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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
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| 03YEREVAN1214 |
GOAM WELCOMES MOVE TO TIER II ON TIP REPORT [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE TREAT ACCORDINGLY. 2. (U) POLOFFS DELIVERED COPIES OF THE 2003 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT TO MFA HUMAN RIGHTS DESK OFFICER AND ACTING INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS HEAD (MULTILATERAL AFFAIRS DIRECTOR), KARINE SOUDJIAN, JUNE 12 PER INSTRUCTIONS IN [...] |
2003-06-13 15:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PGOV AM KTIP |
| 04AMMAN4132 |
GOJ CONFRONTS POSSIBLE LABOR TRAFFICKING SCAM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post has learned of several dozen third country nationals (TCNs) brought to Jordan by apparently unscrupulous recruiting agents and sent to Iraq. All have needed some assistance in returning to their home countries and in at least one case, the workers were physically abused in Ir [...] |
2004-05-24 15:51:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB PREF KWMN IZ JO KTIP |
| 04AMMAN4855 |
JORDAN TAKES ACTION TO PREVENT TRAFFICKING OF [...] (C) King Abdullah and senior GOJ officials have strongly condemned the possible trafficking of third country nationals (TCNs) into Iraq from Jordan. The Minister of Interior promised the Ambassador that he would take firm action against unscrupulous labor recruiting agents and others complic [...] |
2004-06-15 12:03:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB PREF KWMN IZ JO KTIP |
| 04HANOI336 |
DEVELOPMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS IN VIETNAM'S LABOR [...] SUMMARY: With approximately 340,000 Vietnamese currently working overseas, Vietnam looks to labor exports as a means to expand opportunities for its growing labor force while generating foreign exchange. In order to address the challenges created by the increase in labor exports, Vietnam inc [...] |
2004-02-09 01:30:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON VM KTIP TIP LABOR |
| 04PANAMA1000 |
ANOTHER PANAMANIAN MADAM IN JAIL; IMMIGRATION [...] (C) According to GOP police reports, an alleged child prostitution ringleader, Elizabeth Archibold Diaz, surrendered herself to the Policia Tecnica Judicial (PTJ) on April 14, 2004. She was accompanied by her attorney and, to date, remains in custody. Archibold is alleged to be the masterm [...] |
2004-04-30 12:34:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL SMIG CO PM KTIP LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL |
| 04PANAMA148 |
PANAMA NGO CONCERNED ABOUT CHINESE DEBT BONDAGE [...] (SBU) In a January 8 meeting to discuss trafficking in persons (TIP) and related issues with PolOff and political assistant, acting director of Casa Esperanza, Ramon Aleman Arias said Chinese migrant debt bondage and unregulated child labor are problems in Panama. (NOTE: Casa Esperanza is a l [...] |
2004-01-23 18:10:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB PREL PM KTIP LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL POL SPECIALIST |
| 04PANAMA2589 |
PANAMA INVESTIGATORS, PROSECUTORS PUSH TIP AGENDA [...] (SBU) Despite the continued absence of funding for the anti-TIP law enacted in March 2004 (see Reftel A) and a recent change in administration, Panama's Judicial Police (PTJ) and prosecutors have continued to push the TIP agenda. They have publicized the anti-TIP law, created a specialized se [...] |
2004-10-19 21:11:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SMIG PM KTIP LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL |
| 04PANAMA399 |
FOCUSING PANAMA'S EFFORT TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) The January 18-21 G/TIP visit to Panama helped refine Embassy and GOP anti-TIP efforts approach to strategies (Ref A). The Embassy will push the GOP to focus its anti-TIP improvements on public awareness campaigns, victims assistance, and increased training. In the short term, legisla [...] |
2004-02-19 12:54:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SMIG PM KTIP LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL |
| 04PANAMA419 |
PANAMANIAN MADAM HEADED TO PRISON [...] (U) After two trials, two guilty verdicts, years of appeals, and not one day behind bars, the former head of a child prostitution ring, Thonya Xiomara Hubbard (aka Madam Thonya), will be spending the next 76 months in prison. On February 16, the Supreme Appeal Court rejected Hubbard's appea [...] |
2004-02-20 23:34:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PM KTIP LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL |
| 04YEREVAN2165 |
