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[S. 2279 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2279

       To combat international violence against women and girls.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 31, 2007

 Mr. Biden (for himself and Mr. Lugar) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
       To combat international violence against women and girls.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``International 
Violence Against Women Act of 2007''.
    (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as 
follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
Sec. 3. Statement of policy.
Sec. 4. Definitions.
               TITLE I--COORDINATION AND POLICY PLANNING

Sec. 101. Official positions and institutional changes.
Sec. 102. Policy and programs.
Sec. 103. Inclusion of information on violence against women and girls 
                            in human rights reports.
                       TITLE II--OTHER PROVISIONS

Sec. 201. Amendments to Foreign Service Act of 1980.
Sec. 202. Support for multilateral efforts to end violence against 
                            women and girls.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) Violence against women and girls is rooted in multiple 
        causes and takes many forms, including physical, sexual, and 
        psychological. It affects all countries, social groups, 
        ethnicities, religions, and socioeconomic classes and is a 
        global health, economic development, and human rights problem 
        of epidemic proportions.
            (2) According to the World Health Organization--
                    (A) approximately 1 in 3 of the women in the world 
                will experience violence in her lifetime, with rates of 
                up to 70 percent in some countries; and
                    (B) 1 in 5 of the women in the world will be the 
                victim of rape or attempted rape in her lifetime.
            (3) According to the 2006 United Nations Secretary-
        General's report entitled Ending Violence Against Women, 102 
        member states have no specific laws on domestic violence.
            (4) Women and girls face many different types of gender-
        based violence, including forced or child marriage, so-called 
        ``honor killings'', dowry-related murder, human trafficking, 
        and female genital mutilation. The United Nations estimates 
        that at least 5,000 so-called ``honor killings'' take place 
        each year around the world and that more than 130,000,000 girls 
        and young women worldwide have been subjected to female genital 
        mutilation.
            (5) The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief 2006 
        Report on Gender-Based Violence and HIV/AIDS reports that 
        violence against women is a public health and development 
        problem that significantly increases susceptibility to HIV/
        AIDS. A United Nations study on the global AIDS epidemic found 
        that in sub-Saharan Africa, women who are 15 to 24 years old 
        can be infected at rates that are up to 6 times higher than men 
        of the same age.
            (6) Recent studies in Africa indicate that between 16 and 
        47 percent of girls in primary and secondary school report 
        sexual abuse or harassment by male teachers or classmates. 
        Girls who experience sexual violence at school are also more 
        likely to experience unintended pregnancies or become infected 
        with sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS.
            (7) Rape and sexual assault are weapons of war used to 
        torture, intimidate, and terrorize women and communities. 
        Amnesty International reports that women have suffered from 
        sexual violence during conflicts in Rwanda, the former 
        Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and most recently in the Democratic 
        Republic of the Congo, where women have suffered from brutal 
        and systematic sexual assaults.
            (8) Displaced, refugee, and stateless women and girls in 
        humanitarian emergencies, conflict settings, and natural 
        disasters face extreme violence and threats because of power 
        inequities, including being forced to exchange sex for food and 
        humanitarian supplies, and being at increased risk of rape, 
        sexual exploitation, and abuse.
            (9) According to the United States Agency for International 
        Development (USAID)--
                    (A) 70 percent of the 1,300,000,000 people living 
                in poverty in the world are women and children;
                    (B) \2/3\ of the 876,000,000 illiterate adults in 
                the world are women;
                    (C) \2/3\ of the 125,000,000 school-aged children 
                who are not in school are girls;
                    (D) more than \3/4\ of the 27,000,000 refugees in 
                the world are women and children; and
                    (E) 1,600 women die unnecessarily every day during 
                pregnancy and childbirth.
            (10) In 2003, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on 
        Violence Against Women concluded that violence against women 
        violates the basic human rights of women, results in 
        ``devastating consequences for women who experience it, 
        traumatic impact on those who witness it, de-legitimization of 
        States that fail to prevent it and the impoverishment of entire 
        societies that tolerate it.''.
            (11) Violence against women is an impediment to the health, 
        opportunity, and development of women and their societies. 
        According to an October 2006 study of the United Nations 
        Secretary General entitled Ending Violence Against Women, 
        ``Violence against women impoverishes women, their families, 
        communities and nations. It lowers economic production, drains 
        resources from public services and employers, and reduces human 
        capital formation.''.
            (12) The World Bank recognizes that women's health, 
        education, and economic opportunities directly impact the 
        development and well being of their families and their 
        societies. A 2001 World Bank Report, entitled Engendering 
        Development, reports that greater gender equality leads to 
        improved nutrition, lower child mortality, less government 
        corruption, higher productivity, and reduced HIV infection 
        rates.
            (13) Increased access to economic opportunities is crucial 
        to the prevention of and response to domestic and sexual 
        violence. Both microfinance-based interventions and increased 
        asset control have been shown to reduce levels of intimate 
        partner violence in addition to providing economic independence 
        for survivors.
            (14) Campaigns to change social norms, including community 
        organizing, media campaigns, and efforts to engage and educate 
        men and boys, have been shown to change attitudes that condone 
        and tolerate violence against women and girls and reduce 
        violence and abuse.

SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY.

