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dren are no longer a danger to their re-
spective communities; and 
(iii) by taking into consideration the 
needs of girl soldiers, who may be at risk 
of exclusion from disarmament, demobiliza-
tion, and reintegration programs; 
(B) facilitating reconciliation with such 
communities through negotiations with tradi-
tional leaders and elders to enable recovered 
abductees to resume normal lives in such com-
munities; and 
(C) providing educational and vocational 
assistance; 
(4) the United States should work with the 
international community, including, as appropriate, 
third country governments, nongovernmental organi-
zations, faith-based organizations, United Nations 
agencies, local governments, labor unions, and pri-
vate enterprises— 
(A) to bring to justice rebel and para-
military forces that kidnap children for use as 
child soldiers; 
(B) to recover those children who have 
been abducted; and 
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(C) to assist such children to be rehabili-
tated and reintegrated into their respective 
communities; 
(5) the Secretary of State, the Secretary of 
Labor, and the Secretary of Defense should coordi-
nate programs to achieve the goals described in 
paragraph (3); 
(6) United States diplomatic missions in coun-
tries in which the use of child soldiers is an issue, 
whether or not such use is supported or sanctioned 
by the governments of such countries, should include 
in their mission program plans a strategy to achieve 
the goals described in paragraph (3); 
(7) United States diplomatic missions in coun-
tries in which governments use or tolerate child sol-
diers should develop strategies, as part of annual 
program planning— 
(A) to promote efforts to end such abuse 
of human rights; and 
(B) to identify and integrate global best 
practices, as available, into such strategies to 
avoid duplication of effort; and 
(8) in allocating or recommending the allocation 
of funds or recommending candidates for programs 
and grants funded by the United States Govern-
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ment, United States diplomatic missions should give 
serious consideration to those programs and can-
didates that are expected to promote the end to the 
abuse of human rights described in this section. 
SEC. 404. PROHIBITION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsections (b), (c), 
and (d), the authorities contained in section 516 or 541 
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321j 
or 2347) or section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act 
(22 U.S.C. 2763) may not be used to provide assistance 
to, and no licenses for direct commercial sales of military 
equipment may be issued to, the government of a country 
that is clearly identified, pursuant to subsection (b), for 
the most recent year preceding the fiscal year in which 
the authorities or license would have been used or issued 
in the absence of a violation of this title, as having govern-
mental armed forces or government-supported armed 
groups, including paramilitaries, militias, or civil defense 
forces, that recruit and use child soldiers. 
(b) IDENTIFICATION AND NOTIFICATION TO COUN-
TRIES IN VIOLATION OF STANDARDS.— 
(1) PUBLICATION OF LIST OF FOREIGN GOV-
ERNMENTS.—The Secretary of State shall include a 
list of the foreign governments that have violated the 
standards under this title and are subject to the pro-
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hibition in subsection (a) in the report required 
under section 110(b) of the Trafficking Victims Pro-
tection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)). 
(2) NOTIFICATION OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES.— 
The Secretary of State shall formally notify any gov-
ernment identified pursuant to subsection (a). 
(c) NATIONAL INTEREST WAIVER.— 
(1) WAIVER.—The President may waive the ap-
plication to a country of the prohibition in sub-
section (a) if the President determines that such 
waiver is in the national interest of the United 
States. 
(2) PUBLICATION
AND
NOTIFICATION.—Not 
later than 45 days after each waiver is granted 
under paragraph (1), the President shall notify the 
appropriate congressional committees of the waiver 
and the justification for granting such waiver. 
(d) REINSTATEMENT OF ASSISTANCE.—The Presi-
dent may provide to a country assistance otherwise prohib-
ited under subsection (a) upon certifying to the appro-
priate congressional committees that the government of 
such country— 
(1) has implemented measures that include an 
action plan and actual steps to come into compliance 
with the standards outlined in section 404(b); and 
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(2) has implemented policies and mechanisms 
to prohibit and prevent future government or gov-
ernment-supported use of child soldiers and to en-
sure that no children are recruited, conscripted, or 
otherwise compelled to serve as child soldiers. 
(e) EXCEPTION FOR PROGRAMS DIRECTLY RELATED 
TO ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM OF CHILD SOLDIERS OR 
PROFESSIONALIZATION OF THE MILITARY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The President may provide 
assistance to a country for international military 
education, training, and nonlethal supplies (as de-
fined in section 2557(d)(1)(B) of title 10, United 
States Code) otherwise prohibited under subsection 
(a) upon certifying to the appropriate congressional 
committees that— 
(A) the government of such country is tak-
ing reasonable steps to implement effective 
measures to demobilize child soldiers in its 
forces 
or 
in 
government-supported 
paramilitaries and is taking reasonable steps 
within the context of its national resources to 
provide demobilization, rehabilitation, and re-
integration assistance to those former child sol-
diers; and 
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