I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5927 
To combat international violence against women and girls. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 30, 2008 
Mr. BERMAN (for himself, Ms. DELAURO, and Mr. MARSHALL) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To combat international violence against women and girls. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘International Violence Against Women Act of 2008’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
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—COORDINATION AND POLICY PLANNING 
Sec. 101. Official positions and institutional changes. 
Sec. 102. Policy and programs. 
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Sec. 103. Inclusion of information on violence against women and girls in 
human rights reports. 
TITLE II—OTHER PROVISIONS 
Sec. 201. Amendments to Foreign Service Act of 1980. 
Sec. 202. Support for multilateral efforts to end violence against women and 
girls. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Violence against women and girls is rooted 
in multiple causes and takes many forms, including 
physical, sexual, and psychological. It affects all 
countries, social groups, ethnicities, religions, and 
socioeconomic classes and is a global health, eco-
nomic development, and human rights problem of 
epidemic proportions. 
(2) According to the World Health Organiza-
tion— 
(A) approximately 1 in 3 of the women in 
the world will experience violence in her life-
time, with rates of up to 70 percent in some 
countries; and 
(B) 1 in 5 of the women in the world will 
be the victim of rape or attempted rape in her 
lifetime. 
(3) According to the 2006 United Nations Sec-
retary General’s report entitled Ending Violence 
Against Women, 102 member states have no specific 
laws on domestic violence. 
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(4) Women and girls face many different types 
of gender-based violence, including forced or child 
marriage, so-called ‘‘honor killings’’, dowry-related 
murder, human trafficking, and female genital muti-
lation. The United Nations estimates that at least 
5,000 so-called ‘‘honor killings’’ take place each year 
around the world and that more than 130,000,000 
girls and young women worldwide have been sub-
jected to female genital mutilation. 
(5) The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS 
Relief 2006 Report on Gender-Based Violence and 
HIV/AIDS reports that violence against women is a 
public health and development problem that signifi-
cantly increases susceptibility to HIV/AIDS. A 
United Nations study on the global AIDS epidemic 
found that in sub-Saharan Africa, women who are 
15 to 24 years old can be infected at rates that are 
up to 6 times higher than men of the same age. 
(6) Recent studies in Africa indicate that be-
tween 16 and 47 percent of girls in primary and sec-
ondary school report sexual abuse or harassment by 
male teachers or classmates. Girls who experience 
sexual violence at school are also more likely to expe-
rience unintended pregnancies or become infected 
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with sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/ 
AIDS. 
(7) Rape and sexual assault are weapons of war 
used to torture, intimidate, and terrorize women and 
communities. Amnesty International reports that 
women have suffered from sexual violence during 
conflicts in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Sierra 
Leone, and most recently in the Democratic Repub-
lic of the Congo, where women have suffered from 
brutal and systematic sexual assaults. 
(8) Displaced, refugee, and stateless women and 
girls in humanitarian emergencies, conflict settings, 
and natural disasters face extreme violence and 
threats because of power inequities, including being 
forced to exchange sex for food and humanitarian 
supplies, and being at increased risk of rape, sexual 
exploitation, and abuse. 
(9) According to the United States Agency for 
International Development (USAID)— 
(A) 70 percent of the 1,300,000,000 people 
living in poverty in the world are women and 
children; 
(B) 2⁄3 of the 876,000,000 illiterate adults 
in the world are women; 
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(C) 2⁄3 of the 125,000,000 school-aged 
children who are not in school are girls; 
(D) more than 3⁄4 of the 27,000,000 refu-
gees in the world are women and children; and 
(E) 1,600 women die unnecessarily every 
day during pregnancy and childbirth. 
(10) In 2003, the United Nations Special 
Rapporteur on Violence Against Women concluded 
that violence against women violates the basic 
human rights of women, results in ‘‘devastating con-
sequences for women who experience it, traumatic 
impact on those who witness it, de-legitimization of 
States that fail to prevent it and the impoverishment 
of entire societies that tolerate it.’’. 
(11) Violence against women is an impediment 
to the health, opportunity, and development of 
women and their societies. According to an October 
2006 study of the United Nations Secretary General 
entitled Ending Violence Against Women, ‘‘Violence 
against women impoverishes women, their families, 
communities and nations. It lowers economic produc-
tion, drains resources from public services and em-
ployers, and reduces human capital formation.’’. 
(12) The World Bank recognizes that women’s 
health, education, and economic opportunities di-
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rectly impact the development and well being of their 
families and their societies. A 2001 World Bank Re-
port, entitled Engendering Development, reports 
that greater gender equality leads to improved nutri-
tion, lower child mortality, less government corrup-
tion, higher productivity, and reduced HIV infection 
rates. 
(13) Increased access to economic opportunities 
is crucial to the prevention of and response to do-
mestic and sexual violence. Both microfinance-based 
interventions and increased asset control have been 
shown to reduce levels of intimate partner violence 
in addition to providing economic independence for 
survivors. 
