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(B) education and vocational training tai-
lored to enable poor women to access opportuni-
ties in potential growth sectors in their local 
economies and in jobs within the formal and in-
formal sectors where women are not tradition-
ally highly represented; 
(C) efforts to support self-employed poor 
women or wage workers to form or join inde-
pendent unions or other labor associations to 
increase their income and improve their work-
ing conditions; and 
(D) advocacy efforts to protect the rights 
of women in the workplace, including— 
(i) developing programs with the par-
ticipation of civil society to eliminate gen-
der-based violence; and 
(ii) providing capacity-building assist-
ance to women’s organizations to effec-
tively research and monitor labor rights 
conditions; 
(6) assistance to governments and organizations 
in developing countries seeking to design and imple-
ment laws, regulations, and programs to improve 
working conditions for women and to facilitate their 
entry into and advancement in the workplace;
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(7) training and education to women in civil so-
ciety,
including
those
organizations
representing 
poor women, and to women-owned enterprises and 
associations of such enterprises, on how to respond 
to economic opportunities created by trade pref-
erence programs, trade agreements, or other policies 
creating market access, including training on United 
States market access requirements and procedures; 
(8) capacity-building for women entrepreneurs, 
including microentrepreneurs, on production strate-
gies, quality standards, formation of cooperatives, 
market research, and market development; 
(9) capacity-building to women, including poor 
women, to promote diversification of products and 
value-added processing; 
(10) training to official government negotiators 
representing developing countries in order to en-
hance the ability of such negotiators to formulate 
trade policy and negotiate agreements that take into 
account the respective needs and priorities of a 
country’s poor women and men; 
(11)
training
to
local,
indigenous
women’s 
groups in developing countries in order to enhance 
their ability to collect information and data, formu-
late proposals, and inform and impact official gov-
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ernment negotiators representing their country in 
international trade negotiations of the respective 
needs and priorities of a country’s poor women and 
men; and 
(12) technical assistance and capacity-building 
to local, indigenous civil society for— 
(A) local indigenous women’s organizations 
to the maximum extent practicable; and 
(B)
nongovernmental
organizations
and 
regulated financial intermediaries that dem-
onstrate a commitment to gender equity in their 
leadership either through current practice or 
through specific programs to increase the rep-
resentation of women in their governance and 
management. 
PEACEKEEPING CAP 
SEC. 684. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 404(b)(2)(B) 
of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 
1994 and 1995, (22 U.S.C. 287e note) is amended at the 
end by adding the following: ‘‘(v) For assessments made 
during calendar year 2008, 27.1 percent.’’. 
LIMITATION ON BASING IN IRAQ 
SEC. 685. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Government of the United States 
to enter into a permanent basing rights agreement be-
tween the United States and Iraq.
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PROHIBITION ON USE OF TORTURE 
SEC. 686. None of the funds made available in this 
Act shall be used in any way whatsoever to support or 
justify the use of torture by any official or contract em-
ployee of the United States Government. 
REPORT ON INDONESIAN COOPERATION 
SEC.
687.
Funds
available
under
the
heading 
‘‘INTERNATIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION AND 
TRAINING’’ may only be made available for assistance 
for Indonesia if the Secretary of State submits a report 
to the Committees on Appropriations that describes: 
(1) Steps taken by the Indonesian government 
to deny promotion to and to remove from service 
military officers indicted for serious crimes; the ex-
tent to which the Indonesian Government is cooper-
ating with international efforts to bring current and 
past officials to justice; and that past and present 
Indonesian military officials are cooperating with do-
mestic inquiries into past abuses, including the 
forced disappearance and killing of student activists 
in 1998 and 1999. 
(2) The Indonesian government’s response to 
the report of the Commission for Reception, Truth 
and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste and the June 
2006 report of the report to the Secretary-General 
of the Commission of Experts to Review the Pros-
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ecution of Serious Violations of Human Rights in 
Timor-Leste in 1999. 
(3) Steps taken by the Indonesian government 
to implement and enforce the 2004 Indonesian law 
which requires the Indonesian military to divest 
itself of legal and illegal businesses before 2009. 
(4) The extent to which the Indonesian govern-
ment has removed restrictions impending access to 
and travel within the provinces of Papua and West 
Irian Jaya by United Nations personnel, diplomats, 
journalists, international non-governmental organiza-
tion personnel and researchers, humanitarian and 
human rights workers and others. 
LIMITATION
ON
ASSISTANCE
TO
FOREIGN
COUNTRIES 
THAT
REFUSE
TO
EXTRADITE
TO
THE
UNITED 
STATES ANY INDIVIDUAL ACCUSED IN THE UNITED 
STATES OF KILLING A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER 
SEC. 688. None of the funds made available in this 
Act for the Department of State may be used to provide 
assistance to the central government of a country which 
has notified the Department of State of its refusal to ex-
tradite to the United States any individual indicted in the 
United States for killing a law enforcement officer, as 
specified in a United States extradition request.
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GOVERNMENTS THAT HAVE FAILED TO PERMIT CERTAIN 
EXTRADITIONS 
SEC. 689. None of the funds made available in this 
Act for the Department of State, other than funds pro-
vided under the heading ‘‘INTERNATIONAL NAR-
COTICS CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT’’, 
may be used to provide assistance to the central govern-
ment of a country with which the United States has an 
extradition treaty and which government has notified the 
Department of State of its refusal to extradite to the 
United States any individual charged with a criminal of-
fense for which the maximum penalty is life imprisonment 
without the possibility of parole. 