    It is the policy of the United States--
            (1) to promote women's political, economic, educational, 
        social, cultural, civil, and human rights and opportunities 
        throughout the world;
            (2) to condemn and combat violence against women and girls, 
        and to promote and assist other governments in preventing and 
        responding to such violence;
            (3) to promote ending violence against women and girls 
        around the world, whether the abuse is committed directly by a 
        foreign government, is implicitly committed by such government 
        through hostile laws or de jure mandates to disenfranchise 
        women, or is committed by private actors and the government 
        fails to address the abuse;
            (4) to encourage foreign governments to enact and implement 
        effective legal reform to combat violence against women and 
        girls, and to encourage access to justice, true accountability 
        for abusers, and meaningful redress and support for victims;
            (5) to systematically integrate and coordinate efforts to 
        prevent and respond to violence against women and girls into 
        United States foreign policy and foreign assistance programs, 
        and to expand implementation of effective practices and 
        programs;
            (6) to fully implement the comprehensive international 
        strategy set forth in section 300G of the Foreign Assistance 
        Act of 1961, as added by this Act, which provides assistance to 
        eligible countries to reduce and prevent gender-based violence 
        with coordinated efforts in the criminal justice, health, 
        education, and economic sectors;
            (7) to support and build capacity of indigenous 
        nongovernmental organizations that are working to prevent and 
        respond to violence against women and girls, particularly 
        women's nongovernmental organizations, and to support and 
        encourage United States organizations working in partnership 
        with such nongovernmental organizations;
            (8) to prevent and respond to violence against women and 
        girls through multisectoral methods, working at individual, 
        family, community, local, national, and international levels 
        and incorporating service, prevention, training, and advocacy 
        activities and economic, education, health, legal, and 
        protective intervention services;
            (9) to coordinate activities with recipient country 
        governments, as appropriate, and with other bilateral, 
        multilateral, nongovernmental, and private sector actors active 
        in the relevant sector and country;
            (10) to foster international and regional cooperation with 
        an aim towards defining regional strategies, as appropriate, 
        for preventing and responding to violence against women and 
        girls, and exchanging data and successful strategies;
            (11) to work through international organizations of which 
        the United States is a member, including the United Nations and 
        its specialized agencies, funds and programs to encourage, 
        promote, and advocate for stronger efforts and policies to 
        prevent and end violence against women and girls;
            (12) to enhance training and other programs to prevent and 
        respond to violence against women and girls in humanitarian 
        relief, conflict, and post-conflict operations;
            (13) to enhance training by United States personnel of 
        professional foreign military and police forces and judicial 
        officials to include specific and thorough instruction on 
        preventing and responding to violence against women and girls;
            (14) to press for the implementation of policies and 
        practices in global peace and security efforts, including 
        United Nations peacekeeping and policing operations, that 
        prevent and respond to violence against women and girls and 
        hold personnel accountable for the full implementation of these 
        policies and practices.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Violence against women and girls.--The term ``violence 
        against women and girls''--
                    (A) means any act of gender-based violence against 
                women or girls committed because of their gender that 
                results in, or is likely to result in, physical, 
                sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women, 
                including threats of such acts, coercion, or arbitrary 
                deprivations of liberty, whether occurring in public or 
                private life; and
                    (B) includes--
                            (i) physical, sexual, and psychological 
                        violence occurring in the family, including 
                        battering, sexual abuse of female children in 
                        the household, dowry-related violence, marital 
                        rape, female genital mutilation and other 
                        traditional practices harmful to women, 
                        nonspousal violence, and violence related to 
                        exploitation;
                            (ii) physical, sexual, and psychological 
                        violence occurring within the general 
                        community, including rape, sexual abuse, sexual 
                        harassment and intimidation at work, in 
                        educational institutions and elsewhere, 
                        trafficking in women, and forced prostitution; 
                        and
                            (iii) physical, sexual, and psychological 
                        violence perpetrated or condoned by the state, 
                        wherever it occurs.
            (2) Eligible countries.--The term ``eligible countries'' 
        means countries that are not classified as high-income 
        countries in the most recent edition of the World Development 
        Report for Reconstruction and Development published by the 
        International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

               TITLE I--COORDINATION AND POLICY PLANNING

SEC. 101. OFFICIAL POSITIONS AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES.

    Chapter 2 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2166 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

 ``TITLE XIII--INTERNATIONAL PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND 
                                 GIRLS

``SEC. 300A. VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS DEFINED.

    ``In this title, the term `violence against women and girls' has 
the meaning given that term in section 5 of the International Violence 
Against Women Act of 2007.

       ``Subtitle A--Official Positions and Institutional Changes

``SEC. 300B. OFFICE OF WOMEN'S GLOBAL INITIATIVES.

    ``(a) Establishment.--There is established in the Office of the 
Secretary of State in the Department of State, the Office of Women's 
Global Initiatives. The office shall be headed by the Coordinator of 
the Office of Women's Global Initiatives (referred to in this title as 
the `Coordinator'), who shall be appointed by the President, by and 
with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Coordinator shall report 
directly to the Secretary and shall have the rank and status of 
Ambassador at Large.
    ``(b) Purpose.--The Office of Women's Global Initiatives shall be 
the sole office coordinating all efforts of the United States 
Government regarding international women's issues and is intended to 
replace the Office of International Women's Issues in the Office of the 
Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs in the Department of 
State.
    ``(c) Duties.--The Coordinator shall have the following 
responsibilities:
            ``(1) In general.--The Coordinator shall--
                    ``(A) design, oversee, and coordinate activities 
                and programs of the United States Government relating 
                to international women's issues; and
                    ``(B) direct United States Government resources 
                to--
                            ``(i) prevent and respond to violence 
                        against women and girls throughout the world; 
                        and
                            ``(ii) develop the comprehensive 
                        international strategy described in section 
                        300G to reduce violence against women and 
                        girls.
            ``(2) Principal advisor.--The Coordinator shall serve as 
        the principal advisor to the Secretary of State regarding 
        foreign policy matters relating to women, including violence 
        against women and girls.
            ``(3) Coordinating role.--The Coordinator shall--
                    ``(A) oversee and coordinate all resources and 
                activities of the United State Government to combat 
                violence against women and girls internationally, 
                including developing strategies for the integration of 
                efforts to prevent and respond to gender-based violence 
                into United States assistance programs;
                    ``(B) coordinate all policies, programs, and 
                funding related to violence against women and girls 
                internationally of the Department of State, including--
                            ``(i) the Bureau of Population, Refugees, 
                        and Migration;
                            ``(ii) the Bureau of Democracy, Human 
                        Rights, and Labor;
                            ``(iii) the Bureau for International 
                        Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs;
                            ``(iv) the Bureau of Education and Cultural 
                        Affairs;
                            ``(v) the Bureau of Political Military 
                        Affairs;
                            ``(vi) the Bureau of International 
                        Organizations Affairs;
                            ``(vii) the Bureau of Economic and Business 
                        Affairs;
                            ``(viii) the Foreign Service Institute;
                            ``(ix) the Office of the Coordinator for 
                        Reconstruction and Stabilization;
                            ``(x) the Office to Monitor and Combat 
                        Trafficking in Persons;
                            ``(xi) the Office of the United States 
                        Global AIDS Coordinator; and
                            ``(xii) all regional bureaus and offices;
                    ``(C) coordinate all policies, programs, and 
                funding related to violence against women and girls 
                internationally in the Department of Justice, the 
                Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human 
                Services, the Department of Defense, and the Department 
                of Homeland Security;
                    ``(D) coordinate all policies, programs, and 
                funding relating to violence against women and girls 
                internationally in the United States Agency for 
                International Development (USAID), including the 
                Women's Global Development Office;
                    ``(E) monitor and evaluate all such gender-based 
                violence programs administered by the entities listed 
                in subparagraphs (B) through (D), as necessary;
                    ``(F) coordinate all policies, programs, and 
                funding of the Millennium Challenge Corporation 
                relating to violence against women and girls 
                internationally;
                    ``(G) design, integrate, and, as appropriate, 
                implement policies, programs, and activities related to 
                women's health, education, economic development, legal 
                reform, social norm changes, women's human rights, and 
                protection of women in humanitarian crises, including 
                those identified pursuant to section 300G(c); and
                    ``(H) encourage departments listed in subparagraph 
                (C) to create agency-specific programmatic guidelines 
                on addressing violence against women and girls 
                internationally and monitor implementation of those 
                guidelines.
            ``(4) Diplomatic representation.--Subject to the direction 
        of the President and the Secretary of State, the Coordinator is 
        authorized to represent the United States in matters relevant 
        to violence against women and girls internationally in--
                    ``(A) contacts with foreign governments, 
                nongovernmental organizations, the United Nations and 
                its specialized agencies, and other international 
                organizations of which the United States is a member; 
                and
                    ``(B) multilateral conferences and meetings 
                relevant to violence against women and girls.
    ``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012, 
under the heading `Diplomatic and Consular Programs', to carry out 
activities under this section. Funds appropriated pursuant to this 
subsection shall be under the direct control of the Coordinator.