(14) Campaigns to change social norms, includ-
ing community organizing, media campaigns, and ef-
forts to engage and educate men and boys, have 
been shown to change attitudes that condone and 
tolerate violence against women and girls and reduce 
violence and abuse. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States— 
(1) to promote women’s political, economic, 
educational, social, cultural, civil, and human rights 
and opportunities throughout the world; 
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(2) to condemn and combat violence against 
women and girls, and to promote and assist other 
governments in preventing and responding to such 
violence; 
(3) to promote ending violence against women 
and girls around the world, whether the abuse is 
committed directly by a foreign government, is im-
plicitly committed by such government through hos-
tile laws or de jure mandates to disenfranchise 
women, or is committed by private actors and the 
government fails to address the abuse; 
(4) to encourage foreign governments to enact 
and implement effective legal reform to combat vio-
lence against women and girls, and to encourage ac-
cess to justice, true accountability for abusers, and 
meaningful redress and support for victims; 
(5) to systematically integrate and coordinate 
efforts to prevent and respond to violence against 
women and girls into United States foreign policy 
and foreign assistance programs, and to expand im-
plementation of effective practices and programs; 
(6) to fully implement the comprehensive inter-
national strategy set forth in section 300G of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as added by this 
Act, which provides assistance to eligible countries to 
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reduce and prevent gender-based violence with co-
ordinated efforts in the criminal justice, health, edu-
cation, and economic sectors; 
(7) to support and build capacity of indigenous 
nongovernmental organizations that are working to 
prevent and respond to violence against women and 
girls, particularly women’s nongovernmental organi-
zations, and to support and encourage United States 
organizations working in partnership with such non-
governmental organizations; 
(8) to prevent and respond to violence against 
women and girls through multisectoral methods, 
working at individual, family, community, local, na-
tional, and international levels and incorporating 
service, prevention, training, and advocacy activities 
and economic, education, health, legal, and protec-
tive intervention services; 
(9) to coordinate activities with recipient coun-
try governments, as appropriate, and with other bi-
lateral, multilateral, nongovernmental, and private 
sector actors active in the relevant sector and coun-
try; 
(10) to foster international and regional co-
operation with an aim towards defining regional 
strategies, as appropriate, for preventing and re-
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sponding to violence against women and girls, and 
exchanging data and successful strategies; 
(11) to work through international organiza-
tions of which the United States is a member, in-
cluding the United Nations and its specialized agen-
cies, funds and programs to encourage, promote, 
and advocate for stronger efforts and policies to pre-
vent and end violence against women and girls; 
(12) to enhance training and other programs to 
prevent and respond to violence against women and 
girls in humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-con-
flict operations; 
(13) to enhance training by United States per-
sonnel of professional foreign military and police 
forces and judicial officials to include specific and 
thorough instruction on preventing and responding 
to violence against women and girls; 
(14) to press for the implementation of policies 
and practices in global peace and security efforts, in-
cluding United Nations peacekeeping and policing 
operations, that prevent and respond to violence 
against women and girls and hold personnel account-
able for the full implementation of these policies and 
practices. 
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SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.— 
The term ‘‘violence against women and girls’’ has 
the meaning given the term in section 300A(1) of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as added by 
this Act. 
(2) ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES.—The term ‘‘eligible 
countries’’ has the meaning given the term in section 
300A(2) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as 
added by this Act. 
TITLE I—COORDINATION AND 
POLICY PLANNING 
SEC. 
101. 
OFFICIAL 
POSITIONS 
AND 
INSTITUTIONAL 
CHANGES. 
Chapter 2 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2166 et seq.) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘TITLE 
XIII—INTERNATIONAL 
PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE 
AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS 
‘‘SEC. 300A. DEFINITIONS. 
‘‘In this title: 
‘‘(1) VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.— 
The term ‘violence against women and girls’— 
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‘‘(A) means any act of gender-based vio-
lence against women or girls committed because 
of their gender that results in, or is likely to re-
sult in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm 
or suffering to women, including threats of such 
acts, coercion, or arbitrary deprivations of lib-
erty, whether occurring in public or private life; 
and 
‘‘(B) includes— 
‘‘(i) physical, sexual, and psycho-
logical violence occurring in the family, in-
cluding battering, sexual abuse of female 
children in the household, dowry-related vi-
olence, marital rape, female genital mutila-
tion and other traditional practices harm-
ful to women, nonspousal violence, and vio-
lence related to exploitation; 
‘‘(ii) physical, sexual, and psycho-
logical violence occurring within the gen-
eral community, including rape, sexual 
abuse, sexual harassment and intimidation 
at work, in educational institutions and 
elsewhere, trafficking in women, and forced 
prostitution; and 
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‘‘(iii) physical, sexual, and psycho-
logical violence perpetrated or condoned by 
the state, wherever it occurs. 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES.—The term ‘eligible 
countries’ means countries that are not classified as 
high-income countries in the most recent edition of 
the World Development Report for Reconstruction 
and Development published by the International 
Bank for Reconstruction and Development. 
