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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) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

A BILL 

To combat international violence against women and girls. 

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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

4 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 

5 ‘‘International Violence Against Women Act of 2010’’. 

6 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 

7 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 


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Sec. 101. Duties of the Secretary of State. 

Sec. 102. Duties of the Administrator of the United States Agency for International 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. 

1 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

2 Congress makes the following findings: 

3 (1) According to the United Nations, approxi4 mately 1 out of every 3 women throughout the world 

5 has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise 

6 abused in her lifetime. The World Health Organiza7 tion has reported that up to 70 percent of women 

8 in some countries report having been victims of do9 mestic violence at some stage in their lives. 

10 (2) According to the United Nations, engaging 

11 men and women to end violence against women and 

12 girls internationally should be a priority. In recogni13 tion of this priority, United Nations Secretary-Gen14 eral Ban Ki-moon launched a multi-year campaign 

15 in 2009 to end violence against women and pledge 


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1 resources to engage male leaders and to mobilize 

2 men and boys. 

3 (3) Violence against women dramatically im4 pedes progress in meeting all of our global health 

5 goals, including efforts to stem maternal mortality 

6 and the spread of HIV/AIDS. Approximately 1 in 4 

7 women are abused during pregnancy, which, accord8 ing to the World Health Organization, has been 

9 linked to miscarriage, pre-term labor, low birth 

10 weight, fetal distress, and death. Women who have 

11 experienced violence are also at higher risk for con12 tracting HIV, and women living with HIV may be 

13 up to 3 times more likely to experience violence than 

14 other women. Fear of violence also prevents women 

15 from accessing HIV/AIDS information and receiving 

16 treatment and counseling. 

17 (4) Increasing women’s access to economic op18 portunities is crucial to preventing and responding 

19 to domestic and sexual violence. Microfinance-based 

20 interventions and increased asset control reduce lev21 els of intimate partner violence and provide eco22 nomic independence for survivors. 

23 (5) Displaced, refugee, and stateless women and 

24 girls in humanitarian emergencies, conflict settings, 


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1 and natural disasters face extreme violence and 

2 threats because of power inequities, including— 

3 (A) being forced to exchange sex for food 

4 and humanitarian supplies; and 

5 (B) being at increased risk of rape, sexual 

6 exploitation, and abuse. 

7 (6) Rape and sexual assault against women and 

8 girls are used to torture, intimidate, and terrorize 

9 women and their communities. 

10 (7) According to UNICEF, child marriage— 

11 (A) is a harmful practice that deprives 

12 girls of their dignity and human rights; 

13 (B) can result in bonded labor or enslave14 ment, commercial sexual exploitation, and vio15 lence against the victims; 

16 (C) significantly increases the risk of ma17 ternal death and morbidity, infant mortality 

18 and morbidity, obstetric fistula, and sexually 

19 transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS; and 

20 (D) is perpetuated by poverty, a lack of 

21 educational or employment opportunities for 

22 girls, parental concerns to ensure sexual rela23 tions within marriage, the dowry system, and 

24 the perceived lack of value of girls. 


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1 SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 

2 It is the policy of the United States to— 

3 (1) systematically integrate and coordinate ef4 forts to prevent and respond to violence against 

5 women and girls internationally into United States 

6 foreign policy and foreign assistance programs; 

7 (2) expand the implementation of effective prac8 tices and programs; 

9 (3) promote women’s political, economic, edu10 cational, social, cultural, civil, and human rights and 

11 opportunities throughout the world; 

12 (4) support and build capacity of indigenous 

13 nongovernmental organizations that are working to 

14 prevent and respond to violence against women and 

15 girls internationally, particularly women’s non16 governmental organizations and groups involving 

17 male advocates; 

18 (5) support and encourage United States orga19 nizations working in partnership with nongovern20 mental organizations described in paragraph (4); 

21 (6) prevent and respond to violence against 

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1 cacy activities and economic, education, health, legal, 

2 and protective intervention services; 

3 (7) enhance training and other prevention and 

4 response to violence against women and girls inter5 nationally in humanitarian relief, conflict, and post6 conflict settings; 

7 (8) enhance training by United States personnel 

8 of professional foreign military and police forces and 

9 judicial officials to include specific and thorough in10 struction on preventing and responding to violence 

11 against women and girls internationally; 

