(9) UNIT OF A FOREIGN SECURITY FORCE.— 
The term ‘‘unit of a foreign security force’’ means 
a unit of— 
(A) a foreign military; 
(B) a foreign police force; 
(C) a foreign paramilitary group; 
(D) any person providing security services 
to a foreign government; and 
(E) such other organizations as the Sec-
retary of State determines appropriate. 
SEC. 3. INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION GRANT RESTRIC-
TIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall ensure that no 
international financial assistance provided by the Director 
shall be furnished to any covered recipient or subrecipient 
for funding or supporting any unit of a foreign security 
force if the Director or the Secretary of State has credible 
information that such unit has committed a gross violation 
of internationally recognized human rights. 
(b) EXCEPTION.—The prohibition in subsection (a) 
shall not apply if the Director, in consultation with the 
Secretary, determines and reports to the appropriate Con-
gressional committees that the applicable national govern-
ment, and covered recipient or subrecipient as appro-
priate, is taking effective steps to bring the responsible
members of the unit of a foreign security force to justice 
and to prevent gross violations of internationally recog-
nized human rights by the unit in the future. 
(c) RISK ANALYSIS.—In performing a risk assess-
ment analysis for a grant to a covered recipient, the Direc-
tor, in consultation with the Secretary, shall include the 
occurrence of human rights violations by individuals em-
ployed, funded, or supported by the covered recipient or 
subrecipient as a factor in such analysis. 
(d) PROCEDURES TO IDENTIFY HUMAN RIGHTS VIO-
LATORS.—The Director, in consultation with the Sec-
retary, shall establish, and periodically update, procedures 
to— 
(1) avoid duplication of effort with respect to 
vetting a unit of a foreign security force under this 
Act and vetting carried out under section 620M of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
2378d); 
(2) carry out the requirements of section 4; 
(3) ensure that for each country the Director 
and the Secretary have a current list of all units of 
foreign security forces receiving training, equipment, 
or other types of assistance through covered recipi-
ents or subrecipients;
(4) ensure that when an individual is des-
ignated to receive United States training, equipment, 
or other types of assistance the individual’s unit is 
vetted as well as the individual; 
(5) seek to identify the unit involved with re-
spect to any credible information of a gross violation 
of internationally recognized human rights in any 
nation in which a covered recipient or subrecipient 
provides funding, training, equipment, or other as-
sistance to a unit of a foreign security force; and 
(6) make publicly available the identity of those 
units for which no assistance shall be furnished pur-
suant to subsection (a) unless such publication 
would create a risk to national security or the health 
and safety of a victim of a gross violation of inter-
nationally recognized human rights. 
SEC. 4. INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION GRANT REQUIRE-
MENTS. 
(a) REQUIREMENTS TO RECEIVE A GRANT.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Director shall incor-
porate into the terms of an agreement for financial 
assistance to a covered recipient and require a duly 
designated representative of the covered recipient to 
certify before receiving the award that—
(A) the covered recipient will not commit, 
fund, or support gross violations of internation-
ally recognized human rights in carrying out 
the activities under the award; 
(B) the covered recipient has provided a 
list to the Director of each subrecipient to 
which the covered recipient intends to provide 
funding using such financial assistance and has 
provided a certification from each subrecipient 
that such subrecipient will not commit, fund, or 
support gross violations of internationally rec-
ognized human rights in carrying out the activi-
ties under the award; 
(C) the covered recipient has provided the 
Director with the covered recipient’s and each 
subrecipient’s written policy on maintaining 
standards for conduct consistent with recog-
nized international human rights standards, in-
cluding the Universal Declaration of Human 
Rights, the United Nations Declaration on the 
Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the United 
Nations Guiding Principles on Business and 
Human Rights;