(9) HUMAN
RIGHTS
REPORTS.—The term 
‘‘Human Rights Reports’’ means all reports sub-
mitted by the Secretary of State to Congress under 
sections 116 and 502B of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961. 
(10) OFFICE.—The term ‘‘Office’’ means the 
Office on International Women’s Rights established 
in section 101(a). 
(11) PARTICULARLY
SEVERE
VIOLATIONS
OF 
WOMEN’S
RIGHTS.—The term ‘‘particularly severe 
violations of women’s rights’’ means systematic, on-
going, egregious violations of women’s rights, includ-
ing violations such as— 
(A) denying women freedoms guaranteed 
for men; 
(B) restrictions, based on gender, on trav-
el, work, attending educational institutions, 
public transportation, or driving; 
(C) forcing women to wear particular 
clothing not required for men; 
(D) limiting access to health care and 
health education based on gender; 
(E) denying voting rights based on gender; 
and 
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(F) other flagrant denials to women or 
girls of the right to life, liberty, or the security 
of persons. 
(12) SPECIAL
ADVISER.—The term ‘‘Special 
Adviser’’ means the Special Adviser to the President 
on International Women’s Rights described in sec-
tion 101(l) of the National Security Act of 1947, as 
added by section 301 of this Act. 
(13) VIOLATIONS OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS.—The 
term ‘‘violations of women’s rights’’ means violations 
of the internationally recognized human rights of 
women, as set forth in the international instruments 
referred to in section 2(a)(2) and as described in 
section 2(a)(3), including violations such as arbi-
trary prohibitions on, restrictions of, or punishment 
for— 
(A) engaging in activities which are legal 
for men; 
(B) leaving the home alone; 
(C) obtaining an exit visa to depart the 
country without the permission of a male rel-
ative; 
(D) possession and distribution of lit-
erature pertaining to women’s rights; 
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(E) obtaining health care services without 
the consent of a male relative; or 
(F) other activities which are legal for 
men. 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF 
STATE ACTIVITIES 
SEC. 101. OFFICE ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S RIGHTS; 
AMBASSADOR 
AT 
LARGE 
FOR 
INTER-
NATIONAL WOMEN’S RIGHTS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE.—There is estab-
lished within the Department of State an Office on Inter-
national Women’s Rights that shall be headed by the Am-
bassador at Large for International Women’s Rights ap-
pointed under subsection (b). 
(b) APPOINTMENT.—The Ambassador at Large shall 
be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and 
consent of the Senate. 
(c) DUTIES.—The Ambassador at Large shall have 
the following responsibilities: 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The primary responsibility 
of the Ambassador at Large shall be to advance 
women’s rights abroad, to denounce the violation of 
those rights, and to recommend appropriate re-
sponses by the United States Government when 
those rights are violated. 
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(2) ADVISORY
ROLE.—The Ambassador at 
Large shall be a principal adviser to the President 
and the Secretary of State regarding matters affect-
ing women’s rights abroad and, with advice from the 
Commission, shall make recommendations regard-
ing— 
(A) the policies of the United States Gov-
ernment toward governments that violate wom-
en’s rights or that fail to ensure the rights of 
individual women; and 
(B) policies to advance women’s rights 
abroad. 
(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 and cases 
relevant to women’s rights abroad in— 
(A) contacts with foreign governments, 
intergovernmental 
organizations, 
specialized 
agencies of the United Nations, the Organiza-
tion on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 
and other international organizations of which 
the United States is a member; and 
(B) multilateral conferences and meetings 
relevant to women’s rights abroad. 
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(4) REPORTING RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Am-
bassador at Large shall have the reporting respon-
sibilities described in section 102. 
(5) SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR INTERNATIONAL 
WOMEN’S ISSUES.—The Ambassador at Large shall, 
in addition to his or her other duties, assume the 
duties of the Senior Coordinator for International 
Women’s Issues of the Department of State. 
(d) FUNDING.—The Secretary of State shall provide 
the Ambassador at Large with such funds as may be nec-
essary for the hiring of staff for the Office, for the conduct 
of investigations by the Office, and for necessary travel 
to carry out the provisions of this section. 
SEC. 102. REPORTS. 
(a) PORTIONS
OF ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS RE-
PORTS.—The Ambassador at Large shall assist the Sec-
retary of State in preparing those portions of the Human 
Rights Reports that relate to women’s rights and freedom 
from discrimination based on gender and those portions 
of other information provided to the Congress under sec-
tions 116 and 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
(22 U.S.C. 2304(a)(1)) that relate to the right to freedom 
from discrimination based on sex. 
(b) ANNUAL REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S 
RIGHTS.— 
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(1) DEADLINE
FOR
SUBMISSION.—On Sep-
tember 1 of each year or the first day thereafter on 
which the appropriate House of Congress is in ses-
sion, the Secretary of State, with the assistance of 
the Ambassador at Large, and taking into consider-
ation the recommendations of the Commission, shall 
prepare and transmit to the Congress an Annual Re-
port 
on 
International 
Women’s 
Rights 
supplementing the most recent Human Rights Re-
ports by providing additional detailed information 
with respect to matters involving international wom-
en’s rights. Each Annual Report shall contain the 
following: 
(A) STATUS OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS.—A de-
scription of the status of women’s rights in 
each foreign country, including— 
(i) trends toward improvement in the 
respect and protection of women’s rights 
and trends toward deterioration of such 
rights; 
(ii) violations of women’s rights en-
gaged in or tolerated by the government of 
that country; and 
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(iii) particularly severe violations of 
women’s rights engaged in or tolerated by 
the government of that country. 
