“(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 [22 U.S.C. 2221 et seq.], 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.
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