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[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4594 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4594

       To combat international violence against women and girls.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 4, 2010

Mr. Delahunt (for himself, Mr. Poe of Texas, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Moore 
    of Wisconsin, Ms. DeLauro, Ms. Edwards of Maryland, Ms. Lee of 
  California, Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas, Ms. Woolsey, Ms. Watson, Mr. 
 Hare, Mr. Welch, Mr. Payne, Mr. Ellison, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Carnahan, 
    Mr. Polis of Colorado, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mrs. 
 Maloney, Mr. Rush, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Filner, Mr. Moore of Kansas, Mr. 
 Berman, Mr. Maffei, and Ms. McCollum) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition 
  to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
       To combat international violence against women and girls.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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 Positions and Institutional Changes

Sec. 101. Office for Global Women's Issues.
Sec. 102. Office for Women's Global Development.
               Subtitle B--Strategy, Policy, and Programs

Sec. 111. Comprehensive international strategy 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 
                            preventing and responding to violence 
                            against women and girls.
Sec. 115. Addressing violence against women and girls in humanitarian 
                            relief, peacekeeping, conflict, and post-
                            conflict operations.
                       TITLE II--OTHER PROVISIONS

Sec. 201. Support for multilateral efforts to end violence against 
                            women and girls.
Sec. 202. Funding limitation.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) According to the United Nations, approximately 1 out of 
        every 3 women in the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, 
        or otherwise abused in her lifetime. The World Health 
        Organization reports that in some countries, up to 70 percent 
        of women report having been victims of domestic violence at 
        some stage in their lives.
            (2) According to the United Nations, engaging both men and 
        women in all efforts to end violence against women and girls 
        internationally should be a priority. In recognition of this, 
        United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a multi-
        year campaign in 2009 to end violence against women and pledge 
        resources to engage male leaders and mobilize men and boys.
            (3) Violence against women dramatically impedes progress in 
        meeting 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, according to the 
        World Health Organization, has been linked to miscarriage, pre-
        term labor, low birth weight and fetal distress or death. Women 
        who have experienced violence are also at higher risk for 
        contracting HIV, and women living with HIV may be up to three 
        times more likely to experience violence than HIV-negative 
        women. Fear of violence also prevents women from accessing HIV/
        AIDS information and receiving treatment and counseling.
            (4) Women's increased access to economic opportunities is 
        crucial to the prevention of and response to domestic and 
        sexual violence. Both microfinance-based interventions and 
        increased asset control have been shown to reduce levels of 
        intimate partner violence in addition to providing economic 
        independence for survivors.
            (5) Displaced, refugee, and stateless women and girls in 
        humanitarian emergencies, conflict settings, and natural 
        disasters face extreme violence and threats because of power 
        inequities, including being forced to exchange sex for food and 
        humanitarian supplies, and 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.

SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY.

    It is the policy of the United States to--
            (1) systematically integrate and coordinate efforts to 
        prevent and respond to violence against women and girls 
        internationally into United States foreign policy and foreign 
        assistance programs, and to expand implementation of effective 
        practices and programs;
            (2) promote women's political, economic, educational, 
        social, cultural, civil, and human rights and opportunities 
        throughout the world;
            (3) support and build the capacity of indigenous 
        nongovernmental organizations that are working to prevent and 
        respond to violence against women and girls internationally, 
        particularly women's nongovernmental organizations, and to 
        support and encourage United States organizations working in 
        partnership with such nongovernmental organizations;
            (4) prevent and respond to violence against women and girls 
        internationally through multisectoral methods, working at 
        individual, family, community, local, national, and 
        international levels and incorporating service, prevention, 
        training, and advocacy activities and economic, education, 
        health, legal, and protective intervention services;
            (5) enhance training and other prevention and response to 
        violence against women and girls internationally in 
        humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict settings;
            (6) enhance training by United States personnel of 
        professional foreign military and police forces and judicial 
        officials to include specific and thorough instruction on 
        preventing and responding to violence against women and girls 
        internationally;
            (7) increase communication and cooperation with 
        nongovernmental organizations with demonstrated experience in 
        empowerment of women and combating violence against women and 
        girls internationally, including consulting with such 
        organizations during strategic planning exercises;
            (8) more regularly engage men and boys as community leaders 
        and advocates in ending violence against women and girls;
            (9) ensure private security firms contracted for service in 
        conflict, humanitarian and post-conflict settings appropriately 
        report on and respond to violence against women and girls 
        internationally; and
            (10) continue United States leadership and innovative 
        efforts at the United Nations to address violence against women 
        and girls internationally, particularly through urging the 
        United Nations Secretary-General and United Nations member 
        states to fully implement the provisions of United Nations 
        Security Council Resolutions 1325, 1820, and 1888 and other 
        relevant United Nations agreements and initiatives.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) 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.
            (2) 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 result in, 
                physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to 
                women, including threats of such acts, coercion, or 
                arbitrary deprivations of liberty, whether occurring in 
                public or private life; and
                    (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 
                        community, including rape, sexual abuse, sexual 
                        harassment and intimidation at work, in 
                        educational institutions and elsewhere, 
                        trafficking in women and girls, and forced 
                        prostitution; and
                            (iii) physical, sexual, and psychological 
                        violence perpetrated or condoned by the state, 
                        wherever it occurs.