GOAM TAKING ACTION TO FIGHT TRAFFICKING [...] (U) Although much work remains to be done, the Armenian government has made considerable efforts over the past three years and, despite being a country of origin for trafficking, has graduated from Tier 3 to Tier 2 (Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report 2004). Government actions have had the fol [...] |
2004-10-01 06:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN PHUM AM KTIP |
| 04YEREVAN2222 |
POLICE DETAIN TWO ON SUSPICION OF TRAFFICKING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------------------------------------ POLICE ARRESTING ALLEGED TRAFFICKERS ------------------------------------ 2. (SBU) Police detained Tigran Rushanyan (nickname - Tigran the Great) on suspicion of trafficking October 4, 2004 [...] |
2004-10-07 03:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP |
| 04YEREVAN2540 |
EX-VICTIM OF TRAFFICKING ARRESTED FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- Â [...] |
2004-11-26 03:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP |
| 04YEREVAN2635 |
GOAM GETS QUOTAS FROM QATAR FOR LABOR [...] The Department on Migration and Refugees (DMR) has finished work with the Government of Qatar to create a legal framework for Armenians working in Qatar. In the agreement (scheduled to be signed in the near future) the Government of Qatar has provided quotas for the workers in the following [...] |
2004-12-09 06:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ELAB QA AM KTIP |
| 04YEREVAN2647 |
JANUARY-NOVEMBER 2004 DATA ON TIP PROSECUTION [...] (SBU) According to data on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for the period between January 1, 2004 and November 1, 2004, there have been 15 cases of trafficking in Armenia involving 26 defendants. While most of those people were sentenced to priso [...] |
2004-12-09 13:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN PHUM AM KTIP |
| 05BANGKOK7920 |
STATUS OF MISSING HMONG CHILDREN REMAINS UNCLEAR [...] (C) Summary. The current location and status of the 29 Lao Hmong children and teens reported arrested last month remains unclear. A National Human Rights Commission official believes that the children remain in immigration detention in Nong Khai, Thailand, while second hand reports from the L [...] |
2005-12-30 06:39:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PREF PREL PHUM TH LA KTIP |
| 05PANAMA390 |
PANAMA ATTORNEY GENERAL CONVOKES ANTI-TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) In a big move forward for Panama's anti-TIP efforts, on February 15 Panama's new attorney general Ana Matilde Gomez convoked the anti-TIP commission (CONAPREDES) as contemplated by Panama's March 2004 anti-TIP law (see reftel A). The new commission institutionalizes anti-TIP policy co [...] |
2005-02-18 22:39:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KCRM SMIG ELAB PM KTIP LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL |
| 05YEREVAN108 |
SIX CASES OF TRAFFICKING PROSECUTED AS [...] (SBU) The Prosecutor General's (PG) Office provided detailed information on six criminal cases prosecuted in 2004 under Article 262 of the Armenian Criminal Code on the Organization of Prostitution (i.e., pimping). The defendants of all the cases were either recruiters, mediators, or pimps who [...] |
2005-01-21 12:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP |
| 05YEREVAN1091 |
ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO DVC WITH AMBASSADOR [...] SUMMARY: On June 17, 2005 U.S. Embassy Yerevan held a digital video conference (DVC) on the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report with Ambassador John Miller, director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Media coverage of the conference was widespr [...] |
2005-06-23 02:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC KPAO AM KTIP |
| 05YEREVAN111 |
NEW REGIONAL ANTI-TIP NGO NETWORK [...] The United Nations Development Program (UNDP), which implements a project on combating Trafficking in Persons (TIP) in partnership with the GOAM, has launched a local and regional (Caucasus) NGO network on fighting organized crime, particularly TIP and illegal migration. Members of the netwo [...] |
2005-01-21 13:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN SMIG KCRM AM KTIP |
| 05YEREVAN1320 |
COURT SUSPENDS SENTENCE, TRAFFICKER WALKS [...] (SBU) A court in Yerevan sentenced Lusine Hakobyan, the Armenian organizer of a Yerevan-Dubai prostitution/trafficking network, to two years imprisonment. The judge, however, suspended the sentence and Hakobyan will instead serve one year of supervised probation. Armenian Association of Inves [...] |
2005-07-22 06:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PREL AM KTIP |
| 05YEREVAN1387 |
ARMENIA: ANTI-TIP ACTION PLAN PRESENTED [...] (SBU) On August 1, CDA delivered reftel points to Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian, underscoring the USG's judgment that Armenia has not shown increasing efforts to combat trafficking. We presented the proposed action plan, urging concrete steps forward, noting that the Department of [...] |
