and Development published by the International 
Bank for Reconstruction and Development. 
(2) VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.— 
The term ‘‘violence against women and girls’’— 
(A) means any act of violence against 
women or girls 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 psychological 
violence occurring in the family, including 
battering, sexual abuse of female children 
in the household, dowry-related violence, 
marital rape, female genital cutting and 
mutilation, forced child marriage, and 
other traditional practices harmful to 
women and girls, nonspousal violence, and 
violence related to exploitation; 
(ii) physical, sexual, and psychological 
violence occurring within the general com-
munity, including rape, sexual abuse, sex-
ual harassment and intimidation at work, 
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in educational institutions and elsewhere, 
trafficking in women and girls, and forced 
prostitution; and 
(iii) physical, sexual, and psycho-
logical violence perpetrated or condoned by 
the state, wherever it occurs. 
TITLE I—INTERNATIONAL PRE-
VENTION 
OF 
VIOLENCE 
AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS 
Subtitle A—Official Positions and 
Institutional Changes 
SEC. 101. OFFICE FOR GLOBAL WOMEN’S ISSUES. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of State shall 
establish in the Office of the Secretary of the Department 
of State an Office for Global Women’s Issues (in this sec-
tion referred to as the ‘‘Office’’). The Office shall be head-
ed by an Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues 
(in this section referred to as the ‘‘Ambassador-at- 
Large’’), who shall be appointed by the President, by and 
with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Ambas-
sador-at-Large shall report directly to the Secretary and 
shall have the rank and status of Ambassador-at-Large. 
(b) PURPOSE.—In addition to the duties described in 
subsection (c) and those duties determined by the Sec-
retary of State, the Office shall coordinate efforts of the 
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United States Government regarding gender integration 
and empowerment of women in United States foreign pol-
icy. 
(c) DUTIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Ambassador-at-Large— 
(A) shall coordinate and advise on activi-
ties, policies, programs, and funding relating to 
gender integration and empowerment of women 
internationally, including those intended to pre-
vent and respond to violence against women, for 
all bureaus and offices of the Department of 
State and in the international programs of 
other United States Government departments 
and agencies; 
(B) shall actively promote and advance the 
full integration of gender analysis into the pro-
grams, structures, processes, and capacities of 
all bureaus and offices of the Department of 
State and in the international programs of 
other United States Government departments 
and agencies; 
(C) shall direct, as appropriate, United 
States Government resources to respond to 
needs for gender integration and empowerment 
of women in United States Government foreign 
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policies and international programs, including 
to prevent and respond to violence against 
women and girls internationally; and 
(D) may design, support, and implement 
activities regarding empowerment of women 
internationally, including for the prevention and 
response of violence against women and girls 
internationally. 
(2) COORDINATING
ROLE.—The Ambassador- 
at-Large shall coordinate with all relevant United 
States Government departments and agencies, par-
ticularly the United States Agency for International 
Development, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, 
and the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, on 
all policies, programs, and funding of such depart-
ments and agencies relating to gender integration 
and empowerment of women, including ending vio-
lence against women and girls internationally. 
(3) DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION.—Subject to 
the direction of the President and the Secretary of 
State, the Ambassador-at-Large is authorized to 
represent the United States in matters relevant to 
the status of women, including violence against 
women and girls internationally. 
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(d) REPORTS.—Subject to the guidance of the Am-
bassador-at-Large, the heads of all bureaus and offices of 
the Department of State, as appropriate, shall evaluate 
and monitor all empowerment of women programs admin-
istered by such bureaus and offices and annually submit 
to the Ambassador-at-Large reports containing an ac-
counting of such programs and their effectiveness. 
(e) MONITORING AND EVALUATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Office shall seek to co-
ordinate with United States Government depart-
ments and agencies and should provide advice and 
guidance, as necessary, to United States Govern-
ment departments and agencies engaged in inter-
national programs, to monitor and evaluate em-
powerment of women programs and outcomes and 
impacts of such programs, including programs such 
departments and agencies administer for prevention 
and response to violence against women and girls 
internationally. 