‘‘Subtitle A—Official Positions and 
Institutional Changes 
‘‘SEC. 300B. OFFICE OF WOMEN’S GLOBAL INITIATIVES. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the 
Office of the Secretary of State in the Department of 
State, the Office of Women’s Global Initiatives. The office 
shall be headed by the Coordinator of the Office of Wom-
en’s Global Initiatives (referred to in this title as the ‘Co-
ordinator’), who shall be appointed by the President, by 
and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Coor-
dinator shall report directly to the Secretary and shall 
have the rank and status of Ambassador at Large. 
‘‘(b) PURPOSE.—The Office of Women’s Global Ini-
tiatives shall be the sole office coordinating all efforts of 
the United States Government regarding international 
women’s issues and is intended to replace the Office of 
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International Women’s Issues in the Office of the Under 
Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs in the De-
partment of State. 
‘‘(c) DUTIES.—The Coordinator shall have the fol-
lowing responsibilities: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Coordinator shall— 
‘‘(A) design, oversee, and coordinate activi-
ties and programs of the United States Govern-
ment relating to international women’s issues; 
and 
‘‘(B) direct United States Government re-
sources to— 
‘‘(i) prevent and respond to violence 
against women and girls throughout the 
world; and 
‘‘(ii) develop the comprehensive inter-
national strategy described in section 300G 
to reduce violence against women and girls. 
‘‘(2) PRINCIPAL
ADVISOR.—The Coordinator 
shall serve as the principal advisor to the Secretary 
of State regarding foreign policy matters relating to 
women, including violence against women and girls. 
‘‘(3) COORDINATING
ROLE.—The Coordinator 
shall— 
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‘‘(viii) the Foreign Service Institute; 
‘‘(ix) the Office of the Coordinator for 
Reconstruction and Stabilization; 
‘‘(x) the Office to Monitor and Com-
bat Trafficking in Persons; 
‘‘(xi) the Office of the United States 
Global AIDS Coordinator; and 
‘‘(xii) all regional bureaus and offices; 
‘‘(C) coordinate all policies, programs, and 
funding related to violence against women and 
girls internationally in the Department of Jus-
tice, the Department of Labor, the Department 
of Health and Human Services, the Department 
of Defense, and the Department of Homeland 
Security; 
‘‘(D) coordinate all policies, programs, and 
funding relating to violence against women and 
girls internationally in the United States Agen-
cy for International Development (USAID), in-
cluding the Women’s Global Development Of-
fice; 
‘‘(E) monitor and evaluate all such gender- 
based violence programs administered by the 
entities listed in subparagraphs (B) through 
(D), as necessary; 
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‘‘(F) coordinate all policies, programs, and 
funding of the Millennium Challenge Corpora-
tion relating to violence against women and 
girls internationally; 
‘‘(G) design, integrate, and, as appro-
priate, implement policies, programs, and activi-
ties related to women’s health, education, eco-
nomic development, legal reform, social norm 
changes, women’s human rights, and protection 
of women in humanitarian crises, including 
those identified pursuant to section 300G(c); 
and 
‘‘(H) encourage departments listed in sub-
paragraph (C) to create agency-specific pro-
grammatic guidelines on addressing violence 
against women and girls internationally and 
monitor implementation of those guidelines. 
‘‘(4) DIPLOMATIC
REPRESENTATION.—Subject 
to the direction of the President and the Secretary 
of State, the Coordinator is authorized to represent 
the United States in matters relevant to violence 
against women and girls internationally in— 
‘‘(A) contacts with foreign governments, 
nongovernmental organizations, the United Na-
tions and its specialized agencies, and other 
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international organizations of which the United 
States is a member; and 
‘‘(B) multilateral conferences and meetings 
relevant to violence against women and girls. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2009 through 2013, under the heading ‘Diplo-
matic and Consular Programs’, to carry out activities 
under this section. Funds appropriated pursuant to this 
subsection shall be under the direct control of the Coordi-
nator. 
‘‘SEC. 300C. WOMEN’S GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICE. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established, within 
the United States Agency for International Development, 
the Office of Women’s Global Development. The Office of 
Women’s Global Development shall be headed by the Di-
rector of Women’s Global Development (referred to in this 
title as the ‘Director’), who shall be appointed by the 
President, by and with the advice and consent of the Sen-
ate. The Director shall report directly to the Adminis-
trator of the United States Agency for International De-
velopment and shall consult regularly with the Coordinator 
of the Office of Women’s Global Initiatives. 
‘‘(b) PURPOSE.—The Office of Women’s Global De-
velopment shall be the sole office coordinating all efforts 
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of the United States Agency for International Develop-
ment (USAID) regarding international women’s issues 
and is intended to replace the Office of Women in Develop-
ment in USAID in existence on the date of the enactment 
of this title. 