2005-08-03 06:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AM KTIP |
| 05YEREVAN1748 |
TIP: UZBEK TRAFFICKING CONVICTION LEAVES CONCERNS [...] (C) On September 22, a local-level court in Yerevan sentenced Uzbek citizen Natella Saghatelyan to five years imprisonment for trafficking and forgery. The Armenian National Security Service (NSS) arrested Saghatelyan in March 2005 for trafficking Uzbek women, and a minor girl, through Armeni [...] |
2005-09-29 12:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV AM KTIP |
| 05YEREVAN2051 |
ARMENIA AS A DESTINATION COUNTRY--GOAM [...] (SBU) Tracking an alarm received from the "Hope and Help" NGO, the National Security Service (NSS), on November 16, discovered four trafficking victims from Ukraine in one of Yerevan's night-clubs. This is the first clear case of trafficking in which Armenia was the destination country and th [...] |
2005-11-22 12:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM PHUM AM KTIP UA |
| 05YEREVAN2232 |
TRAFFICKING: DOING BETTER ON PROSECUTION AND [...] (SBU) A strictly pro-governmental newspaper reflected a positive shift in the approach towards the issue of trafficking that has occurred in the Prosecutor's office in recent months. In November the Prosecutor's office registered the first case of domestic trafficking in Armenia. Also in Nov [...] |
2005-12-28 12:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP |
| 05YEREVAN257 |
TIP: CONCERNS ABOUT PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT [...] (SBU) Balancing Armenia's considerable progress over the past year in successfully prosecuting trafficking in persons (TIP) cases are serious, persistent allegations that senior members of the Prosecutor General's office are susceptible to outside influence. We have raised our concerns about [...] |
2005-02-14 11:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP |
| 05YEREVAN692 |
ARMENIA RATIFIES INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ON [...] Armenia has ratified three international instruments on the protection and promotion of children's rights this year. On February 28 the National Assembly ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention of the Rights of the Child on Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Pornography. On M [...] |
2005-04-19 12:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB SOCI PREL PGOV AM KTIP |
| 06BANGKOK2291 |
DPM SURAKIART PLEDGES TO RESOLVE SHAN TRAFFICKING CASE [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador called DPM Surakiart on April 20 to urge him to press for resolution of the long-standing detention of six stateless Shan hill tribe trafficking victims in Malaysia. Ambassador told Surakiart that this case has been an issue of concern to us since early last year and [...] |
2006-04-20 10:12:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN KCRM ELAB PHUM PREL TH TIP KTIP |
| 06CAIRO6365 |
EGYPTIAN LIAISON CHIEF DISCUSSES BORDER GUARD [...] (C) Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) Liaison Chief MG Nagy reported that Egypt has sought assistance from a petroleum company (NFI) to bolster its tunnel detection tactics on the border with Gaza. Although Egypt and Israel began a tunnel detection discussion between engineers in e [...] |
2006-10-15 10:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPAL KTIP IS EG |
| 06SEOUL3891 |
ASSISTING NORTH KOREANS IN NORTHEAST CHINA: ONE GROUP'S STORY [...] (C) Crossing Borders (protect) is a Christian organization that provides assistance to North Korean migrants and refugees in Yanji, China. American citizen Mike Kim (KIM Sun-jung), approached the Embassy on November 1 to discuss his organization's operations in Chin [...] |
2006-11-13 06:42:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF KTIP KN KS CH PHUM |
| 06SEOUL4281 |
NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES IN THE ROK: AN OVERVIEW [...] (SBU) The ROKG's resettlement programs for North Korean refugees have evolved over time as the number of refugees has grown and their demographics have changed. South Korean officials and experts see the ROK's efforts to help the nearly 10,000 refugees successfully resettle in the ROK as the [...] |
2006-12-15 09:05:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL KTIP KS KN |
| 06SEOUL4282 |
NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES: FIRST STEPS INTO ROK SOCIETY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Upon arrival in the ROK, North Koreans undergo an interagency security screening process, during which the ROKG seeks to confirm refugees' bona fides and assess security risks. Thereafter, nearly all North Koreans move to the ROK's Hanawon resettlement facility, where they rece [...] |