12 (9) increase communication and cooperation 

13 with nongovernmental organizations with dem14 onstrated experience in women’s empowerment, com15 bating violence against women and girls internation16 ally, and engaging men and boys as partners, includ17 ing consulting with such organizations during stra18 tegic planning exercises; 

19 (10) more regularly engage men and boys as 

20 community leaders, partners, and advocates in end21 ing violence against women and girls; 

22 (11) include— 

23 (A) prevention of child marriage as an im24 portant part of preventing violence against 

25 girls; and 


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1 (B) ending the practice of child marriage 

2 by promoting education and skills building for 

3 girls, community programs, and increased eco4 nomic opportunities for women to achieve the 

5 Millennium Development Goals and United 

6 States global health and development objectives; 

7 (12) ensure that private security firms con8 tracted for service in conflict, humanitarian, and 

9 post-conflict settings appropriately report on, and re10 spond to, violence against women and girls inter11 nationally; and 

12 (13) continue United States leadership and in13 novative efforts at the United Nations to address vi14 olence against women and girls internationally, par15 ticularly through urging the United Nations Sec16 retary-General and United Nations member states to 

17 fully implement the provisions of United Nations Se18 curity Council Resolutions 1325, 1820, and 1888, 

19 and other relevant United Nations agreements and 

20 initiatives. 

21 SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 

22 In this Act: 

23 (1) CHILD MARRIAGE.—The term ‘‘child mar24 riage’’ means the marriage of a girl or a boy, who 


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1 has not reached the minimum legal age for marriage 

2 in the country in which the girl or boy is a resident. 

3 (2) ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES.—The term ‘‘eligible 

4 countries’’ means countries that are not classified as 

5 high-income countries in the most recent edition of 

6 the World Development Report for Reconstruction 

7 and Development, published by the International 

8 Bank for Reconstruction and Development. 

9 (3) PREVENTION AND RESPONSE.—The term 

10 ‘‘prevention and response’’ means activities designed 

11 to prevent and respond to violence against women 

12 and girls. 

13 (4) USAID ADMINISTRATOR.—The term 

14 ‘‘USAID Administrator’’ means the Administrator 

15 of the United States Agency for International Devel16 opment. 

17 (5) VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.— 

18 The term ‘‘violence against women and girls’’— 

19 (A) means any act of violence against 

20 women or girls that results in, or is likely to re21 sult in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm 

22 or suffering to women or girls, including threats 

23 of such acts, coercion, or arbitrary deprivations 

24 of liberty, whether occurring in public or private 

25 life; and 


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1 (B) includes— 

2 (i) physical, sexual, and psychological 

3 violence occurring in the family, including 

4 battering, sexual abuse of female children 

5 in the household, dowry-related violence, 

6 marital rape, female genital cutting and 

7 mutilation, forced child marriage, and 

8 other traditional practices harmful to 

9 women and girls, nonspousal violence, and 

10 violence related to exploitation; 

11 (ii) physical, sexual, and psychological 

12 violence occurring within the general com13 munity, including rape, sexual abuse, sex14 ual harassment and intimidation at work, 

15 in educational institutions and elsewhere, 

16 trafficking in women and girls, and forced 

17 prostitution; and 

18 (iii) physical, sexual, and psycho19 logical violence perpetrated or condoned by 

20 the government of the country of which the 

21 victim is a resident, regardless of where 

22 the violence occurs. 


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1 TITLE I—INTERNATIONAL PRE2 VENTION OF VIOLENCE 

3 AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS 

4 Subtitle A—Official Designations 

5 and Institutional Changes 

6 SEC. 101. DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. 

7 (a) DESIGNATION.—The Secretary of State, in ful8 filling the duties and purposes of this Act, shall designate 

9 a senior official in the Department of State to conduct 

10 the relevant activities pursuant to this Act. For the pur11 poses of this Act, that designee shall be referred to as the 

12 ‘‘Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues’’. 

