Congress that—

3 (1) the Federal Government should make a

4 commitment to achieving full participation of all eli5 gible 3- and 4-year-old children in Head Start pro6 grams by fiscal year 2001; and

7 (2) in order to reach the goal of such full par8 ticipation by the fiscal year 2001, appropriations for

9 the Head Start Act should be augmented with a cu10 mulative increase of $1,000,000,000 for each of fis11 cal years 1996 through 2001.

12 SEC. 5. INTERNATIONAL INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY.

13 (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following:

14 (1) During the period 1984 to 1994 the inter15 national campaign to save the lives of children has

16 resulted in dramatic increases in the adoption of

17 low-cost measures to save children’s lives, such as

18 immunizations and oral rehydration therapy.

19 (2) In September 1991, the United Nations

20 Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health

21 Organization were able to report that the goal of 80

22 percent universal childhood immunization had been

23 achieved, saving over 12,000,000 young lives during

24 the 1980’s, and continuing to save over 3,000,000

25 children’s lives each year.
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1 (3) The Plan of Action adopted by the World

2 Summit for Children calls for the reduction of

3 under-5 mortality rates by at least one-third by the

4 year 2000, and halving moderate and severe mal5 nutrition among children under 5.

6 (4) Such progress is possible by consolidating

7 gains already made, and by pursuing new goals and

8 effective programs in such areas as measles,

9 neonatal tetanus, poliomyelitis, and acute respiratory

10 infections.

11 (5) Both UNICEF and the United States

12 Agency for International Development have provided

13 strong leadership as well as financial and technical

14 support for these goals.

15 (b) CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNICEF.—To carry out sec16 tion 301 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.

17 2221; relating to voluntary contributions to international

18 organizations and programs), there are authorized to be

19 appropriated to the President $110,000,000 for fiscal year

20 1996 and $120,000,000 for fiscal year 1997 for contribu21 tions to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

22 for activities to promote child health and other assistance

23 programs on behalf of children.

24 (c) CHILD SURVIVAL ACTIVITIES.—Section 104(c)(2)

25 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.
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1 2151b(c)(2); relating to the Child Survival Fund) is

2 amended—

3 (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking

4 ‘‘$25,000,000 for fiscal year 1986 and $75,000,000

5 for fiscal year 1987’’ and inserting ‘‘$180,000,000

6 for fiscal year 1996 and $210,000,000 for fiscal

7 year 1997’’; and

8 (2) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the fol9 lowing new subparagraphs:

10 ‘‘(D)(i) Subject to clauses (ii) and (iii), of the aggre11 gate of the amounts made available to carry out subpara12 graph (B) of this paragraph, sections 103(a) and section

13 106 of this chapter, chapters 10 and 11 of this part, and

14 chapter 4 of part II and for the Multilateral Assistance

15 Initiative for the Philippines, not less than $330,000,000

16 for fiscal year 1996 and not less than $380,000,000 for

17 fiscal year 1997 shall be available only for activities de18 scribed in subparagraph (A) which have a direct measur19 able impact on the reduction in the rates of child morbid20 ity and mortality, with a particular emphasis on delivery

21 of community-based primary health care and health edu22 cation services which benefit the poorest of the poor.

23 ‘‘(ii) Of the amounts made available under clause (i)

24 for activities described in subparagraph (A), not less than

25 $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1996 and not less than
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1 $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1997 shall be provided to pri2 vate and voluntary organizations under the PVO Child

3 Survival grants program carried out by the Agency for

4 International Development.

5 ‘‘(iii) Amounts made available under section 103(h)

6 of this chapter (relating to the Vitamin A Deficiency Pro7 gram), part I of this Act for iodine and iron fortification

8 programs and for iron supplementation programs for

9 pregnant women, chapter 9 of this part (relating to inter10 national disaster assistance), paragraph (4) of this section

11 (relating to international AIDS prevention and control),

12 and any other provision of law for migration and refugee

13 assistance, shall not be included in the aggregate amounts

14 described in clause (i) for purposes of the requirements

15 contained in such clause.