2006-12-15 09:05:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL KTIP KS KN |
| 06SEOUL4283 |
NK REFUGEES: OBSTACLES TO INTEGRATION IN THE SOUTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: North Korean refugees face an enormous culture shock in adjusting to life in the ROK. Not accustomed to South Korean political and economic systems and unable to compete educationally, North Koreans face difficulties obtaining stable employment. Their resettlement is not helpe [...] |
2006-12-15 09:05:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL KTIP KS KN |
| 06SEOUL4284 |
NK REFUGEES: THE QUEST FOR STABLE EMPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Finding stable employment is probably the greatest challenge for North Koreans resettling in the ROK. The ROKG assigns North Korean refugees to employment officers, provides incentives, recruits employers, and subsidizes half of North Koreans' salaries to their employers for two [...] |
2006-12-15 09:05:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL KTIP KS KN |
| 06VIENTIANE512 |
LAO MFA ON TIP REPORT FOR LAOS [...] (C) Ambassador briefed MFA's Europe-Americas Department Director-General Southam Sakhonnhinhom today on the TIP report for Laos, conveying the talking points and Action Plan contained in refs A and B. 2. (C) Southam, who had already read the TIP Report for Laos and ref talking points we had [...] |
2006-06-06 09:42:00 | Embassy Vientiane | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PREL KTIP LA |
| 06YEREVAN1019 |
A PROSTITUTE'S STORY: SEX AND TRAFFICKING IN [...] (C) Poverty and desperation are the largest factors contributing to trafficking in persons in Armenia, according to prostitutes, police and NGOs in Vanadzor, Armenia's third-largest city. We met them during a July 14 trip to the city, where prostitutes gather after dusk in the traffic circle outsid [...] |
2006-07-28 12:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | HSTC KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL PGOV AM |
| 06YEREVAN1091 |
AMBASSADOR PUSHES PROSECUTOR GENERAL ON TRAFFICKING CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS [...] (C) Ambassador, DCM and Poloff met with Armenian Prosecutor General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepyan August 8 about allegations of investigative misconduct and abuse in connection with a human trafficking case. The underlying case involves three prostitutes who allege they were trafficked from Armenia to Turk [...] |
2006-08-09 13:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP KWMN KCRM PREL PGOV PHUM HSTC AM TU |
| 06YEREVAN1101 |
APPARENT REPRISAL: TAX POLICE INSPECT ANTI-TIP NGO [...] (C) An anti-trafficking NGO reported a surprise visit from tax inspectors August 10, two days after the Ambassador pushed the Armenian Prosecutor General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepyan to investigate allegations of investigative corruption the "Hope and Help" NGO had raised with the Embassy (reftel). A [...] |
2006-08-11 11:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KCRM KTIP HSTC AM |
| 06YEREVAN1161 |
PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S NEW ANTI-TIP NGO COMMITTEE [...] (C) On August 21, the Prosecutor General (PG) announced the formation of an NGO committee to assist it in its anti- TIP efforts. Anti-TIP NGO leaders generally feel the creation of such a team is a good idea, as long as it is allowed to function fully and does not become a tool for the PG to [...] |
2006-08-25 12:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM |
| 06YEREVAN139 |
ARMENIA CONVICTS MORE TRAFFICKERS [...] (SBU) On January 12 the first instance court of Kotayk Region sentenced Gayane Mirzoyan and Avetis Kiziriyan to four and a half years of prison under charges of Trafficking in Persons (TIP). The defendants worked for a notorious pimp in Dubai, Anahit Malkhasyan, who died in a car accident on [...] |
2006-01-31 12:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP HSTC |
| 06YEREVAN1524 |
PROSECUTOR-GENERAL'S TIP-MISCONDUCT INVESTIGATION [...] (C) An internal probe of allegations of misconduct with human traffickers by two investigators in the Prosecutor General's (PG) Office is apparently over, and the investigators reportedly cleared of all charges. No results have been released publicly. Sources within the PG's Office and some [...] |
2006-10-31 04:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM HSTC AM |
| 06YEREVAN1548 |
POST'S ANTI-TIP FULL-COURT PRESS [...] (C) Post delivered a major push on trafficking in persons this week, meeting a number of senior government officials to discuss the GOAM's anti-trafficking efforts. In each meeting, we delivered a strong message: Armenia risks another year on the Tier 2 Watch List, or worse, if the GOAM doesn' [...] |
2006-11-02 14:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM HSTC AM |
