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 PUBLIC LAW 107-327—DEC. 4, 2002 116 STAT. 2803 (A) encourage the return of Afghanistan citizens or nationals Hving abroad who have marketable and businessrelated skills; (B) establish financial institutions, including credit unions, cooperatives, and other entities providing microenterprise credits and other income-generation programs for the poor, with particular emphasis on women; (C) facilitate expanded trade with countries in the region; (D) promote and foster respect for basic workers' rights and protections against exploitation of child labor; (E) develop handicraft and other small-scale industries; and (F) provide financing programs for the reconstruction of Kabul and other major cities in Afghanistan. (7) ASSISTANCE TO WOMEN AND GIRLS.— (A) ASSISTANCE OBJECTIVES. — To assist women and girls in Afghanistan in the areas of political and human rights, health care, education, training, security, and shelter, with particular emphasis on assistance— (i) to support construction of, provide equipment and medical supplies to, and otherwise facilitate the establishment and rehabilitation of, health care facilities in order to improve the health care of women, children, and infants; (ii) to expand immunization programs for women and children; (iii) to establish, maintain, and expand primary and secondary schools for girls that include mathematics, science, and languages in their primary curriculum; (iv) to develop and expand technical and vocational training programs and income-generation projects for women; (v) to provide special educational opportunities for girls whose schooling was ended by the Taliban, and to support the ability of women to have access to higher education; (vi) to develop and implement programs to protect women and girls against sexual and physical abuse, abduction, trafficking, exploitation, and sex discrimination in the delivery of humanitarian supplies and services; (vii) to provide emergency shelters for women and girls who face danger from violence; (viii) to direct humanitarian assistance to widows, who make up a very large and needy population in war-torn Afghanistan; (ix) to support the work of women-led and local nongovernmental organizations with demonstrated experience in delivering services to Afghan women and children; (x) to disseminate information throughout Afghanistan on the rights of women and on international standards of human rights, including the rights of religious freedom, freedom of expression, and freedom of association;

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