[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
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[S. 2982 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2982

       To combat international violence against women and girls.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 4, 2010

    Mr. Kerry (for himself, Mrs. Boxer, Ms. Snowe, and Ms. Collins) 
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 2010''.
    (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--INTERNATIONAL PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

      Subtitle A--Official Designations and Institutional Changes

Sec. 101. Duties of the Secretary of State.
Sec. 102. Duties of the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
                            International Development.
               Subtitle B--Strategy, Policy, and Programs

Sec. 111. Comprehensive international strategy and assistance to reduce 
                            and prevent violence against women and 
                            girls.
Sec. 112. Assistance to reduce international violence against women and 
                            girls.
Sec. 113. Ensuring accountability of the United States response to 
                            violence against women and girls 
                            internationally.
Sec. 114. Enhancing United States training of foreign military and 
                            police forces and judicial officials on 
                            violence against women and girls.
Sec. 115. Addressing violence against women and girls in humanitarian 
                            relief, peacekeeping, conflict, and post-
                            conflict settings.
                       TITLE II--OTHER PROVISIONS

Sec. 201. Support for multilateral efforts to end violence against 
                            women and girls.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) According to the United Nations, approximately 1 out of 
        every 3 women throughout the world has been beaten, coerced 
        into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime. The World Health 
        Organization has reported that up to 70 percent of women in 
        some countries report having been victims of domestic violence 
        at some stage in their lives.
            (2) According to the United Nations, engaging men and women 
        to end violence against women and girls internationally should 
        be a priority. In recognition of this priority, United Nations 
        Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a multi-year campaign in 
        2009 to end violence against women and pledge resources to 
        engage male leaders and to mobilize men and boys.
            (3) Violence against women dramatically impedes progress in 
        meeting all of our global health goals, including efforts to 
        stem maternal mortality and the spread of HIV/AIDS. 
        Approximately 1 in 4 women are abused during pregnancy, which, 
        according to the World Health Organization, has been linked to 
        miscarriage, pre-term labor, low birth weight, fetal distress, 
        and death. Women who have experienced violence are also at 
        higher risk for contracting HIV, and women living with HIV may 
        be up to 3 times more likely to experience violence than other 
        women. Fear of violence also prevents women from accessing HIV/
        AIDS information and receiving treatment and counseling.
            (4) Increasing women's access to economic opportunities is 
        crucial to preventing and responding to domestic and sexual 
        violence. Microfinance-based interventions and increased asset 
        control reduce levels of intimate partner violence and provide 
        economic independence for survivors.
            (5) 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--
                    (A) being forced to exchange sex for food and 
                humanitarian supplies; and
                    (B) being at increased risk of rape, sexual 
                exploitation, and abuse.
            (6) Rape and sexual assault against women and girls are 
        used to torture, intimidate, and terrorize women and their 
        communities.
            (7) According to UNICEF, child marriage--
                    (A) is a harmful practice that deprives girls of 
                their dignity and human rights;
                    (B) can result in bonded labor or enslavement, 
                commercial sexual exploitation, and violence against 
                the victims;
                    (C) significantly increases the risk of maternal 
                death and morbidity, infant mortality and morbidity, 
                obstetric fistula, and sexually transmitted diseases, 
                including HIV/AIDS; and
                    (D) is perpetuated by poverty, a lack of 
                educational or employment opportunities for girls, 
                parental concerns to ensure sexual relations within 
                marriage, the dowry system, and the perceived lack of 
                value of girls.

SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY.

