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Department of State Washington File: Bush Reiterates U.S. Support for Georgia
Bush "noted that the transfer of authority in Georgia was handled without resort to violence and that the new leaders moved quickly to call presidential elections in accordance with the Georgian constitution," she said. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: Joint Economic Committee News Release on Federal Reserve
"Federal Reserve monetary policy can have important effects on other economies, just as external economic forces can affect our domestic economy," Saxton said. "For example, one of the most impressive actions of the Federal Reserve in recent years was its three interest rate cuts in the fall of 1998 that stemmed potentially deflationary forces in the international economy as well as our own. As the new JEC study notes, this example also demonstrates how the Federal Reserve can successfully assume international lender-of-last-resort responsibilities. ... [Read More]
V. Country Narratives -- Countries A through G
Cuba is a source country for children trafficked internally for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced child labor. Trafficking victims from all over Cuba are exploited in major cities and tourist resorts. There are no reliable estimates available on the extent of trafficking in the country; however, children in prostitution is widely apparent, even to casual observers. These children are sometimes trafficked into prostitution by their families and exploited by foreign tourists. Anecdotal evidence suggests that workers at state-run hotels, travel company employees, taxicab drivers, bar and restaurant workers, and law enforcement personnel are complicit in the commercial sexual exploitation of minors. Cuban forced labor victims include children coerced into working in conditions of involunt ... [Read More]
USIS Washington File: NATO STRIKES WOULD SEEK TO BLOCK ATTACKS ON KOSOVAR ALBANIANS
"We have always said force is a last resort," Bacon said, "but it is the only resort we have been left with at this stage after the lack of success by Ambassador (Richard) Holbrooke, who tried very hard over a series of meetings to win a diplomatic solution to this." ... Washington -- Defense Department spokesman Ken Bacon says the diplomatic effort by the United States and its allies to resolve the current crisis over Kosovo "has failed" and "we will have to contemplate using force as a last resort." ... [Read More]
Australia
The HREOC's 1998 report on religious freedom stated, "despite the legal protections that apply in different jurisdictions, many citizens suffer discrimination on the basis of religious belief or nonbelief, including members of both mainstream and nonmainstream religions, and those of no religious persuasion." Many non-Christian adherents have complained to the HREOC that the dominance of traditional Christianity in civic life has the potential to marginalize large numbers of citizens. However, the complainants have not presented any concrete evidence of such marginalization. Persons who suffer discrimination on the basis of religion may resort to the court system, which is an effective method of obtaining redress. ... [Read More]
Australia
An implicit right to strike was legalized in 1994 legislation. The 1996 Workplace Relations Act significantly restricted the right of workers to take industrial action, including heavy fines for labor unrest during the life of an agreement and tougher secondary-boycott provisions, and confined it to the period of bargaining, where it remains a protected action. Protected action provides employers, employees, and unions with legal immunity from claims of losses incurred by industrial action during the formal period of bargaining over a new enterprise agreement. In April 1999, a union successfully challenged this provision in federal court; the court refused to grant an injunction against the union for taking industrial action outside of a bargaining period because it was in support of maintaining existing wages and conditions. Parliament has rejected on four occasions the Government's proposed associated legislative changes to the Federal Trade Practices law, which would ha ... [Read More]
U.S. Department of State - Washington Hyper File
(Asst. Secretary Burns calls force "last resort," but perhaps necessary) (6860) ... [Read More]
USIS Washington File: WHITE HOUSE REPORT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1999
Lockhart spoke to the White House press in Florida where President and Mrs. Clinton are enjoying a Memorial Day vacation at a resort outside of the town of Yulee. ... Clinton made calls to Italy's Premier Massimo D'Alema and to Nobel Peace laureate Elie Weisel from the resort. ... [Read More]
USIS Washington File: TEXT: STATE SPOKESMAN ON THAI MISSION TO PHNOM PENH
Washington -- The United States has condemned the Cambodian Government's resort to violence to break up peaceful demonstrations. ... The United States has condemned the Cambodian Government's resort to violence to break up peaceful demonstrations. We continue to call for restraint and concrete actions to ensure respect for fundamental freedoms of speech and assembly. ... [Read More]
Australia
The HREOC's 1998 report on religious freedom stated that "despite the legal protections that apply in different jurisdictions, many Australians suffer discrimination on the basis of religious belief or non-belief, including members of both mainstream and non-mainstream religions, and those of no religious persuasion." Many non-Christian adherents have complained to the HREOC that the dominance of traditional Christianity in civic life has the potential to marginalize large numbers of citizens. However, the complainants have not presented any concrete evidence of such marginalization. Persons who suffer discrimination on the basis of religion may resort to the court system, which is an effective method of obtaining redress. Following increased reports of threats of violence and vandalism against religious property, HREOC commenced a project in March to determine whether Muslim citizens shared an ethnic origin as well as a religion with a view to extending the coverage of the Federal Rac ... [Read More]
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