 TITLE I--INTERNATIONAL PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

        Subtitle A--Official Positions and Institutional Changes

SEC. 101. OFFICE FOR GLOBAL WOMEN'S ISSUES.

    (a) Establishment.--The Secretary of State shall establish in the 
Office of the Secretary of the Department of State an Office for Global 
Women's Issues (in this section referred to as the ``Office''). The 
Office shall be headed by an Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's 
Issues (in this section referred to as the ``Ambassador-at-Large''), 
who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and 
consent of the Senate. The Ambassador-at-Large shall report directly to 
the Secretary and shall have the rank and status of Ambassador-at-
Large.
    (b) Purpose.--In addition to the duties described in subsection (c) 
and those duties determined by the Secretary of State, the Office shall 
coordinate efforts of the United States Government regarding gender 
integration and empowerment of women in United States foreign policy.
    (c) Duties.--
            (1) In general.--The Ambassador-at-Large--
                    (A) shall coordinate and advise on activities, 
                policies, programs, and funding relating to gender 
                integration and empowerment of women internationally, 
                including those intended to prevent and respond to 
                violence against women, for all bureaus and offices of 
                the Department of State and in the international 
                programs of other United States Government departments 
                and agencies;
                    (B) shall actively promote and advance the full 
                integration of gender analysis into the programs, 
                structures, processes, and capacities of all bureaus 
                and offices of the Department of State and in the 
                international programs of other United States 
                Government departments and agencies;
                    (C) shall direct, as appropriate, United States 
                Government resources to respond to needs for gender 
                integration and empowerment of women in United States 
                Government foreign policies and international programs, 
                including to prevent and respond to violence against 
                women and girls internationally; and
                    (D) may design, support, and implement activities 
                regarding empowerment of women internationally, 
                including for the prevention and response of violence 
                against women and girls internationally.
            (2) Coordinating role.--The Ambassador-at-Large shall 
        coordinate with all relevant United States Government 
        departments and agencies, particularly the United States Agency 
        for International Development, the Millennium Challenge 
        Corporation, and the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, on 
        all policies, programs, and funding of such departments and 
        agencies relating to gender integration and empowerment of 
        women, including ending violence against women and girls 
        internationally.
            (3) Diplomatic representation.--Subject to the direction of 
        the President and the Secretary of State, the Ambassador-at-
        Large is authorized to represent the United States in matters 
        relevant to the status of women, including violence against 
        women and girls internationally.
    (d) Reports.--Subject to the guidance of the Ambassador-at-Large, 
the heads of all bureaus and offices of the Department of State, as 
appropriate, shall evaluate and monitor all empowerment of women 
programs administered by such bureaus and offices and annually submit 
to the Ambassador-at-Large reports containing an accounting of such 
programs and their effectiveness.
    (e) Monitoring and Evaluation.--
            (1) In general.--The Office shall seek to coordinate with 
        United States Government departments and agencies and should 
        provide advice and guidance, as necessary, to United States 
        Government departments and agencies engaged in international 
        programs, to monitor and evaluate empowerment of women programs 
        and outcomes and impacts of such programs, including programs 
        such departments and agencies administer for prevention and 
        response to violence against women and girls internationally.
            (2) Report.--The heads of United States Government 
        departments and agencies with international programs described 
        in paragraph (1) shall provide to the Office on an annual basis 
        information on empowerment of women programs and outcomes and 
        impacts of such programs, including for prevention and response 
        to violence against women and girls internationally, in order 
        to contribute to the development and implementation of the 
        comprehensive strategy required under section 111.
    (f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2015, 
under the heading ``Diplomatic and Consular Programs'', to carry out 
activities under this section. Funds appropriated pursuant to this 
subsection are in addition to amounts otherwise available for such 
purposes.