    It is the policy of the United States to--
            (1) systematically integrate and coordinate efforts to 
        prevent and respond to violence against women and girls 
        internationally into United States foreign policy and foreign 
        assistance programs;
            (2) expand the implementation of effective practices and 
        programs;
            (3) promote women's political, economic, educational, 
        social, cultural, civil, and human rights and opportunities 
        throughout the world;
            (4) support and build capacity of indigenous 
        nongovernmental organizations that are working to prevent and 
        respond to violence against women and girls internationally, 
        particularly women's nongovernmental organizations and groups 
        involving male advocates;
            (5) support and encourage United States organizations 
        working in partnership with nongovernmental organizations 
        described in paragraph (4);
            (6) prevent and respond to violence against women and girls 
        internationally 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;
            (7) enhance training and other prevention and response to 
        violence against women and girls internationally in 
        humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict settings;
            (8) 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 
        internationally;
            (9) increase communication and cooperation with 
        nongovernmental organizations with demonstrated experience in 
        women's empowerment, combating violence against women and girls 
        internationally, and engaging men and boys as partners, 
        including consulting with such organizations during strategic 
        planning exercises;
            (10) more regularly engage men and boys as community 
        leaders, partners, and advocates in ending violence against 
        women and girls;
            (11) include--
                    (A) prevention of child marriage as an important 
                part of preventing violence against girls; and
                    (B) ending the practice of child marriage by 
                promoting education and skills building for girls, 
                community programs, and increased economic 
                opportunities for women to achieve the Millennium 
                Development Goals and United States global health and 
                development objectives;
            (12) ensure that private security firms contracted for 
        service in conflict, humanitarian, and post-conflict settings 
        appropriately report on, and respond to, violence against women 
        and girls internationally; and
            (13) continue United States leadership and innovative 
        efforts at the United Nations to address violence against women 
        and girls internationally, particularly through urging the 
        United Nations Secretary-General and United Nations member 
        states to fully implement the provisions of United Nations 
        Security Council Resolutions 1325, 1820, and 1888, and other 
        relevant United Nations agreements and initiatives.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Child marriage.--The term ``child marriage'' means the 
        marriage of a girl or a boy, who has not reached the minimum 
        legal age for marriage in the country in which the girl or boy 
        is a resident.
            (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.
            (3) Prevention and response.--The term ``prevention and 
        response'' means activities designed to prevent and respond to 
        violence against women and girls.
            (4) USAID administrator.--The term ``USAID Administrator'' 
        means the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
        International Development.
            (5) Violence against women and girls.--The term ``violence 
        against women and girls''--
                    (A) means any act of violence against women or 
                girls that results in, or is likely to result in, 
                physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to 
                women or girls, 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 cutting and mutilation, 
                        forced child marriage, and other traditional 
                        practices harmful to women and girls, 
                        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 girls, and forced 
                        prostitution; and
                            (iii) physical, sexual, and psychological 
                        violence perpetrated or condoned by the 
                        government of the country of which the victim 
                        is a resident, regardless of where the violence 
                        occurs.

 TITLE I--INTERNATIONAL PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

      Subtitle A--Official Designations and Institutional Changes

SEC. 101. DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

    (a) Designation.--The Secretary of State, in fulfilling the duties 
and purposes of this Act, shall designate a senior official in the 
Department of State to conduct the relevant activities pursuant to this 
Act. For the purposes of this Act, that designee shall be referred to 
as the ``Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues''.
    (b) Support Staff.--The Secretary of State shall designate 
appropriate staff to support the efforts of the Ambassador.
    (c) Duties.--The Ambassador shall coordinate and advise, and where 
relevant lead--
            (1) State Department activities and policies, including as 
        they affect programs and funding relating to prevention and 
        response, including gender integration and women's development 
        internationally as relates to prevention and response;
            (2) the design, and as appropriate, implementation of 
        projects regarding prevention and response, including gender 
        integration and women's development internationally as relates 
        to prevention and response;
            (3) the integration of prevention and response analysis 
        into U.S. Government departments' and agencies' international 
        programs, structures, processes and capacities;
            (4) allocation of State Department resources for--
                    (A) prevention and response; and
                    (B) development of the comprehensive international 
                strategy described in section 300G to reduce violence 
                against women and girls;
            (5) on behalf of the Secretary, conduct regular cooperation 
        with civil society with demonstrated experience in prevention 
        and response and women's development issues internationally as 
        relates to prevention and response;
            (6) serve as the principal advisor to the Secretary of 
        State regarding violence against women and girls as a foreign 
        policy matter; and
            (7) at the direction of the Secretary of State, represent 
        the United States in bilateral, international and 
        nongovernmental fora in matters relevant to violence against 
        women and girls including the status of women internationally 
        as relates to prevention and response.
    (d) Information-Sharing and Transparency.--On behalf of the 
Secretary, the Ambassador shall be the central repository of evaluation 
and monitoring data on Department of State programs that relate to 
prevention and response, and also for Federal Government agencies 
engaged in international prevention and response, in order to produce a 
full accounting of United States Government spending on prevention and 
response, and to prepare the comprehensive strategy developed under 
section 111.
    (e) Congressional Briefings.--Not later than 6 months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the 
Ambassador shall brief Congress on the integration of gender 
considerations and prevention and response into its strategies, 
programming, and associated outcomes, and shall present Congress with 
an assessment of human and financial resources necessary to fulfill the 
purposes and duties of this section.
    (f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated, for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2015--
            (1) $5,000,000 for administration, staffing, travel, and 
        related expenditures; and
            (2) $5,000,000 in program funds to carry out activities 
        under this section.