(2) REPORT.—The heads of United States Gov-
ernment departments and agencies with inter-
national programs described in paragraph (1) shall 
provide to the Office on an annual basis information 
on empowerment of women programs and outcomes 
and impacts of such programs, including for preven-
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tion and response to violence against women and 
girls internationally, in order to contribute to the de-
velopment and implementation of the comprehensive 
strategy required under section 111. 
(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fis-
cal years 2011 through 2015, under the heading ‘‘Diplo-
matic and Consular Programs’’, to carry out activities 
under this section. Funds appropriated pursuant to this 
subsection are in addition to amounts otherwise available 
for such purposes. 
SEC. 102. OFFICE FOR WOMEN’S GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established an Of-
fice for Women’s Global Development (in this sec-
tion referred to as the ‘‘Office’’) in the United 
States Agency for International Development (in 
this section referred to as ‘‘USAID’’). 
(2) DIRECTOR.—The Office shall be headed by 
the Director of Women’s Global Development (in 
this section referred to as the ‘‘Director’’), who shall 
be appointed by the President, by and with the ad-
vice and consent of the Senate, from among individ-
uals who are highly qualified in matters relating to 
international development and gender integration. 
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The appointment of the Director shall be in addition 
to the appointment of officers otherwise provided for 
in section 624 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
(22 U.S.C. 2384). The Director shall report directly 
to the Administrator of USAID and shall have the 
rank and status of Assistant Administrator. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The Office shall coordinate and guide 
all efforts of USAID to integrate gender in all policies, 
programs, and activities of United States foreign assist-
ance and is intended to replace the Office of Women in 
Development in USAID in existence on the date of the 
enactment of this Act. 
(c) DUTIES.—The Director shall— 
(1) coordinate and consult with the Ambas-
sador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues and 
USAID mission directors; 
(2) provide high-level guidance to USAID mis-
sions, offices, and bureaus on gender integration, de-
sign, strategy, and programming, including for the 
prevention and response to violence against women 
and girls internationally; 
(3) keep the Administrator of USAID informed 
of policy guidance provided by the Ambassador-at- 
Large for Global Women’s Issues under section 101, 
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including for prevention and response to violence 
against women and girls internationally; and 
(4) oversee agency-wide monitoring and evalua-
tion on gender integration activities and strategies, 
including prevention and response to violence against 
women and girls internationally. 
(d) REPORTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the guidance of 
the Director and the Administrator of USAID, the 
heads of relevant USAID missions, offices, and bu-
reaus shall annually submit to the Director reports 
containing data and findings on the impact of gen-
der integration activities and strategies of such mis-
sions, offices, and bureaus, including with respect to 
prevention and response to violence against women 
and girls internationally. 
(2) TYPES OF DATA.—Reports required under 
paragraph (1) should include data with respect to 
relevant contractors, subcontractors, grantees, and 
sub-grantees receiving funds made available under 
this Act, including amounts of awards. 
(3) SUBMISSION
TO
CONGRESS.—Reports re-
quired under paragraph (1) shall be made available 
to the Congress upon request. Such reports shall be 
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submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a 
classified annex if necessary. 
(e) CONGRESSIONAL
BRIEFINGS.—Beginning not 
later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, and semi-annually thereafter, the Director or Admin-
istrator of USAID, as appropriate, should brief Congress 
on the integration of gender considerations and prevention 
and response to violence against women and girls inter-
nationally in USAID strategies, programming, and associ-
ated outcomes and impacts, using data collected under 
subsection (d). 
(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated $15,000,000 for each of fis-
cal years 2011 through 2015 to carry out activities under 
this section. Amounts authorized to be appropriated pur-
suant to this subsection are in addition to amounts other-
wise available for such purposes. 
