(8) In May 2010, Prime Minister Morgan 
Tsvangirai met with senior Administration officials, 
including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and was 
recognized with the Democracy Award by the Na-
tional Democratic Institute (NDI). 
(9) Formal unemployment rates in Zimbabwe 
have increased to more than 90 percent and youth 
make up more than two-thirds of the unemployed. 
(10) Many poor Zimbabwe youth drop out of 
school without the education and training necessary 
for employment and become vulnerable to criminal 
activity, poor health, and disease. 
(11) It is estimated that as many as 29,000 
youth are currently members of youth militias 
known to intimidate persons and groups for political 
purposes in exchange for cash, food, clothes, and 
shelter. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that providing job opportunities of practical national 
value for youth in Zimbabwe designed to divert young peo-
ple away from idleness and undesirable activity also would 
help alleviate poverty, restore the economy, contribute to 
the reconstruction of Zimbabwe, and give such youth in-
come and a sense of achievement and self-worth in an oth-
erwise hopeless environment. 
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SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It shall be the policy of the United States Govern-
ment to— 
(1) support a transition to democratic and eco-
nomic recovery in Zimbabwe that reflects the new 
political conditions and opportunities created by the 
Global Political Agreement (GPA); 
(2) support the advancement of human rights, 
labor rights, democracy, rule of law, independence of 
the judiciary, freedom of the press, and economic de-
velopment in Zimbabwe; 
(3) support full implementation of the GPA and 
seek the unconditional release of all political pris-
oners and prisoners of conscience; 
(4) foster stability, democracy, and economic 
development in the region; 
(5) help end poverty and support economic re-
covery by expanding United States assistance pro-
grams in Zimbabwe; 
(6) promote a sustained relationship with 
Zimbabwe in order to strengthen democracy, human 
rights, security, economic growth, and the alleviation 
of poverty; 
(7) help end human rights abuses and violence 
against civilians by the security forces of Zimbabwe 
and hold those engaged in these abuses accountable; 
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(8) maintain targeted sanctions against individ-
uals who continue to undermine the democratic proc-
esses and review and update existing sanctions to re-
flect changing conditions on the ground; 
(9) create programs designed to provide job op-
portunities of practical national value for youth in 
Zimbabwe to help alleviate poverty, restore the econ-
omy, contribute to the reconstruction of Zimbabwe, 
and give such youth income and a sense of achieve-
ment and self-worth in an otherwise hopeless envi-
ronment; 
(10) contribute to the African Development 
Bank-administered Zimbabwe Multi-Donor Trust 
Fund; 
(11) press for full compliance with the Kim-
berley Process diamond certification scheme; 
(12) support credible efforts to conduct a com-
prehensive, transparent, and nonpartisan land audit 
as a critical step toward establishing accountability 
and security of tenure; 
(13) engage international partners and regional 
governments to develop a coordinated strategy to 
prepare for future elections in Zimbabwe, particu-
larly to help reduce the risk of violence and other 
election-related abuses; and 
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(14) strengthen the relationship with Zimbabwe 
based on the policy objectives specified in para-
graphs (1) through (11) and to engage the talents 
and skills of the Zimbabwean Diaspora towards that 
end. 
SEC. 4. ASSISTANCE TO STRENGTHEN THE RULE OF LAW 
AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN ZIMBABWE. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION
OF
ASSISTANCE.—The Sec-
retary of State is authorized to provide assistance to 
strengthen the rule of law and human rights in Zimbabwe. 
(b) ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED.—Activities that may be 
supported by assistance under subsection (a) include— 
(1) providing assistance to strengthen local gov-
ernment, councils, parliament, and the judiciary in 
Zimbabwe; 
(2) providing assistance for urban, peri-urban, 
and rural programs focused on reconciliation efforts 
in order to address past abuses and pave the way for 
peaceful political participation; 
(3) providing training and funding for civil soci-
ety and human rights groups in election monitoring, 
human rights related activities, and democratic insti-
tution building; 
(4) providing support for training, monitoring, 
and evaluation of the security sector that is con-
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sistent with the Southern Africa Development Com-
munity Protocol on Politics, Defense, and Security 
Co-operation, which requires that security forces 
‘‘shall at all times promote the peaceful settlement 
of disputes by negotiation, conciliation, mediation, or 
arbitration’’; 
(5) helping strengthen the independent press; 
(6) supporting local and national human rights 
groups and other relevant civil society organizations 
to help strengthen human rights monitoring and reg-
ular reporting on human rights conditions in 
Zimbabwe; 
(7) supporting victims of political violence, with 
priority to victims of sexual violence, trade unionists, 
survivors of the Gukurahundi Campaign, and the 
victims of the 2005 Operation Murambatsvina, par-
ticularly micro-entrepreneurs and informal sector 
traders, and such assistance shall be implemented by 
a new Zimbabwe Human Rights Trust Fund or 
through a locally administered and implemented 
rural 
human 
rights 
program 
similar 
to 
the 
Zimbabwe Alliance; 
(8) strengthening the independence of the judi-
ciary through— 
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