‘‘(c) DUTIES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall— 
‘‘(A) integrate gender into all policies, pro-
grams, and activities of the United States 
Agency for International Development to im-
prove the status of women, increase opportuni-
ties for women, and support the overall develop-
ment goals of United States programs and as-
sistance; 
‘‘(B) ensure that efforts to prevent and re-
spond to violence against women and girls are 
integrated into United States Government for-
eign assistance programs at the strategic plan-
ning and country operational plan levels; and 
‘‘(C) monitor the manner in which such ac-
tivities are integrated, programmed, and imple-
mented in each country plan. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated $15,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to carry out activities and 
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collaboration related to preventing and responding to gen-
der-based violence. Funds appropriated pursuant to this 
subsection shall be under the direct control of the Direc-
tor. Such funds are in addition to amounts otherwise 
available for such purposes. 
‘‘SEC. 300D. ADVISORY COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL 
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established within 
the Department of State an Advisory Commission on 
International Violence Against Women (in this section re-
ferred to as the ‘Advisory Commission’). 
‘‘(b) MEMBERSHIP.— 
‘‘(1) APPOINTMENT.—The Advisory Commis-
sion shall be composed of— 
‘‘(A) the Coordinator of Women’s Global 
Initiatives, who shall serve as chair, and the Di-
rector of the Women’s Global Development Of-
fice, both of whom shall serve ex officio as non-
voting members of the Advisory Commission; 
‘‘(B) 8 members appointed by the Sec-
retary of State who are not officers or employ-
ees of the Federal Government; 
‘‘(C) 3 members appointed by the Presi-
dent pro tempore of the Senate on the joint rec-
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ommendation of the majority and minority lead-
ers of the Senate; and 
‘‘(D) 3 members appointed by the Speaker 
of the House of Representatives on the joint 
recommendation of the majority and minority 
leaders of the House of Representatives. 
‘‘(2) SELECTION.—Members of the Advisory 
Commission shall be selected from among— 
‘‘(A) distinguished individuals noted for 
their knowledge and experience in fields rel-
evant to the issue of international violence 
against women and girls, including foreign af-
fairs, human rights, and international law; 
‘‘(B) representatives of nongovernmental 
organizations and other institutions having 
knowledge and expertise related to violence 
against women and girls; and 
‘‘(C) academics representative of the var-
ious scholarly approaches to the issue of inter-
national violence against women and girls. 
‘‘(3) TIME
OF
APPOINTMENT.—The appoint-
ments required under paragraph (1) shall be made 
not later than 120 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this title. 
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‘‘(4) TERMS.—The term of each member ap-
pointed to the Advisory Commission shall be 3 years. 
Members shall be eligible for reappointment to a sec-
ond term. 
‘‘(c) DUTIES.—The Advisory Commission shall— 
‘‘(1) annually make recommendations to the 
Secretary of State regarding best practices to pre-
vent and respond to violence against women and 
girls internationally and the effective integration of 
such practices into the foreign policy of the United 
States, including assistance programming; and 
‘‘(2) consult with members of the United States 
Government and with private groups and individuals 
on the prevention and response to international vio-
lence against women and girls. 
‘‘(d) HEARINGS.—In carrying out this section, the 
Advisory Commission may conduct such hearings, sit and 
at such times and places, take such testimony, and receive 
such evidence, as the Advisory Commission considers ap-
propriate. 
‘‘(e) FUNDING.—Members of the Advisory Commis-
sion shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem 
in lieu of subsistence at rates authorized for employees 
of agencies under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, 
United States Code, while away from their homes or reg-
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ular places of business in the performance of duties for 
the Advisory Commission. 
‘‘(f) REPORT OF THE ADVISORY COMMISSION.—Not 
later than May 1 of each year, the Advisory Commission 
shall submit a report to the President, the Secretary of 
State, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, 
and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives that sets forth its findings and rec-
ommendations for United States policy and programs. 
‘‘(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated $300,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to carry out this section.’’. 
SEC. 102. POLICY AND PROGRAMS. 
Chapter 2 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2166 et seq.), as amended by section 
101, is further amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘Subtitle B—Policy and Programs 
‘‘SEC. 300G. COMPREHENSIVE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY 
TO 
REDUCE 
AND 
PREVENT 
VIOLENCE 
AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS. 
‘‘(a) DEVELOPMENT
AND
IMPLEMENTATION
OF 
STRATEGY.—Not later than 1 year after the date of the 
enactment of this title, the President, with the assistance 
of the Coordinator of Women’s Global Initiatives and Di-
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rector of Women’s Global Development, shall develop and 
commence implementation of a comprehensive, 5-year 
international strategy to prevent and respond to violence 
against women and girls internationally, and shall submit 
it to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 
and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives. 