``SEC. 300C. WOMEN'S GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICE.

    ``(a) Establishment.--There is established, within the United 
States Agency for International Development, the Office of Women's 
Global Development. The Office of Women's Global Development shall be 
headed by the Director of Women's Global Development (referred to in 
this title as the `Director'), who shall be appointed by the President, 
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Director shall 
report directly to the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development and shall consult regularly with the 
Coordinator of the Office of Women's Global Initiatives.
    ``(b) Purpose.--The Office of Women's Global Development shall be 
the sole office coordinating all efforts of the United States Agency 
for International Development (USAID) regarding international women's 
issues and is intended to replace the Office of Women in Development in 
USAID in existence on the date of the enactment of this title.
    ``(c) Duties.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Director shall--
                    ``(A) integrate gender into all policies, programs, 
                and activities of the United States Agency for 
                International Development to improve the status of 
                women, increase opportunities for women, and support 
                the overall development goals of United States programs 
                and assistance;
                    ``(B) ensure that efforts to prevent and respond to 
                violence against women and girls are integrated into 
                United States Government foreign assistance programs at 
                the strategic planning and country operational plan 
                levels; and
                    ``(C) monitor the manner in which such activities 
                are integrated, programmed, and implemented in each 
                country plan.
    ``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012 to 
carry out activities and collaboration related to preventing and 
responding to gender-based violence. Funds appropriated pursuant to 
this subsection shall be under the direct control of the Director. Such 
funds are in addition to amounts otherwise available for such purposes.

``SEC. 300D. ADVISORY COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL VIOLENCE AGAINST 
              WOMEN.

    ``(a) Establishment.--There is established within the Department of 
State an Advisory Commission on International Violence Against Women 
(in this section referred to as the `Advisory Commission').
    ``(b) Membership.--
            ``(1) Appointment.--The Advisory Commission shall be 
        composed of--
                    ``(A) the Coordinator of Women's Global 
                Initiatives, who shall serve as chair, and the Director 
                of the Women's Global Development Office, both of whom 
                shall serve ex officio as nonvoting members of the 
                Advisory Commission;
                    ``(B) 8 members appointed by the Secretary of State 
                who are not officers or employees of the Federal 
                Government;
                    ``(C) 3 members appointed by the President pro 
                tempore of the Senate on the joint recommendation of 
                the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate; and
                    ``(D) 3 members appointed by the Speaker of the 
                House of Representatives on the joint recommendation of 
                the Majority and Minority Leaders of the House of 
                Representatives.
            ``(2) Selection.--Members of the Advisory Commission shall 
        be selected from among--
                    ``(A) distinguished individuals noted for their 
                knowledge and experience in fields relevant to the 
                issue of international violence against women and 
                girls, including foreign affairs, human rights, and 
                international law;
                    ``(B) representatives of nongovernmental 
                organizations and other institutions having knowledge 
                and expertise related to violence against women and 
                girls; and
                    ``(C) academics representative of the various 
                scholarly approaches to the issue of international 
                violence against women and girls.
            ``(3) Time of appointment.--The appointments required under 
        paragraph (1) shall be made not later than 120 days after the 
        date of the enactment of this title.
            ``(4) Terms.--The term of each member appointed to the 
        Advisory Commission shall be 3 years. Members shall be eligible 
        for reappointment to a second term.
    ``(c) Duties.--The Advisory Commission shall--
            ``(1) annually make recommendations to the Secretary of 
        State regarding best practices to prevent and respond to 
        violence against women and girls internationally and the 
        effective integration of such practices into the foreign policy 
        of the United States, including assistance programming; and
            ``(2) consult with members of the United States Government 
        and with private groups and individuals on the prevention and 
        response to international violence against women and girls.
    ``(d) Hearings.--In carrying out this section, the Advisory 
Commission may conduct such hearings, sit and at such times and places, 
take such testimony, and receive such evidence, as the Advisory 
Commission considers appropriate.
    ``(e) Funding.--Members of the Advisory Commission shall be allowed 
travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence at rates 
authorized for employees of agencies under subchapter I of chapter 57 
of title 5, United States Code, while away from their homes or regular 
places of business in the performance of duties for the Advisory 
Commission.
    ``(f) Report of the Advisory Commission.--Not later than May 1 of 
each year, the Advisory Commission shall submit a report to the 
President, the Secretary of State, the Committee on Foreign Relations 
of the Senate, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives that sets forth its findings and recommendations for 
United States policy and programs.
    ``(g) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated $300,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012 to 
carry out this section.''.

SEC. 102. POLICY AND PROGRAMS.

    Chapter 2 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2166 et seq.), as amended by section 101, is further amended by 
adding at the end the following:

                   ``Subtitle B--Policy and Programs

``SEC. 300G. COMPREHENSIVE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY TO REDUCE AND PREVENT 
              VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.