Subtitle B—Strategy, Policy, and 
Programs 
SEC. 111. 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 Act, the Secretary of State and the Ad-
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ministrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, under the direction of the President and 
with the assistance of the Ambassador-at-Large of the Of-
fice for Global Women’s Issues and the Director of the 
Office for Women’s Global Development— 
(1) shall develop and commence implementation 
of a comprehensive, 5-year international strategy to 
prevent and respond to violence against women and 
girls internationally; and 
(2) shall make such strategy available to the 
public and submit it to the Committee on Foreign 
Relations of the Senate and the Committee on For-
eign Affairs of the House of Representatives. 
(b) COORDINATION.—In developing the strategy 
under subsection (a), the Secretary of State, with the as-
sistance of the Ambassador-at-Large and the Director, 
shall coordinate and consult with— 
(1) United States Government departments and 
agencies administering international programs and 
departments and agencies with expertise in pre-
venting and responding to violence against women 
and girls internationally, including the Department 
of Justice, the Department of Health and Human 
Services, and the Office of the Global AIDS Coordi-
nator; and 
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(2) representatives of civil society with dem-
onstrated experience combating violence against 
women and girls internationally or promoting wom-
en’s health or women’s development internationally, 
including nongovernmental organizations, academics, 
and other experts. 
(c) CONTENT.—The strategy developed under sub-
section (a) shall— 
(1) identify between 5 and 20 eligible countries 
that have severe levels of violence against women 
and girls and such identified countries should, when 
possible, be geographically, ethnically, and culturally 
diverse from one another, may have internally dis-
placed persons and refugee populations, and should 
have the government or nongovernment organiza-
tional capacity to manage and implement activities 
for the prevention and response of violence against 
women and girls internationally; 
(2) identify how and to what extent the violence 
against women and girls in each country is nega-
tively affecting the achievement of United States de-
velopment and security goals in such country, in-
cluding for human rights, poverty reduction, political 
stability, health for women and girls, and economic 
development; 
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(3) detail the potential capacity of each country 
to address and respond to violence against women 
and girls; 
(4) identify the United States Government de-
partments and agencies involved in the execution of 
the relevant program activities for each country; 
(5) create a comprehensive and holistic strategy 
that includes at least two or more of the sectoral ac-
tivities listed in subsection (d) for each country plan 
and describe how the selected programs will prevent 
and respond to the problem of violence against 
women and girls, incorporating security and develop-
ment goals listed in paragraph (2); 
(6) include, as appropriate, strategies designed 
to accommodate the needs of stateless, internally 
displaced, refugee, or religious or ethnic minority 
women and girls; 
(7) include capacity building and technical as-
sistance for community-based women’s nongovern-
mental organizations and community-based organi-
zations with demonstrated expertise in empowerment 
of women, including combating violence against 
women and girls internationally; 
(8) include potential coordination with existing 
programs, initiatives, and groups with demonstrated 
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expertise on preventing and responding to violence 
against women and girls internationally or in em-
powerment of women, particularly coordinating with 
women’s organizations and community-based groups; 
(9) 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 internationally; 
(10) integrate gender analysis into the strategy 
for each country to ensure that women’s, girls’, 
men’s, and boys’ roles are appropriately addressed; 
and 
(11) identify resources needed to implement 
programs, taking into account activities and funding 
provided by other entities, and coordinate with pro-
grams and activities of other multilateral entities. 
(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), a multi-sectoral strategy to 
prevent and respond to violence against women and girls 
internationally, including activities in 2 or more of the fol-
lowing sectors: 
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(1) Supporting health programs and survivor 
services, including— 
(A) integrating a systems-wide approach to 
safely preventing and responding to violence 
against women and girls into existing United 
States Government-funded health programs 
serving women and children, including HIV/ 
AIDS prevention, care, and treatment; 
(B) funding supportive services and advo-
cacy for survivors of violence, including psycho-
logical support and economic empowerment 
where victims identify the need for these serv-
ices; 
(C) improving coordination in countries be-
tween the health and justice sectors so per-
petrators can be held accountable for their vio-
lence and women who choose to can prosecute 
their abuser; and 
(D) working with ministries of health and 
other national-level agencies and local commu-
nity-based organizations to support integration 
of violence against women programming into 
country-level plans of action, strategies, and 
operational plans. 
