Sec. 3. Sense of Congress
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It is the sense of Congress that— corresponding with the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017 ( Public Law 115–68 ) and the U.S. Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security, the United States has a commitment to promoting the meaningful participation of women throughout the Afghan peace process; representatives of Afghan women, youth, and other marginalized groups from rural and urban provinces and especially from those most affected by violence, should meaningfully participate and engage in all peace talks, implementation commissions, and other bodies if an agreement is reached, alongside the Government of Afghanistan, the Afghan political opposition, and the Taliban, and that their security must be protected throughout and their concerns prioritized in those respective agendas; training and gender expertise should be made available to the United States mediators of the peace talks and all participating delegations, including one or more gender advisors with expertise in structuring inclusive peace process and conflict mediation, and who have local language skills and mediation expertise to establish a safe communication channel for engagement with and training of a diverse range of Afghan women’s groups; financial, technical, and logistical support, including security precautions for their protection, should be provided to women delegates to the talks, mediators, peace builders, and stakeholders, enabling them to travel safely to and from the location of the peace talks and to meaningfully participate; and a component of any international aid package that is awarded to Afghanistan as part of the peace process should be directed to programming focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment, including for efforts to ensure that implementation of the peace agreement is shaped by gender analysis, and that funds are made available as grants for local Afghan women-led and women’s empowerment organizations as well as for education and necessary services for women and girls.
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