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(2) the principle that such placements should be 
based on informed consent which has not been in-
duced by payment or compensation; 
(3) the view that long-term foster care or institu-
tionalization are not permanent options and should 
be used when no other suitable permanent options are 
available; and 
(4) the recognition that programs that protect 
and support families can reduce the abandonment 
and exploitation of children. 
COORDINATOR OF ACTIVITIES RELATING TO INDIGENOUS 
PEOPLES INTERNATIONALLY 
SEC. 682. (a) COORDINATOR.—After consultation with 
the Committees on Appropriations and not later than 90 
days after the enactment of this Act, there shall be estab-
lished within the Department of State in the immediate of-
fice of the Director of United States Foreign Assistance a 
Coordinator of Activities Relating to Indigenous Peoples 
Internationally (hereinafter in this section referred to as 
the ‘‘Coordinator’’), who shall be appointed by the Director. 
The Coordinator shall report directly to the Director. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Coordinator shall: 
(1) Serve as a principal advisor to the Director 
of United States Foreign Assistance and the Adminis-
trator of the United States Agency for International 
Development on matters relating to the rights and
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needs of indigenous peoples internationally and 
should represent the United States Government on 
such matters in meetings with foreign governments 
and multilateral institutions. 
(2) Provide for the oversight and coordination of 
all resources, programs, projects, and activities of the 
United States Government to protect the rights and 
address the needs of indigenous peoples internation-
ally; and 
(3) Develop and coordinate assistance strategies 
with specific goals, benchmarks, guidelines, and im-
pact assessments (including support for local indige-
nous peoples’ organizations). 
(c) FUNDS.—Of the funds appropriated by this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Diplomatic and Consular Programs’’, 
not less than $250,000 shall be made available for executing 
the provisions of this section. 
(d) REPORT.—Not later than one year after the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to the 
Committees on Appropriations describing progress made in 
implementing this section. 
OVERSIGHT OF IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION 
SEC. 683. Subsection (o) of section 3001 of the Emer-
gency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for 
the Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004 (Public 
Law 108–106; 117 Stat. 1234; 5 U.S.C. App. 3 section 8G
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note), as amended by section 1054(b) of the John Warner 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 
(Public Law 109–364; 129 Stat. 2397), section 2 of the Iraq 
Reconstruction Accountability Act of 2006 (Public Law 
109–440), and section 3801 of the U.S. Troop Readiness, 
Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability 
Appropriations Act, 2007 (Public Law 110–28) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in subsection (o)(1)(B) by striking ‘‘fiscal 
year 2006 or fiscal year 2007’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal 
years 2006 through 2008’’. Section 1054 of Public 
Law 109–364 is amended by striking ‘‘fiscal year 
2006’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal years 2006 through 
2008’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end of such section the fol-
lowing subsection: 
‘‘(p) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—For the purposes of 
carrying out the duties of the Inspector General, any United 
States funds appropriated or otherwise made available for 
fiscal years 2006 through 2008 for the reconstruction of 
Iraq, irrespective of the designation of such funds, shall be 
deemed to be amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund.’’. 
DEMOBILIZATION AND DISARMAMENT IN COLOMBIA 
SEC. 684. (a) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Of the funds 
appropriated in this Act, up to $12,000,000 may be made
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available in fiscal year 2008 for assistance for the demobili-
zation and reintegration of former members of foreign ter-
rorist organizations (FTOs) in Colombia, if the Secretary 
of State consults with and makes a certification described 
in subsection (b) to the Committees on Appropriations prior 
to the initial obligation of amounts for such assistance for 
the fiscal year involved. 
(b) CERTIFICATION.—A certification described in this 
subsection is a certification that— 
(1) assistance for the fiscal year will be provided 
only for individuals who have: (A) verifiably re-
nounced and terminated any affiliation or involve-
ment with FTOs or other illegal armed groups; (B) 
are meeting all the requirements of the Colombia De-
mobilization Program, including having disclosed 
their involvement in past crimes and their knowledge 
of the FTO’s structure, financing sources, illegal as-
sets, and the location of kidnapping victims and bod-
ies of the disappeared; and (C) are not involved in 
acts of intimidation or violence against human rights 
defenders; 
(2) the Government of Colombia is providing full 
cooperation to the Government of the United States to 
extradite the leaders and members of the FTOs who 
have been indicted in the United States for murder,
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kidnapping, narcotics trafficking, or other violations 
of United States law, and is immediately extraditing 
to the United States those commanders, leaders and 
members indicted in the United States who have 
breached the terms of the Colombia Demobilization 
Program, including by failing to fully confess their 
crimes, failing to disclose their illegal assets, or com-
mitting new crimes since the approval of the Justice 
and Peace Law; 
(3) the Government of Colombia is not taking 
any steps to legalize the titles of land or other assets 
illegally obtained and held by FTOs, their associates, 
or successors, has established effective procedures to 
identify such land and other assets, and is confis-
cating and returning such land and other assets to 
their rightful owners; 
(4) the Government of Colombia is implementing 
a concrete and workable framework for dismantling 
the organizational structures of foreign terrorist orga-
nizations; and 
(5) funds shall not be made available as cash 
payments to individuals and are available only for 
activities under the following categories: verification, 
reintegration (including training and education), vet-
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ting, recovery of assets for reparations for victims, 
and investigations and prosecutions. 