13 (b) SUPPORT STAFF.—The Secretary of State shall 

14 designate appropriate staff to support the efforts of the 

15 Ambassador. 

16 (c) DUTIES.—The Ambassador shall coordinate and 

17 advise, and where relevant lead— 

18 (1) State Department activities and policies, in19 cluding as they affect programs and funding relating 

20 to prevention and response, including gender inte21 gration and women’s development internationally as 

22 relates to prevention and response; 

23 (2) the design, and as appropriate, implementa24 tion of projects regarding prevention and response, 

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1 ment internationally as relates to prevention and re2 sponse; 

3 (3) the integration of prevention and response 

4 analysis into U.S. Government departments’ and 

5 agencies’ international programs, structures, proc6 esses and capacities; 

7 (4) allocation of State Department resources 

8 for— 

9 (A) prevention and response; and 

10 (B) development of the comprehensive 

11 international strategy described in section 300G 

12 to reduce violence against women and girls; 

13 (5) on behalf of the Secretary, conduct regular 

14 cooperation with civil society with demonstrated ex15 perience in prevention and response and women’s de16 velopment issues internationally as relates to preven17 tion and response; 

18 (6) serve as the principal advisor to the Sec19 retary of State regarding violence against women 

20 and girls as a foreign policy matter; and 

21 (7) at the direction of the Secretary of State, 

22 represent the United States in bilateral, inter23 national and nongovernmental fora in matters rel24 evant to violence against women and girls including 


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1 the status of women internationally as relates to pre2 vention and response. 

3 (d) INFORMATION-SHARING AND TRANSPARENCY.— 

4 On behalf of the Secretary, the Ambassador shall be the 

5 central repository of evaluation and monitoring data on 

6 Department of State programs that relate to prevention 

7 and response, and also for Federal Government agencies 

8 engaged in international prevention and response, in order 

9 to produce a full accounting of United States Government 

10 spending on prevention and response, and to prepare the 

11 comprehensive strategy developed under section 111. 

12 (e) CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGS.—Not later than 6 

13 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, and 

14 annually thereafter, the Ambassador shall brief Congress 

15 on the integration of gender considerations and prevention 

16 and response into its strategies, programming, and associ17 ated outcomes, and shall present Congress with an assess18 ment of human and financial resources necessary to fulfill 

19 the purposes and duties of this section. 

20 (f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

21 authorized to be appropriated, for each of fiscal years 

22 2011 through 2015— 

23 (1) $5,000,000 for administration, staffing, 

24 travel, and related expenditures; and 


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1 (2) $5,000,000 in program funds to carry out 

2 activities under this section. 

3 SEC. 102. DUTIES OF THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE UNITED 

4 STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DE5 VELOPMENT. 

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—The USAID Administrator, in 

7 fulfilling the duties and purposes of this Act, shall des8 ignate a senior official (referred to in this Act as the 

9 ‘‘Women’s Development Advisor’’ or the ‘‘Advisor’’), who 

10 shall report directly to the USAID Administrator to co11 ordinate and conduct prevention and response activities 

12 described in this Act. 

13 (b) SUPPORT STAFF.—The USAID Administrator 

14 shall designate appropriate staff to support the efforts of 

15 the Women’s Development Advisor. 

16 (c) DUTIES.—The Advisor shall coordinate and guide 

17 all USAID efforts to— 

18 (1) integrate prevention and response, as well 

19 as broader gender issues in foreign assistance; 

20 (2) coordinate and consult with the Ambassador 

21 and USAID mission directors in carrying out (c)(1); 

22 (3) provide high level guidance to USAID mis23 sions, offices, and bureaus on prevention and re24 sponse, gender integration, design, strategy and pro25 gramming; and 


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1 (4) participate in agency-wide monitoring and 

2 evaluation on gender integration activities and strat3 egies, including prevention and response. 

4 (d) COORDINATED USAID REPORTING.— 

5 (1) IN GENERAL.—USAID technical and re6 gional bureaus identified by the USAID Adminis7 trator and the Advisor shall annually provide the 

8 Advisor with such data and findings collected under 

9 subsection (c)(4) as may be requested by the Advi10 sor. 

11 (2) SCOPE OF DATA.—The data and findings 

12 provided under paragraph (1)— 

13 (A) shall include relevant contractors, sub14 contractors, grantees, and subgrantees receiving 

15 program funds made available for prevention 

16 and response, and women’s development glob17 ally as a method of prevention; and 

18 (B) shall be made publicly available. 

19 (3) SECURITY CONCERNS.—In determining the 

20 data and findings to be provided under this sub21 section, the Advisor shall take into account the secu22 rity concerns of USAID grantees and subgrantees. 