SEC. 102. DUTIES OF THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR 
              INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

    (a) In General.--The USAID Administrator, in fulfilling the duties 
and purposes of this Act, shall designate a senior official (referred 
to in this Act as the ``Women's Development Advisor'' or the 
``Advisor''), who shall report directly to the USAID Administrator to 
coordinate and conduct prevention and response activities described in 
this Act.
    (b) Support Staff.--The USAID Administrator shall designate 
appropriate staff to support the efforts of the Women's Development 
Advisor.
    (c) Duties.--The Advisor shall coordinate and guide all USAID 
efforts to--
            (1) integrate prevention and response, as well as broader 
        gender issues in foreign assistance;
            (2) coordinate and consult with the Ambassador and USAID 
        mission directors in carrying out (c)(1);
            (3) provide high level guidance to USAID missions, offices, 
        and bureaus on prevention and response, gender integration, 
        design, strategy and programming; and
            (4) participate in agency-wide monitoring and evaluation on 
        gender integration activities and strategies, including 
        prevention and response.
    (d) Coordinated USAID Reporting.--
            (1) In general.--USAID technical and regional bureaus 
        identified by the USAID Administrator and the Advisor shall 
        annually provide the Advisor with such data and findings 
        collected under subsection (c)(4) as may be requested by the 
        Advisor.
            (2) Scope of data.--The data and findings provided under 
        paragraph (1)--
                    (A) shall include relevant contractors, 
                subcontractors, grantees, and subgrantees receiving 
                program funds made available for prevention and 
                response, and women's development globally as a method 
                of prevention; and
                    (B) shall be made publicly available.
            (3) Security concerns.--In determining the data and 
        findings to be provided under this subsection, the Advisor 
        shall take into account the security concerns of USAID grantees 
        and subgrantees.
    (e) Congressional Briefings.--Not later than 6 months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the 
Advisor, in coordination with the Ambassador, shall brief Congress on 
the integration of gender considerations and prevention and response 
into its strategies, programming, and associated outcomes, using data 
collected under subsection (d), and shall present Congress with an 
assessment of human and financial resources necessary to fulfill the 
purposes and duties of this section.
    (f) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            (1) In general.--In addition to amounts otherwise 
        available, there is authorized to be appropriated, for each of 
        the fiscal years 2011 through 2015--
                    (A) $5,000,000 for operations, administration, and 
                related expenditures; and
                    (B) $5,000,000 in program funds to carry out the 
                activities under this section.
            (2) Supervision of expenditures.--Amounts appropriated 
        pursuant to this subsection shall be expended under the 
        direction of the Advisor.

