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lems, such as depression, anxiety, and 
posttraumatic stress disorder; 
‘‘(iv) to protect and provide services to 
vulnerable populations, including widows, 
orphans, and women head of households; 
‘‘(v) to develop and implement pro-
grams to protect women and girls against 
sexual and physical abuse, abduction, traf-
ficking, exploitation, and sex discrimina-
tion, including emergency shelters for 
women and girls who face danger from vio-
lence; 
‘‘(vi) to establish primary and sec-
ondary schools for girls that include math-
ematics, science, and languages in their 
primary curriculum; 
‘‘(vii) to expand technical and voca-
tional training programs to enable women 
to support themselves and their families; 
‘‘(viii) to maintain and expand adult 
literacy programs, including economic lit-
eracy programs that promote the well- 
being of women and their families; 
‘‘(ix) to provide special educational 
opportunities for girls whose schooling was 
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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; 
‘‘(x) 
to 
disseminate 
information 
throughout Afghanistan on international 
standards for human rights, particularly as 
pertaining to women; 
‘‘(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 against women and to provide legal 
assistance to women who have suffered vio-
lations of their rights; 
‘‘(xiv) to increase political and civic 
participation of women in all levels of soci-
ety, including the criminal justice system; 
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‘‘(xv) to provide information and 
training related to human rights, particu-
larly as pertaining to women, to military, 
police, and legal personnel; and 
‘‘(xvi) to provide assistance to the 
Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the Af-
ghan Independent Human Rights Commis-
sion for programs to advance the status of 
women.’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (B), to read as follows: 
‘‘(B) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—For each 
of the fiscal years 2008 through 2010— 
‘‘(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-led nongovernmental organizations, 
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including Afghan women-led nongovern-
mental organizations, to support activities 
including the construction, establishment, 
and operation of schools for married girls 
and girls’ orphanages, vocational training 
for women and girls, primary health care 
clinics for women and children, programs 
to strengthen Afghan women-led organiza-
tions and women’s leadership, and to pro-
vide monthly financial assistance to wid-
ows, orphans, and women head of house-
holds.’’. 
(f) ASSISTANCE FOR ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND 
SHORT-TERM ENERGY SUPPLY.— 
(1) AMENDMENT.—Subsection (a) of such sec-
tion is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraphs: 
‘‘(8) ASSISTANCE
FOR
ENERGY
DEVELOP-
MENT.—To support the development of local energy 
sources, new power generation, and energy transpor-
tation, including further development of existing 
hydrological power sources, studies of the utility of 
geothermal energy, expansion of local natural gas 
fields for internal consumption and export, and 
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