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(2) Increasing civil and criminal legal and judi-
cial protections, including— 
(A) promoting broader legal protection 
against all forms of violence against women and 
girls that prioritize victim safety and confiden-
tiality and that create accountability for per-
petrators; 
(B) providing 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, 
the rights of victims, appropriate responses, 
and improving coordination between such offi-
cials and relevant authorities; 
(C) enhancing the capacity of the justice 
system, including for recordkeeping, evidence 
and data collection, and expeditious investiga-
tions; and 
(D) helping women and girls who are vic-
tims of violence gain access to the justice sys-
tem and supporting such women and girls 
throughout the legal process; 
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(3) Encouraging change in public attitudes 
through communication and organizing efforts 
that— 
(A) engage men and boys, including faith 
and traditional leaders, as leaders and advo-
cates in ending violence against women and 
girls and the social norms that perpetuate it; 
(B) support women survivors of violence to 
educate their communities on the impacts of vi-
olence; 
(C) support community efforts to change 
attitudes about the acceptability of violence 
against women and girls, including harmful tra-
ditional practices, such as child marriage, fe-
male genital cutting and mutilation, and so- 
called ‘‘honor killings’’; and 
(D) support mass media social change 
campaigns. 
(4) Promoting access to economic opportunity 
projects, including— 
(A) supporting the establishment and de-
velopment of women-owned businesses (micro-, 
small-, and medium-sized enterprises) through 
access to financial and nonfinancial services; 
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(B) supporting programs to help increase 
property rights, social security, and home own-
ership and land tenure security for women; 
(C) increasing women and girls’ access to 
education, literacy, and numeracy programs, 
leadership development, and job skills training; 
(D) addressing violence against women and 
girls in the workplace; and 
(E) promoting legal literacy, including 
among men, women, faith and traditional lead-
ers, about women’s economic, property and fi-
nancial rights. 
(5) Improving educational opportunities for 
women and girls, including— 
(A) promoting efforts at the national level 
to establish and enforce comprehensive legisla-
tion and policies against school-related violence 
against women and girls, including violence at 
and on the way to and from school; 
(B) programs for girls and boys, with 
school and community participation, on the 
unacceptability of violence against women and 
girls, including counseling for affected students; 
and 
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(C) providing training for all teachers and 
school administrators on school-related violence, 
particularly against women and girls, including 
to improve reporting, referral, and implementa-
tion of codes of conduct and a system for ad-
dressing violations of such codes of conduct. 
SEC. 112. ASSISTANCE TO REDUCE INTERNATIONAL VIO-
LENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS. 
(a) COORDINATING EXISTING AID PROGRAMS.—The 
Ambassador-at-Large of the Office for Global Women’s 
Issues and the Director of the Office for Women’s Global 
Development shall seek to coordinate efforts and measures 
to prevent and respond to violence against women and 
girls internationally into existing programs, contracts, 
grants, agreements, and foreign assistance under the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961 and other Acts authorizing 
foreign assistance, as applicable. 
(b) AUTHORITY.—To implement and execute the 
comprehensive international strategy developed pursuant 
to section 111, the Secretary of State or the Administrator 
of the United States Agency for International Develop-
ment (in this section referred to as ‘‘USAID’’), in con-
sultation with the Ambassador-at-Large or the Director, 
is authorized to provide assistance to nongovernmental or-
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ganizations, multilateral institutions, and foreign coun-
tries for program activities described in section 111(d). 
(c) ALLOCATE NEW FUNDING.—The Secretary of 
State, in coordination with the Administrator of USAID, 
based on guidance from the Ambassador-at-Large, is au-
thorized to allocate funds to implement and execute the 
comprehensive international strategy developed pursuant 
to section 111. 