    ``(a) Development and Implementation of Strategy.--Not later than 1 
year after the date of the enactment of this title, the President, with 
the assistance of the Coordinator of Women's Global Initiatives and 
Director of Women's Global Development, shall develop and commence 
implementation of a comprehensive, 5-year international strategy to 
prevent and respond to violence against women and girls 
internationally, and shall submit it to the Committee on Foreign 
Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
House of Representatives.
    ``(b) Collaboration.--In developing the strategy under subsection 
(a), the President, with the assistance of the Coordinator, shall 
consult with--
            ``(1) the Secretary of State, including the offices and 
        bureaus listed in section 300B(b)(3)(B), other executive 
        agencies listed in section 300B(b)(3)(C), United States aid 
        agencies and offices as listed in section 300B(b)(3)(D), the 
        Millennium Challenge Corporation listed in section 
        300B(b)(3)(E), and Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat 
        Trafficking; and
            ``(2) nongovernmental organizations with demonstrated 
        expertise working on violence against women and girls, women's 
        health, or women's empowerment issues internationally.
    ``(c) Content.--The strategy developed under subsection (a) shall--
            ``(1) identify between 10 and 20 eligible countries that 
        are geographically, ethnically, and culturally diverse, and 
        have severe levels of violence against women and girls;
            ``(2) describe the nature and extent of violence against 
        women and girls in each country;
            ``(3) identify how and to what extent the violence against 
        women and girls in each country is negatively affecting goals 
        of improving the health, education, economic, democracy and 
        civic participation, criminal justice, and internally displaced 
        persons and refugee management sectors in such country and its 
        region;
            ``(4) assess the efforts of the government in each country 
        to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls and 
        assess the potential capacity of each country to manage 2 or 
        more of the gender violence-based program activities identified 
        under subsection (d);
            ``(5)(A) describe the programs to be undertaken in 
        cooperation with the governments of each country in specific 
        areas for progress in preventing and responding to violence 
        against women and girls;
            ``(B) identify resources to help implement programs; and
            ``(C) encourage development of national action plans;
            ``(6) for each country, identify 2 or more of the program 
        activities listed in subsection (d) and describe how the 
        selected programs will prevent and respond to the problem of 
        violence against women and girls, including--
                    ``(A) increasing legal and judicial protections;
                    ``(B) enhancing the capacity of the health sector 
                to respond to such violence;
                    ``(C) increasing opportunities for women and girls 
                in education and economic development; or
                    ``(D) promoting societal awareness and changing 
                social norms;
            ``(7) include, as appropriate, strategies designed to 
        accommodate the needs of stateless, internally displaced, 
        refugee, or religious or ethnic minority women and girls;
            ``(8) project general levels of resources needed on an 
        annual basis to achieve the stated objective in each country, 
        taking into account activities and funding provided by other 
        donor country governments and other multilateral institutions 
        and leveraging private sector resources;
            ``(9) include potential coordination with existing 
        programs, initiatives, and expertise on preventing and 
        responding to violence against women and girls that exist 
        within nongovernmental organizations, including in-country, 
        civil society organizations, particularly women's organizations 
        and community-based groups;
            ``(10) identify the Federal departments and agencies 
        involved in the execution of the relevant program activities; 
        and
            ``(11) describe the monitoring and evaluation mechanisms 
        established for each country and how they will be used to 
        assess overall progress in preventing and responding to 
        violence against women and girls.
    ``(d) Program Activities Supported.--Assistance provided under this 
section shall be used to carry out, in each of the countries identified 
in the strategy required pursuant to subsection (a), 2 or more of the 
following program activities:
            ``(1) Increasing legal and judicial protections by--
                    ``(A) supporting programs that strengthen a 
                coordinated community response to violence against 
                women and girls, including through coordination between 
                judges, police, prosecutors, and legal advocates to 
                enhance prospects for perpetrator accountability;
                    ``(B) supporting efforts and providing resources to 
                provide training and technical assistance to police, 
                prosecutors, forensic physicians, lawyers, corrections 
                officers, judges, and judicial officials, and where 
                appropriate, to nonlawyer advocates and traditional 
                community authorities on violence against women and 
                girls;
                    ``(C) supporting efforts to reform and revise 
                criminal and civil laws to prohibit violence against 
                women and girls and create accountability for 
                perpetrators;
                    ``(D) enhancing the capacity of the justice sector, 
                including keeping official records of all complaints, 
                collecting and safeguarding evidence, systematizing and 
                tracking data on cases of violence against women and 
                girls, and undertaking investigations and evidence 
                gathering expeditiously;
                    ``(E) helping women and girls who are victims of 
                violence gain access to the justice sector and 
                supporting them throughout the legal process, including 
                establishing victim and witness units for courts and 
                promoting support for survivor services, including 
                hotlines and shelters;
                    ``(F) promoting civil remedies in cases of domestic 
                violence that--
                            ``(i) prioritize victim safety and 
                        confidentiality and offender accountability;
                            ``(ii) grant women and children 
                        restraining, protection, or removal orders with 
                        appropriate criminal sanctions for violations 
                        against perpetrators of violence;
                            ``(iii) strengthen and promote women's 
                        custodial rights over children and protect 
                        children; and
                            ``(iv) grant courts authority to provide 
                        specific relief pursuant to a restraining or 
                        removal order, including restitution, spousal 
                        maintenance, child support, payment of debt, or 
                        return or equitable distribution of property;
                    ``(G) reducing the incidence of violence against 
                women and girls committed by government officials by 
                developing confidential mechanisms for reporting 
                violence against women and girls committed by 
                government officials and institutions and developing 
                laws to punish the perpetrators and remove immunity 
                from state officials;
                    ``(H) promoting broader legal protection for women 
                and girls against all forms of violence against women 
                and girls, such as female infanticide and female 
                genital mutilation, and practices that are associated 
                with higher rates of violence against women and girls, 
                such as child and forced marriage; and
                    ``(I) increasing the number of women advocates 
                trained to respond to violence against women and girls 
                at police stations, including the creation of domestic 
                violence units and increasing the number of women 
                police.
            ``(2) Carrying out health care initiatives, including--
                    ``(A) promoting the integration of programs to 
                prevent and respond to violence against women and girls 
                into existing programs addressing child survival, 
                women's health, family planning, mental health, and 
                HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment;
                    ``(B) training of health care providers, including 
                traditional birth attendants, on methods to safely and 
                confidentially assess women and girls seeking health 
                services for intimate partner, family, and sexual 
                violence;
                    ``(C) developing and enforcing national and 
                operational women's health, children's health, and HIV/
                AIDS policies that prevent and respond to violence 
                against women and girls, with accompanying resources, 
                including through cooperative efforts with ministries 
                of health;
                    ``(D) developing information gathering systems 
                within the health care sector that, consistent with 
                safety and confidentiality concerns, collect and 
                compile data on the type of violence experienced by 
                women and girls, access to care, age of victims, and 
                relationship of victims to perpetrators;
                    ``(E) working with governments to develop 
                partnerships with civil society organizations to create 
                referral networks systems for psychosocial, legal, 
                economic, or other support services; and
                    ``(F) integrating screening and assessment for 
                gender-based violence into HIV/AIDS programming and 
                other health programming into all country operation 
                plans, and increasing women's access to information, 
                strategies, and services to protect themselves from 
                HIV/AIDS.
            ``(3) Conducting public awareness programs to change social 
        norms and attitudes, including--
                    ``(A) supporting women survivors of violence to 
                educate their communities on the impacts of violence;
                    ``(B) engaging men, including faith and traditional 
                leaders;
                    ``(C) providing funding and programmatic support 
                for mass media social change campaigns; and
                    ``(D) supporting community efforts to change 
                attitudes about harmful traditional practices, 
                including child marriage, female genital mutilation, 
                and so-called `honor killings'.
            ``(4) Improving economic opportunities for women and girls, 
        including--
                    ``(A) supporting programs to help women meet their 
                economic needs and to increase their economic 
                opportunities, in both rural and urban areas, including 
                through support for--
                            ``(i) the establishment and development of 
                        businesses (micro, small, and medium-sized 
                        enterprises) through access to financial and 
                        nonfinancial services; and
                            ``(ii) education, literacy, and numeracy 
                        programs, leadership development and job skills 
                        training, especially in nontraditional fields 
                        and expected growth sectors;
                    ``(B) supporting programs to help increase property 
                rights, social security, and home ownership and land 
                tenure security for women by--
                            ``(i) promoting equitable extension of 
                        property and inheritance rights, particularly 
                        rights to familial and marital property;
                            ``(ii) promoting legal literacy, including 
                        among faith and traditional leaders, about 
                        women's property rights; and
                            ``(iii) helping women to make land claims 
                        and protecting women's existing claims and 
                        advocating for equitable land titling and 
                        registration for women, including safeguards 
                        for women title-holders in the case of domestic 
                        violence disputes;
                    ``(C) integrating activities to prevent and respond 
                to violence against women and girls into existing 
                economic opportunity programs by--
                            ``(i) integrating education on violence 
                        against women and girls into women's 
                        microfinance, microenterprise, and job skills 
                        training programs; and
                            ``(ii) training providers of economic 
                        opportunity services and programs in 
                        sensitivity to violence against women and 
                        girls; and
                    ``(D) addressing violence against women and girls 
                in the workplace.
            ``(5) Improving educational opportunities for women and 
        girls, including--
                    ``(A) supporting efforts and providing resources to 
                provide training for all teachers and school 
                administrators on school-related violence, in 
                particular increasing awareness of violence against 
                women and girls, and to improve reporting, referral, 
                and implementation of codes of conduct;
                    ``(B) working to ensure the safety of girls during 
                their travel to and from school and on school grounds;
                    ``(C) including programs for girls and boys on the 
                unacceptability of violence against women and girls; 
                and
                    ``(D) conducting national and baseline surveys to 
                collect data on school-related violence against women 
                and girls.