SEC. 102. OFFICE FOR WOMEN'S GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT.

    (a) Establishment.--
            (1) In general.--There is established an Office for Women's 
        Global Development (in this section referred to as the 
        ``Office'') in the United States Agency for International 
        Development (in this section referred to as ``USAID'').
            (2) Director.--The Office shall be headed by the Director 
        of Women's Global Development (in this section referred to as 
        the ``Director''), who shall be appointed by the President, by 
        and with the advice and consent of the Senate, from among 
        individuals who are highly qualified in matters relating to 
        international development and gender integration. The 
        appointment of the Director shall be in addition to the 
        appointment of officers otherwise provided for in section 624 
        of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2384). The 
        Director shall report directly to the Administrator of USAID 
        and shall have the rank and status of Assistant Administrator.
    (b) Purpose.--The Office shall coordinate and guide all efforts of 
USAID to integrate gender in all policies, programs, and activities of 
United States foreign assistance and is intended to replace the Office 
of Women in Development in USAID in existence on the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
    (c) Duties.--The Director shall--
            (1) coordinate and consult with the Ambassador-at-Large for 
        Global Women's Issues and USAID mission directors;
            (2) provide high-level guidance to USAID missions, offices, 
        and bureaus on gender integration, design, strategy, and 
        programming, including for the prevention and response to 
        violence against women and girls internationally;
            (3) keep the Administrator of USAID informed of policy 
        guidance provided by the Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's 
        Issues under section 101, including for prevention and response 
        to violence against women and girls internationally; and
            (4) oversee agency-wide monitoring and evaluation on gender 
        integration activities and strategies, including prevention and 
        response to violence against women and girls internationally.
    (d) Reports.--
            (1) In general.--Subject to the guidance of the Director 
        and the Administrator of USAID, the heads of relevant USAID 
        missions, offices, and bureaus shall annually submit to the 
        Director reports containing data and findings on the impact of 
        gender integration activities and strategies of such missions, 
        offices, and bureaus, including with respect to prevention and 
        response to violence against women and girls internationally.
            (2) Types of data.--Reports required under paragraph (1) 
        should include data with respect to relevant contractors, 
        subcontractors, grantees, and sub-grantees receiving funds made 
        available under this Act, including amounts of awards.
            (3) Submission to congress.--Reports required under 
        paragraph (1) shall be made available to the Congress upon 
        request. Such reports shall be submitted in unclassified form, 
        but may contain a classified annex if necessary.
    (e) Congressional Briefings.--Beginning not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, and semi-annually thereafter, 
the Director or Administrator of USAID, as appropriate, should brief 
Congress on the integration of gender considerations and prevention and 
response to violence against women and girls internationally in USAID 
strategies, programming, and associated outcomes and impacts, using 
data collected under subsection (d).
    (f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2015 to 
carry out activities under this section. Amounts authorized to be 
appropriated pursuant to this subsection are in addition to amounts 
otherwise available for such purposes.