(c) NOTIFICATION.—Funds made available by this Act 
for demobilization and reintegration of members of FTOs 
shall be subject to the regular notification procedures of the 
Committees on Appropriations. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) 
APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional commit-
tees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Appropriations and 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 
of Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Appropriations and 
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Sen-
ate. 
(2) FOREIGN
TERRORIST
ORGANIZATION.—The 
term ‘‘foreign terrorist organization’’ means an orga-
nization designated as a terrorist organization under 
section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. 
INDONESIA 
SEC. 685. Of the funds appropriated under the heading 
‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’, $15,700,000 may 
be made available for assistance for Indonesia, and an ad-
ditional $2,000,000 may be made available when the Sec-
retary of State reports to the Committees on Appropriations
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that the Government of Indonesia has provided a copy of 
its written plans to effectively address the following, and 
a copy of each plan has been provided with the report— 
(1) accountability for past violations of human 
rights by members of the Indonesian military; 
(2) to allow public access to Papua and West 
Irian Jaya; and 
(3) to pursue the criminal investigation, and 
provide the projected timeframe for completing the in-
vestigation, of the murder of Munir Said Thalib. 
ASSISTANCE FOR GUATEMALA 
SEC. 686. (a) Funds appropriated by this Act under 
the heading ‘‘International Military Education and Train-
ing’’ that are available for assistance for Guatemala, other 
than for expanded international military education and 
training, may be made available only for the Guatemalan 
Air Force and Navy and may be made available for the 
Guatemalan Army Corps of Engineers only for training to 
improve disaster response capabilities and to participate in 
international peacekeeping operations: Provided, That such 
funds may be made available only if the Secretary of State 
certifies that the Guatemalan Air Force, Navy and Army 
Corps of Engineers are respecting human rights, and civil-
ian judicial authorities are investigating and prosecuting, 
with the military’s full cooperation, military personnel who
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have been credibly alleged to have committed gross viola-
tions of human rights. 
(b) Funds appropriated by this Act under the heading 
‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’ that are available 
for assistance for Guatemala may be made available only 
for the Guatemalan Air Force, Navy and Army Corps of 
Engineers if the Secretary of State certifies that the Guate-
malan Air Force, Navy and Army Corps of Engineers are 
respecting human rights, civilian judicial authorities are 
investigating and prosecuting, with the military’s full co-
operation, military personnel who have been credibly al-
leged to have committed gross violations of human rights, 
and the Guatemalan Government has enacted into law the 
International Commission Against Impunity in Guate-
mala. 
(c) Funds made available for assistance for Guatemala 
under the headings referred to in this section shall be subject 
to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
Appropriations. 
CHILD SOLDIERS 
SEC. 687. (a) No military assistance shall be furnished 
with funds appropriated by this Act and, during the cur-
rent fiscal year, no military equipment or technology shall 
be sold or transferred pursuant to the authorities contained 
in this Act or any other Act, to the government of a country 
that is identified by the Department of State’s 2006 Coun-
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try Reports on Human Rights Practices as having security 
forces that recruit or use child soldiers. 
(b) The Secretary of State may provide assistance or 
defense articles otherwise prohibited under subsection (a) to 
a country upon certifying to the Committees on Appropria-
tions that the government of such country has implemented 
effective measures to prohibit and prevent the future recruit-
ment or use of child soldiers. 
(c) The Secretary of State may waive the application 
to a country of the prohibition in subsection (a) if the Sec-
retary determines and reports to the Committees on Appro-
priations that such waiver is important to the national in-
terest of the United States. 
PHILIPPINES 
SEC. 688. Of the funds appropriated by this Act under 
the heading ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’, not 
to exceed $30,000,000 may be made available for assistance 
for the Philippines, and an additional $2,000,000 may be 
made available when the Secretary of State reports to the 
Committees on Appropriations that— 
(1) the Philippine Government is implementing 
the recommendations of the United Nations Special 
Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary 
Executions; and
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(2) the Philippine military is not engaging in 
acts of intimidation or violence against members of 
legal organizations who advocate for human rights. 
