clear protections for the right to freedom of religion 
or belief for individual Afghan citizens has resulted 
in a growing number of criminal prosecutions and 
other official actions against individuals, including 
women, for exercising their basic rights. 
(7) The strengthening of institutions and other 
actors, such as nongovernmental organizations, in 
Afghanistan is essential to building a civil society 
and holding the Government of Afghanistan to its 
international obligations under the International 
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and other 
international instruments to protect and ensure the 
rights of women. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN AF-
GHANISTAN. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the protection of the rights of women and 
girls in Afghanistan and their full participation in 
the reestablishment of democracy is essential to the 
reconstruction of a stable and democratic Afghani-
stan, and to achieve such a reconstruction, the 
United States Government must continue to commit 
resources to advance the rights of women through-
out Afghanistan; 
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(2) the United States Government should pro-
vide strong support for the Afghan Ministry of 
Women’s Affairs and the Afghan Independent 
Human Rights Commission, both of which were cre-
ated by the Agreement on Provisional Agreements in 
Afghanistan Pending the Establishment of Perma-
nent Governing Institutions, done in Bonn, Decem-
ber 5, 2001 (commonly known as the ‘‘Bonn Agree-
ment’’), to remedy past violations of women’s rights 
and human rights and to establish institutions and 
programs to ensure policies that advance such 
rights; 
(3) the United States Government should make 
it a priority to provide assistance to Afghan-led non-
governmental organizations, particularly Afghan 
women-led nonprofit organizations; and 
(4) grants and assistance to Afghanistan should 
be conditioned upon the Government of Afghanistan 
adhering to international standards for women’s 
rights and human rights, including the internation-
ally recognized right to freedom of thought, con-
science, and religion or belief. 
SEC. 4. ASSISTANCE TO WOMEN AND GIRLS. 
Section 103(a)(7) of the Afghanistan Freedom Sup-
port Act of 2002 (22 U.S.C. 7513(a)(7)) is amended— 
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(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking clauses (i) 
through (xii) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(i) to provide equipment, medical 
supplies, and other assistance to health 
care facilities for the purpose of reducing 
maternal and infant mortality and mor-
bidity; 
‘‘(ii) to establish and expand pro-
grams to provide services to women and 
girls suffering from mental health prob-
lems, such as depression, anxiety, and 
posttraumatic stress disorder; 
‘‘(iii) to expand immunization pro-
grams for women and children; 
‘‘(iv) to protect and provide services to 
vulnerable populations, including widows, 
orphans, and women head of households; 
‘‘(v) to establish primary and sec-
ondary schools for girls that include math-
ematics, science, and languages in their 
primary curriculum; 
‘‘(vi) to expand technical and voca-
tional training programs to enable women 
to support themselves and their families; 
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‘‘(vii) to maintain and expand adult 
literacy programs, including economic lit-
eracy programs that promote the well- 
being of women and their families; 
‘‘(viii) to provide special educational 
opportunities for girls whose schooling was 
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; 
‘‘(ix) 
to 
disseminate 
information 
throughout Afghanistan on the rights of 
women and on international standards for 
human rights; 
‘‘(x) 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; 
‘‘(xi) to provide legal assistance to 
women who have suffered violations of 
their rights; 
‘‘(xii) to increase political and civil 
participation of women in all levels of soci-
ety, including the criminal justice system; 
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‘‘(xiii) to provide information and 
training related to women’s rights and 
human rights to military, police, judicial, 
and legal personnel; 
‘‘(xiv) 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 
‘‘(xv) 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 providing emergency shel-
ters for women and girls who face danger 
from violence.’’; and 
(2) by restating subparagraph (B) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(B) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—For each 
of the fiscal years 2010 through 2012— 
‘‘(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; 
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‘‘(ii) $10,000,000 is authorized to be 
appropriated to the President to be made 
available to the Afghanistan Independent 
Human Rights Commission for the admin-
istration and conduct of its programs; and 
‘‘(iii) $100,000,000 is authorized to 
be appropriated to the President for grants 
to Afghan women-led nonprofit organiza-
tions to support activities including the 
construction, establishment, and operation 
of schools for married girls and girls’ or-
phanages, vocational training and human 
rights education for women and girls, 
health care clinics for women and children, 
programs to strengthen Afghan women-led 
organizations and women’s leadership, and 
to provide monthly financial assistance to 
widows, orphans, and women head of 
households.’’. 
SEC. 5. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ASSISTANCE. 
It is the sense of Congress that, in providing assist-
ance under section 103(a)(7) of the Afghanistan Freedom 
Support Act of 2002 (22 U.S.C. 7513(a)(7)), as amended 
by section 4, the President should— 
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(1) condition the provision of such assistance on 
the recipient adhering to international standards for 
women’s rights and human rights; and 
(2) ensure that Afghan women-led nongovern-
mental organizations throughout Afghanistan receive 
grants without ethnic, religious, or any other dis-
crimination. 
Æ 
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