``SEC. 300H. ASSISTANCE TO REDUCE INTERNATIONAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 
              AND GIRLS INTERNATIONALLY.

    ``(a) Coordinating Existing Aid Programs.--The Coordinator of the 
Women's Global Initiatives, working with the Director of the Office of 
Women's Global Development, shall ensure that existing programs, 
contracts, grants, agreements, and foreign assistance under the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2166 et seq.), the Migration and 
Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.), the 
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), 
the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria 
Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7601 et seq.), the Support for East European 
Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 (22 U.S.C. 5401 et seq.), the FREEDOM 
Support Act (22 U.S.C. 5851 et seq.), and other Acts authorizing 
foreign assistance incorporate, as applicable, measures to prevent and 
respond to violence against women and girls.
    ``(b) Authority.--To implement and execute the comprehensive 
international strategy developed pursuant to section 300G, the 
President is authorized to provide assistance to nongovernmental 
organizations, multilateral institutions, and foreign countries for 
program activities described in section 300G(d).
    ``(c) Allocate New Funding.--The Coordinator of the Office of 
Women's Global Initiatives is authorized to allocate funds to implement 
and execute the comprehensive international strategy developed pursuant 
to section 300G.
    ``(d) Use of Funds.--Any funds made available under this section to 
nongovernmental organizations must be designated to organizations that 
have demonstrated expertise regarding violence against women and girls 
internationally, or that are in partnership with such organizations and 
that have demonstrated capabilities or expertise in a particular 
program activity described in subsection 300G(d).
    ``(e) Grants to Women's Nongovernmental Organizations and 
Community-Based Organizations.--Not less than 10 percent of the funds 
awarded in a fiscal year under this section shall be awarded to women's 
nongovernmental organizations and community-based organizations.
    ``(f) Award Process.--Funds awarded under this section shall be 
provided through an open, competitive, and transparent process where 
possible.
    ``(g) Conditions.--Entities receiving funds awarded through the 
grant program established under this section--
            ``(1) should include the collection of data and the 
        evaluation of program effectiveness;
            ``(2) should be responsible for developing and reporting on 
        outcomes related to preventing and responding to violence 
        against women and girls;
            ``(3) should gather input from women's nongovernmental 
        organizations or community-based organizations, including 
        organizations with expertise in preventing and responding to 
        violence against women and girls; and
            ``(4) shall consider the safety of women and girls as a 
        primary concern in deciding how to design, implement, monitor, 
        and evaluate programs.
    ``(h) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            ``(1) In general.--There is authorized to be appropriated 
        to the Office of Women's Global Initiatives $175,000,000 for 
        each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012 to carry out this 
        section and section 300G.
            ``(2) Availability of funds.--Amounts appropriated pursuant 
        to paragraph (1) shall remain available until expended.
            ``(3) Nonsupplantation.--Funds authorized and appropriated 
        under this Act shall supplement, not supplant, existing funds 
        otherwise available for activities under this title.