16 ‘‘(E) The President shall include in the annual budg17 et submitted to the Congress a description of the meas18 ured or estimated impact on the rates of child morbidity

19 and mortality of each project or program carried out

20 under this paragraph.’’.

21 SEC. 6. GLOBAL MALNUTRITION.

22 (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following:

23 (1) Malnutrition, which is preventable at low

24 cost, is an underlying cause of death in the vast ma25 jority of childhood diseases.
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1 (2) The Plan of Action adopted at the World

2 Summit for Children calls for halving severe and

3 moderate malnutrition among children under 5 years

4 of age by the year 2000.

5 (3) The Congress has already undertaken sub6 stantial action to address this problem in the Food,

7 Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990,

8 which established food security for the poorest and

9 the prevention of malnutrition as priorities in food

10 assistance programs administered by the United

11 States Agency for International Development under

12 the Agriculture Trade Development and Assistance

13 Act of 1954.

14 (4) Child survival activities are also key to re15 ducing child malnutrition and must be pursued in

16 conjunction with efforts to ensure food security.

17 (5) Section 411 of the Agricultural Trade De18 velopment and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C.

19 1736e), as amended by the Food, Agriculture, Con20 servation, and Trade Act of 1990, authorizes the

21 forgiveness of Public Law 480 debt owed by least

22 developed countries that are pursuing national eco23 nomic policy reforms that would promote long-term

24 economic development, but the exercise of that au-
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1 thority requires further action by the Congress in an

2 appropriations Act.

3 (6) Vitamin A deficiency remains a scourge of

4 children in developing countries, with an estimated

5 2,000,000 children facing blindness in the 1990’s

6 and tens of millions more facing increased risk of in7 fection and death, if access to vitamin A is not in8 creased. Vitamin A intake has been associated with

9 significant reductions in infant mortality rates.

10 (7) 1,000,000,000 people are at risk of iodine

11 deficiency disease, with the very young being most

12 vulnerable. Iodine deficiency is a major cause of

13 mental retardation worldwide.

14 (8) 2,000,000,000 people suffer from some de15 gree of iron deficiency anemia, particularly women of

16 childbearing age and young children.

17 (9) It should be possible to eliminate the major18 ity of vitamin A deficiency and iodine deficiency dis19 orders by the year 2000 and to also reduce iron defi20 ciency anemia among women of childbearing age by

21 one-third by the year 2000.

22 (b) PUBLIC LAW 480 DEBT AUTHORITY.—It is the

23 sense of the Congress that authority, in such amounts as

24 may be required, should be granted to the President in

25 an appropriations Act to exercise the debt authority with
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1 respect to least developed countries that is provided in sec2 tion 411 of the Agricultural Trade Development and As3 sistance Act of 1954.

4 (c) VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY PROGRAM.—Section 103

5 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151a;

6 relating to development assistance for agriculture, rural

7 development, and nutrition) is amended by adding at the

8 end the following new subsection:

9 ‘‘(h) VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY PROGRAM.—(1) The

10 Congress finds that—

11 ‘‘(A) vitamin A deficiency is a major cause of

12 childhood mortality;

13 ‘‘(B) vitamin A intervention programs are inex14 pensive, practical to administer, and cost-effective in

15 terms of human productivity; and

16 ‘‘(C) the Agency for International Development

17 is already implementing a Vitamin A Deficiency Pro18 gram.

19 ‘‘(2) Of the amounts made available to carry out this

20 section, not less than $17,000,000 for fiscal year 1996

21 and not less than $23,000,000 for fiscal year 1997 shall

22 be available only for Vitamin A supplementation and for23 tification through the Vitamin A Deficiency Program.’’.

24 (d) OTHER MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES.—In ad25 dition to amounts otherwise available for such programs,
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1 there are authorized to be appropriated to the President

2 $13,000,000 for fiscal year 1996 and $17,000,000 for fis3 cal year 1997 for iodine and iron fortification programs,

4 and for iron supplementation programs for pregnant

5 women, under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of

6 1961.

7 SEC. 7. MATERNAL AND CHILD MORTALITY RESULTING

8 FROM AIDS.

9 (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following:

10 (1) As of 1992, nearly 5,000,000 women of

11 childbearing age and over 1,000,000 children were

12 infected with the human immunodeficiency virus

13 (HIV), the virus that causes the acquired immune

14 deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The vast majority of

15 these women and children live in developing coun16 tries.