               Subtitle B--Strategy, Policy, and Programs

SEC. 111. COMPREHENSIVE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY 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 and the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development, under the direction of the President and 
with the assistance of the Ambassador-at-Large of the Office for Global 
Women's Issues and the Director of the Office for Women's Global 
Development--
            (1) shall develop and commence implementation of a 
        comprehensive, 5-year international strategy to prevent and 
        respond to violence against women and girls internationally; 
        and
            (2) shall make such strategy available to the public and 
        submit it to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 
        and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
        Representatives.
    (b) Coordination.--In developing the strategy under subsection (a), 
the Secretary of State, with the assistance of the Ambassador-at-Large 
and the Director, shall coordinate and consult with--
            (1) United States Government departments and agencies 
        administering international programs and departments and 
        agencies with expertise in preventing and responding to 
        violence against women and girls internationally, including the 
        Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human 
        Services, and the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator; and
            (2) representatives of civil society with demonstrated 
        experience combating violence against women and girls 
        internationally or promoting women's health or women's 
        development internationally, including nongovernmental 
        organizations, academics, and other experts.
    (c) Content.--The strategy developed under subsection (a) shall--
            (1) identify between 5 and 20 eligible countries that have 
        severe levels of violence against women and girls and such 
        identified countries should, when possible, be geographically, 
        ethnically, and culturally diverse from one another, may have 
        internally displaced persons and refugee populations, and 
        should have the government or nongovernment organizational 
        capacity to manage and implement activities for the prevention 
        and response of violence against women and girls 
        internationally;
            (2) identify how and to what extent the violence against 
        women and girls in each country is negatively affecting the 
        achievement of United States development and security goals in 
        such country, including for human rights, poverty reduction, 
        political stability, health for women and girls, and economic 
        development;
            (3) detail the potential capacity of each country to 
        address and respond to violence against women and girls;
            (4) identify the United States Government departments and 
        agencies involved in the execution of the relevant program 
        activities for each country;
            (5) create a comprehensive and holistic strategy that 
        includes at least two or more of the sectoral activities listed 
        in subsection (d) for each country plan and describe how the 
        selected programs will prevent and respond to the problem of 
        violence against women and girls, incorporating security and 
        development goals listed in paragraph (2);
            (6) include, as appropriate, strategies designed to 
        accommodate the needs of stateless, internally displaced, 
        refugee, or religious or ethnic minority women and girls;
            (7) include capacity building and technical assistance for 
        community-based women's nongovernmental organizations and 
        community-based organizations with demonstrated expertise in 
        empowerment of women, including combating violence against 
        women and girls internationally;
            (8) include potential coordination with existing programs, 
        initiatives, and groups with demonstrated expertise on 
        preventing and responding to violence against women and girls 
        internationally or in empowerment of women, particularly 
        coordinating with women's organizations and community-based 
        groups;
            (9) describe the monitoring and evaluation mechanisms 
        established for each country and how they will be used to 
        assess overall progress in preventing and responding to 
        violence against women and girls internationally;
            (10) integrate gender analysis into the strategy for each 
        country to ensure that women's, girls', men's, and boys' roles 
        are appropriately addressed; and
            (11) identify resources needed to implement programs, 
        taking into account activities and funding provided by other 
        entities, and coordinate with programs and activities of other 
        multilateral entities.
    (d) Program Activities Supported.--Assistance provided under this 
section shall be used to carry out, in each of the countries identified 
in the strategy required pursuant to subsection (a), a multi-sectoral 
strategy to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls 
internationally, including activities in 2 or more of the following 
sectors:
            (1) Supporting health programs and survivor services, 
        including--
                    (A) integrating a systems-wide approach to safely 
                preventing and responding to violence against women and 
                girls into existing United States Government-funded 
                health programs serving women and children, including 
                HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment;
                    (B) funding supportive services and advocacy for 
                survivors of violence, including psychological support 
                and economic empowerment where victims identify the 
                need for these services;
                    (C) improving coordination in countries between the 
                health and justice sectors so perpetrators can be held 
                accountable for their violence and women who choose to 
                can prosecute their abuser; and
                    (D) working with ministries of health and other 
                national-level agencies and local community-based 
                organizations to support integration of violence 
                against women programming into country-level plans of 
                action, strategies, and operational plans.
            (2) Increasing civil and criminal legal and judicial 
        protections, including--
                    (A) promoting broader legal protection against all 
                forms of violence against women and girls that 
                prioritize victim safety and confidentiality and that 
                create accountability for perpetrators;
                    (B) providing training and technical assistance to 
                police, prosecutors, forensic physicians, lawyers, 
                corrections officers, judges, and judicial officials, 
                and where appropriate, to nonlawyer advocates and 
                traditional community authorities on violence against 
                women and girls, the rights of victims, appropriate 
                responses, and improving coordination between such 
                officials and relevant authorities;
                    (C) enhancing the capacity of the justice system, 
                including for recordkeeping, evidence and data 
                collection, and expeditious investigations; and
                    (D) helping women and girls who are victims of 
                violence gain access to the justice system and 
                supporting such women and girls throughout the legal 
                process;
            (3) Encouraging change in public attitudes through 
        communication and organizing efforts that--
                    (A) engage men and boys, including faith and 
                traditional leaders, as leaders and advocates in ending 
                violence against women and girls and the social norms 
                that perpetuate it;
                    (B) support women survivors of violence to educate 
                their communities on the impacts of violence;
                    (C) support community efforts to change attitudes 
                about the acceptability of violence against women and 
                girls, including harmful traditional practices, such as 
                child marriage, female genital cutting and mutilation, 
                and so-called ``honor killings''; and
                    (D) support mass media social change campaigns.
            (4) Promoting access to economic opportunity projects, 
        including--
                    (A) supporting the establishment and development of 
                women-owned businesses (micro-, small-, and medium-
                sized enterprises) through access to financial and 
                nonfinancial services;
                    (B) supporting programs to help increase property 
                rights, social security, and home ownership and land 
                tenure security for women;
                    (C) increasing women and girls' access to 
                education, literacy, and numeracy programs, leadership 
                development, and job skills training;
                    (D) addressing violence against women and girls in 
                the workplace; and
                    (E) promoting legal literacy, including among men, 
                women, faith and traditional leaders, about women's 
                economic, property and financial rights.
            (5) Improving educational opportunities for women and 
        girls, including--
                    (A) promoting efforts at the national level to 
                establish and enforce comprehensive legislation and 
                policies against school-related violence against women 
                and girls, including violence at and on the way to and 
                from school;
                    (B) programs for girls and boys, with school and 
                community participation, on the unacceptability of 
                violence against women and girls, including counseling 
                for affected students; and
                    (C) providing training for all teachers and school 
                administrators on school-related violence, particularly 
                against women and girls, including to improve 
                reporting, referral, and implementation of codes of 
                conduct and a system for addressing violations of such 
                codes of conduct.