``SEC. 300I. ANNUAL REPORT ON UNITED STATES EFFORTS TO END 
              INTERNATIONAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.

    ``(a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the submission of 
the comprehensive international strategy developed under section 300G, 
and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State, assisted by the 
Coordinator of Women's Global Initiatives, shall submit to Congress a 
report to be entitled the `Report on International Violence Against 
Women and Girls'.
    ``(b) Content.--The report required under subsection (a) shall 
include the following:
            ``(1) The goals and objectives of the comprehensive 
        international strategy developed under section 300G(a).
            ``(2) The specific criteria used to determine the 
        effectiveness of the strategy.
            ``(3) A description of the coordination of all United 
        States Government resources and international activities to 
        prevent and respond to the problem of violence against women 
        and girls, including--
                    ``(A) an identification of the Federal agencies 
                involved;
                    ``(B) a description of the coordination between 
                Federal agencies and departments, including those 
                acting in the eligible countries; and
                    ``(C) a description of the coordination with non-
                United States Government entities, including the 
                governments of eligible countries, multilateral 
                organizations and institutions, and nongovernmental 
                organizations.
            ``(4) A description of the relationship between efforts to 
        prevent and respond to violence against women and girls 
        internationally and other United States assistance strategies 
        in developing countries and diplomatic relationships.
            ``(5) A description of efforts to include gender-based 
        violence in United States diplomatic and peacemaking 
        initiatives.
            ``(6) A description of any significant efforts by bilateral 
        and multilateral donors in support of preventing and responding 
        to international violence against women and girls.
            ``(7) A description of the implementation of the agency-
        specific guidelines described in section 300B(d)(3)(H).
            ``(8) A description of the activities of, and funding 
        provided for programs that prevent and respond to violence 
        against women and girls in humanitarian relief, conflict and 
        post-conflict operations, including violence perpetrated by 
        humanitarian workers.
            ``(9) A description of United States training of foreign 
        military and police forces, judicial officials, and 
        humanitarian relief grantees to prevent and respond to violence 
        against women and girls.
            ``(10) A description of data collection efforts conducted 
        under this title.
            ``(11) Identification of all contractors, subcontractors, 
        grantees, and subgrantees receiving United States funds for 
        preventing and responding to violence against women and girls.
            ``(12) Recommendations related to best practices, effective 
        strategies, and suggested improvements to enhance the impact of 
        efforts to prevent and respond to violence against women and 
        girls.
            ``(13) A description of efforts to evaluate the 
        accountability and efficacy of the programs funded pursuant to 
        section 300H(g).
            ``(14) A compilation of the descriptions on the nature and 
        extent of violence against women and girls included in the 
        annual Human Rights Reports required under section 116(d) of 
        the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended by this Act.
            ``(15) The identification of countries or regions with 
        critical outbreaks of violence against women and girls 
        described in subsection 300L(h), including--
                    ``(A) an analysis of the situations, including the 
                factors driving the violence, the role of government, 
                militia, rebel, or other armed forces in the violence; 
                and
                    ``(B) an analysis of United States and other 
                multilateral, bilateral, or governmental efforts to 
                prevent or respond to the violence, assist survivors, 
                or hold the perpetrators accountable.
            ``(16) A description of United States resources that are 
        being used--
                    ``(A) to assist in efforts to prevent or respond to 
                the critical outbreaks of violence described in section 
                300L(h);
                    ``(B) assist survivors of such violence;
                    ``(C) hold perpetrators accountable for such 
                violence; and
                    ``(D) encourage all parties to the armed conflict 
                to protect women and girls from violence.
    ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary of State to meet the reporting 
requirements under this section--
            ``(1) $2,500,000 for fiscal year 2008; and
            ``(2) $500,000 for each of the fiscal years 2009 through 
        2012.

``SEC. 300J. DATA COLLECTION.

    ``(a) In General.--The Coordinator of Women's Global Initiatives, 
assisted by the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development and the Director of the Women in Development 
Office, shall be responsible for researching, collecting, monitoring, 
and evaluating data related to efforts to prevent and respond to 
violence against women and girls internationally.
    ``(b) Use of Funds.--Funds made available under this section may be 
used for the following purposes:
            ``(1) To collect and analyze data on the scope and extent 
        of all forms of violence against women and girls, including 
        under-documented forms of violence and violence against 
        marginalized groups. This work may include original research or 
        analysis of existing data sets.
            ``(2) To help governments of countries systematically 
        collect and analyze data on violence against women and girls, 
        including both national surveys and data collected by service 
        providers.
            ``(3) To use internationally comparable indicators, norms, 
        and methodologies for measuring the scope, prevalence, and 
        incidence of violence against women and girls.
            ``(4) To include data on violence against women and girls 
        in national and international data collection efforts, 
        including those administered and funded by the United States 
        Agency for International Development, the Millennium Challenge 
        Corporation, and the Centers for Disease Control and 
        Prevention.
    ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012 
to carry out the activities under this section .

``SEC. 300K. ENHANCING UNITED STATES TRAINING OF FOREIGN MILITARY AND 
              POLICE FORCES ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.

    ``(a) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to ensure that 
United States programs to train foreign military and police forces and 
judicial officials include instruction on preventing and responding to 
violence against women and girls internationally.
    ``(b) Covered Programs.--The programs covered under this section 
include--
            ``(1) activities authorized under the Foreign Assistance 
        Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.); and
            ``(2) activities under section 1206 of the National Defense 
        Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 (Public Law 109-163; 119 
        Stat. 3456) to build the capacity of foreign military and 
        police forces to conduct counterterrorist operations or support 
        military and stability operations in which the United States is 
        participating.
    ``(c) Authorization.--The Secretary of State and the Secretary of 
Defense, in consultation with the Coordinator of Women's Global 
Initiatives, shall--
            ``(1) incorporate training on how to prevent and respond to 
        violence against women and girls into the basic training 
        curricula of foreign military and police forces and judicial 
        officials; and
            ``(2) ensure that United States assistance to units 
        involved in regional or multilateral peacekeeping operations 
        includes training on preventing and responding to violence 
        against women and girls internationally.
    ``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated $8,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012 
to carry out the activities under this section.

``SEC. 300L. ADDRESSING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS IN 
              HUMANITARIAN RELIEF, PEACEKEEPING, CONFLICT, AND POST-
              CONFLICT OPERATIONS.