| 06YEREVAN1716 |
ARMENIA PROSECUTES FIRST LABOR TRAFFICKING CASE [...] (SBU) On December 12, a court in Gyumri ruled on the first-ever labor trafficking case in Armenia, sentencing the trafficker to five years of imprisonment and financial compensation for the victims. According to testimony, the victims had been trafficked to Russia to work construction near Alme [...] |
2006-12-13 13:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM |
| 06YEREVAN214 |
USG'S TIP REPORT: DRIVING ARMENIA'S ANTI-TIP [...] (SBU) On February 9 the State Inter-Agency Anti- Trafficking Commission met to discuss GOAM efforts on combating trafficking in persons (TIP) throughout 2005 in advance of the submission of the USG annual TIP Report. Members of the Commission representing state bodies (Ministry of Justice, Mi [...] |
2006-02-13 12:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP HSTC |
| 06YEREVAN267 |
PROSECUTOR GENERAL LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION OF [...] (SBU) On February 17, Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan created a commission to investigate allegations against his employees including the investigator of his Anti-Trafficking Unit, Aristakes Yeremyan (see paragraph 6). In a meeting with the DCM, Hovsepyan was notably upset about Armenia's [...] |
2006-02-23 13:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PGOV PREL AM KTIP HSTC |
| 06YEREVAN484 |
JUDGES CONTINUE TO DEMONIZE TIP VICTIMS AND [...] (SBU) Armenian courts continue to stigmatize trafficking victims and hinder the efforts of law-enforcement bodies to punish traffickers. On March 2 the Court of Appeals downgraded a trafficking conviction into pimping and reduced the key defendant's sentence. Hope and Help NGO, which provide [...] |
2006-04-05 08:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP HSTC PGOV PREL AM |
| 06YEREVAN56 |
TRAFFICKER SENTENCED IN FIRST CASE OF ARMENIA [...] (SBU) On January 8, the first instance court of Artashat sentenced Sos Meliksetyan, charged under the trafficking statute (Article 132) with aggravating circumstances (reftels), to two years of corrective labor. Under this verdict Meliksetyan, who exploited three women and a minor girl from U [...] |
2006-01-13 11:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP HSTC |
| 06YEREVAN836 |
TIP RATING CATCHES KOCHARIAN'S ATTENTION [...] (C) Armenia's second consecutive ranking on the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Tier 2 Watchlist seems to have touched a nerve in the highest levels of Armenian government. During a June 20 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian confirmed news reports that Preside [...] |
2006-06-21 09:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AM |
| 06YEREVAN840 |
TOP ADVISER CLAIMS KOCHARIAN ORDERED TOUGHER [...] (C) Presidential National Security Adviser Garnik Isaghulyan told us June 21 that President Kocharian ordered law enforcement officials to toughen court verdicts for human traffickers and ensure that criminals are sentenced to the fullest extent of the law. This instruction was delivered at a [...] |
2006-06-22 03:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG TU AE AM |
| 06YEREVAN895 |
ARMENIA RELEASES ANTI-TIP MANUALS FOR ITS OVERSEAS [...] At the release of a USG-funded anti-trafficking in persons manual for Armenian consular officials overseas, GOAM officials pledged to improve their track record in identifying and protecting trafficking victims and to strengthen Armenia's interagency Anti-TiP Commission. End Summary. 2. [...] |
2006-07-03 06:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AM |
| 06YEREVAN960 |
ARMENIA DRAMATICALLY INCREASES PENALTIES FOR [...] (SBU) Recent changes in Armenia's Criminal Code significantly increase penalties for trafficking in persons (TIP), making them commensurate with penalties for crimes such as rape. The Prosecutor General initiated the amendments, which took effect July 16. The changes attempt to distinguish be [...] |
2006-07-19 06:48:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HTSC AM |
| 07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN316 |
BRUNEI REQUESTS TARGETED TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS TRAINING [...] (SBU) This is an action request for ICE Singapore to organize a study visit to the U.S. for GoB anti-TIP personnel. See paragraph 2. ----------------------- ACTION REQUEST ----------------------- 2. (SBU) The Government of Brunei (GoB) has requested USG support in improving its abili [...] |
2007-10-23 07:42:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KTIP BX |
| 07CHENGDU32 |
GUIZHOU LACKS RESOURCES TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (C) Summary: A women's issues NGO-founder and researcher from the Guizhou Academy of Social Sciences recently told Congenoff that Guizhou Province -- one of China's poorest -- lacks both human and financial resources to fight trafficking in persons. Guizhou faces a serious problem with traff [...] |