23 (e) CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGS.—Not later than 6 

24 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, and 

25 annually thereafter, the Advisor, in coordination with the 


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1 Ambassador, shall brief Congress on the integration of 

2 gender considerations and prevention and response into its 

3 strategies, programming, and associated outcomes, using 

4 data collected under subsection (d), and shall present Con5 gress with an assessment of human and financial re6 sources necessary to fulfill the purposes and duties of this 

7 section. 

8 (f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 

9 (1) IN GENERAL.—In addition to amounts oth10 erwise available, there is authorized to be appro11 priated, for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 

12 2015— 

13 (A) $5,000,000 for operations, administra14 tion, and related expenditures; and 

15 (B) $5,000,000 in program funds to carry 

16 out the activities under this section. 

17 (2) SUPERVISION OF EXPENDITURES.— 

18 Amounts appropriated pursuant to this subsection 

19 shall be expended under the direction of the Advisor. 


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1 Subtitle B—Strategy, Policy, and 

2 Programs 

3 SEC. 111. COMPREHENSIVE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY 

4 AND ASSISTANCE TO REDUCE AND PREVENT 

5 VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS. 

6 (a) DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF

7 STRATEGY.—Not later than 1 year after the date of the 

8 enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, under the 

9 direction of the President and with the assistance of the 

10 USAID Administrator, shall— 

11 (1) develop a comprehensive, 5-year inter12 national strategy to prevent and respond to violence 

13 against women and girls internationally; and 

14 (2) submit the strategy developed under para15 graph (1) to the Committee on Foreign Relations of 

16 the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 

17 the House of Representatives. 

18 (b) COLLABORATION AND COORDINATION.—In devel19 oping the strategy under subsection (a), the Secretary of 

20 State, with the assistance of the USAID Administrator, 

21 shall consult with— 

22 (1) executive branch agencies and entities ad23 ministering international programs; 

24 (2) the Senior Policy Operating Group on Traf25 ficking in Persons; 


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1 (3) representatives of civil society with dem2 onstrated experience combating violence against 

3 women and girls or promoting women’s health or 

4 women’s development issues internationally. 

5 (c) CONTENT.—The strategy developed under sub6 section (a) shall— 

7 (1) identify countries with significant levels of 

8 violence against women and girls that have the gov9 ernment or nongovernment organizational capacity 

10 to manage and implement gender-based violence pre11 vention and response program activities; 

12 (2) select up to 20 of the countries described in 

13 paragraph (1) in which to develop a gender-inte14 grated, comprehensive, and holistic individual coun15 try plan that incorporates at least 2 of the program 

16 activities listed in subsection (d); 

17 (3) assess and describe the current or potential 

18 capacity of each government or civil society to ad19 dress and respond to violence against women and 

20 girls; 

21 (4) identify and coordinate with Federal depart22 ments and agencies that— 

23 (A) have existing programs relevant to the 

24 strategy; or 


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1 (B) will be involved in new program activi2 ties; 

3 (5) describe the monitoring and evaluation 

4 mechanisms established for each country, and their 

5 use in assessing overall progress in prevention and 

6 response; 

7 (6) project general levels of resources needed to 

8 achieve the stated objectives in each country, includ9 ing an accounting of— 

10 (A) activities and funding already ex11 pended by the Department of State, USAID, 

12 other Federal agencies, other donor country 

13 governments, and other multilateral institu14 tions; and 

15 (B) leveraged private sector resources; 

16 (7) include capacity-building and technical as17 sistance for community-based women’s nongovern18 mental organizations and community-based organi19 zations with demonstrated expertise in women’s em20 powerment, including combating violence against 

21 women and girls internationally; 

22 (8) identify and coordinate with existing non23 governmental and multilateral programs, initiatives, 

24 and groups with demonstrated experience on pre25 venting and responding to violence against women 


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1 and girls internationally, particularly coordinating 

2 with women’s organizations and community-based 

3 groups; and 

4 (9) integrate gender analysis into the strategy 

5 for each country to ensure that the roles of women, 

6 girls, men, and boys are appropriately addressed. 

7 (d) PROGRAM ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED.—Assistance 

8 provided under this section shall be used to carry out 

9 country-specific strategies under subsection (a) through 

10 multi-sectoral prevention and response activities specified 

11 by the Ambassador and Advisor and that fall under at 

12 least 2 of the following broad categories: 

13 (1) Enhancing the capacity of the health sector 

14 to respond to violence against women and girls. 