    ``(a) Definitions.--In this section, the term `Inter-Agency 
Standing Committee' means the committee established in response to 
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 46/182 (1991).
    ``(b) Activities of the Department of State the United States 
Agency for International Development.--The Secretary of State and the 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development 
shall--
            ``(1) in consultation with the Coordinator of Women's 
        Global Initiatives, provide assistance to programs that prevent 
        and respond to violence against women and girls in all 
        humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict operations, 
        including--
                    ``(A) building the capacity of nongovernmental 
                organizations to address the special protection needs 
                of women and children affected by humanitarian, 
                conflict, or post-conflict operations;
                    ``(B) supporting local and international 
                nongovernmental initiatives to prevent, detect, and 
                report violence against women and girls;
                    ``(C) conducting protection and security 
                assessments for refugees and internally displaced 
                persons in camps or in communities to improve the 
                design and security of camps, with special emphasis on 
                the security of women and girls;
                    ``(D) supporting efforts to reintegrate survivors 
                of a humanitarian relief, conflict, or post-conflict 
                operation through education, psychosocial assistance, 
                trauma counseling, family and community reinsertion and 
                reunification, and medical assistance; and
                    ``(E) providing legal services for women and girls 
                who are victims of violence during a humanitarian 
                relief, conflict or post-conflict operation, including 
                the collection of evidence for war crime tribunals and 
                advocacy for legal reform; and
            ``(2) require that all grantees deployed in humanitarian 
        relief, conflict, and post-conflict operations--
                    ``(A) comply with the Inter-Agency Standing 
                Committee's Six Core Principles Relating to Sexual 
                Exploitation and Abuse;
                    ``(B) train all humanitarian workers in preventing 
                and responding to violence against women and girls, 
                including in the use of mechanisms to report violence 
                against women and girls;
                    ``(C) conduct appropriate public outreach to make 
                known to the host community the mechanisms to report 
                violence against women and girls; and
                    ``(D) promptly and appropriately respond to reports 
                of violence against women and girls and treat survivors 
                in accordance with best practices regarding 
                confidentiality.
    ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            ``(1) In general.--There is authorized to be appropriated 
        to the Department of State and the United States Agency for 
        International Development $40,000,000 for each of the fiscal 
        years 2008 through 2010 for programs described in subsection 
        (b)(1) that prevent and respond to violence against women and 
        girls in humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict 
        operations, in addition to amounts otherwise available for such 
        purposes.
            ``(2) Funding not at expense of other humanitarian 
        programs.--Any amounts appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) 
        may not be provided at the expense of other humanitarian 
        programs.
    ``(d) Activities of the United States Agency for International 
Development.--The Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development, in consultation with the Coordinator of 
Women's Global Initiatives, shall designate and deploy, as appropriate, 
protection officers as an integral part of Disaster Assistance Response 
Teams to ensure that programs to prevent and address violence against 
women and girls are integrated into humanitarian relief, conflict, and 
post-conflict operations.
    ``(e) Activities of the Department of State.--Not later than 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this title, the Secretary of 
State shall submit a report to Congress on efforts to--
            ``(1) require that all private military contracting firms 
        hired by the Department of State for humanitarian relief, 
        conflict, and post-conflict operations--
                    ``(A) demonstrate a commitment to expanding the 
                number and roles of women in such operations;
                    ``(B) train all contractors who will be deployed to 
                humanitarian relief, conflict, or post-conflict 
                operations in preventing and responding to violence 
                against women and girls. including in the use of 
                mechanisms to report violence against women and girls;
                    ``(C) conduct appropriate public outreach to make 
                known to the host community the mechanisms to report 
                violence against women and girls; and
                    ``(D) promptly and appropriately respond to reports 
                of violence against women and girls and treat survivors 
                in accordance with best practices regarding 
                confidentiality; and
            ``(2) assist women and girls formally involved in, or 
        associated with, fighting forces as part of any multilateral or 
        bilateral Disarmament, Demobilization, Rehabilitation and 
        Reintegration efforts by providing--
                    ``(A) protection and suitable separate facilities 
                for women and girls in demobilization and transit 
                centers;
                    ``(B) equitable reintegration activities and 
                opportunities to women and girls, including access to 
                schooling, vocational training, employment, and 
                childcare; and
                    ``(C) essential medical care and psychosocial 
                support for women and girls who are victims of gender-
                based violence.
    ``(f) Activities of the Department of Defense.--The Secretary of 
Defense shall--
            ``(1) in consultation with the Coordinator of Women's 
        Global Initiatives and the Director of the Office of Military 
        Affairs of the Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian 
        Assistance of the United States Agency for International 
        Development, provide training in preventing and responding to 
        violence against civilian women and girls to all United States 
        military personnel, military contractors, military observers, 
        and military police forces who will be deployed to humanitarian 
        relief, conflict, and post-conflict operations;
            ``(2) in consultation with the Coordinator of Women's 
        Global Initiatives and the Director of the Office of Military 
        Affairs of the Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian 
        Assistance, establish mechanisms for reporting incidences of 
        violence against civilian women and girls by United States 
        military personnel, military contractors, military observers, 
        and police forces participating in humanitarian relief, 
        peacekeeping, and post-conflict operations; and
            ``(3) establish appropriate public outreach to notify the 
        civilian population of the mechanisms for reporting incidences 
        of violence against civilian women and girls by United States 
        military personnel, military contractors, military observers, 
        and police forces.
    ``(g) Addressing Violence Against Civilian Women and Girls by 
United Nations Peacekeepers.--
            ``(1) Department of state activities.--The Secretary of 
        State shall encourage member states of the United Nations--
                    ``(A) to support expanding the number and roles of 
                female officers in all United Nations peacekeeping 
                missions, whether as military forces, civilian police, 
                or military observers; and
                    ``(B) to routinely put forward the names of 
                qualified female candidates for senior United Nations 
                military and civilian management positions, 
                particularly for overseas missions.
            ``(2) Sense of congress regarding actions of united nations 
        peacekeepers.--It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary-
        General of the United Nations should continue to strengthen the 
        existing ability of the United Nations Department of 
        Peacekeeping Operations and the Department of Field Support to 
        prevent and respond to violence against women and girls by 
        United Nations military and civilian personnel by--
                    ``(A) requiring that troop contributing countries 
                properly train all soldiers on the United Nations 
                guidelines regarding appropriate conduct towards 
                civilians, in particular those guidelines that address 
                violence against women and girls, before participation 
                in United Nations peacekeeping missions;
                    ``(B) supporting the expansion of the role and 
                number of female officers in all United Nations 
                peacekeeping missions, whether as military forces, 
                civilian police, or military observers;
                    ``(C) strongly encouraging all United Nations 
                member states to routinely put forward the names of 
                qualified female candidates for senior United Nations 
                military and civilian management positions, 
                particularly for overseas missions;
                    ``(D) ensuring appropriate mechanisms are in place 
                for individuals to safely bring allegations of violence 
                against women and girls to the attention of United 
                Nations peacekeeping mission commanders and the United 
                Nations Office of Internal Oversight;
                    ``(E) ensuring the capability and capacity for the 
                United Nations Office of Internal Oversight to 
                investigate all credible allegations of violence 
                against women and girls timely and efficiently, and in 
                a manner that protects the whistleblower;
                    ``(F) improving informational programs for all 
                United Nations personnel on their responsibility to 
                prevent violence against women and girls and not to 
                engage in acts of violence against women and girls;
                    ``(G) demanding that troop contributing countries--
                            ``(i) thoroughly investigate allegations of 
                        their nationals engaging in violence against 
                        women and girls while serving on United Nations 
                        peacekeeping missions; and
                            ``(ii) punish those found guilty of such 
                        misconduct; and
                    ``(H) continuing to permanently exclude individuals 
                found to have engaged in violence against women and 
                girls as well as troop contingent commanders and 
                civilian managerial personnel complicit in such 
                behavior, from participating in future United Nations 
                peacekeeping missions.
    ``(h) Emergency Measures for Critical Outbreaks of Violence During 
Conflict or Post-Conflict Operations.--
            ``(1) Emergency response to critical outbreaks.--The 
        Secretary of State, in consultation with the Coordinator of 
        Women's Global Initiatives, the Director of National 
        Intelligence, and the Secretary of Defense, shall identify and 
        take emergency measures to respond to critical outbreaks of 
        violence against women and girls in situations of armed 
        conflict when it is determined that the violence is being used 
        as a weapon of intimidation and abuse.
            ``(2) Determination.--Violence against women and girls 
        shall be determined to be a `critical outbreak' if--
                    ``(A) a United States Government report, allied 
                government information, or credible non-governmental or 
                media accounts depict a widespread pattern of violence 
                against women or girls, particularly rape and other 
                forms of sexual abuse, that is escalating in the number 
                of victims or brutality of attacks and that takes place 
                in an environment of relative impunity; or
                    ``(B) escalating violence against women or girls is 
                part of an organized campaign by governmental or rebel 
                forces or militias.
            ``(3) Emergency measures.--Not later than 180 days after 
        the identification of a critical outbreak, the Secretary of 
        State, in consultation with the Coordinator of Women's Global 
        Initiatives, the Director of National Intelligence, and the 
        Secretary of Defense, shall develop emergency measures to 
        respond to the outbreak identified under paragraph (1).
            ``(4) Consultation.--In developing emergency measures under 
        paragraph (1), the Secretary of State, with the assistance of 
        the Coordinator, shall consult with--
                    ``(A) nongovernmental organizations with 
                demonstrated expertise working on preventing and 
                addressing systematic violence against women and girls 
                as a weapon of intimidation and abuse in situations of 
                conflict and war; and
                    ``(B) international organizations, such as the 
                United Nations and its subsidiary funds, agencies, and 
                programs, which are preventing and addressing 
                systematic violence against women and girls as a weapon 
                of intimidation and abuse in situations of conflict and 
                war.
            ``(5) Content.--The emergency measures developed under 
        paragraph (1) shall include a description of--
                    ``(A) the bilateral and multilateral diplomatic 
                efforts that the Secretary of State will take to 
                address the critical outbreak, including--
                            ``(i) efforts with the government in which 
                        the violence is occurring, governments of the 
                        region in which the violence is occurring, and 
                        other allied governments; and
                            ``(ii) efforts in international fora, such 
                        as the United Nations and its subsidiary 
                        agencies, funds and programs, including in the 
                        United Nations Security Council, as 
                        appropriate; and
                    ``(B) the efforts by the United States Government 
                to--
                            ``(i) protect women and girls at risk in a 
                        critical outbreak region;
                            ``(ii) urge all parties to the armed 
                        conflict to protect women and girls; and
                            ``(iii) facilitate the prosecution of those 
                        responsible for the violence in a critical 
                        outbreak area.
            ``(6) Notice.--The Secretary of State shall notify Congress 
        of efforts to respond to critical outbreaks, including a 
        description of the bilateral and multilateral diplomatic 
        efforts of the Department of State.
    ``(i) Authorization of Appropriations.--In addition to amounts 
authorized to be appropriated under subsection (c), there is authorized 
to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for emergency 
measures, including the expansion of reporting mechanisms and programs, 
for each critical outbreak of violence identified under this 
section.''.