‘‘(b) COLLABORATION.—In developing the strategy 
under subsection (a), the President, with the assistance 
of the Coordinator, shall consult with— 
‘‘(1) the Secretary of State, including the of-
fices and bureaus listed in section 300B(c)(3)(B), 
other 
executive 
agencies 
listed 
in 
section 
300B(c)(3)(C), United States aid agencies and of-
fices as listed in section 300B(c)(3)(D), the Millen-
nium Challenge Corporation listed in section 
300B(c)(3)(F), and Interagency Task Force to Mon-
itor and Combat Trafficking; and 
‘‘(2) nongovernmental organizations with dem-
onstrated expertise working on violence against 
women and girls, women’s health, or women’s em-
powerment issues internationally. 
‘‘(c) CONTENT.—The strategy developed under sub-
section (a) shall— 
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‘‘(1) identify between 10 and 20 eligible coun-
tries that are geographically, ethnically, and cul-
turally diverse, and have severe levels of violence 
against women and girls; 
‘‘(2) describe the nature and extent of violence 
against women and girls in each country; 
‘‘(3) identify how and to what extent the vio-
lence against women and girls in each country is 
negatively affecting goals of improving the health, 
education, economic, democracy and civic participa-
tion, criminal justice, and internally displaced per-
sons and refugee management sectors in such coun-
try and its region; 
‘‘(4) assess the efforts of the government in 
each country to prevent and respond to violence 
against women and girls and assess the potential ca-
pacity of each country to manage 2 or more of the 
gender violence-based program activities identified 
under subsection (d); 
‘‘(5)(A) describe the programs to be undertaken 
in cooperation with the governments of each country 
in specific areas for progress in preventing and re-
sponding to violence against women and girls; 
‘‘(B) identify resources to help implement pro-
grams; and 
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‘‘(C) encourage development of national action 
plans; 
‘‘(6) for each country, identify 2 or more of the 
program activities listed in subsection (d) and de-
scribe how the selected programs will prevent and 
respond to the problem of violence against women 
and girls, including— 
‘‘(A) increasing legal and judicial protec-
tions; 
‘‘(B) enhancing the capacity of the health 
sector to respond to such violence; 
‘‘(C) increasing opportunities for women 
and girls in education and economic develop-
ment; or 
‘‘(D) promoting societal awareness and 
changing social norms; 
‘‘(7) include, as appropriate, strategies designed 
to accommodate the needs of stateless, internally 
displaced, refugee, or religious or ethnic minority 
women and girls; 
‘‘(8) project general levels of resources needed 
on an annual basis to achieve the stated objective in 
each country, taking into account activities and 
funding provided by other donor country govern-
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ments and other multilateral institutions and 
leveraging private sector resources; 
‘‘(9) include potential coordination with existing 
programs, initiatives, and expertise on preventing 
and responding to violence against women and girls 
that exist within nongovernmental organizations, in-
cluding in-country, civil society organizations, par-
ticularly women’s organizations and community- 
based groups; 
‘‘(10) identify the Federal departments and 
agencies involved in the execution of the relevant 
program activities; and 
‘‘(11) describe the monitoring and evaluation 
mechanisms established for each country and how 
they will be used to assess overall progress in pre-
venting and responding to violence against women 
and girls. 
‘‘(d) PROGRAM ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED.—Assistance 
provided under this section shall be used to carry out, in 
each of the countries identified in the strategy required 
pursuant to subsection (a), 2 or more of the following pro-
gram activities: 
‘‘(1) Increasing legal and judicial protections 
by— 
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‘‘(A) supporting programs that strengthen 
a coordinated community response to violence 
against women and girls, including through co-
ordination between judges, police, prosecutors, 
and legal advocates to enhance prospects for 
perpetrator accountability; 
‘‘(B) supporting efforts and providing re-
sources to provide training and technical assist-
ance to police, prosecutors, forensic physicians, 
lawyers, corrections officers, judges, and judi-
cial officials, and where appropriate, to non-
lawyer advocates and traditional community au-
thorities on violence against women and girls; 
‘‘(C) supporting efforts to reform and re-
vise criminal and civil laws to prohibit violence 
against women and girls and create account-
ability for perpetrators; 
‘‘(D) enhancing the capacity of the justice 
sector, including keeping official records of all 
complaints, collecting and safeguarding evi-
dence, systematizing and tracking data on cases 
of violence against women and girls, and under-
taking investigations and evidence gathering ex-
peditiously; 
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‘‘(E) helping women and girls who are vic-
tims of violence gain access to the justice sector 
and supporting them throughout the legal proc-
ess, including establishing victim and witness 
units for courts and promoting support for sur-
vivor services, including hotlines and shelters; 
‘‘(F) promoting civil remedies in cases of 
domestic violence that— 
‘‘(i) prioritize victim safety and con-
fidentiality and offender accountability; 
‘‘(ii) grant women and children re-
straining, protection, or removal orders 
with appropriate criminal sanctions for vio-
lations against perpetrators of violence; 
‘‘(iii) strengthen and promote wom-
en’s custodial rights over children and pro-
tect children; and 
‘‘(iv) grant courts authority to provide 
specific relief pursuant to a restraining or 
removal order, including restitution, spous-
al maintenance, child support, payment of 
debt, or return or equitable distribution of 
property; 
‘‘(G) reducing the incidence of violence 
against women and girls committed by govern-
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ment officials by developing confidential mecha-
nisms for reporting violence against women and 
girls committed by government officials and in-
stitutions and developing laws to punish the 
perpetrators and remove immunity from state 
officials; 
‘‘(H) promoting broader legal protection 
for women and girls against all forms of vio-
lence against women and girls, such as female 
infanticide and female genital mutilation, and 
practices that are associated with higher rates 
of violence against women and girls, such as 
child and forced marriage; and 
‘‘(I) increasing the number of women advo-
cates trained to respond to violence against 
women and girls at police stations, including 
the creation of domestic violence units and in-
creasing the number of women police. 
