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(2) the United States Government should sup-
port and, where practicable, lead efforts to establish 
and uphold international standards designed to end 
this abuse of human rights; 
(3) the United States Government should ex-
pand ongoing services to rehabilitate recovered child 
soldiers and to reintegrate them back into their com-
munities by— 
(A) offering ongoing psychological services 
to help victims recover from their trauma and 
relearn how to deal with others in nonviolent 
ways such that they are no longer a danger to 
their community, taking into consideration the 
needs of girl soldiers, who may be at risk of ex-
clusion from disarmament, demobilization, and 
reintegration programs; 
(B) facilitating reconciliation with their 
communities through negotiations with tradi-
tional leaders and elders to enable recovered 
abductees to resume normal lives in their com-
munities; and 
(C) providing educational and vocational 
assistance; 
(4) the United States should work with the 
international community, including, where appro-
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priate, third country governments, nongovernmental 
organizations, faith-based organizations, United Na-
tions agencies, local governments, labor unions, and 
private enterprise— 
(A) on efforts to bring to justice rebel or-
ganizations that kidnap children for use as 
child soldiers, including the Lord’s Resistance 
Army (LRA) in Uganda, Fuerzas Armadas 
Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), and Lib-
eration Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri 
Lanka, including, where feasible, by arresting 
the leaders of such groups; and 
(B) on efforts to recover those children 
who have been abducted and to assist them in 
their rehabilitation and reintegration into com-
munities; 
(5) the Secretary of State, the Secretary of 
Labor, and the Secretary of Defense should coordi-
nate programs to achieve the goals specified in para-
graph (3), and in countries where the use of child 
soldiers is an issue, whether or not it is supported 
or sanctioned by the governments of such countries, 
United States diplomatic missions should include in 
their mission program plans a strategy to achieve 
the goals specified in such paragraph; 
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(6) United States diplomatic missions in coun-
tries in which governments use or tolerate child sol-
diers should develop, as part of annual program 
planning, strategies to promote efforts to end this 
abuse of human rights, identifying and integrating 
global best practices, as available, into such strate-
gies to avoid duplication of effort; and 
(7) in allocating or recommending the allocation 
of funds or recommending candidates for programs 
and grants funded by the United States Govern-
ment, United States diplomatic missions should give 
serious consideration to those programs and can-
didates deemed to promote the end to this abuse of 
human rights. 
SEC. 405. PROHIBITION ON PROVISION OF MILITARY AS-
SISTANCE TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS THAT 
RECRUIT OR USE CHILD SOLDIERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsections (b), (c), 
and (d), none of the funds made available to carry out 
sections 516 or 541 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
(22 U.S.C. 2321j or 2347) or section 23 of the Arms Ex-
port Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2763) may be used to provide 
assistance to the government of a country that the Sec-
retary of State determines has governmental armed forces 
or government supported armed groups, including 
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paramilitaries, militias, or civil defense forces, that recruit 
or use child soldiers. 
(b) PUBLICATION OF LIST OF FOREIGN GOVERN-
MENTS
AND
NOTIFICATION
TO
FOREIGN
GOVERN-
MENTS.— 
(1) PUBLICATION OF LIST OF FOREIGN GOV-
ERNMENTS.—The Secretary of State shall include a 
list of the foreign governments subject to the prohi-
bition in subsection (a) in the report required by sec-
tion 110(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)). 
(2) 
NOTIFICATION
TO
FOREIGN
GOVERN-
MENTS.—The Secretary of State shall formally no-
tify each foreign government subject to the prohibi-
tion in subsection (a). 
(c) NATIONAL INTEREST WAIVER.— 
(1) WAIVER.—The President may waive the ap-
plication to a foreign government of the prohibition 
in subsection (a) if the President determines that 
such waiver is in the interest of the United States. 
(2) PUBLICATION
AND
NOTIFICATION.—The 
President shall publish each waiver granted under 
paragraph (1) in the Federal Register and shall no-
tify the appropriate congressional committees of 
each such waiver, including the justification for the 
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waiver, in accordance with the regular notification 
procedures of such committees. 
(d) REINSTATEMENT OF ASSISTANCE.—The Presi-
dent may provide to a foreign government assistance oth-
erwise prohibited under subsection (a) upon certifying to 
the appropriate congressional committees that the foreign 
government— 
(1) has implemented effective measures to come 
into compliance with the standards of this title; and 
(2) has implemented effective policies and 
mechanisms to prohibit and prevent future use of 
child soldiers and to ensure that no children are re-
cruited, conscripted, or otherwise compelled to serve 
as child soldiers. 
(e) EXCEPTIONS.— 
(1) ASSISTANCE TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF 
CHILD
SOLDIERS
AND
PROFESSIONALIZATION
OF 
THE MILITARY.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The President may 
provide to a foreign government assistance 
under section 541 of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2347; relating to inter-
national military education and training) other-
wise prohibited under subsection (a) upon certi-
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