(d) USE OF FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Any funds made available 
under this section to nongovernmental organizations 
should be designated to organizations that have 
demonstrated experience regarding violence against 
women and girls internationally or in the empower-
ment of women, or that are in partnership with such 
organizations and that have demonstrated capabili-
ties or expertise in a particular program activity de-
scribed in section 111(d). 
(2) CONGRESSIONAL
BRIEFINGS.—The Sec-
retary of State and the Administrator of USAID 
shall brief Congress upon request, on the trans-
parent mechanisms used to ensure that funds made 
available under this section through nongovern-
mental organizations are awarded to entities with 
demonstrated 
experience 
with 
violence 
against 
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women and girls internationally, or are in partner-
ship with such organizations, and have demonstrated 
capabilities in a particular program activity de-
scribed in section 111(d). 
(e) GRANTS TO WOMEN’S NONGOVERNMENTAL OR-
GANIZATIONS
AND
COMMUNITY-BASED
ORGANIZA-
TIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State or 
the USAID Administrator, in consultation with the 
Ambassador or the Director, may award funds to 
community-based women’s nongovernmental organi-
zations and community-based organizations in re-
cipient countries to carry out the purposes of this 
section. 
(2) MINIMUM FUNDING REQUIREMENT.—To the 
extent possible, at least 10 percent of funds awarded 
to an eligible country under this section should be 
awarded to community-based women’s nongovern-
mental organizations and community-based organi-
zations. In any country in which capacity is deter-
mined to be too limited to meet the 10 percent re-
quirement, a plan should be provided for how recipi-
ents will work with local nongovernmental organiza-
tions to increase their capacity. 
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(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) shall allocate a reasonable amount of funds 
for the collection of data and the evaluation of pro-
gram effectiveness; 
(2) shall be responsible for developing and re-
porting on outcomes and impacts related to pre-
venting and responding to violence against women 
and girls internationally; 
(3) should gather input from women’s non-
governmental organizations or community-based or-
ganizations in recipient countries, including organi-
zations with expertise in working with men and boys 
to prevent violence; and 
(4) shall consider the safety of women and girls 
as a primary concern in deciding how to design, im-
plement, monitor, and evaluate programs. 
(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the President $175,000,000 for each 
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of the fiscal years 2011 through 2015 to carry out 
this section and section 111. 
(2) AVAILABILITY
OF
FUNDS.—Amounts au-
thorized to be appropriated pursuant to paragraph 
(1) shall remain available until expended. 
(3) NONSUPPLANTATION.—Amounts authorized 
to be appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) are in 
addition to amounts otherwise made available for 
such purposes. 
SEC. 113. ENSURING ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE UNITED 
STATES’ RESPONSE TO VIOLENCE AGAINST 
WOMEN AND GIRLS INTERNATIONALLY. 
(a) BRIEFING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after 
the submission of the comprehensive international 
strategy developed under section 111, and every 
other year thereafter, the Secretary of State, as-
sisted by the Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development (in this sec-
tion referred to as ‘‘USAID’’) and the Ambassador- 
at-Large of the Office for Global Women’s Issues, 
shall brief Congress on implementation of the strat-
egy and the progress being made to prevent and ad-
dress violence against women and girls. 
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(2) CONTENT.—The briefing required under 
paragraph (1) should include the following: 
(A) A description of successful efforts by 
affected country governments and nongovern-
mental organizations, the United States, and bi-
lateral and multilateral donors in prevention 
and response to violence against women and 
girls internationally. 
(B) Recommendations related to best prac-
tices, effective strategies, and suggested im-
provements to enhance the impact of prevention 
and response to violence against women and 
girls internationally. 
(C) Impact of activities funded by the 
strategy in preventing and reducing violence 
against women and girls internationally. 
(b) AMENDMENTS.—Section 116(d) of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n(d)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in paragraph (10), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and 
inserting a semicolon; 
(2) in paragraph (11)(C), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(12) wherever applicable, the nature and ex-
tent of violence against women and girls, as defined 
in section 4 of the International Violence Against 
Women Act of 2010.’’. 