‘‘(2) Carrying out health care initiatives, includ-
ing— 
‘‘(A) promoting the integration of pro-
grams to prevent and respond to violence 
against women and girls into existing programs 
addressing child survival, women’s health, fam-
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ily planning, mental health, and HIV/AIDS pre-
vention, care, and treatment; 
‘‘(B) training of health care providers, in-
cluding traditional birth attendants, on methods 
to safely and confidentially assess women and 
girls seeking health services for intimate part-
ner, family, and sexual violence; 
‘‘(C) developing and enforcing national and 
operational women’s health, children’s health, 
and HIV/AIDS policies that prevent and re-
spond to violence against women and girls, with 
accompanying resources, including through co-
operative efforts with ministries of health; 
‘‘(D) developing information gathering sys-
tems within the health care sector that, con-
sistent with safety and confidentiality concerns, 
collect and compile data on the type of violence 
experienced by women and girls, access to care, 
age of victims, and relationship of victims to 
perpetrators; 
‘‘(E) working with governments to develop 
partnerships with civil society organizations to 
create referral networks systems for psycho-
social, legal, economic, or other support serv-
ices; and 
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‘‘(F) integrating screening and assessment 
for gender-based violence into HIV/AIDS pro-
gramming and other health programming into 
all country operation plans, and increasing 
women’s access to information, strategies, and 
services to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS. 
‘‘(3) Conducting public awareness programs to 
change social norms and attitudes, including— 
‘‘(A) supporting women survivors of vio-
lence to educate their communities on the im-
pacts of violence; 
‘‘(B) engaging men, including faith and 
traditional leaders; 
‘‘(C) providing funding and programmatic 
support for mass media social change cam-
paigns; and 
‘‘(D) supporting community efforts to 
change attitudes about harmful traditional 
practices, including child marriage, female gen-
ital mutilation, and so-called ‘honor killings’. 
‘‘(4) Improving economic opportunities for 
women and girls, including— 
‘‘(A) supporting programs to help women 
meet their economic needs and to increase their 
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economic opportunities, in both rural and urban 
areas, including through support for— 
‘‘(i) the establishment and develop-
ment of businesses (micro, small, and me-
dium-sized enterprises) through access to 
financial and nonfinancial services; and 
‘‘(ii) 
education, 
literacy, 
and 
numeracy programs, leadership develop-
ment and job skills training, especially in 
nontraditional fields and expected growth 
sectors; 
‘‘(B) supporting programs to help increase 
property rights, social security, and home own-
ership and land tenure security for women by— 
‘‘(i) promoting equitable extension of 
property and inheritance rights, particu-
larly rights to familial and marital prop-
erty; 
‘‘(ii) promoting legal literacy, includ-
ing among faith and traditional leaders, 
about women’s property rights; and 
‘‘(iii) helping women to make land 
claims and protecting women’s existing 
claims and advocating for equitable land ti-
tling and registration for women, including 
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safeguards for women title-holders in the 
case of domestic violence disputes; 
‘‘(C) integrating activities to prevent and 
respond to violence against women and girls 
into existing economic opportunity programs 
by— 
‘‘(i) integrating education on violence 
against women and girls into women’s 
microfinance, microenterprise, and job 
skills training programs; and 
‘‘(ii) training providers of economic 
opportunity services and programs in sen-
sitivity to violence against women and 
girls; and 
‘‘(D) addressing violence against women 
and girls in the workplace. 
‘‘(5) Improving educational opportunities for 
women and girls, including— 
‘‘(A) supporting efforts and providing re-
sources to provide training for all teachers and 
school administrators on school-related violence, 
in particular increasing awareness of violence 
against women and girls, and to improve re-
porting, referral, and implementation of codes 
of conduct; 
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‘‘(B) working to ensure the safety of girls 
during their travel to and from school and on 
school grounds; 
‘‘(C) including programs for girls and boys 
on the unacceptability of violence against 
women and girls; and 
‘‘(D) conducting national and baseline sur-
veys to collect data on school-related violence 
against women and girls. 
‘‘SEC. 300H. ASSISTANCE TO REDUCE INTERNATIONAL VIO-
LENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS INTER-
NATIONALLY. 