17 (2) The maternal and child mortality rate in

18 many developing countries will increase dramatically

19 until HIV/AIDS prevention and control efforts are

20 successful, as will the number of orphans with HIV/

21 AIDS.

22 (3) The most effective efforts to respond to

23 HIV/AIDS are based at the community level and in24 volve nongovernmental organizations as well as gov25 ernment agencies.
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1 (4) The United States Agency for International

2 Development should expand its assistance to devel3 oping countries for community-based prevention,

4 care, and control programs and activities relating to

5 HIV/AIDS, and should participate in coordinated ef6 forts with other donors.

7 (5) Coordination of efforts of bilateral, multilat8 eral, and nongovernmental agencies and organiza9 tions is essential.

10 (b) INTERNATIONAL AIDS PREVENTION AND CON11 TROL FUND.—Section 104(c) of the Foreign Assistance

12 Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151b(c); relating to development

13 assistance for health related activities) is amended by add14 ing at the end the following new paragraph:

15 ‘‘(4)(A) In carrying out this subsection, the President

16 shall promote, encourage, and undertake community-based

17 prevention, care, and control programs and activities relat18 ing to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and ac19 quired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in developing

20 countries, including research as to the effectiveness of

21 such programs and activities.

22 ‘‘(B) There are authorized to be appropriated to the

23 President $125,000,000 for fiscal year 1996 and

24 $145,000,000 for fiscal year 1997 for use in carrying out

25 this paragraph, which shall be in addition to amounts
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1 made available under subsection (g) or otherwise available

2 for such purpose. Amounts appropriated under this sub3 paragraph are authorized to remain available until ex4 pended.

5 ‘‘(C) Appropriations pursuant to subparagraph (B)

6 may be referred to as the ‘International AIDS Prevention

7 and Control Fund’.’’.

8 SEC. 8. INTERNATIONAL BASIC EDUCATION.

9 (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following:

10 (1) Elementary education, early childhood de11 velopment activities, and programs to achieve lit12 eracy, are essential for increasing the productive ca13 pacity of people and their ability to earn income.

14 (2) More than 100,000,000 children, the major15 ity of them girls, are not enrolled in elementary

16 school.

17 (3) The Plan of Action adopted by the World

18 Summit for Children calls for basic education for all

19 children and for completion of elementary education

20 by at least 80 percent of all children.

21 (4) United States assistance for basic education

22 in developing countries has accounted for less than

23 2 percent of all United States foreign assistance in

24 recent years.
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1 (b) INTERNATIONAL BASIC EDUCATION.—Section

2 105 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.

3 2151c; relating to development assistance for education

4 and human resource development) is amended by adding

5 at the end the following new subsection:

6 ‘‘(c)(1) Of the aggregate of the amounts made avail7 able to carry out this section, chapters 10 and 11 of this

8 part, and chapter 4 of part II and for the Multilateral

9 Assistance Initiative for the Philippines, not less than

10 $165,000,000 for fiscal year 1996 and not less than

11 $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1997 shall be available only

12 for programs in support of basic education, including early

13 childhood education, elementary education, teacher train14 ing, and other necessary activities in support of early

15 childhood and elementary education, and literacy training

16 for adults.

17 ‘‘(2) The President shall include in the annual budget

18 submitted to the Congress a description of the measured

19 or estimated impact on elementary school enrollment, lit20 eracy, and educational attainment of each project or pro21 gram carried out under this subsection.’’.

22 SEC. 9. INTERNATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING AND CHILD

23 SPACING.

24 (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following:
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1 (1) Universal access to voluntary family plan2 ning could save the lives of several million children

3 each year and could significantly improve the health

4 of children throughout the developing world by re5 ducing prematurity and low birthweight and allowing

6 longer breastfeeding.

7 (2) The risk of maternal death or illness in the

8 developing world is highest for women who bear chil9 dren when they are under the age of 18 or over the

10 age of 35, for pregnancies spaced less than 2 years

11 apart, and for women who already have 4 or more

12 children. Universal access to voluntary family plan13 ning could prevent up to one-third of the 500,000

14 maternal deaths annually.