15 (2) Development and enforcement of civil and 

16 criminal legal and judicial sanctions, protections, 

17 trainings, and capacity. 

18 (3) Development of programs affecting social 

19 norms, community attitudes, and male and female 

20 participation in violence and response to victims. 

21 (4) Ensuring accessible quality educational and 

22 literacy opportunities for women and girls. 

23 (5) Promotion of access to economic oppor24 tunity projects, including increasing distribution, 


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1 credit, property, and inheritance rights for women 

2 and girls. 

3 SEC. 112. ASSISTANCE TO REDUCE INTERNATIONAL VIO4 LENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS. 

5 (a) COORDINATION OF EXISTING ASSISTANCE PRO6 GRAMS.—The Ambassador, working with the Advisor, 

7 shall, to the fullest extent practicable, coordinate activities 

8 and measures to prevent and respond to violence against 

9 women and girls internationally into existing programs, 

10 contracts, grants, agreements, and foreign assistance 

11 under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and other Acts 

12 authorizing and appropriating foreign assistance, as appli13 cable. 

14 (b) AUTHORITY.—To implement and execute the 

15 comprehensive international strategy developed pursuant 

16 to section 111, the Secretary of State and the USAID Ad17 ministrator, in consultation with the Ambassador and the 

18 Advisor, may provide assistance to nongovernmental orga19 nizations, multilateral institutions, and foreign countries 

20 for program activities described in section 111(d). 

21 (c) ALLOCATION OF NEW FUNDING.—The Secretary 

22 of State and the USAID Administrator, based on guidance 

23 from the Ambassador and the Advisor, may allocate funds 

24 to implement and execute the comprehensive international 

25 strategy developed pursuant to section 111. 


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1 (d) USE OF FUNDS.— 

2 (1) IN GENERAL.—Any funds made available 

3 under this section to nongovernmental organizations 

4 should be designated to organizations that— 

5 (A) have demonstrated experience regard6 ing violence against women and girls inter7 nationally or have entered into a partnership 

8 with an organization with such experience; and 

9 (B) have demonstrated capabilities or ex10 perience in a particular program activity de11 scribed in section 111(d). 

12 (2) CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGS.—The Sec13 retary of State and the USAID Administrator shall 

14 brief Congress upon request, on the transparent 

15 mechanisms used to ensure that funds made avail16 able under this section through nongovernmental or17 ganizations are awarded to organizations described 

18 in paragraph (1). 

19 (e) GRANTS TO WOMEN’S NONGOVERNMENTAL OR20 GANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZA21 TIONS.—Special efforts shall be made to award amounts 

22 appropriated to carry out this Act to community-based 

23 and women’s nongovernmental organizations in recipient 

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1 on efforts made to assist such organizations to be eligible 

2 for such funds. 

3 (f) AWARD PROCESS.—Grant amounts awarded 

4 under this section shall be provided through an open, com5 petitive, and transparent process to the extent possible. 

6 (g) CONDITIONS.—Entities receiving grants under 

7 this section— 

8 (1) shall allocate a reasonable portion of such 

9 grants for data collection and the evaluation of pro10 gram effectiveness; 

11 (2) shall be responsible for developing and re12 porting on outcomes and impacts relating to pre13 venting and responding to violence against women 

14 and girls internationally; 

15 (3) should gather input from women’s non16 governmental organizations or community-based or17 ganizations in recipient countries, including organi18 zations with experience in working with men and 

19 boys to prevent violence; and 

20 (4) shall consider the safety of women and girls 

21 as a primary concern in deciding how to design, im22 plement, monitor, and evaluate programs. 

23 (h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 

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1 ized to be appropriated to the President 

2 $175,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2011 

3 through 2015 to carry out this section and section 

4 111. 

5 (2) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Amounts appro6 priated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall remain 

7 available until expended. 

8 SEC. 113. ENSURING ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE UNITED 

9 STATES RESPONSE TO VIOLENCE AGAINST 

10 WOMEN AND GIRLS INTERNATIONALLY. 

11 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 

12 implementation of the comprehensive strategy under sec13 tion 111, the Secretary of State, assisted by the Ambas14 sador, shall prepare a public report on best practices for 

15 preventing and addressing violence against women and 

16 girls internationally, which shall include— 

17 (1) a description of successful efforts by govern18 ments of countries with significant levels of violence 

19 against women and girls, nongovernmental organiza20 tions, and United States, bilateral, and multilateral 

21 donors in prevention and response; 

22 (2) recommendations related to best practices, 

23 effective strategies, and improvements to enhance 

24 the impact of prevention and response efforts; and 


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1 (3) the impact of activities funded by the strat2 egy in preventing and reducing violence against 

3 women and girls internationally. 