‘‘(a) COORDINATING EXISTING AID PROGRAMS.— 
The Coordinator of the Women’s Global Initiatives, work-
ing with the Director of the Office of Women’s Global De-
velopment, shall ensure that existing programs, contracts, 
grants, agreements, and foreign assistance under this Act, 
the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (22 
U.S.C. 2601 et seq.), the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), the United States 
Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria 
Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7601 et seq.), the Support for 
East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 (22 
U.S.C. 5401 et seq.), the FREEDOM Support Act (22 
U.S.C. 5851 et seq.), and other Acts authorizing foreign 
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assistance incorporate, as applicable, measures to prevent 
and respond to violence against women and girls. 
‘‘(b) AUTHORITY.—To implement and execute the 
comprehensive international strategy developed pursuant 
to section 300G, the President is authorized to provide 
assistance to nongovernmental organizations, multilateral 
institutions, and foreign countries for program activities 
described in section 300G(d). 
‘‘(c) ALLOCATE NEW FUNDING.—The Coordinator of 
the Office of Women’s Global Initiatives is authorized to 
allocate funds to implement and execute the comprehen-
sive international strategy developed pursuant to section 
300G. 
‘‘(d) USE OF FUNDS.—Any funds made available 
under this section to nongovernmental organizations must 
be designated to organizations that have demonstrated ex-
pertise regarding violence against women and girls inter-
nationally, or that are in partnership with such organiza-
tions and that have demonstrated capabilities or expertise 
in a particular program activity described in subsection 
300G(d). 
‘‘(e) GRANTS TO WOMEN’S NONGOVERNMENTAL OR-
GANIZATIONS
AND
COMMUNITY-BASED
ORGANIZA-
TIONS.—Not less than 10 percent of the funds awarded 
in a fiscal year under this section shall be awarded to 
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women’s nongovernmental organizations and community- 
based organizations. 
‘‘(f) AWARD PROCESS.—Funds awarded under this 
section shall be provided through an open, competitive, 
and transparent process where possible. 
‘‘(g) CONDITIONS.—Entities receiving funds awarded 
through the grant program established under this sec-
tion— 
‘‘(1) should include the collection of data and 
the evaluation of program effectiveness; 
‘‘(2) should be responsible for developing and 
reporting on outcomes related to preventing and re-
sponding to violence against women and girls; 
‘‘(3) should gather input from women’s non-
governmental organizations or community-based or-
ganizations, including organizations with expertise in 
preventing and responding to violence against 
women and girls; and 
‘‘(4) shall consider the safety of women and 
girls as a primary concern in deciding how to design, 
implement, monitor, and evaluate programs. 
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Office of Women’s Global Initia-
tives $175,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2009 
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through 2013 to carry out this section and section 
300G. 
‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Amounts ap-
propriated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall remain 
available until expended. 
‘‘(3) NONSUPPLANTATION.—Funds authorized 
and appropriated under this Act shall supplement, 
not supplant, existing funds otherwise available for 
activities under this title. 
‘‘SEC. 300I. ANNUAL REPORT ON UNITED STATES EFFORTS 
TO END INTERNATIONAL VIOLENCE AGAINST 
WOMEN AND GIRLS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 
submission of the comprehensive international strategy de-
veloped under section 300G, and annually thereafter, the 
Secretary of State, assisted by the Coordinator of Wom-
en’s Global Initiatives, shall submit to Congress a report 
to be entitled the ‘Report on International Violence 
Against Women and Girls’. 
‘‘(b) CONTENT.—The report required under sub-
section (a) shall include the following: 
‘‘(1) The goals and objectives of the comprehen-
sive international strategy developed under section 
300G(a). 
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‘‘(2) The specific criteria used to determine the 
effectiveness of the strategy. 
‘‘(3) A description of the coordination of all 
United States Government resources and inter-
national activities to prevent and respond to the 
problem of violence against women and girls, includ-
ing— 
‘‘(A) an identification of the Federal agen-
cies involved; 
‘‘(B) a description of the coordination be-
tween Federal agencies and departments, in-
cluding those acting in the eligible countries; 
and 
‘‘(C) a description of the coordination with 
non-United States Government entities, includ-
ing the governments of eligible countries, multi-
lateral organizations and institutions, and non-
governmental organizations. 
‘‘(4) A description of the relationship between 
efforts to prevent and respond to violence against 
women and girls internationally and other United 
States assistance strategies in developing countries 
and diplomatic relationships. 
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‘‘(5) A description of efforts to include gender- 
based violence in United States diplomatic and 
peacemaking initiatives. 
‘‘(6) A description of any significant efforts by 
bilateral and multilateral donors in support of pre-
venting and responding to international violence 
against women and girls. 
‘‘(7) A description of the implementation of the 
agency-specific 
guidelines 
described 
in 
section 
300B(c)(3)(H). 
‘‘(8) A description of the activities of, and fund-
ing provided for programs that prevent and respond 
to violence against women and girls in humanitarian 
relief, conflict and post-conflict operations, including 
violence perpetrated by humanitarian workers. 
