Bolivia Newspaper

Belize is a transit and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of labor and sexual exploitation. Women and children are trafficked to Belize, mainly from Central America, to work in Belize’s growing sex industry. Girls are trafficked internally for sexual exploitation, sometimes with the consent and encouragement of their parents. There are also reports of sexual and labor exploitation of men and women in Belize’s banana, sugarcane, and citrus industries. Some Chinese and Indians are trafficked to Belize for debt bondage. Exact numbers of trafficking victims are unknown, particularly the number of transnational trafficking victims, given Belize’s lengthy and porous borders. The Government of Belize does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. B ... [Read More]

January

1111--01/26/04   Partnership, Under Construction; Op-Ed; Russian Newspaper Izvestiya ... [Read More]

E) South America

USAID is helping to standardize accounting and internal control systems across the GOC—at both the national and local levels. To support increased financial and management audits and raise public awareness of available instruments to combat corruption, USAID completed a nationwide anticorruption campaign. This campaign reached six million citizens through radio, newspaper and television messages designed to inform citizens of the mechanisms available to them to combat corruption. USAID also provides assistance to civil society oversight organizations aimed at improving their ability to monitor national and local government activities. Approximately 1,170 citizen leaders have been trained in techniques and best practices for citizen oversight of the Government’s management of public resources. Additionally, in 2002, USAID helped standardize the internal control units of five GOC entities, including the Office of the Controller General of the Republic, the Accountant General of the Natio ... [Read More]

-- February 2005, week 4

Text: Bird Flu Conference Calls on Donor Nations for Help (167 lines) Text: Acting U.S. Trade Chief To Attend Kenya Meeting on WTO (186 lines) Economics and Trade Highlighted in New State Department Newsletter (53 lines) Transcript: First Lady Voices U.S. Support for UNESCO Education Plan (391 lines) Text: Bush Administration Advances Next-Generation Nuclear Energy (127 lines) Text: Tsunami Wreckage Offers Engineering Lessons (133 lines) Text: U.S. Restores Full Military Training Program for Indonesia (96 lines) Text: U.S. To Play "Sustained Role" in Tsunami Reconstruction (443 lines) Text: United States Adds $10 Million to Aceh Tsunami-Relief Efforts (100 lines) Text: Rice Condemns Tel Aviv Bombing (85 lines) Text: Bush Denounces "Vicious Act of Terrorism" in Tel Aviv (76 lines) Text: U.S., Canadian Transport Offi ... [Read More]

IEW Events > The Americas

The Consul General and the Public Affairs Officer visited a school in a disadvantaged neighborhood which has received equipment from Discovery Channel Global Education Fund. The Consul General spoke about this public-private partnership and got to see how the students are putting the equipment to use as an enrichment to their classes. Secretary of Education Rod Paige's Op/Ed also appeared in the local newspaper, El Informador. ... [Read More]

South America

Law Enforcement Efforts. Operation Fuente is a joint heroin initiative of the DEA Heroin Group, the U.S. Army Regional Information Support Team (RIST) and the Colombian National Police Judicial Police Section (SIJIN). The operation includes a media saturation campaign involving newspaper advertisements, leaflets, posters, billboards, and television advertisements to promote a toll-free heroin telephone tip line manned by the SIJIN. The tip line provides a conduit for anonymous information regarding heroin organizations, routes, stash sites, and laboratories in exchange for reward money, should the information lead to arrests and/or seizures. ... [Read More]

Department of State Washington File: Transcript: State Department Briefing, June 1

QUESTION:  Zimbabwe.  There is a report in Zimbabwe's state Herald newspaper that Zimbabwean police have arrested more than 20,000 people as part of this blitz on shantytowns.  Are you aware of the report? ... [Read More]

IV. Country Narratives: Western Hemisphere

The government has aggressively used the media to warn the public about trafficking. With UNICEF support, the government sponsored public service ads on television warning about trafficking associated with illegal migration. The government is participating in an ILO-IPEC “Timebound” Program to eliminate the commercial sexual exploitation of children. As part of this program, the government sponsored newspaper ads warning about this sexual exploitation. With U.S. Government support, the government’s child welfare agency also sponsored publicity campaigns via posters, radio, and TV that warn about child trafficking situations. GUATEMALA (TIER 2 - WATCH LIST) Guatemala is a source, transit, and destination country for Guatemalan and other Central American women and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation inside Guatemal ... [Read More]

Report on Global Anti-Semitism

January 5, 2005 Executive Summary I.  Anti-SemitismAnti-Semitism has plagued the world for centuries. Taken to its most far-reaching and violent extreme, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism resulted in the deaths of millions of Jews and the suffering of countless others. Subtler, less vile forms of anti-Semitism have disrupted lives, decimated religious communities, created social and political cleavages, and complicated relations between countries as well as the work of international organizations. For an increasingly interdependent world, anti-Semitism is an intolerable burden. The increasing frequency and severity of anti-Semitic incidents since the start of the 21st century, particularly in Europe, has compelled the international com ... [Read More]