               Subtitle B--Strategy, Policy, and Programs

SEC. 111. COMPREHENSIVE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY AND ASSISTANCE 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 Act, the Secretary of 
State, under the direction of the President and with the assistance of 
the USAID Administrator, shall--
            (1) develop a comprehensive, 5-year international strategy 
        to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls 
        internationally; and
            (2) submit the strategy developed under paragraph (1) to 
        the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the 
        Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
    (b) Collaboration and Coordination.--In developing the strategy 
under subsection (a), the Secretary of State, with the assistance of 
the USAID Administrator, shall consult with--
            (1) executive branch agencies and entities administering 
        international programs;
            (2) the Senior Policy Operating Group on Trafficking in 
        Persons;
            (3) representatives of civil society with demonstrated 
        experience combating violence against women and girls or 
        promoting women's health or women's development issues 
        internationally.
    (c) Content.--The strategy developed under subsection (a) shall--
            (1) identify countries with significant levels of violence 
        against women and girls that have the government or 
        nongovernment organizational capacity to manage and implement 
        gender-based violence prevention and response program 
        activities;
            (2) select up to 20 of the countries described in paragraph 
        (1) in which to develop a gender-integrated, comprehensive, and 
        holistic individual country plan that incorporates at least 2 
        of the program activities listed in subsection (d);
            (3) assess and describe the current or potential capacity 
        of each government or civil society to address and respond to 
        violence against women and girls;
            (4) identify and coordinate with Federal departments and 
        agencies that--
                    (A) have existing programs relevant to the 
                strategy; or
                    (B) will be involved in new program activities;
            (5) describe the monitoring and evaluation mechanisms 
        established for each country, and their use in assessing 
        overall progress in prevention and response;
            (6) project general levels of resources needed to achieve 
        the stated objectives in each country, including an accounting 
        of--
                    (A) activities and funding already expended by the 
                Department of State, USAID, other Federal agencies, 
                other donor country governments, and other multilateral 
                institutions; and
                    (B) leveraged private sector resources;
            (7) include capacity-building and technical assistance for 
        community-based women's nongovernmental organizations and 
        community-based organizations with demonstrated expertise in 
        women's empowerment, including combating violence against women 
        and girls internationally;
            (8) identify and coordinate with existing nongovernmental 
        and multilateral programs, initiatives, and groups with 
        demonstrated experience on preventing and responding to 
        violence against women and girls internationally, particularly 
        coordinating with women's organizations and community-based 
        groups; and
            (9) integrate gender analysis into the strategy for each 
        country to ensure that the roles of women, girls, men, and boys 
        are appropriately addressed.
    (d) Program Activities Supported.--Assistance provided under this 
section shall be used to carry out country-specific strategies under 
subsection (a) through multi-sectoral prevention and response 
activities specified by the Ambassador and Advisor and that fall under 
at least 2 of the following broad categories:
            (1) Enhancing the capacity of the health sector to respond 
        to violence against women and girls.
            (2) Development and enforcement of civil and criminal legal 
        and judicial sanctions, protections, trainings, and capacity.
            (3) Development of programs affecting social norms, 
        community attitudes, and male and female participation in 
        violence and response to victims.
            (4) Ensuring accessible quality educational and literacy 
        opportunities for women and girls.
            (5) Promotion of access to economic opportunity projects, 
        including increasing distribution, credit, property, and 
        inheritance rights for women and girls.

SEC. 112. ASSISTANCE TO REDUCE INTERNATIONAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND 
              GIRLS.

    (a) Coordination of Existing Assistance Programs.--The Ambassador, 
working with the Advisor, shall, to the fullest extent practicable, 
coordinate activities and measures to prevent and respond to violence 
against women and girls internationally into existing programs, 
contracts, grants, agreements, and foreign assistance under the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 and other Acts authorizing and appropriating 
foreign assistance, as applicable.
    (b) Authority.--To implement and execute the comprehensive 
international strategy developed pursuant to section 111, the Secretary 
of State and the USAID Administrator, in consultation with the 
Ambassador and the Advisor, may provide assistance to nongovernmental 
organizations, multilateral institutions, and foreign countries for 
program activities described in section 111(d).
    (c) Allocation of New Funding.--The Secretary of State and the 
USAID Administrator, based on guidance from the Ambassador and the 
Advisor, may allocate funds to implement and execute the comprehensive 
international strategy developed pursuant to section 111.
    (d) Use of Funds.--
            (1) In general.--Any funds made available under this 
        section to nongovernmental organizations should be designated 
        to organizations that--
                    (A) have demonstrated experience regarding violence 
                against women and girls internationally or have entered 
                into a partnership with an organization with such 
                experience; and
                    (B) have demonstrated capabilities or experience in 
                a particular program activity described in section 
                111(d).
            (2) Congressional briefings.--The Secretary of State and 
        the USAID Administrator shall brief Congress upon request, on 
        the transparent mechanisms used to ensure that funds made 
        available under this section through nongovernmental 
        organizations are awarded to organizations described in 
        paragraph (1).
    (e) Grants to Women's Nongovernmental Organizations and Community-
Based Organizations.--Special efforts shall be made to award amounts 
appropriated to carry out this Act to community-based and women's 
nongovernmental organizations in recipient countries. The Advisor shall 
brief Congress, upon request, on efforts made to assist such 
organizations to be eligible for such funds.
    (f) Award Process.--Grant amounts awarded under this section shall 
be provided through an open, competitive, and transparent process to 
the extent possible.
    (g) Conditions.--Entities receiving grants under this section--
            (1) shall allocate a reasonable portion of such grants for 
        data collection and the evaluation of program effectiveness;
            (2) shall be responsible for developing and reporting on 
        outcomes and impacts relating to preventing and responding to 
        violence against women and girls internationally;
            (3) should gather input from women's nongovernmental 
        organizations or community-based organizations in recipient 
        countries, including organizations with experience in working 
        with men and boys to prevent violence; 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.--In addition to amounts otherwise available 
        for such purposes, there is authorized to be appropriated to 
        the President $175,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2011 
        through 2015 to carry out this section and section 111.
            (2) Availability of funds.--Amounts appropriated pursuant 
        to paragraph (1) shall remain available until expended.