4 (b) AMENDMENTS.—Section 116(d) of the Foreign 

5 Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n(d)) is amend6 ed— 

7 (1) in paragraph (10), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 

8 end; 

9 (2) in paragraph (11)(C), by striking the period 

10 at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

11 (3) by adding at the end the following: 

12 ‘‘(12) wherever applicable, the nature and ex13 tent of violence against women and girls (as defined 

14 in section 4 of the International Violence Against 

15 Women Act of 2010).’’. 

16 (c) TRANSPARENCY.—Upon request, the Secretary of 

17 State shall provide to Congress the information made 

18 available under sections 101(d) and 102(d), including out19 comes and impacts related to prevention and response to 

20 violence against women and girls internationally submitted 

21 by contractors, subcontractors, grantees and subgrantees, 

22 unless such disclosure would inhibit the security or effec23 tiveness of such entities. 

24 (d) RESEARCH AND DATA COLLECTION.—The Am25 bassador, assisted by the USAID Administrator and the 


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1 heads of relevant bureaus and offices of the Department 

2 of State and in consultation with the Secretary of Health 

3 and Human Services and the Attorney General— 

4 (1) shall work to improve the quality and co5 ordination of existing data collection and evaluations 

6 of current violence against women and girls inter7 nationally programs; and 

8 (2) may provide financial assistance for original 

9 research or analysis of effective interventions to pre10 vent or respond to violence against women and girls 

11 internationally. 

12 (e) USE OF FUNDS.—Amounts authorized to be ap13 propriated in this section may be used to— 

14 (1) collect and analyze new or existing data on 

15 the scope and extent of all forms of violence against 

16 women and girls internationally, including under17 documented forms of violence and violence against 

18 marginalized groups; 

19 (2) conduct research on effective interventions 

20 to respond to violence against women and girls inter21 nationally, including efforts to scale up effective pro22 gramming; and 

23 (3) support systemic data collection using inter24 nationally comparable indicators, norms, and meth25 odologies for measuring the scope, prevalence, and 


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1 incidence of violence against women and girls inter2 nationally, working through— 

3 (A) governments of foreign countries; and 

4 (B) federally funded development assist5 ance and health assistance. 

6 (f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

7 authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of State 

8 $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 

9 2015 to carry out the activities under this section. 

10 SEC. 114. ENHANCING UNITED STATES TRAINING OF FOR11 EIGN MILITARY AND POLICE FORCES AND JU12 DICIAL OFFICIALS ON VIOLENCE AGAINST 

13 WOMEN AND GIRLS. 

14 (a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to en15 sure that United States programs to train foreign mili16 tary, police, and judicial officials include instruction on 

17 prevention of and response to violence against women and 

18 girls. 

19 (b) COVERED PROGRAMS.—The programs referred to 

20 in subsection (a) include— 

21 (1) activities authorized under the Foreign As22 sistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.); and 

23 (2) activities under section 1206 of the Na24 tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 


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1 2006 (Public Law 109–163; 119 Stat. 3456), as 

2 amended. 

3 (c) GUIDANCE.—The Secretary of State and the Sec4 retary of Defense shall, as appropriate— 

5 (1) incorporate training on prevention and re6 sponse into the basic training curricula of foreign 

7 military forces and judicial officials; and 

8 (2) ensure that United States assistance to 

9 units involved in regional or multilateral peace10 keeping operations includes training on prevention 

11 and response. 

12 (d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

13 authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be nec14 essary for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 2015 to 

15 carry out the activities under this section. 

16 SEC. 115. ADDRESSING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND 

17 GIRLS IN HUMANITARIAN RELIEF, PEACE18 KEEPING, CONFLICT, AND POST-CONFLICT 

19 SETTINGS. 

20 (a) DEFINED TERM.—In this section, the term 

21 ‘‘Inter-Agency Standing Committee’’ means the committee 

22 established in response to United Nations General Assem23 bly Resolution 46/182, adopted at New York on December 

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1 (b) ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE

2 WITH THE UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTER3 NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.— 

4 (1) GUIDANCE.—Under the direction of the 

5 Secretary of State, the Ambassador is authorized to 

6 provide guidance to the USAID Administrator and 

7 the Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, 

8 and Migration. 