2007-02-01 07:41:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KTIP CH |
| 07GUANGZHOU450 |
Changes in Fujian Human Smuggling Patterns [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Fujian Border Control Police told the Consul General that that the number of cases of human smuggling to the United States via sea has fallen. Human smuggling out of Fujian Province has increasingly involved traveling directly to the United States with legitimate visas or travel [...] |
2007-04-10 08:29:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY801 |
TRAFFICKERS POSING AS MARRIAGE BROKERS CONVICTED [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-30 08:46:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI KTIP SMIG KWMN PREL PHUM MY VN |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY936 |
PROFILES OF ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROGRAMS IN SOUTHERN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Women's Union officials in Ho Chi Minh City, An Giang, and Can Tho provinces report that GVN anti-TIP efforts under the GVN National Program of Action are generally uniformly implemented, but the resources made available to the different provinces are not. Meanwhile, NGOs AFESIP [...] |
2007-09-11 08:52:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KTIP ELAB KWMN VM |
| 07KABUL4183 |
ANTI-TRAFFICKING: POLITICAL WILL, BUT LACK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The Afghan government has mustered the political will to combat trafficking in persons, but a lack of police enforcement and prosecutorial capacity slows progress towards meeting accepted international standards. The counter-insurgency campaign continues to draw police away fro [...] |
2007-12-23 12:17:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP PGOV AF |
| 07LIBREVILLE62 |
GABON AS EL DORADO [...] On January 29, 2007, 75 West African immigrants attempting to enter Gabon illegally were detained by local authorities as they disembarked from a boat. The group, which included 65 men, 9 women and one child, were nationals of Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Ghana and Burkina Faso. In an intervi [...] |
2007-02-01 14:01:00 | Embassy Libreville | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS KTIP PGOV PHSA PHUM SMIG GB |
| 07LIBREVILLE63 |
GABON AS EL DORADO [...] On January 29, 2007, 75 West African immigrants attempting to enter Gabon illegally were detained by local authorities as they disembarked from a boat. The group, which included 65 men, 9 women and one child, were nationals of Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Ghana and Burkina Faso. In an intervi [...] |
2007-02-01 14:11:00 | Embassy Libreville | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS KTIP PGOV PHSA PHUM SMIG GB |
| 07NDJAMENA870 |
CHAD: ZOE'S ARK AND THE ALLEGED CHILD SMUGGLING [...] (SBU) Nine Europeans and four Chadians remain in Government of Chad (GOC) custody in the widely-publicized and bizarre case in which a French NGO, Zoe's Ark, attempted to ferry 103 Chadian/Sudanese children to Europe in a chartered Spanish plane. Personal diplomacy by French President Sarkozy [...] |
2007-11-07 16:07:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CD PHUM KTIP |
| 07NDJAMENA879 |
CHAD:INTERIM ASSESSMENT OF AF WATCH LIST COUNTRIES [...] Summary. Chad has made some progress in addressing two deficiencies highlighted in the June 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report on Chad, recruitment of minors in the armed forces and prosecuting traffickers. End summary. 2. This message responds to questions in reftel A concerning p [...] |
2007-11-13 08:41:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KWMN KTIP CD |
| 07SAOPAULO958 |
FORCED LABOR IN BRAZIL: URBAN MYTH OR RURAL REALITY? [...] (SBU) Recent reports in the Brazilian media have focused on the question of forced labor in Brazil and whether or not the GOB is doing enough to combat poor labor conditions in the country. Some observers question whether forced labor exists in Brazil at all but harsh working conditions are c [...] |
2007-12-04 17:24:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EAGR EIND PHUM SOCI KTIP BR |
| 07SEOUL1882 |
ROKG INFORMED OF DENIED NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES IN [...] No summary [...] |
2007-06-21 07:48:00 | Embassy Seoul | SECRET | PREF PREL PINR KTIP KS KN MG |
| 07TRIPOLI1030 |
SUDANESE DIPLOMAT ALLEGES LIBYAN OFFICIALS' COMPLICITY IN [...] (C) The long-serving Sudanese DCM in Tripoli, Isaac Kenti, told CDA in a recent meeting that Sudanese criminal networks freely operate migration smuggling rings from Libya to Europe with the complicity of some Libyan officials. According to Kenti, while the GOL provides border guards and pol [...] |