SEC. 113. ENSURING ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE UNITED STATES RESPONSE TO 
              VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS INTERNATIONALLY.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the implementation of 
the comprehensive strategy under section 111, the Secretary of State, 
assisted by the Ambassador, shall prepare a public report on best 
practices for preventing and addressing violence against women and 
girls internationally, which shall include--
            (1) a description of successful efforts by governments of 
        countries with significant levels of violence against women and 
        girls, nongovernmental organizations, and United States, 
        bilateral, and multilateral donors in prevention and response;
            (2) recommendations related to best practices, effective 
        strategies, and improvements to enhance the impact of 
        prevention and response efforts; and
            (3) the impact of activities funded by the strategy in 
        preventing and reducing violence against women and girls 
        internationally.
    (b) Amendments.--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'' at the end;
            (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 (as defined in section 4 of 
        the International Violence Against Women Act of 2010).''.
    (c) Transparency.--Upon request, the Secretary of State shall 
provide to Congress the information made available under sections 
101(d) and 102(d), including outcomes and impacts related to prevention 
and response to violence against women and girls internationally 
submitted by contractors, subcontractors, grantees and subgrantees, 
unless such disclosure would inhibit the security or effectiveness of 
such entities.
    (d) Research and Data Collection.--The Ambassador, assisted by the 
USAID Administrator and the heads of relevant bureaus and offices of 
the Department of State and in consultation with the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services and the Attorney General--
            (1) shall work to improve the quality and coordination of 
        existing data collection and evaluations of current violence 
        against women and girls internationally programs; and
            (2) may provide financial assistance for original research 
        or analysis of effective interventions to prevent or respond to 
        violence against women and girls internationally.
    (e) Use of Funds.--Amounts authorized to be appropriated in this 
section may be used to--
            (1) collect and analyze new or existing data on the scope 
        and extent of all forms of violence against women and girls 
        internationally, including underdocumented forms of violence 
        and violence against marginalized groups;
            (2) conduct research on effective interventions to respond 
        to violence against women and girls internationally, including 
        efforts to scale up effective programming; and
            (3) support systemic data collection using internationally 
        comparable indicators, norms, and methodologies for measuring 
        the scope, prevalence, and incidence of violence against women 
        and girls internationally, working through--
                    (A) governments of foreign countries; and
                    (B) federally funded development assistance and 
                health assistance.
    (f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary of State $20,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 2011 through 2015 to carry out the activities under this 
section.

SEC. 114. ENHANCING UNITED STATES TRAINING OF FOREIGN MILITARY AND 
              POLICE FORCES AND JUDICIAL OFFICIALS ON VIOLENCE AGAINST 
              WOMEN AND GIRLS.

    (a) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to ensure that United 
States programs to train foreign military, police, and judicial 
officials include instruction on prevention of and response to violence 
against women and girls.
    (b) Covered Programs.--The programs referred to in subsection (a) 
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), as amended.
    (c) Guidance.--The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense 
shall, as appropriate--
            (1) incorporate training on prevention and response into 
        the basic training curricula of foreign military forces and 
        judicial officials; and
            (2) ensure that United States assistance to units involved 
        in regional or multilateral peacekeeping operations includes 
        training on prevention and response.
    (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 
2011 through 2015 to carry out the activities under this section.