9 (2) DUTIES.—The USAID Administrator and 

10 the Assistant Secretary shall— 

11 (A) consider the Ambassador’s guidance to 

12 the extent practicable; 

13 (B) provide assistance to programs carried 

14 out by international organizations, international 

15 and local nongovernmental organizations, and 

16 governments, as appropriate, that— 

17 (i) prevent and respond to violence 

18 against women and girls in humanitarian 

19 relief, conflict, and post-conflict settings; 

20 (ii) adhere to the Inter-Agency Stand21 ing Committee’s Guidelines for Gender22 based Violence Interventions in Humani23 tarian Settings; 

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1 thorities, as appropriate, to address the 

2 special protection needs of women and chil3 dren; 

4 (iv) support efforts to provide imme5 diate assistance to survivors of violence 

6 and reintegrate such individuals through 

7 education, psychosocial assistance, trauma 

8 counseling, family and community reinser9 tion and reunification, medical assistance, 

10 and economic opportunity programs; and 

11 (v) provide legal services for women 

12 and girls who are victims of violence; 

13 (C) ensure that activities to prevent and 

14 respond to violence against women and girls 

15 internationally are incorporated into any multi16 lateral or bilateral disarmament, demobilization, 

17 rehabilitation, and reintegration efforts by— 

18 (i) providing protection and suitable 

19 separate facilities in demobilization and 

20 transit centers for women and girls for21 merly involved in, or associated with, fight22 ing forces; 

23 (ii) ensuring equitable reintegration 

24 activities and opportunities for such 

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1 schooling, vocational training, employment, 

2 and childcare; 

3 (iii) providing essential medical care 

4 and psychosocial support for such women 

5 and girls who are victims of violence; and 

6 (iv) incorporating prevention and re7 sponse to violence against women and girls 

8 into programs for former combatants; 

9 (D) designate and deploy specialists in vio10 lence against women and girls, as appropriate, 

11 as an integral part of the United States Agency 

12 for International Development’s Disaster As13 sistance Response Teams to ensure the integra14 tion of prevention and response to violence 

15 against women and girls internationally in 

16 strategies and programming; and 

17 (E) strive to ensure that all grantees de18 ployed in humanitarian relief, conflict, and 

19 post-conflict operations— 

20 (i) comply with the Inter-Agency 

21 Standing Committee’s Six Core Principles 

22 Relating to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse; 

23 (ii) train all humanitarian workers in 

24 preventing and responding to violence 

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1 use of mechanisms to report violence 

2 against women and girls; 

3 (iii) conduct appropriate public out4 reach to make known to the host commu5 nity the mechanisms to report violence 

6 against women and girls; and 

7 (iv) promptly and appropriately re8 spond to reports of violence against women 

9 and girls and treat survivors in accordance 

10 with best practices regarding confiden11 tiality. 

12 (3) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 

13 (A) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to 

14 be appropriated to the Department of State and 

15 the United States Agency for International De16 velopment $40,000,000 for each of the fiscal 

17 years 2011 through 2015 for programs de18 scribed in paragraph (2)(C) that prevent and 

19 respond to violence against women and girls in 

20 humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict 

21 operations, in addition to amounts otherwise 

22 available for such purposes. 

23 (B) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense 

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1 amount appropriated for other humanitarian 

2 programs. 

3 (c) ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.— 

4 Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 

5 of this Act, the Secretary of State, acting through the Am6 bassador, shall brief Congress on activities and efforts 

7 to— 

8 (1) create a mechanism to ensure that contrac9 tors and grantees deployed in humanitarian relief, 

10 conflict, and post-conflict settings— 

11 (A) comply with the Inter-Agency Standing 

12 Committee’s Six Core Principles Relating to 

13 Sexual Exploitation and Abuse; 

14 (B) train their humanitarian workers in 

15 prevention and response, including proper 

16 mechanisms to report gender-based violence; 

17 and 

18 (C) promptly and appropriately respond to 

19 reports of violence against women and girls and 

20 treat survivors in accordance with best practices 

21 regarding confidentiality; and 

22 (2) carry out the activities described in sub23 section (b)(2). 

