Burundi People Picture
President's FY 2006 Budget Request
We must strengthen the recruitment of new personnel. We are seeking $57 million for 221 new positions to meet core staffing and training requirements. And as we seek out new talent, we also seek to further diversify our workforce in the process. We send an important signal to the rest of the world about our values and what they mean in practice when we are represented abroad by people of all cultures, races, and religions. Of course, we also must cultivate the people we already have in place Ц by rewarding achievement, encouraging initiative, and offering a full range of training opportunities. That includes the training and support needed to make full use of new technologies and tools, and we are asking for $249 million for investment in information technology. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: Mixed Picture Emerges on Global Human Rights Practices
Sudan's human rights record remained extremely poor as it continued deliberately to kill its own citizens and to restrict freedom of speech, press, assembly, association, religion and movement. It arrested and harassed those who exercised these rights. At year's end, there were more than 1.5 million Internally Displaced Persons in Darfur, and another 213,000 civilians who had fled into Chad. Approximately 70,000 people reportedly died as a result of violence and forced displacement. Despite Sudan's repeated commitments to refrain from further violence in Darfur, atrocities continued. Government regular forces and government-supported militias, Jinjaweed, routinely attacked civilian villages, looted possessions and destroyed villages, sometimes under cover of military aerial support. In September, the State Department concluded: "Genocide has been committed in Darfur and the Government of Sudan and Jinjaweed bear responsibility that genocide may still be occurring." Government fo ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Transcript: State Department Noon Briefing, October 14
This seizure demonstrates once again Iraq's total disregard for its own people. How many times have we heard the Iraqi leadership say that there are terrible consequences as a result of the sanctions and yet, despite their claim of scarce foodstuffs, they are earning hard currency by exporting foodstuffs? So we think this is a dramatic demonstration of the utter cynicism and disregard for the Iraqi people demonstrated by the regime. ... 1-2 IRAQ: Dhows smuggling Iraqi foodstuffs shows callous disregard of regime for its own people. ... [Read More]
Foreign Entry Requirements
AUSTRALIA - *Passport, Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) or non-electronic label visa, proof of onward or return ticket, and sufficient funds are required. An ETA or non-electronic label visa is required for tourist or business stays of up to 3 months. An ETA is an electronically stored authority to travel to Australia and can be obtained online at www.ETA.immi.gov.au or through participating travel agencies or airlines. Minors not accompanied by a parent or traveling with only one parent need notarized written parental consent from the absent parent(s). AIDS test required for permanent resident visa for applicants age 15 and older; tests taken in the U.S. are acceptable. More information about entry requirements to Australia (including for longer stays) is available on the Embassy of Aus ... [Read More]
Introduction
The liberation of Iraq by Coalition forces in April ended years of grave human rights violations by Saddam HusseinТs regime. HusseinТs rule resulted in a climate of fear and repression in which arbitrary arrests, killings, torture and persecution were daily facts of life. Since April, the world has discovered overwhelming evidence of a totalitarian and capricious brutality that terrorized individuals in unimaginable ways. One indication, in a nation of 24 million people, are mass graves in which as many as 300,000 Iraqis are buried. The record of horror under Saddam Hussein is still unfolding. Building democracy and a culture of respect for human rights after 36 years of tyranny will be an arduous task, but it is an effort that has the support of the overwhelming majority of the Iraqi people. ... [Read More]
The State of the World: Assessing Global Sustainability
On the question of AIDS, the third part of your question, a lot of people in this country and probably many people in this room, take pills every day to keep themselves alive. We don't say, "Well, why do that?" That's what medical treatment is. Somehow this just becomes not right when it's poor people taking pills every day. By letting these people die we are creating a continent of orphans, which you people are going to have to deal with in foreign policy terms for the next generation. It is not going to be a nice picture. ... [Read More]
US Dept of State
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Department of State Washington File: Transcript: Clinton Human Rights Day Observance Remarks
No one has done more than she to teach us that the desire for liberty is universal, that it is a matter of conscience, not culture. When her son, Alexander, accepted her Nobel Peace Prize, he said she would never accept such an honor in her name, but only in the name of all the people of Burma. I imagine she would say the same thing today -- that she would tell us that for all she has suffered, the separation from her family, the loss of her beloved husband, nothing compares to what the Burmese people, themselves, have endured: years of tyranny and poverty in a land of such inherent promise. ... [Read More]
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