PAKISTAN 
SEC. 689. (a) Of the funds appropriated by this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’, 
$300,000,000 may be made available for assistance for 
Pakistan, unless the Secretary of State reports to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations that the Government of Pakistan 
is not— 
(1) making effective and consistent efforts to pre-
vent Al Qaeda and associated terrorist groups from 
operating in the territory of Pakistan, including by 
eliminating terrorist training camps or facilities, ar-
resting members of Al Qaeda and associated terrorist 
groups, and countering recruitment efforts; 
(2) making effective and consistent efforts to pre-
vent the Taliban from using the territory of Pakistan 
as a sanctuary from which to launch attacks within 
Afghanistan, including by arresting Taliban leaders, 
stopping cross-border incursions, and countering re-
cruitment efforts; and 
(3) implementing democratic reforms, including 
by—
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(A) allowing free, fair and inclusive elec-
tions in accordance with internationally recog-
nized democratic norms; 
(B) ensuring freedom of expression and end-
ing harassment of journalists and government 
critics by security and intelligence forces; and 
(C) respecting the independence of the judi-
ciary and implementing judicial decisions. 
(b) If the Secretary reports pursuant to subsection (a), 
funds that are available for assistance for Pakistan pursu-
ant to this section which have not been made available may 
be transferred to and merged with funds appropriated by 
this Act under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ and 
used for basic education, health, micro-enterprise develop-
ment, and democracy programs in Pakistan. 
SRI LANKA 
SEC. 690. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’ 
may be made available for assistance for Sri Lanka, no 
defense export license may be issued, and no military equip-
ment or technology shall be sold or transferred to Sri Lanka 
pursuant to the authorities contained in this Act or any 
other Act, unless the Secretary of State certifies and reports 
to the Committees on Appropriations that the Sri Lankan 
military is suspending and the Sri Lankan Government is 
bringing to justice members of the military who have been
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credibly alleged to have committed gross violations of 
human rights, including extrajudicial executions and the 
recruitment of child soldiers. 
PEACE CORPS SEPARATION PAY 
SEC. 691. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF FUND.—There is es-
tablished in the Treasury of the United States a fund for 
the Peace Corps to provide separation pay for host country 
resident personal services contractors of the Peace Corps. 
(b) FUNDING.—The Director of the Peace Corps may 
deposit in such fund— 
(1) amounts previously obligated and not can-
celed for separation pay of host country resident per-
sonal services contractors of the Peace Corps; and 
(2) amounts obligated for fiscal years after 2006 
for the current and future costs of separation pay for 
host country resident personal services contractors of 
the Peace Corps. 
(c) AVAILABILITY.—Beginning in fiscal year 2007 and 
thereafter, amounts in the fund are available without fiscal 
year limitation for severance, retirement, or other separa-
tion payments to host country resident personal services 
contractors of the Peace Corps in countries where such pay 
is legally authorized. 
MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS 
SEC. 692. (a) INDEPENDENT AUDITING AND INSPEC-
TOR GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall in-
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struct the United States Executive Director to each multi-
lateral development bank to inform the bank of, and use 
the voice and vote of the United States to achieve at the 
bank, the following United States policy goals: 
(1) 
Each 
multilateral 
development 
bank 
should— 
(A) establish an independent Office of In-
spector General, establish or strengthen an inde-
pendent auditing function at the bank, and re-
quire that the Inspector General and the audit-
ing function report directly to the board of direc-
tors of the bank; and 
(B) adopt and implement an internation-
ally recognized internal controls framework, allo-
cate adequate staffing to auditing and super-
vision, require external audits of internal con-
trols, and external audits of loans where fraud is 
suspected. 
(2) Each multilateral development bank should 
establish effective procedures for the receipt, retention, 
and treatment of— 
(A) complaints received by the bank regard-
ing fraud, accounting, mismanagement, internal 
accounting controls, or auditing matters; and
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(B) the confidential, anonymous submis-
sion, particularly by employees of the bank, of 
concerns regarding fraud, accounting, mis-
management, internal accounting controls, or 
auditing matters. 