‘‘(9) A description of United States training of 
foreign military and police forces, judicial officials, 
and humanitarian relief grantees to prevent and re-
spond to violence against women and girls. 
‘‘(10) A description of data collection efforts 
conducted under this title. 
‘‘(11) Identification of all contractors, sub-
contractors, grantees, and subgrantees receiving 
United States funds for preventing and responding 
to violence against women and girls. 
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‘‘(12) Recommendations related to best prac-
tices, effective strategies, and suggested improve-
ments to enhance the impact of efforts to prevent 
and respond to violence against women and girls. 
‘‘(13) A description of efforts to evaluate the 
accountability and efficacy of the programs funded 
pursuant to section 300H(g). 
‘‘(14) A compilation of the descriptions on the 
nature and extent of violence against women and 
girls included in the annual Human Rights Reports 
required under section 116(d) of this Act. 
‘‘(15) The identification of countries or regions 
with critical outbreaks of violence against women 
and girls described in subsection 300L(h), includ-
ing— 
‘‘(A) an analysis of the situations, includ-
ing the factors driving the violence, the role of 
government, militia, rebel, or other armed 
forces in the violence; and 
‘‘(B) an analysis of United States and 
other multilateral, bilateral, or governmental ef-
forts to prevent or respond to the violence, as-
sist survivors, or hold the perpetrators account-
able. 
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‘‘(16) A description of United States resources 
that are being used— 
‘‘(A) to assist in efforts to prevent or re-
spond to the critical outbreaks of violence de-
scribed in section 300L(h); 
‘‘(B) assist survivors of such violence; 
‘‘(C) hold perpetrators accountable for 
such violence; and 
‘‘(D) encourage all parties to the armed 
conflict to protect women and girls from vio-
lence. 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of State 
to meet the reporting requirements under this section— 
‘‘(1) $2,500,000 for fiscal year 2009; and 
‘‘(2) $500,000 for each of the fiscal years 2010 
through 2013. 
‘‘SEC. 300J. DATA COLLECTION. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Coordinator of Women’s 
Global Initiatives, assisted by the Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development and 
the Director of the Women in Development Office, shall 
be responsible for researching, collecting, monitoring, and 
evaluating data related to efforts to prevent and respond 
to violence against women and girls internationally. 
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‘‘(b) USE OF FUNDS.—Funds made available under 
this section may be used for the following purposes: 
‘‘(1) To collect and analyze data on the scope 
and extent of all forms of violence against women 
and girls, including under-documented forms of vio-
lence and violence against marginalized groups. This 
work may include original research or analysis of ex-
isting data sets. 
‘‘(2) To help governments of countries system-
atically collect and analyze data on violence against 
women and girls, including both national surveys 
and data collected by service providers. 
‘‘(3) To use internationally comparable indica-
tors, norms, and methodologies for measuring the 
scope, prevalence, and incidence of violence against 
women and girls. 
‘‘(4) To include data on violence against women 
and girls in national and international data collec-
tion efforts, including those administered and funded 
by the United States Agency for International De-
velopment, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, 
and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each of 
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the fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to carry out the activi-
ties under this section. 
‘‘SEC. 300K. ENHANCING UNITED STATES TRAINING OF 
FOREIGN MILITARY AND POLICE FORCES ON 
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS. 
‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to en-
sure that United States programs to train foreign military 
and police forces and judicial officials include instruction 
on preventing and responding to violence against women 
and girls internationally. 
‘‘(b) COVERED PROGRAMS.—The programs covered 
under this section include— 
‘‘(1) activities authorized under this Act; and 
‘‘(2) activities under section 1206 of the Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2006 (Public Law 109–163; 119 Stat. 3456) to 
build the capacity of foreign military and police 
forces to conduct counterterrorist operations or sup-
port military and stability operations in which the 
United States is participating. 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION.—The Secretary of State and 
the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Coordi-
nator of Women’s Global Initiatives, shall— 
‘‘(1) incorporate training on how to prevent and 
respond to violence against women and girls into the 
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basic training curricula of foreign military and police 
forces and judicial officials; and 
‘‘(2) ensure that United States assistance to 
units involved in regional or multilateral peace-
keeping operations includes training on preventing 
and responding to violence against women and girls 
internationally. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated $8,000,000 for each of 
the fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to carry out the activi-
ties under this section. 
‘‘SEC. 300L. ADDRESSING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND 
GIRLS IN HUMANITARIAN RELIEF, PEACE-
KEEPING, CONFLICT, AND POST-CONFLICT 
OPERATIONS. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the term ‘Inter- 
Agency Standing Committee’ means the committee estab-
lished in response to United Nations General Assembly 
Resolution 46/182 (1991). 
‘‘(b) ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE 
AND THE UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 
DEVELOPMENT.—The Secretary of State and the Admin-
istrator of the United States Agency for International De-
velopment shall— 
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