15 (3) The inability of couples to plan births de16 creases the quality of women’s lives and undermines

17 their opportunities for education, for earning in18 come, for improving the care of children, and for

19 community activities and personal development.

20 (4) Rapid world population growth, combined

21 with unsustainable patterns of natural resource con22 sumption, has become an urgent economic, social,

23 and environmental problem.

24 (5) The Plan of Action adopted at the 1990

25 World Summit for Children calls for voluntary fam-
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1 ily planning services and education to be made avail2 able to all couples to empower them to prevent un3 wanted pregnancies which are ‘‘too many and too

4 close’’ and to women who are ‘‘too young or too

5 old’’.

6 (6) Efforts to reduce child death rates and to

7 lower birthrates are mutually reinforcing because

8 closely-spaced pregnancies contribute in important

9 ways to high child mortality and parents need assur10 ances that their children will survive.

11 (b) AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS.—In ad12 dition to any other amounts made available for such pur13 poses, there are authorized to be appropriated to the

14 President for United States population assistance pro15 grams and activities under part I of the Foreign Assist16 ance Act of 1961 not less than $525,000,000 for fiscal

17 year 1996 and not less than $575,000,000 for fiscal year

18 1997.

19 SEC. 10. REFUGEES.

20 (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following:

21 (1) The number of refugees worldwide has

22 grown to 20,000,000 in 1995. In addition, there are

23 estimated to be more than 25,000,000 internally dis24 placed persons. More than half of these refugees and

25 internally displaced persons are children.
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1 (2) The dramatic growth in the number of refu2 gees and displaced persons has resulted in serious

3 reductions in legal assistance and protection, health,

4 nutrition, and basic education services available to

5 them.

6 (3) Refugee children are particularly vulnerable

7 in first asylum camps from Africa to Southeast Asia

8 where they languish without the comfort of a parent

9 or adult guardian.

10 (b) FUNDING FOR REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PRO11 GRAMS.—(1) There are authorized to be appropriated not

12 less than $750,000,000 for fiscal year 1996 and

13 $780,000,000 for fiscal year 1997 under the ‘‘Migration

14 and Refugee Assistance’’ account of the Department of

15 State, of which not less than $450,000,000 for fiscal year

16 1996 and $480,000,000 for fiscal year 1997 shall be avail17 able only for programs of refugee assistance overseas (in

18 addition to the amounts available for programs for refu19 gees from the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and

20 elsewhere who resettle in Israel).

21 (2) There are authorized to be appropriated not less

22 than $100,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 and

23 1997 for the ‘‘United States Emergency Refugee and Mi24 gration Assistance Fund’’ account under section 2(c) of
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1 the Refugee and Migration Assistance Act of 1962 (22

2 U.S.C. 2601(c)).

3 SEC. 11. EFFORTS BY OTHER COUNTRIES.

4 The Congress urges the President to call upon the

5 governments of other countries to provide their share of

6 the resources required to achieve the World Summit for

7 Children goals by the year 2000, specifically through giv8 ing highest priority to increasing the proportion of public

9 expenditures and foreign assistance devoted to priority

10 human needs areas outlined in the Declaration and Plan

11 of Action of the World Summit for Children.

12 SEC. 12. ANNUAL REPORT.

13 (a) REQUIREMENT FOR REPORT.—In order that the

14 Congress and the people of the United States may be fully

15 informed of efforts undertaken by the United States Gov16 ernment to fulfill agreements signed by the United States

17 at the World Summit for Children, the President shall re18 port annually to the Congress on United States contribu19 tions to the achievement of the goals of the World Summit

20 for Children. Each such report shall include—

21 (1) a discussion of efforts by the United States

22 to achieve those goals both within the United States

23 and in other countries; and
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1 (2) a comparative analysis of current and past

2 funding levels and planned funding levels for the

3 next 2 fiscal years.

4 (b) SUBMISSION DATE.—The reports required by this

5 section shall be submitted to the Congress no later than

6 February 1 of each year.

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