112 STAT. 3018
PUBLIC LAW 105-320—OCT. 30, 1998
(b) FUNDING.—
(1) AUTHORIZATION OP APPROPRIATIONS. —Of the amounts
authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Health
and Human Services for fiscal years 1999 and 2000, there
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out subsection (a)
(relating to assistance for domestic centers and programs for
the treatment of victims of torture) $5,000,000 for fiscal year
1999, and $7,500,000 for fiscal year 2000.
(2) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. —Amounts appropriated
pursuant to this subsection shall remain available until
expended.
22 USC 2152
SEC. 6. MULTILATERAL ASSISTANCE.
(a) FUNDING.— Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated
for fiscal years 1999 and 2000 pursuant to chapter 3 of part I
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, there are authorized to
be appropriated to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims
of Torture (in this section referred to as the "Fund") the following
amounts for the following fiscal years:
(1) FISCAL YEAR 1999. —For fiscal year 1999, $3,000,000.
(2) FISCAL YEAR 2000.— For fiscal year 2000, $3,000,000.
(b) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.— Amounts appropriated pursuant
to subsection (a) shall remain available until expended.
(c) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.— It is the sense of the Congress
that the President, acting through the United States Permanent
Representative to the United Nations, should—
(1) request the Fund—
(A) to find new ways to support and protect treatment
centers and programs that are carrying out rehabilitative
services for victims of torture; and
(B) to encourage the development of new such centers
and programs;
(2) use the voice and vote of the United States to support
the work of the Special Rapporteur on Torture and the Committee Against Torture established under the Convention Against
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment; and
(3) use the voice and vote of the United States to establish
a country rapporteur or similar procedural mechanism to investigate human rights violations in a country if either the Special
Rapporteur or the Committee Against Torture indicates that
a systematic practice of torture is prevalent in that country.
22 USC 2152
SEC. 7. SPECIALIZED TRAINING FOR FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS.
(a) IN GENERAL. — The Secretary of State shall provide training
for foreign service officers with respect to—
(1) the identification of torture;
(2) the identification of the surrounding circumstances in
which torture is most often practiced;
(3) the long-term effects of torture upon a victim;
(4) the identification of the physical, cognitive, and
emotional effects of torture, and the manner in which these
effects can affect the interview or hearing process; and
(5) the manner of interviewing victims of torture so as
not to retraumatize them, eliciting the necessary information
to document the torture experience, and understanding the
difficulties victims often have in recounting their torture experience.
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