SEC. 115. ADDRESSING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS IN HUMANITARIAN 
              RELIEF, PEACEKEEPING, CONFLICT, AND POST-CONFLICT 
              SETTINGS.

    (a) Defined Term.--In this section, the term ``Inter-Agency 
Standing Committee'' means the committee established in response to 
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 46/182, adopted at New York 
on December 19, 1991.
    (b) Activities of the Department of State With the United States 
Agency for International Development.--
            (1) Guidance.--Under the direction of the Secretary of 
        State, the Ambassador is authorized to provide guidance to the 
        USAID Administrator and the Assistant Secretary for Population, 
        Refugees, and Migration.
            (2) Duties.--The USAID Administrator and the Assistant 
        Secretary shall--
                    (A) consider the Ambassador's guidance to the 
                extent practicable;
                    (B) provide assistance to programs carried out by 
                international organizations, international and local 
                nongovernmental organizations, and governments, as 
                appropriate, that--
                            (i) prevent and respond to violence against 
                        women and girls in humanitarian relief, 
                        conflict, and post-conflict settings;
                            (ii) adhere to the Inter-Agency Standing 
                        Committee's Guidelines for Gender-based 
                        Violence Interventions in Humanitarian 
                        Settings;
                            (iii) build the capacity of humanitarian 
                        organizations and government authorities, as 
                        appropriate, to address the special protection 
                        needs of women and children;
                            (iv) support efforts to provide immediate 
                        assistance to survivors of violence and 
                        reintegrate such individuals through education, 
                        psychosocial assistance, trauma counseling, 
                        family and community reinsertion and 
                        reunification, medical assistance, and economic 
                        opportunity programs; and
                            (v) provide legal services for women and 
                        girls who are victims of violence;
                    (C) ensure that activities to prevent and respond 
                to violence against women and girls internationally are 
                incorporated into any multilateral or bilateral 
                disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation, and 
                reintegration efforts by--
                            (i) providing protection and suitable 
                        separate facilities in demobilization and 
                        transit centers for women and girls formerly 
                        involved in, or associated with, fighting 
                        forces;
                            (ii) ensuring equitable reintegration 
                        activities and opportunities for such women and 
                        girls, including access to schooling, 
                        vocational training, employment, and childcare;
                            (iii) providing essential medical care and 
                        psychosocial support for such women and girls 
                        who are victims of violence; and
                            (iv) incorporating prevention and response 
                        to violence against women and girls into 
                        programs for former combatants;
                    (D) designate and deploy specialists in violence 
                against women and girls, as appropriate, as an integral 
                part of the United States Agency for International 
                Development's Disaster Assistance Response Teams to 
                ensure the integration of prevention and response to 
                violence against women and girls internationally in 
                strategies and programming; and
                    (E) strive to ensure that all grantees deployed in 
                humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict 
                operations--
                            (i) comply with the Inter-Agency Standing 
                        Committee's Six Core Principles Relating to 
                        Sexual Exploitation and Abuse;
                            (ii) 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;
                            (iii) conduct appropriate public outreach 
                        to make known to the host community the 
                        mechanisms to report violence against women and 
                        girls; and
                            (iv) promptly and appropriately respond to 
                        reports of violence against women and girls and 
                        treat survivors in accordance with best 
                        practices regarding confidentiality.
            (3) Authorization of appropriations.--
                    (A) 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 2011 through 2015 for 
                programs described in paragraph (2)(C) 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.
                    (B) Sense of congress.--It is the sense of Congress 
                that amounts appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) 
                should not affect the amount appropriated for other 
                humanitarian programs.
    (c) Activities of the Department of State.--Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, 
acting through the Ambassador, shall brief Congress on activities and 
efforts to--
            (1) create a mechanism to ensure that contractors and 
        grantees deployed in humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-
        conflict settings--
                    (A) comply with the Inter-Agency Standing 
                Committee's Six Core Principles Relating to Sexual 
                Exploitation and Abuse;
                    (B) train their humanitarian workers in prevention 
                and response, including proper mechanisms to report 