(c) TRANSPARENCY.—The Secretary of State shall 
provide to Congress the information made available under 
sections 101(d) and 102(d), including outcomes and im-
pacts related to prevention and response to violence 
against women and girls internationally submitted by con-
tractors, subcontractors, grantees and subgrantees, except 
if such disclosure would inhibit the security or effective-
ness of such entities. 
(d) RESEARCH AND DATA COLLECTION.—The Am-
bassador-at-Large of the Office for Global Women’s 
Issues, assisted by the Administrator of USAID and the 
heads of relevant bureaus and offices of the Department 
of State and in consultation with the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services and the Attorney General, shall work 
to improve the quality and coordination of existing data 
collection and evaluations of current violence against 
women and girls internationally programs and fund origi-
nal research or analysis of effective interventions to pre-
vent or respond to violence against women and girls inter-
nationally. 
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(e) USE OF FUNDS.—Funds made available in this 
section may be used for the following purposes: 
(1) To collect and analyze new or existing data 
on the scope and extent of all forms of violence 
against women and girls internationally, including 
under-documented forms of violence and violence 
against marginalized groups. 
(2) To conduct research on effective interven-
tions to respond to violence against women and girls 
internationally, including efforts to scale up effective 
programming. 
(3) To support systemic data collection using 
internationally comparable indicators, norms, and 
methodologies for measuring the scope, prevalence, 
and incidence of violence against women and girls 
internationally by— 
(A) governments of foreign countries; and 
(B) federally funded development assist-
ance and health assistance. 
(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of State 
$20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 
2015 to carry out the activities under this section. 
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SEC. 114. ENHANCING UNITED STATES TRAINING OF FOR-
EIGN MILITARY AND POLICE FORCES AND JU-
DICIAL OFFICIALS ON PREVENTING AND RE-
SPONDING TO 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. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION.—Under the direction of the 
President, the Secretary of State is authorized to provide 
guidance to the Secretary of Defense concerning, where 
appropriate— 
(1) incorporating training, prevention, and re-
sponse to violence against women and girls into the 
basic training curricula of foreign military and police 
forces and judicial officials; 
(2) ensuring 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; and 
(3) including an assessment of such activities in 
the briefing developed under section 113(a). 
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(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be nec-
essary for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 2015 to 
carry out the activities under this section. 
SEC. 115. 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 DE-
VELOPMENT.—Under the direction of the Secretary of 
State, the Ambassador-at-Large of the Office for Global 
Women’s Issues is authorized to provide guidance to the 
Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development and the Assistant Secretary of State 
for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, 
who shall take account of the Ambassador’s guidance to 
the extent practicable and shall— 
(1) provide assistance to programs of inter-
national organizations, international and local non-
governmental organizations, and governments where 
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appropriate that prevent and respond to violence 
against women and girls in humanitarian relief, con-
flict and post-conflict settings and that adhere to the 
Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s Guidelines for 
Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humani-
tarian Settings, and should include— 
(A) building the capacity of humanitarian 
organizations and government authorities where 
appropriate to address the special protection 
needs of women and children; 
(B) supporting efforts to provide imme-
diate assistance to survivors of violence and re-
integrate such individuals through education, 
psychosocial assistance, trauma counseling, 
family and community reinsertion and reunifi-
cation, medical assistance and economic oppor-
tunity programs; and 
(C) providing legal services for women and 
girls who are victims of violence; 
(2) ensure that activities to prevent and re-
spond to violence against women and girls inter-
nationally are incorporated into any multilateral or 
bilateral Disarmament, Demobilization, Rehabilita-
tion and Reintegration efforts by— 
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(A) providing protection and suitable sepa-
rate facilities for women and girls formerly in-
volved in, or associated with, fighting forces in 
demobilization and transit centers; 
(B) ensuring equitable reintegration activi-
ties and opportunities to such women and girls, 
