Sec. 10. Child soldier prevention
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This section may be cited as the . Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2017 Congress finds the following: The recruitment or use of children in armed conflict is unacceptable for any government or government-supported entity receiving United States assistance. The recruitment or use of children in armed conflict, including direct combat, support roles, and sexual slavery, occurred during 2015 and 2016 in Afghanistan, South Sudan, Sudan, Burma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen.
Entities of the Government of Afghanistan, particularly the Afghan Local Police and the Afghan National Police, continue to recruit children to serve as combatants or as servants, including as sex slaves. Police forces of the Government of Afghanistan participate in counterterrorism operations, direct and indirect combat, and security operations, fight alongside regular armies, and are targeted for violence by the Taliban and by other opposition groups. In February 2016, a 10-year-old boy was assassinated by the Taliban after he had been publically honored by Afghan local police forces for his assistance in combat operations against the Taliban.
The recruitment and use of children in armed conflict by government forces continued during 2016 in South Sudan with the return to hostilities. At least 650 children have been recruited and used in armed conflict in South Sudan during 2016, and at least 16,000 children have been recruited since that country’s civil war began in 2013. Section 402 of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 ( 22 U.S.C. 2370c ) is amended— in paragraph (2)— in subparagraph (A), by inserting , police, or other security forces after governmental armed forces each place such phrase appears; and in subparagraph (B), by striking clauses and inserting clause ; and by adding at the end the following:
The term nonlethal supplies means property, other than real property, of the Department of Defense that is not a weapon, ammunition, or other equipment or material that is designed to inflict serious bodily harm or death. . Section 404 of such Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2370c–1 ) is amended— in subsection (a)— by inserting , police, other security forces, after governmental armed forces ; and by striking recruit and use child soldiers and inserting recruit or use child soldiers ; in subsection (b), by amending paragraph
(2)to read as follows: Not later than 45 days after the submission of each report required under section 110(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7107(b) ), the Secretary of State shall formally notify each government included in the list required under paragraph
(1)of its inclusion on such list. As soon as practicable after making all of the notifications required under subparagraph
(A)with respect to a report, the Secretary of State shall notify the appropriate congressional committees that the requirements under subparagraph
(A)have been completed. ; and in subsection (e)(1), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking to a country and all that follows through subsection
(a)and inserting under section 541 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( . 22 U.S.C. 2347 ) through the Defense Institute for International Legal Studies or the Center for Civil-Military Relations at the Naval Post-Graduate School, and may provide nonlethal supplies to a country subject to the prohibition under subsection
(a)Section 405 of such Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2370c–2 ) is amended— in subsection (c)— in the matter preceding paragraph (1)— by striking , during any of the 5 years following the date of the enactment of this Act, ; and by striking wavier and inserting waiver ; by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and
(4)as paragraphs (3), (4), and (5), respectively; by inserting after paragraph
(1)the following: a description and the amount of any assistance withheld under this title pursuant to the application of the prohibition under section 404(a) to those countries; ; and in paragraph (5), as redesignated, by inserting and the amount after a description ; and by adding at the end the following: If a country is notified pursuant to section 404(b)(2), or if a waiver is granted pursuant to section 404(c)(1), the Secretary of State shall include, in each report required under section 110(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7107(b) ), the information required to be included in the annual report under subsection (c). .
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- 22 USC 2370c–1
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Child soldier prevention
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