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CHAPTER 133—INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION AND
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE
Sec.
13301.
Participation in International Organization for Migration.
13302.
Contributions to international organizations.
13303.
Assistance to further foreign policy interests.
13304.
Assistance to refugee women and children.
13305.
Assistance for unexpected urgent needs.
13306.
Allocation, transfer, availability, and accounting of amounts.
13307.
Audits.
13308.
Administrative.
§ 13301. Participation in International Organization for Mi-
gration
The President may continue United States membership in the Inter-
national Organization for Migration. To assist in the movement of refugees
and migrants and to enhance the economic progress of the developing coun-
tries by providing for a coordinated supply of a selected labor force,
amounts necessary to pay for the United States Government’s contribution
to the Organization and necessary salaries and expenses incident to the
Government’s participation in the Organization may be appropriated.
§ 13302. Contributions to international organizations
The President may make contributions to—
(1) the activities of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refu-
gees for assistance to or for refugees and other persons assisted by the
Commissioner;
(2) the International Organization for Migration;
(3) the International Committee of the Red Cross for assistance to
or for refugees; and
(4) other international organizations for assistance to or for refu-
gees.
§ 13303. Assistance to further foreign policy interests
The President may provide assistance to or for refugees outside the Unit-
ed States designated by the President when the President decides that the
assistance will contribute to the foreign policy interests of the United
States. The President shall designate the refugees by class, group, countries
of origin, or areas of residence.
§ 13304. Assistance to refugee women and children
(a) STANDARDS.—(1) In providing for overseas assistance and protection
of refugees and displaced persons, the United States Government shall seek
to address the protection and provision of basic needs of women and chil-
dren who represent 80 percent of the world’s refugee population.
(2) In accordance with the 1991 United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees Guidelines on the Protection of Refugee Women, the Secretary of
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State, working directly, through international organizations, or through non-
governmental voluntary organizations, shall seek to ensure that—
(A) the United Nations and relief organizations pay specific atten-
tion to recruiting and hiring female protection officers;
(B) gender awareness training is carried out for security personnel
and other field staff;
(C) refugee women and children are protected from violence and
abuse by governments or insurgent groups;
(D) women refugees are fully involved in planning and carrying
out—
(i) the delivery of services and assistance; and
(ii) the repatriation process;
(E) education on and access to services in reproductive health, birth
spacing, and other maternal and child health needs are incorporated
into refugee health services and education;
(F) victims of rape, domestic violence, and other violence and abuse
have available to them—
(i) protective services;
(ii) grievance processes; and
(iii) counseling and other services;
(G) educational programs are provided to refugee women, with spe-
cial emphasis on female heads of households, in—
(i) literacy and numeracy;
(ii) vocational and income generating skills; and
(iii) other training to promote self-sufficiency;
(H) all refugee children receive education, ensuring equal access for
girls, and that family tracing and other special services are provided
for unaccompanied refugee minors;
(I) information clearly enumerating age and gender be collected so
that appropriate health, education, and assistance programs can be
planned;
(J) more women program professionals are recruited, hired, and
trained in the international humanitarian field; and
(K) training is provided to program staff of the Commissioner and
nongovernmental voluntary organizations on gender-awareness and car-
rying out the Guidelines.
(b) PROCEDURES.—The Secretary of State should adopt specific proce-
dures to ensure that all recipients of Government amounts for refugee and
migration assistance carry out the standards outlined in subsection (a) of
this section.
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(c) REQUIREMENTS FOR REFUGEE AND MIGRATION ASSISTANCE.—In
providing refugee and migration assistance, the Secretary should support
the protection efforts of this section by raising at the highest levels of gov-
ernment the issue of abuses against refugee women and children by govern-
ments or insurgent groups that engage in, allow, or condone—
(1) a pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human
rights, such as torture or cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or
punishment, prolonged detention without charges, or other flagrant de-
nial to life, liberty, and bodily security;
(2) the blockage of humanitarian relief assistance;
(3) gender-specific persecution such as systematic individual or mass
rape, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, enforced prostitution, or any
form of indecent assault or act of violence against refugee women, girls,
and children; or
(4) continuing violations of bodily integrity against refugee women
and children by armed insurgents, local security forces, or camp
guards.
(d) INVESTIGATION
OF REPORTS.—On receipt of credible reports of
abuses under subsection (c) of this section, the Secretary should—
(1) investigate the reports immediately through emergency fact-find-
ing missions or other means; and
(2) help identify appropriate remedial measures.
(e) MULTINATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GUIDELINES.—The Sec-
retary should work to—
(1) ensure that multilateral organizations completely incorporate the
needs of refugee women and children into all elements of refugee assist-
ance programs; and
(2) encourage other governments providing refugee assistance to
adopt policies designed to encourage that the Guidelines be carried out
completely.
§ 13305. Assistance for unexpected urgent needs
(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—The President may provide assistance to
meet unexpected urgent refugee and migration needs on terms the President
prescribes when the President decides the assistance is important to the in-
terests of the United States.
(b) UNITED STATES EMERGENCY REFUGEE AND MIGRATION ASSIST-
ANCE FUND.—There is a United States Emergency Refugee and Migration
Assistance Fund to carry out this section. Amounts necessary for the Fund
may be appropriated to the President. However, an amount may not be ap-
propriated that, when added to amounts previously appropriated and not ob-