SEC. 112. ASSISTANCE TO REDUCE INTERNATIONAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND 
              GIRLS.

    (a) Coordinating Existing Aid Programs.--The Ambassador-at-Large of 
the Office for Global Women's Issues and the Director of the Office for 
Women's Global Development shall seek to coordinate efforts 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 foreign assistance, as applicable.
    (b) Authority.--To implement and execute the comprehensive 
international strategy developed pursuant to section 111, the Secretary 
of State or the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development (in this section referred to as ``USAID''), 
in consultation with the Ambassador-at-Large or the Director, is 
authorized to provide assistance to nongovernmental organizations, 
multilateral institutions, and foreign countries for program activities 
described in section 111(d).
    (c) Allocate New Funding.--The Secretary of State, in coordination 
with the Administrator of USAID, based on guidance from the Ambassador-
at-Large, is authorized to allocate funds to implement and execute the 
comprehensive international strategy developed pursuant to section 111.
    (d) Use of Funds.--
            (1) In general.--Any funds made available under this 
        section to nongovernmental organizations should be designated 
        to organizations that have demonstrated experience regarding 
        violence against women and girls internationally or in the 
        empowerment of women, or that are in partnership with such 
        organizations and that have demonstrated capabilities or 
        expertise in a particular program activity described in section 
        111(d).
            (2) Congressional briefings.--The Secretary of State and 
        the Administrator of USAID shall brief Congress upon request, 
        on the transparent mechanisms used to ensure that funds made 
        available under this section through nongovernmental 
        organizations are awarded to entities with demonstrated 
        experience with violence against women and girls 
        internationally, or are in partnership with such organizations, 
        and have demonstrated capabilities in a particular program 
        activity described in section 111(d).
    (e) Grants to Women's Nongovernmental Organizations and Community-
Based Organizations.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of State or the USAID 
        Administrator, in consultation with the Ambassador or the 
        Director, may award funds to community-based women's 
        nongovernmental organizations and community-based organizations 
        in recipient countries to carry out the purposes of this 
        section.
            (2) Minimum funding requirement.--To the extent possible, 
        at least 10 percent of funds awarded to an eligible country 
        under this section should be awarded to community-based women's 
        nongovernmental organizations and community-based 
        organizations. In any country in which capacity is determined 
        to be too limited to meet the 10 percent requirement, a plan 
        should be provided for how recipients will work with local 
        nongovernmental organizations to increase their capacity.
    (f) Award Process.--Funds awarded under this section shall be 
provided through an open, competitive, and transparent process where 
possible.
    (g) Conditions.--Entities receiving funds awarded through the grant 
program established under this section--
            (1) shall allocate a reasonable amount of funds for the 
        collection of data and the evaluation of program effectiveness;
            (2) shall be responsible for developing and reporting on 
        outcomes and impacts related to preventing and responding to 
        violence against women and girls internationally;
            (3) should gather input from women's nongovernmental 
        organizations or community-based organizations in recipient 
        countries, including organizations with expertise 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, implement, monitor, 
        and evaluate programs.
    (h) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            (1) In general.--There is authorized 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 authorized to be 
        appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall remain available 
        until expended.
            (3) Nonsupplantation.--Amounts authorized to be 
        appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) are in addition to 
        amounts otherwise made available for such purposes.

