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 PUBLIC LAW 103-236—APR. 30, 1994 108 STAT. 461 for refugee women, with special emphasis on women heads of household; (8) education for all refugee children, ensuring equal access for girls, and special services and family tracing for unaccompanied refugee minors; (9) the collection of data that clearly enumerate age and gender so that appropriate health, education, and assistance programs can be planned; (10) the recruitment, hiring, and training of more women program professionals in the international humanitarian field; and (11) gender-awareness training for program staff of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and nongovernmental voluntary organizations on implementation of the 1991 UNHCR "Guidelines on the Protection of Refugee Women". (b) PROCEDURES. — The Secretary of State should adopt specific procedures to ensure that all recipients of United States Government refugee and migration assistance funds implement the standards outlined in subsection (a). (c) REQUIREMENTS FOR REFUGEE AND MIGRATION ASSISTANCE. — The Secretary of State, in providing migration and refugee assistance, should support the protection efforts set forth under this section by raising at the highest levels of government the issue of abuses against refugee women and children by governments or insurgent groups that engage in, permit, or condone— (1) a pattern of gross violations of intemationsilly recognized himian rights, such as torture or cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment, prolonged detention without charges, or other flagrant denial to life, liberty, and the security of person; (2) the blockage of humaniterian relief assistance; (3) gender-specific persecution such as systematic individual or mass rape, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, enforced prostitution, any form of indecent assault or act of violence against refugee women, girls, and children; or (4) continuing violations of the integrity of the person against refugee women and children on the part of armed insurgents, local security forces, or camp guards. (d) INVESTIGATION OF REPORTS.— Upon receipt of credible reports of abuses under subsection (c), the Secretary of Stote should immediately investigate such reports through emergency fact-finding missions or other means of investigating such reports and help identify appropriate remedial measures. (e) MULTILATERAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 1991 UNHCR "GuiDEUNES ON THE PROTECTION OF REFUGEE WOMEN". —The Secretary of Stoto should work to ensure that multilatoral organizations fully incorporate the needs of refugee women and children into all elemente of refugee assistance programs and work to encourage other governments that provide remgee assistance to adopt refugee assistonce policies designed to encourage full implementation of the 1991 UNHCR's "Guidelines on the Protection of Refugee Women". SEC. 502. INTERPARLIAMENTARY EXCHANGES. (a) AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS.— (1) Section 2 of Public Law 86-420 is amended— 22 USC 276i.

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