quired a disability through conflict, is crucial to sus-
taining democratic institutions. 
(10) Persons with disabilities face disadvan-
tages in educational attainment, labor market out-
comes, financial stability, housing, and standard of 
living conditions. 
(11) Issues related to disability rights cut 
across all sectors, including democracy, human 
rights, labor, global health, education, and disaster 
relief. 
(12) Persons with disabilities are members of 
all marginalized groups, including women, young 
people, the LGBTI community, ethnic and religious 
minorities, internally displaced people, and refugees. 
(13) The public presence of the Special Advisor 
for International Disability Rights at the Depart-
ment of State, first appointed in 2010, helped raise 
the visibility of persons with disabilities in Depart-
ment policies and programs and improved the inclu-
sion of disabilities in the Department’s annual Coun-
try Reports on Human Rights Practices and Traf-
ficking in Persons reports. 
(14) There is currently no mandate that all De-
partment of State programming be disability inclu-
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sive and the Department does not have a formal, 
publicly available disability policy. 
SEC. 3. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL DISABILITY RIGHTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State shall es-
tablish an Office of International Disability Rights (re-
ferred to in this section as the ‘‘Office’’), which should 
be placed within the Bureau for Democracy, Human 
Rights, and Labor (DRL). 
(b) PURPOSE.—The Office shall coordinate efforts of 
the United States Government, as directed by the Sec-
retary, regarding human rights for persons with disabil-
ities and advancing the status of persons with disabilities 
in United States foreign policy. 
(c) DUTIES.—The Office shall carry out the fol-
lowing: 
(1) Serve as the principal advisor to the De-
partment of State on all matters related to inter-
national rights for persons with disabilities. 
(2) Represent the United States in diplomatic 
and multilateral fora on matters relevant to the 
rights of persons with disabilities and work to raise 
the profile of disability across a broader range of or-
ganizations contributing to international develop-
ment efforts. 
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(3) Work to ensure that disability inclusive 
practices and empowerment of persons with disabil-
ities are fully integrated into all United States for-
eign operations. 
(4) Conduct regular consultation with civil soci-
ety organizations working to advance international 
disability rights and empower persons with disabil-
ities internationally. 
(5) Consult with other relevant offices at the 
Department of State that are responsible for draft-
ing annual reports documenting progress on human 
rights to include references to instances of discrimi-
nation, prejudice, or abuses of persons with disabil-
ities wherever applicable. 
(6) Advise the Department of State’s Bureau of 
Human Resources Development on the hiring and 
recruitment and overseas practices of civil service 
employees and foreign service officers with disabil-
ities and their family members with chronic medical 
conditions or disabilities. 
(d) SUPERVISION.—The Office shall be headed by a 
Special Advisor for International Disability Rights. The 
Special Advisor should be a person of recognized distinc-
tion in the field of disability rights. 
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(e) CONSULTATION.—The Secretary shall direct Am-
bassadors at Large, Representatives, Special Envoys, and 
coordinators working on human rights to consult with the 
Office to promote the human rights and full participation 
in international development activities of all persons with 
disabilities. 
SEC. 4. TRAINING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State shall re-
quire online or in-person mandatory disability inclusion 
training for all civil service and foreign service personnel 
of the Department of State and chiefs of mission, includ-
ing on— 
(1) how to develop solicitations, programming, 
budgets, and policies that are inclusive; 
(2) how to ensure a disability-inclusive work en-
vironment; 
(3) how to conduct disability-inclusive analyses 
of laws and programming; 
(4) how to support local disabled people’s orga-
nizations; and 
(5) how to ensure nongovernmental organiza-
tions that receive funding from the Department 
mainstream disability rights throughout all pro-
grams. 
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(b) FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS.—The Secretary 
shall ensure that training for foreign service officers under 
subsection (a) should include country-specific and cultural 
considerations. 
SEC. 5. DISABILITY INCLUSION IN FOREIGN POLICY. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that, since international disability rights is 
foundational to development, national security, and eco-
nomic 
outcomes, 
disability 
inclusion 
should 
be 
mainstreamed through all foreign assistance and program-
ming. 
(b) FORMAL POLICY FOR DISABILITY INCLUSION.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than one year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of State shall develop and adopt a formal pol-
icy for disability inclusion in the Department of 
State. 
(2) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—Such policy 
should include information and guidance on the De-
partment’s approach to disability inclusion in United 
States foreign assistance programming, including— 
(A) recruiting and hiring, employment, 
overseas assignments, accessibility, foreign as-
sistance, program monitoring and evaluation, 
and reporting; and 
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