SEC. 113. ENSURING ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE UNITED STATES' RESPONSE TO 
              VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS INTERNATIONALLY.

    (a) Briefing.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 2 years after the 
        submission of the comprehensive international strategy 
        developed under section 111, and every other year thereafter, 
        the Secretary of State, assisted by the Administrator of the 
        United States Agency for International Development (in this 
        section referred to as ``USAID'') and the Ambassador-at-Large 
        of the Office for Global Women's Issues, shall brief Congress 
        on implementation of the strategy and the progress being made 
        to prevent and address violence against women and girls.
            (2) Content.--The briefing required under paragraph (1) 
        should include the following:
                    (A) A description of successful efforts by affected 
                country governments and nongovernmental organizations, 
                the United States, and bilateral and multilateral 
                donors in prevention and response to violence against 
                women and girls internationally.
                    (B) Recommendations related to best practices, 
                effective strategies, and suggested improvements to 
                enhance the impact of prevention and response to 
                violence against women and girls internationally.
                    (C) Impact of activities funded by the strategy 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 amended--
            (1) in paragraph (10), by striking ``; and'' and inserting 
        a semicolon;
            (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 extent of 
        violence against women and girls, as defined in section 4 of 
        the International Violence Against Women Act of 2010.''.
    (c) Transparency.--The Secretary of State shall provide to Congress 
the information made available under sections 101(d) and 102(d), 
including outcomes and impacts related to prevention and response to 
violence against women and girls internationally submitted by 
contractors, subcontractors, grantees and subgrantees, except if such 
disclosure would inhibit the security or effectiveness of such 
entities.
    (d) Research and Data Collection.--The Ambassador-at-Large of the 
Office for Global Women's Issues, assisted by the Administrator of 
USAID and the 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, shall work to improve the quality 
and coordination of existing data collection and evaluations of current 
violence against women and girls internationally programs and fund 
original research or analysis of effective interventions to prevent or 
respond to violence against women and girls internationally.
    (e) Use of Funds.--Funds made available in this section may be used 
for the following purposes:
            (1) To 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) To conduct research on effective interventions to 
        respond to violence against women and girls internationally, 
        including efforts to scale up effective programming.
            (3) To support systemic data collection using 
        internationally comparable indicators, norms, and methodologies 
        for measuring the scope, prevalence, and incidence of violence 
        against women and girls internationally by--
                    (A) governments of foreign countries; and
                    (B) federally funded development assistance 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 FOREIGN MILITARY AND 
              POLICE FORCES AND JUDICIAL OFFICIALS ON PREVENTING AND 
              RESPONDING TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.