(b) WORLD BANK INSPECTION PANEL.—The Secretary 
of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive 
Director to the World Bank to inform the Bank of, and use 
the voice and vote of the United States to achieve trans-
parency reforms of the selection process for members of the 
World Bank Inspection Panel, including— 
(1) Widely circulating Inspection Panel position 
vacancy announcements on the Inspection Panel’s 
website and in appropriate publications; 
(2) Notifying civil society organizations on the 
Inspection Panel’s website and on other appropriate 
World Bank websites and inviting nominations from 
such groups; 
(3) Making public the schedule of the selection 
process; 
(4) Posting the list of nominees and applicants 
on the Inspection Panel’s website; and 
(5) Including a civil society representative on the 
World Bank selection committee for the Inspection 
Panel member.
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(c) ANTI-CORRUPTION TRUST PILOT PROGRAM.— 
(1) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of the Treasury 
shall seek the creation of a pilot program that estab-
lishes an Anti-Corruption Trust at the World Bank, 
the purposes of which should include— 
(A) to assist poor countries in investiga-
tions and prosecutions of fraud and corruption 
related to loans, grants, or credits of the World 
Bank; and 
(B) to determine whether such a program 
should be carried out at other multilateral devel-
opment banks. 
(2) POOR
COUNTRIES
DEFINED.—In this sub-
section, the term ‘‘poor countries’’ means countries el-
igible to borrow from the International Development 
Association. 
(3) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after en-
actment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees a report detail-
ing the actions taken to establish the Anti-Corruption 
Trust. 
(c) AUTHORIZATIONS.— 
(1) Section 501(i) of title V of H.R. 3425 as en-
acted into law by section 1000(a)(5) of Public law 
106–113, as amended by section 591(b) of Division D
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of Public Law 108–447, is further amended by strik-
ing ‘‘fiscal’’ and all that follows through ‘‘which’’ and 
inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘fiscal years 2000–2010, 
which’’. 
(2) Section 801(b)(1)(ii) of Public Law 106–429, 
as amended by section 591(a)(2) of Division D of 
Public law 108–447, is further amended by striking 
‘‘fiscal years 2004–2006’’ and by inserting in lieu 
thereof ‘‘fiscal years 2004–2010.’’. 
MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION 
SEC. 693. Section 607(b) of the Millennium Challenge 
Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7706) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)(B) by striking ‘‘and the 
sustainable management of natural resources’’; 
(2) in paragraph (3)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
‘‘and’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the 
period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding the following subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) promote the protection of biodiversity 
and the sustainable management and use of nat-
ural resources.’’.
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MATERIAL SUPPORT 
RELIEF FOR IRAQI, MONTAGNARDS, HMONG AND OTHER 
REFUGEES WHO DO NOT POSE A THREAT TO THE 
UNITED STATES 
SEC. 694. (a) AMENDMENT TO AUTHORITY TO DETER-
MINE THE BAR TO ADMISSION INAPPLICABLE.—Section 
212(d)(3)(B)(i) of the Immigration Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1182(d)(3)(B)(i)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘The Secretary of State, after consultation with the Attor-
ney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, or 
the Secretary of Homeland Security, after consultation with 
the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, may deter-
mine in such Secretary’s sole unreviewable discretion that 
subsection (a)(3)(B) shall not apply with respect to an 
alien, within the scope of that subsection, unless that alien 
is described in subsection (a)(3)(B)(i)(V), or that subsection 
(a)(3)(B)(vi)(III) shall not apply to a group. Such a deter-
mination shall neither prejudice the ability of the United 
States Government to commence criminal or civil pro-
ceedings involving a beneficiary of such a determination or 
any other person, nor create any substantive or procedural 
right or benefit for a beneficiary of such a determination 
or any other person. Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law (statutory or non-statutory), including but not lim-
ited to section 2241 of title 28, or any other habeas corpus 
provision, and sections 1361 and 1651 of such title, no court
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shall have jurisdiction to review such a determination or 
revocation except in a proceeding for review of a final order 
of removal pursuant to section 242 and only to the extent 
provided in section 242(a)(2)(D). The Secretary of State 
may not exercise the discretion provided in this clause with 
respect to an alien at any time during which the alien is 
the subject of pending removal proceedings under section 
1229a of title 8.’’. 
(b) AUTOMATIC RELIEF FOR THE MONTAGNARDS AND 
OTHER GROUPS THAT DO NOT POSE A THREAT TO THE 
UNITED STATES.—Section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(B)) is 
amended— 
(1) in clause (vi) in the matter preceding section 
(I), by striking ‘‘As’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as pro-
vided in clause (vii), as’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
clause: 
‘‘(vii) Notwithstanding clause (vi), for 
purposes of this section the Hmong, the 
Montagnards, the Karen National Union/ 
Karen Liberation Army (KNU/KNLA), the 
Chin National Front/Chin National Army 
(CNF/CNA), the Chin National League for 
Democracy (CNLD), the Kayan New Land