(B) VIOLATIONS OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS.— 
An assessment and description of the nature 
and extent of violations of women’s rights in 
each foreign country, including gender-based 
discrimination by governmental and nongovern-
mental entities, discrimination targeted at indi-
viduals or particular groups of women, and the 
existence of government policies violating wom-
en’s rights. 
(C) UNITED STATES POLICIES.—A descrip-
tion of United States actions and policies in 
support of women’s rights in each foreign coun-
try engaging in or tolerating violations of wom-
en’s rights, including a description of the meas-
ures and policies implemented during the pre-
ceding 12 months by the United States under 
this title and titles IV and V in opposition to 
violations of women’s rights and in support of 
international women’s rights. 
(D) INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS IN EF-
FECT.—A description of any binding agreement 
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with a foreign government entered into by the 
United States under section 401(b) or 402(c). 
(E) TRAINING AND GUIDELINES OF GOV-
ERNMENT PERSONNEL.—A description of— 
(i) the training described in section 
202(e)(3) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (as amended by section 603(b) of 
this Act), the last sentence of section 
708(a) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 
(as amended by section 602(a) of this 
Act), and sections 208(e) and 240(f) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (as 
amended by section 603 of this Act), on 
violations of women’s rights that is pro-
vided to immigration judges and consular, 
refugee, immigration, and asylum officers; 
and 
(ii) the development and implementa-
tion of the guidelines described in sub-
sections (f)(3) and (g) of 207(g) section 
207 of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (as amended by section 602 of this 
Act). 
(F) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.—An executive 
summary to the annual report highlighting the 
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status of women’s rights in certain foreign 
countries and including the following: 
(i) 
COUNTRIES
IN
WHICH
THE 
UNITED STATES IS ACTIVELY PROMOTING 
WOMEN’S
RIGHTS.—An identification of 
foreign countries in which the United 
States is actively promoting women’s 
rights. This section of the report shall in-
clude a description of actions taken by the 
United States to promote the internation-
ally recognized human rights of women 
and oppose violations of such rights under 
title IV and title V of this Act during the 
period covered by the Annual Report. Any 
country designated as a country of par-
ticular concern for women’s rights under 
section 402(b)(1) shall be included in this 
section of the report. 
(ii) COUNTRIES OF SIGNIFICANT IM-
PROVEMENT
IN
WOMEN’S
RIGHTS.—An 
identification of foreign countries the gov-
ernments of which have demonstrated sig-
nificant improvement in the protection and 
promotion of the internationally recognized 
human rights of women during the period 
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covered by the Annual Report. This section 
of the report shall include a description of 
the nature of the improvement and an 
analysis of the factors contributing to such 
improvement, including actions taken by 
the United States under this Act. 
(2) CLASSIFIED ADDENDUM.—If the Secretary 
of State determines that it is in the national security 
interests of the United States or is necessary for the 
safety of individuals to be identified in the Annual 
Report or is necessary to further the purposes of 
this Act, any information required by paragraph (1), 
including measures or actions taken by the United 
States, may be summarized in the Annual Report or 
the Executive Summary and submitted in more de-
tail in a classified addendum to the Annual Report 
or the Executive Summary. 
(c) PREPARATION OF REPORTS REGARDING VIOLA-
TIONS OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS.— 
(1) STANDARDS
AND
INVESTIGATIONS.—The 
Secretary of State shall ensure that United States 
missions abroad maintain a consistent reporting 
standard and thoroughly investigate reports of viola-
tions of the internationally recognized human rights 
of women. 
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(2) CONTACTS WITH NONGOVERNMENTAL OR-
GANIZATIONS.—In compiling data and assessing the 
respect of women’s rights for the Human Rights Re-
ports, the Annual Report, and the Executive Sum-
mary, United States mission personnel shall, as ap-
propriate, seek out and maintain contacts with wom-
en’s and human rights nongovernmental organiza-
tions, with the consent of those organizations, in-
cluding receiving reports and updates from such or-
ganizations and, when appropriate, investigating 
such reports. 
(d) AMENDMENTS
TO
THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 
ACT OF 1961.— 
(1) CONTENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTS FOR 
COUNTRIES
RECEIVING
ECONOMIC
ASSISTANCE.— 
Section 116(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n(d)) is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (10); 
(B) by striking the period at the end of 
paragraph (11) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(12) wherever applicable, violations of women’s 
rights, including particularly severe violations of 
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women’s rights (as defined in section 3 of the Inter-
national Women’s Freedom Act of 2006).’’. 
(2) CONTENTS
OF
HUMAN
RIGHTS
REPORTS 
FOR
COUNTRIES
RECEIVING
SECURITY
ASSIST-
ANCE.—Section 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2304(b)) is amended— 
(A) in the first sentence, by inserting ‘‘and 
the Ambassador at Large for International 
Women’s Rights’’ after ‘‘Religious Freedom’’; 
and 
(B) in the fourth sentence by inserting 
after ‘‘1998)’’ the following: ‘‘, and information 
on violations of women’s rights, including par-
ticularly severe violations of women’s rights (as 
defined in section 3 of the International Wom-
en’s Freedom Act of 2006)’’. 
SEC. 103. ESTABLISHMENT OF A WOMEN’S RIGHTS INTER-
NET SITE. 
In order to facilitate access by nongovernmental orga-
nizations and by the public around the world to inter-
national documents on the protection of women’s rights, 
the Secretary of State, with the assistance of the Ambas-
sador at Large, shall establish and maintain an Internet 
site containing major international documents relating to 
women’s rights, the Annual Report, the Executive Sum-
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