    (a) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to ensure that United 
States programs to train foreign military and police forces and 
judicial officials include instruction on preventing and responding to 
violence against women and girls.
    (b) Authorization.--Under the direction of the President, the 
Secretary of State is authorized to provide guidance to the Secretary 
of Defense concerning, where appropriate--
            (1) incorporating training, prevention, and response to 
        violence against women and girls into the basic training 
        curricula of foreign military and police forces and judicial 
        officials;
            (2) ensuring that United States assistance to units 
        involved in regional or multilateral peacekeeping operations 
        includes training on preventing and responding to violence 
        against women and girls internationally; and
            (3) including an assessment of such activities in the 
        briefing developed under section 113(a).
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated such sums as may be necessary 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, PEACEKEEPING, CONFLICT, AND POST-CONFLICT 
              OPERATIONS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section, the term ``Inter-Agency Standing 
Committee'' means the committee established in response to United 
Nations General Assembly Resolution 46/182 (1991).
    (b) Activities of the Department of State and the United States 
Agency for International Development.--Under the direction of the 
Secretary of State, the Ambassador-at-Large of the Office for Global 
Women's Issues is authorized to provide guidance to the Administrator 
of the United States Agency for International Development and the 
Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, 
and Migration, who shall take account of the Ambassador's guidance to 
the extent practicable and shall--
            (1) provide assistance to programs of international 
        organizations, international and local nongovernmental 
        organizations, and governments where appropriate that prevent 
        and respond to violence against women and girls in humanitarian 
        relief, conflict and post-conflict settings and that adhere to 
        the Inter-Agency Standing Committee's Guidelines for Gender-
        Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Settings, and 
        should include--
                    (A) building the capacity of humanitarian 
                organizations and government authorities where 
                appropriate to address the special protection needs of 
                women and children;
                    (B) supporting efforts to provide immediate 
                assistance to survivors of violence and reintegrate 
                such individuals through education, psychosocial 
                assistance, trauma counseling, family and community 
                reinsertion and reunification, medical assistance and 
                economic opportunity programs; and
                    (C) providing legal services for women and girls 
                who are victims of violence;
            (2) ensure that activities to prevent and respond to 
        violence against women and girls internationally are 
        incorporated into any multilateral or bilateral Disarmament, 
        Demobilization, Rehabilitation and Reintegration efforts by--
                    (A) providing protection and suitable separate 
                facilities for women and girls formerly involved in, or 
                associated with, fighting forces in demobilization and 
                transit centers;
                    (B) ensuring equitable reintegration activities and 
                opportunities to such women and girls, including access 
                to schooling, vocational training, employment, and 
                childcare;
                    (C) providing essential medical care and 
                psychosocial support for such women and girls who are 
                victims of violence; and
                    (D) incorporating prevention and response to 
                violence against women and girls into programs for 
                former combatants;
            (3) designate and deploy, as appropriate, specialists in 
        violence against women and girls as an integral part of the 
        United States Agency for International Development's Disaster 
        Assistance Response Teams to ensure the integration of 
        prevention and response to violence against women and girls 
        internationally in strategies and programming; and
            (4) create a mechanism to ensure that all grantees deployed 
        in humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict 
        operations--
                    (A) comply with the Inter-Agency Standing 
                Committee's Six Core Principles Relating to Sexual 
                Exploitation and Abuse;
                    (B) train all humanitarian workers in preventing 
                and responding to violence against women and girls, 
                including in the use of mechanisms to report violence 
                against women and girls;
                    (C) conduct appropriate public outreach to make 
                known to the host community the mechanisms to report 
                violence against women and girls; and
                    (D) promptly and appropriately respond to reports 
                of violence against women and girls and treat survivors 
                in accordance with best practices regarding 
                confidentiality.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            (1) In general.--There is authorized to be appropriated to 
        the Department of State and the United States Agency for 
        International Development $40,000,000 for each of the fiscal 
        years 2011 through 2015 for programs described in subsection 
        (b)(2) 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.
            (2) Funding not at expense of other humanitarian 
        programs.--Any amounts appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) 
        may not be provided at the expense of other humanitarian 
        programs.
    (d) 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 Ambassador-at-Large of the Office for Global Women's 
Issues, should brief Congress on activities and efforts to--
            (1) achieve the activities outlined in subsection (b); and
            (2) require all private military contracting firms hired by 
        the Department of State to conduct activities in humanitarian 
        relief, conflict, and post-conflict settings to--
                    (A) demonstrate a commitment to expanding the 
                number and roles of women in such activities;
                    (B) train all contractors who will be deployed in 
                preventing and responding to violence against women and 
                girls internationally; and
                    (C) establish mechanisms to report on and promptly 
                respond to violence against women and girls 
