Sec. 4. At-Risk Journalists Fund
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There is established in the Treasury of the United States a fund, to be known as the At-Risk Journalists Fund (in this section referred to as the Fund ), to be administered by the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State shall use the amounts in the Fund for the following purposes: To support journalists operating in restrictive environments by providing— training in digital identity protection and physical security; and psycho-social care. To provide short-term emergency assistance to support and protect journalists who have been threatened, harassed, or attacked and need to relocate, which may be provided through existing mechanisms such as the Human Rights Defenders Fund of the Department of State.
To provide medium-term emergency assistance resources for journalists in danger, including continuing support to journalists described in paragraph
(2)whose relocations must be extended due to ongoing security concerns. Amounts authorized to be appropriated under subsection
(e)shall be obligated and expended consistent with the action plan required by section 7032(i)(1) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2018 (division K of Public Law 115–141 ). Not later than March 1 of each year, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the Fund. Each report required by paragraph
(1)shall include the following: The total amount expended from the Fund during the previous calendar year for each of the purposes specified in subsection (b). A description of the specific programs implemented using amounts from the Fund during such year. Data regarding the number and nationality of journalists assisted using such amounts during such year. Such accounts of individuals assisted by the Fund during such year that the Secretary of State considers relevant to share. In this subsection, the term appropriate commitees of Congress means— the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Human Rights Caucus of the Senate; and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the House of Representatives. There is authorized to be appropriated to the Fund $30,000,000 to carry out this section for each of the 5 fiscal years beginning with the first fiscal year that begins after the date of the enactment of this Act. Amounts authorized to be appropriated under paragraph
(1)shall remain available until expended. It is the sense of Congress that— amounts authorized to be appropriated under subsection
(e)should be appropriated in addition to amounts regularly appropriated for other programs to promote human rights and civil society; and support for civil society activists and other human rights defenders provided by the Federal Government as of the date of the enactment of this Act should not be decreased.
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