; and (2) in section 502B(b) ( 22 U.S.C. 2304(b) ), by inserting after the ninth sentence the following new sentence: Wherever applicable, such report shall also include information regarding violence or discrimination that affects the fundamental freedoms, including widespread or systematic violation of the freedoms of expression, association, or assembly of an individual in foreign countries that is based on actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex characteristics. . (b) Review at diplomatic and consular posts (1) In general In preparing the annual country reports on human rights practices required by section 116 or 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended by subsection (a), the Secretary of State shall obtain information from each diplomatic and consular post with respect to the following: (A) Incidents of violence against LGBTI people in the country in which such post is located. (B) An analysis of the factors enabling or aggravating such incidents, such as government policy, societal pressure, or external actors. (C) The response, whether public or private, of the personnel of such post with respect to such incidents. (2) Addressing bias-motivated violence The Secretary shall include in the annual strategic plans of the regional bureaus concrete diplomatic strategies, programs, and policies to address bias-motivated violence using information obtained pursuant to paragraph (1), such as programs to build capacity among civil society or governmental entities to document, investigate, and prosecute instances of such violence and provide support to victims of such violence. (c) Interagency group (1) Establishment There is established an interagency group on responses to urgent threats to LGBTI people in foreign countries (in this subsection referred to as the interagency group ), that shall be chaired by the Secretary of State and include the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, the