                internationally, and conduct appropriate public 
                outreach to make these mechanisms known to the host 
                community.
    (e) Coordination of U.S. Government Agency Efforts.--
            (1) In general.--Under the direction of the President, 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 observers are to 
        be deployed in humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict 
        settings.
            (2) Department of defense activities.--The Secretary of 
        Defense and the Secretary of State are authorized to jointly--
                    (A) provide training in prevention and response to 
                violence against women and girls internationally to 
                United States military forces;
                    (B) establish mechanisms for reporting incidences 
                of violence against civilian women and girls committed 
                by United States military forces; and
                    (C) establish appropriate public outreach efforts 
                to notify the civilian population of the mechanisms for 
                reporting incidences of violence against women and 
                girls committed by such forces.
    (f) Enhancing U.S. Leadership and Advocacy in the United Nations.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of State, in consultation 
        with the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
        International Development, the Ambassador-at-Large of the 
        Office for Global Women's Issues, the United States 
        Representative to the United Nations, and the Assistant 
        Secretaries for International Organization Affairs and 
        Population, Refugees and Migration, should make available 
        United States financial, material, human, and other resources 
        to assist United Nations efforts to--
                    (A) develop and implement appropriate training 
                programs in prevention and response to violence against 
                women and girls internationally for peacekeeping and 
                humanitarian personnel;
                    (B) meet staffing goals for women military and 
                police peacekeepers, including all-women teams and 
                units, and enhance the deployment of civilian women at 
                all levels to serve in peacekeeping missions, including 
                through innovative staffing formulas;
                    (C) improve protection mechanisms in and around 
                United Nations managed refugee and internally displaced 
                persons camps;
                    (D) strengthen efforts to implement a zero 
                tolerance policy for sexual exploitation and abuse in 
                United Nations peacekeeping and humanitarian 
                operations;
                    (E) support troop and police contributing countries 
                in taking appropriate actions to prevent violence and 
                abuse, including by providing materials for pre-
                deployment and in-theater awareness training, and other 
                action to promote full accountability in cases of 
                abusive conduct involving the personnel of such 
                countries;
                    (F) continue to expand appropriate mechanisms to 
                permit individuals to safely bring allegations of 
                violence against women and girls internationally to the 
                attention of United Nations peacekeeping commanders and 
                heads of humanitarian missions; and
                    (G) ensure the United Nations Office of Internal 
                Oversight has the capacity 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 
        Ambassador-at-Large of the Office for Global Women's Issues, 
        shall submit to Congress a report on United States efforts to 
        support the implementation of United Nations Security Council 
        Resolutions 1325, 1820, and 1888.
    (g) Emergency Measures for Critical Outbreaks of Violence During 
Conflict or Post-Conflict Operations.--
            (1) Emergency response to critical outbreaks.--The 
        Secretary of State, in consultation with the Ambassador-at-
        Large of the Office for Global Women's Issues, should identify 
        and take emergency measures to respond to critical outbreaks of 
        violence against women and girls in situations of armed 
        conflict.
            (2) Determination.--Violence against women and girls shall 
        be determined to be a ``critical outbreak'' if a United States 
        Government report, allied government information, or credible 
        nongovernmental or media accounts depict a widespread pattern 
        of violence against women or girls, particularly rape and other 
        forms of sexual abuse, that is escalating in the number of 
        victims or brutality of attacks and that takes place in an 
        environment of relative impunity.
            (3) Emergency measures.--The Secretary of State should 
        inform Congress immediately upon the identification of a 
        critical outbreak of violence against women and girls and 
        should, in consultation with the Ambassador-at-Large of the 
        Office for Global Women's Issues, identify emergency measures 
        to respond to the outbreak identified under paragraph (1) 
        within 90 days and brief Congress, upon request, on those 
        measures.
            (4) Consultation.--In developing emergency measures under 
        paragraph (1), the Secretary of State, with the assistance of 
        the Ambassador-at-Large of the Office for Global Women's 
        Issues, shall consult with the heads of all relevant United 
        States Government departments and agencies, as necessary, 
        including the National Security Advisor, as well as 
        international and nongovernmental organizations working in 
        prevention and response to violence against women and girls 
        internationally.
    (h) Authorization of Appropriations.--In addition to amounts 
authorized to be appropriated under subsection (c), there is authorized 
to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for emergency 
measures, including the expansion of reporting mechanisms and programs, 
for each critical outbreak of violence 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 International 
Organizations and Programs Account $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2011 through 2015 to support the United Nations Development Fund for 
Women Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against 
Women.

SEC. 202. FUNDING LIMITATION.

    Assistance made available under this Act may be made available 
notwithstanding any other provision of law that restricts assistance to 
foreign countries, except for provisions of law that limit assistance 
to organizations that support or participate in a program of coercive 
abortion or involuntary sterilization, including section 7079 of the 
Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public Law 111-8; 123 Stat. 909).
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