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND BUDGET AND HIRING 
CEILINGS 
SEC. 690. The Secretary of the Treasury shall in-
struct the United States Executive Director at the Inter-
national Monetary Fund to use the voice of the United 
States to ensure that any loan, project, agreement, memo-
randum, instrument, plan or other program of the Inter-
national Monetary Fund does not penalize countries for 
increased government spending on healthcare or education 
by exempting such increases from national budget caps or 
restraints, hiring or wage bill ceilings or other limits im-
posed by the International Monetary Fund.
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ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMS 
SEC. 691. (a) FUNDING.—Of the funds appropriated 
under the heading ‘‘DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE’’, 
not less than $501,000,000 shall be made available for 
programs and activities which directly protect biodiversity 
and promote clean energy. 
(b) CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT.—Not later than 60 
days after the date on which the President’s fiscal year 
2009 budget request is submitted to Congress, the Presi-
dent shall submit a report to the Committees on Appro-
priations describing in detail the following: 
(1) All Federal agency obligations and expendi-
tures, domestic and international, for climate change 
programs and activities in fiscal year 2009, includ-
ing an accounting of expenditures by agency with 
each agency identifying climate change activities and 
associated costs by line item as presented in the 
President’s Budget Appendix. 
(2) All fiscal year 2007 obligations and esti-
mated expenditures, fiscal year 2008 estimated ex-
penditures and estimated obligations, and fiscal year 
2009 requested funds by the United States Agency 
for International Development, by country and cen-
tral program, for each of the following—
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(A) to promote the transfer and deploy-
ment of a wide range of United States clean en-
ergy and energy efficiency technologies; 
(B) to assist in the measurement, moni-
toring, reporting, verification, and reduction of 
greenhouse gas emissions; 
(C) to promote carbon capture and seques-
tration measures; 
(D) to help meet such countries’ respon-
sibilities under the Framework Convention on 
Climate Change; and 
(E) to develop assessments of the vulner-
ability to impacts of climate change and mitiga-
tion and adaptation response strategies. 
(c) EXTRACTION OF NATURAL RESOURCES.—(1) The 
Secretary of the Treasury shall inform the managements 
of the international financial institutions and the public 
that it is the policy of the United States that any assist-
ance by such institutions (including but not limited to any 
loan, credit, grant, or guarantee) for the extraction and 
export of oil, gas, coal, timber, or other natural resource 
should not be provided unless the government of the coun-
try has in place or is taking the necessary steps to estab-
lish functioning systems for—
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(A) accurately accounting for revenues and ex-
penditures in connection with the extraction and ex-
port of the type of natural resource to be extracted 
or exported; 
(B) the independent auditing of such accounts 
and the widespread public dissemination of the au-
dits; and 
(C) verifying government receipts against com-
pany payments including widespread dissemination 
of such payment information, and disclosing such 
documents as Host Government Agreements, Con-
cession Agreements, and bidding documents, allow-
ing in any such dissemination or disclosure for the 
redaction of, or exceptions for, information that is 
commercially proprietary or that would create com-
petitive disadvantage. 
(2) Not later than 180 days after the enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit a re-
port to the Committees on Appropriations describing, for 
each international financial institution, the amount and 
type of assistance provided, by country, for the extraction 
and export of oil, gas, coal, timber, or other national re-
source since September 30, 2005. 
UZBEKISTAN 
SEC. 692. Assistance may be provided to the central 
Government of Uzbekistan only if the Secretary of State
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determines and reports to the Committees on Appropria-
tions that the Government of Uzbekistan is making sub-
stantial and continuing progress in meeting its commit-
ments under the ‘‘Declaration on the Strategic Partner-
ship and Cooperation Framework Between the Republic 
of Uzbekistan and the United States of America’’, includ-
ing respect for human rights, establishing a genuine multi- 
party system, and ensuring free and fair elections, free-
dom of expression, and the independence of the media, and 
that a credible international investigation of the May 31, 
2005, shootings in Andijan is underway with the support 
of the Government of Uzbekistan: Provided, That for the 
purposes of this section ‘‘assistance’’ shall include excess 
defense articles. 
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MINORITY RELIGIOUS FAITHS 
IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 
SEC. 693. None of the funds appropriated for assist-
ance under this Act may be made available for the Govern-
ment of the Russian Federation, after 180 days from the 
date of the enactment of this Act, unless the President 
determines and certifies in writing to the Committees on 
Appropriations that the Government of the Russian Fed-
eration has implemented no statute, executive order, regu-
lation or similar government action that would discrimi-
nate, or which has as its principal effect discrimination, 
against religious groups or religious communities in the
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Russian Federation in violation of accepted international 
agreements on human rights and religious freedoms to 
which the Russian Federation is a party. 
WAR CRIMES IN AFRICA 
SEC. 694. (a) The Congress reaffirms its support for 
the efforts of the International Criminal Tribunal for 
Rwanda (ICTR) and the Special Court for Sierra Leone 
(SCSL) to bring to justice individuals responsible for war 
crimes and crimes against humanity in a timely manner. 
(b) Funds appropriated by this Act, including funds 
for debt restructuring, may be made available for assist-
ance to the central government of a country in which indi-
viduals indicted by ICTR and SCSL are credibly alleged 
to be living, if the Secretary of State determines and re-
ports to the Committees on Appropriations that such gov-
ernment is cooperating with ICTR and SCSL, including 
the surrender and transfer of indictees in a timely manner: 
Provided, That this subsection shall not apply to assist-
ance provided under section 551 of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961 or to project assistance under title II of this 
Act: Provided further, That the United States shall use 
its voice and vote in the United Nations Security Council 
to fully support efforts by ICTR and SCSL to bring to 
justice individuals indicted by such tribunals in a timely 
manner.