[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5528 Introduced in House (IH)]






107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5528

To provide for the establishment of the Center for International Human 
                                Rights.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 2, 2002

  Mr. Gilman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                  Committee on International Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the establishment of the Center for International Human 
                                Rights.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Center for International Human 
Rights Act of 2002''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Center.--The term ``Center'' means the Center for 
        International Human Rights.
            (2) Board.--The term ``Board'' means the Board of Directors 
        of the Center.

SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF CENTER; PURPOSES.

    (a) Establishment.--Congress finds that there has been established 
in the District of Columbia a private, nonprofit corporation known as 
the Center for International Human Rights which is not an agency or 
establishment of the United States Government.
    (b) Purposes.--The purposes of the Center, as set forth in its 
articles of incorporation, are--
            (1) to establish programs devoted to the promotion of human 
        rights throughout the world;
            (2) to independently monitor and analyze the status of 
        human rights in Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, 
        Europe, and throughout the world;
            (3) in conjunction with both private and governmental 
        organizations, to investigate allegations of human rights 
        violations, particularly torture, genocide, extrajudicial 
        killing, imprisonment due to expression of political or 
        religious beliefs, and other gross violations of fundamental 
        human rights;
            (4) to sponsor fellows from the United States and other 
        countries who desire to study current issues related to 
        international human rights at the Center's headquarters in the 
        District of Columbia;
            (5) to establish and carry out a conference series to bring 
        together experts in the field of international human rights 
        from the United States and other countries to discuss and 
        disseminate information regarding human rights; and
            (6) to make grants to, and enter into co-operative 
        agreements with, nongovernmental organizations to promote human 
        rights, with priority on making grants to, and entering into 
        co-operative agreements with, indigenous human rights 
        organizations in countries the governments of which engage in 
        torture, genocide, extrajudicial killing, imprisonment due to 
        expression of political or religious beliefs, or other gross 
        violations of fundamental human rights.

SEC. 4. GRANTS TO CENTER.

    The Secretary of State is authorized to make an annual grant to the 
Center to enable the Center to carry out its purposes as specified in 
section 3(b). Such grants shall be made with funds specifically 
appropriated for grants to the Center.

SEC. 5. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION; OVERSIGHT; RELATED ADMINISTRATIVE 
              PROVISIONS.

    (a) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this Act shall be construed 
to make the Center an agency or establishment of the United States 
Government or to make the members of the Board of the Center, or the 
officers or employees of the Center, officers or employees of the 
United States.
    (b) Oversight.--The Center and its grantees shall be subject to the 
appropriate oversight procedures of Congress.

SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS; AVAILABILITY.

    There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act 
$15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2003 through 2007. Amounts 
appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under the 
preceding sentence are authorized to remain available until expended
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