                gender-based violence; and
                    (C) promptly and appropriately respond to reports 
                of violence against women and girls and treat survivors 
                in accordance with best practices regarding 
                confidentiality; and
            (2) carry out the activities described in subsection 
        (b)(2).
    (d) Coordination of United States Government Efforts.--Under the 
direction of the President, the Secretary of State is authorized to 
provide guidance on preventing and responding to violence against women 
and girls to the Secretary of Defense when United States military 
personnel, military contractors, and military observers are to be 
deployed in humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict settings. 
The Ambassador shall regularly consult with counterparts at the 
Department of Defense and the Department of Justice to coordinate 
design and implementation of programs relevant to the purposes of this 
section.
    (e) Enhancing United States Leadership and Advocacy in the United 
Nations.--
            (1) Resource sharing.--The Secretary of State, in 
        consultation with the USAID Administrator, the Ambassador, the 
        United States Representative to the United Nations, the 
        Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs, and 
        the Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration 
        shall make available United States financial, material, human, 
        and other resources to assist United Nations efforts to--
                    (A) develop and implement appropriate training 
                programs in prevention and response to violence against 
                women and girls internationally for peacekeeping and 
                humanitarian personnel;
                    (B) meet staffing goals for women military and 
                police peacekeepers, including all-women teams and 
                units;
                    (C) enhance the deployment of civilian women at all 
                levels to serve in peacekeeping missions, including 
                through innovative staffing formulas;
                    (D) improve protection mechanisms in and around 
                United Nations managed refugee and internally displaced 
                persons camps;
                    (E) implement a zero tolerance policy for sexual 
                exploitation and abuse in United Nations peacekeeping 
                and humanitarian operations;
                    (F) support troop and police contributing countries 
                in--
                            (i) taking appropriate actions to prevent 
                        violence and abuse;
                            (ii) providing materials for pre-deployment 
                        and in-theater awareness training; and
                            (iii) taking other actions to promote full 
                        accountability in cases of abusive conduct 
                        involving the personnel of such countries;
                    (G) continue to expand appropriate mechanisms to 
                permit individuals to safely bring allegations of 
                violence against women and girls internationally to the 
                attention of United Nations peacekeeping commanders and 
                heads of humanitarian missions; and
                    (H) ensure the capacity of the United Nations 
                Office of Internal Oversight to investigate all 
                credible allegations in a timely and efficient manner, 
                while protecting the whistleblower.
            (2) Report.--Not later than 18 months after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary of State for 
        International Organization Affairs and the United States 
        Representative to the United Nations, in consultation with the 
        Ambassador-at-Large of the Office for Global Women's Issues, 
        shall submit a report to Congress that describes United States 
        efforts to support the implementation of United Nations 
        Security Council Resolutions 1325, 1820, and 1888.
    (f) Emergency Response to Widespread Reports of Violence Against 
Women.--
            (1) Emergency response to credible reports of critical or 
        widespread violence against women and girls.--The Secretary of 
        State, in consultation with the Ambassador and in coordination 
        with relevant bureaus of the Department of State, shall--
                    (A) identify critical or widespread incidents of 
                violence against women and girls in situations of armed 
                conflict when they occur, through consultation with 
                other Federal agencies, the United Nations, 
                international organizations, and nongovernmental 
                organizations;
                    (B) determine emergency response measures not later 
                than 45 days after such identification; and
                    (C) brief Congress on the implementation of such 
                emergency response measures and outcomes not later than 
                30 days after such determination.
            (2) Content.--The emergency measures developed under 
        paragraph (1) shall include a description of--
                    (A) bilateral diplomatic efforts with--
                            (i) the government of the country in which 
                        the violence is occurring;
                            (ii) governments in the region in which the 
                        violence is occurring; and
                            (iii) other donor governments.
    (g) 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 situation identified under this section.

                       TITLE II--OTHER PROVISIONS

SEC. 201. SUPPORT FOR MULTILATERAL EFFORTS TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST 
              WOMEN AND GIRLS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated to the International 
Organizations and Programs Account $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal 
years 2011 through 2015 to support the United Nations Development Fund 
for Women Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence 
Against Women.
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