including access to schooling, vocational train-
ing, employment, and childcare; 
(C) providing essential medical care and 
psychosocial support for such women and girls 
who are victims of violence; and 
(D) incorporating prevention and response 
to violence against women and girls into pro-
grams for former combatants; 
(3) designate and deploy, as appropriate, spe-
cialists in violence against women and girls as an in-
tegral part of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development’s Disaster Assistance Re-
sponse Teams to ensure the integration of preven-
tion and response to violence against women and 
girls internationally in strategies and programming; 
and 
(4) create a mechanism to ensure that all 
grantees deployed in humanitarian relief, conflict, 
and post-conflict operations— 
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(A) comply with the Inter-Agency Standing 
Committee’s Six Core Principles Relating to 
Sexual Exploitation and Abuse; 
(B) train all humanitarian workers in pre-
venting and responding to violence against 
women and girls, including in the use of mecha-
nisms to report violence against women and 
girls; 
(C) conduct appropriate public outreach to 
make known to the host community the mecha-
nisms to report violence against women and 
girls; and 
(D) promptly and appropriately respond to 
reports of violence against women and girls and 
treat survivors in accordance with best practices 
regarding confidentiality. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Department of State and the 
United States Agency for International Development 
$40,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2011 
through 2015 for programs described in subsection 
(b)(2) that prevent and respond to violence against 
women and girls in humanitarian relief, conflict, and 
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post-conflict operations, in addition to amounts oth-
erwise available for such purposes. 
(2) FUNDING NOT AT EXPENSE OF OTHER HU-
MANITARIAN
PROGRAMS.—Any 
amounts 
appro-
priated pursuant to paragraph (1) may not be pro-
vided at the expense of other humanitarian pro-
grams. 
(d) ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.— 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of State, acting through the Am-
bassador-at-Large of the Office for Global Women’s 
Issues, should brief Congress on activities and efforts to— 
(1) achieve the activities outlined in subsection 
(b); and 
(2) require all private military contracting firms 
hired by the Department of State to conduct activi-
ties in humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict 
settings to— 
(A) demonstrate a commitment to expand-
ing the number and roles of women in such ac-
tivities; 
(B) train all contractors who will be de-
ployed in preventing and responding to violence 
against women and girls internationally; and 
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(C) establish mechanisms to report on and 
promptly respond to violence against women 
and girls internationally, and conduct appro-
priate public outreach to make these mecha-
nisms known to the host community. 
(e) COORDINATION OF U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY 
EFFORTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Under the direction of the 
President, the Secretary of State is authorized to 
provide guidance on preventing and responding to vi-
olence against women and girls to the Secretary of 
Defense when United States military personnel, mili-
tary contractors, and military observers are to be de-
ployed in humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-con-
flict settings. 
(2) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ACTIVITIES.— 
The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State 
are authorized to jointly— 
(A) provide training in prevention and re-
sponse to violence against women and girls 
internationally to United States military forces; 
(B) establish mechanisms for reporting 
incidences of violence against civilian women 
and girls committed by United States military 
forces; and 
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(C) establish appropriate public outreach 
efforts to notify the civilian population of the 
mechanisms for reporting incidences of violence 
against women and girls committed by such 
forces. 
(f) ENHANCING U.S. LEADERSHIP AND ADVOCACY IN 
THE UNITED NATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State, in 
consultation with the Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development, the 
Ambassador-at-Large of the Office for Global Wom-
en’s Issues, the United States Representative to the 
United Nations, and the Assistant Secretaries for 
International Organization Affairs and Population, 
Refugees and Migration, should make available 
United States financial, material, human, and other 
resources to assist United Nations efforts to— 
(A) develop and implement appropriate 
training programs in prevention and response 
to violence against women and girls internation-
ally for peacekeeping and humanitarian per-
sonnel; 
(B) meet staffing goals for women military 
and police peacekeepers, including all-women 
teams and units, and enhance the deployment 
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