SEC. 103. INCLUSION OF INFORMATION ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS 
              IN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTS.

    Section 116(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
2151n(d)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (10), by striking ``; and'' and inserting 
        a semicolon;
            (2) in paragraph (11)(C), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(12) wherever applicable, the nature and extent of 
        violence against women and girls.''.

                       TITLE II--OTHER PROVISIONS

SEC. 201. AMENDMENTS TO FOREIGN SERVICE ACT OF 1980.

    (a) Performance Pay.--Section 405 of the Foreign Service Act of 
1980 (22 U.S.C. 3965) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Promotion of Human Rights.--Service in the promotion of 
internationally recognized human rights, including preventing and 
responding to violence against women and girls, shall serve as a basis 
for the award of performance pay.''.
    (b) Foreign Service Awards.--Section 614 of the Foreign Service Act 
of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4013) is amended by inserting ``and preventing and 
responding to violence against women and girls'' after ``religion''.
    (c) Foreign Service Training.--Chapter 2 of title I of the Foreign 
Service Act of 1980 is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 212. TRAINING FOR FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS.

    ``The Secretary of State, assisted by the Coordinator of Women's 
Global Initiatives, shall include, as part of the standard training 
provided for officers of the Service (including chiefs of mission), 
instruction on international violence against women and girls, 
including domestic and sexual violence against women and girls in 
humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict operations.''.

SEC. 202. SUPPORT FOR MULTILATERAL EFFORTS TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST 
              WOMEN AND GIRLS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated to the International 
Organizations and Programs Account $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2008 through 2012 to support the United Nations Development Fund for 
Women Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against 
Women.
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