2007-12-12 07:46:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KTIP SOCI PGOV LY |
| 07YEREVAN1437 |
ARMENIA ADOPTS NEW ANTI-TRAFFICKING NATIONAL ACTION PLAN [...] On December 6, Armenia's government approved the new 2007-2008 National Plan of Action (NPA) on Combating Trafficking in Persons (TIP). Armen Baiburtyan, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, presented the NPA on behalf of the government, and said the new NPA will focus more on the implement [...] |
2007-12-18 03:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM |
| 07YEREVAN162 |
MAJOR TRAFFICKING RECRUITER SENT TO PRISON [...] (SBU) Four TIP defendants were convicted January 31, after a four-month hearing. The defendants had been accused in connection with a case involving the three witnesses (reftels) who complained of misconduct by an investigator in the prosecutor general's office the previous summer. This case [...] |
2007-02-15 12:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN HSTC AM |
| 07YEREVAN351 |
NEW STAFF OF THE ANTI-TIP UNIT A WELCOME CHANGE [...] (SBU) Four months into the staff changes that took effect in the Anti-Trafficking Unit of the Prosecutor General's Office in December, 2006 (reftel), Armenia's premier anti-TIP NGO, Hope and Help, reports a great new spirit of mutual cooperation with the unit's new staff. The unit's new lead i [...] |
2007-03-23 13:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM HSTC AM |
| 07YEREVAN783 |
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM RESTRUCTURES INVESTIGATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian law enforcement is grappling with a major restructuring that strips the powerful Prosecutor General's or "Procuracy" organization of all its investigative functions and staff, transferring the investigators themselves into police agencies. The reform is an excellent one [...] |
2007-06-15 12:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC KJUS KCRM KDEM KTIP HSTC |
| 07YEREVAN888 |
NEW CDA CALLS ON DFM KIRAKOSSIAN: RADIO LIBERTY, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge d'Affaires met Deputy Foreign Minister Kirakossian for initial GOAM courtesy call, (with FM Oskanian abroad), which then delved into substance. Kirakossian said he and his minister fully agreed with us on Radio Liberty, but urged CDA to raise it at higher levels. Kirakoss [...] |
2007-07-12 05:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM HSTC KTIP AM TU |
| 08ABIDJAN820 |
G/TIP TIER 2 WATCH LIST INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: In response to reftel, Poloff met with NGOs and government officials working on trafficking in persons (TIP) issues, but could not obtain meetings with key ministries, specifically the Ministries of Justice and Interior, despite repeated phone calls and follow-up letters from th [...] |
2008-11-19 08:26:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI SMIG KTIP KWMN KCRM IV |
| 08ABUDHABI1115 |
UAE INCREASING INVOLVEMENT WITH BELARUS [...] (SBU) Belarus has had an Embassy in Abu Dhabi since 1999, yet the UAE is just now sending its first ever envoy to Minsk. Ambassador-designate Mohamed Abdullah al-Raisi will open the new mission (a first-time ambassador is also being sent to Argentina). Signs of increased interaction between th [...] |
2008-10-05 04:53:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KTIP EAIR BO AE |
| 08ABUDHABI1118 |
UAE INCREASING INVOLVEMENT WITH BELARUS [...] (SBU) Belarus has had an Embassy in Abu Dhabi since 1999, yet the UAE is just now sending its first ever envoy to Minsk. Ambassador-designate Mohamed Abdullah al-Raisi will open the new mission (a first-time ambassador is also being sent to Argentina). Signs of increased interaction between th [...] |
2008-10-05 10:20:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KTIP EAIR BO AE |
| 08ABUJA1827 |
NIGERIA: BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON UPDATES FOR AUGUST 16-31, [...] (U) The following is a joint Embassy Abuja/ConGen Lagos compilation of August 16-31 political/economic highlights, which did not feature in our other reporting, covering: --Military, Security, and Bakassi --Economic and Business --Southern Political --Oil and Gas --Other News ---------- [...] |
2008-09-09 13:44:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAGR ETRD KDEM ECON EPET MOPS KTIP NI |
| 08ABUJA1950 |
NIGERIA: BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON UPDATES FOR SEPTEMBER 1-15, [...] (U) The following is a joint Embassy Abuja/ConGen Lagos compilation of September 1-15 political/economic highlights, which did not feature in our other reporting, covering: --Economic and Business --Trafficking in Persons --National Assembly --Oil and Gas --Southern Politics ----------- [...] |