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1 the Secretary of State is authorized to provide guidance 

2 on preventing and responding to violence against women 

3 and girls to the Secretary of Defense when United States 

4 military personnel, military contractors, and military ob5 servers are to be deployed in humanitarian relief, conflict, 

6 and post-conflict settings. The Ambassador shall regularly 

7 consult with counterparts at the Department of Defense 

8 and the Department of Justice to coordinate design and 

9 implementation of programs relevant to the purposes of 

10 this section. 

11 (e) ENHANCING UNITED STATES LEADERSHIP AND

12 ADVOCACY IN THE UNITED NATIONS.— 

13 (1) RESOURCE SHARING.—The Secretary of 

14 State, in consultation with the USAID Adminis15 trator, the Ambassador, the United States Rep16 resentative to the United Nations, the Assistant Sec17 retary for International Organization Affairs, and 

18 the Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, 

19 and Migration shall make available United States fi20 nancial, material, human, and other resources to as21 sist United Nations efforts to— 

22 (A) develop and implement appropriate 

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1 ally for peacekeeping and humanitarian per2 sonnel; 

3 (B) meet staffing goals for women military 

4 and police peacekeepers, including all-women 

5 teams and units; 

6 (C) enhance the deployment of civilian 

7 women at all levels to serve in peacekeeping 

8 missions, including through innovative staffing 

9 formulas; 

10 (D) improve protection mechanisms in and 

11 around United Nations managed refugee and 

12 internally displaced persons camps; 

13 (E) implement a zero tolerance policy for 

14 sexual exploitation and abuse in United Nations 

15 peacekeeping and humanitarian operations; 

16 (F) support troop and police contributing 

17 countries in— 

18 (i) taking appropriate actions to pre19 vent violence and abuse; 

20 (ii) providing materials for pre-deploy21 ment and in-theater awareness training; 

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1 duct involving the personnel of such coun2 tries; 

3 (G) continue to expand appropriate mecha4 nisms to permit individuals to safely bring alle5 gations of violence against women and girls 

6 internationally to the attention of United Na7 tions peacekeeping commanders and heads of 

8 humanitarian missions; and 

9 (H) ensure the capacity of the United Na10 tions Office of Internal Oversight to investigate 

11 all credible allegations in a timely and efficient 

12 manner, while protecting the whistleblower. 

13 (2) REPORT.—Not later than 18 months after 

14 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant 

15 Secretary of State for International Organization 

16 Affairs and the United States Representative to the 

17 United Nations, in consultation with the Ambas18 sador-at-Large of the Office for Global Women’s 

19 Issues, shall submit a report to Congress that de20 scribes United States efforts to support the imple21 mentation of United Nations Security Council Reso22 lutions 1325, 1820, and 1888. 

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1 (1) EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO CREDIBLE RE2 PORTS OF CRITICAL OR WIDESPREAD VIOLENCE

3 AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.—The Secretary of 

4 State, in consultation with the Ambassador and in 

5 coordination with relevant bureaus of the Depart6 ment of State, shall— 

7 (A) identify critical or widespread incidents 

8 of violence against women and girls in situa9 tions of armed conflict when they occur, 

10 through consultation with other Federal agen11 cies, the United Nations, international organi12 zations, and nongovernmental organizations; 

13 (B) determine emergency response meas14 ures not later than 45 days after such identi15 fication; and 

16 (C) brief Congress on the implementation 

17 of such emergency response measures and out18 comes not later than 30 days after such deter19 mination. 

20 (2) CONTENT.—The emergency measures devel21 oped under paragraph (1) shall include a description 

22 of— 

23 (A) bilateral diplomatic efforts with— 

24 (i) the government of the country in 

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1 (ii) governments in the region in 

2 which the violence is occurring; and 

3 (iii) other donor governments. 

4 (g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—In addi5 tion to amounts authorized to be appropriated under sub6 section (c), there is authorized to be appropriated such 

7 sums as may be necessary for emergency measures, in8 cluding the expansion of reporting mechanisms and pro9 grams, for each situation identified under this section. 

10 TITLE II—OTHER PROVISIONS 

11 SEC. 201. SUPPORT FOR MULTILATERAL EFFORTS TO END 

12 VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS. 

13 There is authorized to be appropriated to the Inter14 national Organizations and Programs Account 

15 $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 

16 2015 to support the United Nations Development Fund 

17 for Women Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate 

18 Violence Against Women. 

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