(3) the United States Government should make 
it a priority to provide assistance to Afghan-led non-
governmental organizations, particularly Afghan 
women-led nonprofit organizations; and 
(4) grants and assistance to Afghanistan shall 
be conditioned upon the Government of Afghanistan 
adhering to international standards for women’s 
rights and human rights. 
SEC. 4. ASSISTANCE TO WOMEN AND GIRLS. 
Section 103(a)(7) of the Afghanistan Freedom Sup-
port Act of 2002 (22 U.S.C. 7513(a)(7)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking clauses (i) 
through (xii) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(i) to provide equipment, medical 
supplies, and other assistance to health 
care facilities for the purpose of reducing 
maternal and infant mortality and mor-
bidity; 
‘‘(ii) to expand immunization pro-
grams for women and children; 
‘‘(iii) to establish and expand pro-
grams to provide services to women and 
girls suffering from posttraumatic stress 
disorder, depression, and mental illness; 
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‘‘(iv) to protect and provide services to 
vulnerable populations, including widows, 
orphans, and women head of households; 
‘‘(v) to establish primary and sec-
ondary schools for girls that include math-
ematics, science, and languages in their 
primary curriculum; 
‘‘(vi) to expand technical and voca-
tional training programs to enable women 
to support themselves and their families; 
‘‘(vii) to maintain and expand adult 
literacy programs, including economic lit-
eracy programs that promote the well- 
being of women and their families; 
‘‘(viii) to provide special educational 
opportunities for girls whose schooling was 
ended by the Taliban and who now face 
obstacles to participating in the normal 
education system, such as girls who are 
now married and girls who are older than 
the normal age for their classes; 
‘‘(ix) to develop and implement pro-
grams to protect women and girls against 
sexual and physical abuse, abduction, traf-
ficking, exploitation, and sex discrimina-
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tion in the delivery of humanitarian sup-
plies and services; 
‘‘(x) 
to 
disseminate 
information 
throughout Afghanistan on the rights of 
women and on international standards for 
human rights; 
‘‘(xi) to provide information and as-
sistance to enable women to exercise prop-
erty, inheritance, and voting rights, and to 
ensure equal access to the judicial system; 
‘‘(xii) to support the work of women- 
led and local nongovernmental organiza-
tions with demonstrated experience in de-
livering services to women and children in 
Afghanistan; 
‘‘(xiii) to monitor and investigate vio-
lations of women’s rights and to provide 
legal assistance to women who have suf-
fered violations of their rights; 
‘‘(xiv) to increase political and civil 
participation of women in all levels of soci-
ety, including the criminal justice system; 
‘‘(xv) to provide information and 
training related to women’s rights and 
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human rights to military, police, and legal 
personnel; and 
‘‘(xvi) to provide assistance to the 
Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the Inde-
pendent Human Rights Commission for 
programs 
to 
advance 
the 
status 
of 
women.’’; and 
(2) by restating subparagraph (B) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(B) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—For each 
of the fiscal years 2007 through 2009— 
‘‘(i) $5,000,000 is authorized to be 
appropriated to the President to be made 
available to the Afghan Ministry of Wom-
en’s Affairs for the administration and 
conduct of its programs; 
‘‘(ii) $10,000,000 is authorized to be 
appropriated to the President to be made 
available 
to 
the 
Afghan 
Independent 
Human Rights Commission for the admin-
istration and conduct of its programs; and 
‘‘(iii) $30,000,000 is authorized to be 
appropriated to the President for grants to 
Afghan women-led nonprofit organizations 
to support activities including the construc-
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tion, establishment, and operation of 
schools for married girls and girls’ orphan-
ages, vocational training for women and 
girls, health care clinics for women and 
children, programs to strengthen Afghan 
women-led 
organizations 
and 
women’s 
leadership, and to provide monthly finan-
cial assistance to widows, orphans, and 
women head of households.’’. 
SEC. 5. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ASSISTANCE. 
It is the sense of Congress that, in providing assist-
ance under section 103(a)(7) of the Afghanistan Freedom 
Support Act of 2002 (22 U.S.C. 7513(a)(7)), as amended 
by section 4, the President should— 
(1) condition the provision of such assistance on 
the recipient adhering to international standards for 
women’s rights and human rights; and 
(2) ensure that Afghan women-led nongovern-
mental organizations throughout Afghanistan with 
demonstrated experience in delivering services to Af-
ghan women and children receive grants without eth-
nic, religious, or any other discrimination. 
SEC. 6. REPORTING REQUIREMENT. 
(a) REPORTS REQUIRED.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 6 
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months thereafter for 3 years, the Secretary of State and 
the Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development shall jointly submit a report on the 
activities carried out under this Act to the Committee on 
Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations 
of the Senate and the Committee on International Rela-
tions and the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives. 
(b) CONTENT.—Each report submitted under sub-
section (a) shall include the amount of assistance provided 
under section 103(a)(7) of the Afghanistan Freedom Sup-
port Act of 2002 (22 U.S.C. 7513(a)(7)), as amended by 
section 4, to— 
(1) the Afghan Ministry of Women’s Affairs; 
(2) the Afghan Independent Human Rights 
Commission; and 
(3) Afghan women-led nonprofit organizations. 
Æ 
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