2008-10-06 06:41:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ECON EPET MOPS KTIP NI |
| 08ABUJA2296 |
NIGERIA: ICE ATTACHE REACHES OUT TO ANTI-TIP [...] (U) SUMMARY: The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency conducted a Bulk Cash Smuggling Workshop November 10-13 in Abuja. On November 12 and 13, ICE Attach Lydia St. John and Poloff met with representatives from the American Bar Association (ABA), the National Agency f [...] |
2008-11-21 12:27:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KTIP ASEC DS NI |
| 08ABUJA2312 |
NIGERIA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff attended the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons (NAPTIP) 13th National Stakeholder's Consultative Forum in Abuja on October 30. Representatives from various civil society organizations; the Nigeria Police Force; Nigerian Customs; Nigeria Immigratio [...] |
2008-11-26 07:26:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KTIP NI |
| 08AMMAN2600 |
Workers Strike at Mediterranean Resources Apparel Industry [...] (SBU) Approximately 1,080 foreign workers at the Emirati Mediterranean Resources Apparel Industry (MRAI) factory in Ad-Dulayl Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) went on strike August 31. They have demanded the end of a JD 25 ($35.31) monthly deduction for food from their base salary, which was [...] |
2008-09-08 12:25:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON ETRD EAID KTIP KTEX JO |
| 08AMMAN2671 |
KBR TRAFFICKING LAWSUIT GENERATING WIDE INTEREST [...] (U) Summary: A lawsuit recently filed in California against Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc., and Jordanian firm Daoud & Partners for allegedly trafficking 13 Nepalese into Iraq has generated wide interest. Commentators are demanding that the GOJ investigate, prodded along by spurious allegations th [...] |
2008-09-15 11:48:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KTIP NP IZ JO |
| 08AMMAN2822 |
JORDAN DECLARES COMMITMENT TO FIGHTING TIP DURING [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador-at-Large Mark Lagon, Director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) discussed steps taken by the GOJ to eliminate trafficking conditions in Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs) and solutions to deal with trafficking-relate [...] |
2008-10-09 13:36:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTIP BG ID CE RP IN JO |
| 08AMMAN3171 |
JORDAN TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past six months, Jordan made steady progress on measures to combat trafficking-in-persons. Progress includes an increase in trafficking-related cases being tried, the approval of a joint labor inspector and police investigation unit, the creation of a Humanitarian and L [...] |
2008-11-23 06:24:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN IZ IS SY ID |
| 08AMMAN3267 |
Jordan Garment Factories Face Declining Sales and [...] (SBU) Summary: Jordanian apparel exports fell 13.5% in the first nine months of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007 and are expected to continue falling, primarily due to the slowing U.S. economy. Press reports announced the imminent closure of several factories, but government officials [...] |
2008-12-08 12:29:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON ETRD EAID KTIP KTEX JO |
| 08AMMAN3388 |
JORDAN'S CABINET APPROVES ANTI-TIP LAW; NEXT STOP [...] (C) Jordan's cabinet has just approved a draft anti-trafficking-in-persons law, which is expected to be submitted to Parliament the last week of December, according to Jordan's PM Nader Dahabi in a December 24 phone call with the Ambassador. The PM expressed his hope that the law will be passe [...] |
2008-12-29 11:25:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KTIP JO |
| 08ANKARA2194 |
TURKEY/TIP: STRONG COMMITMENT, UNEVEN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: GOT, NGO, and IOM experts discussed with visiting G/TIP Foreign Affairs Officer Jennifer Donnelly December 15-17 the considerable progress Turkey has made in the fight against trafficking in persons (TIP) sin [...] |
2008-12-31 14:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG |
| 08ANTANANARIVO764 |
ANTANANARIVO: TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT RESPONSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOM set high goals in 2007 with a string of legislative achievements and hands-on efforts to push the administration's fight against child labor and human trafficking into the field via training programs, victim's assistance, and awareness campaigns. This drive seems to hav [...] |
2008-11-14 07:16:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP MA |
| 08ASMARA575 |
HOW TO ESCAPE FROM ERITREA [...] (C) SUMMARY: All young Eritreans have "a plan" for getting out of the country. Those who must leave illegally, however, face potential capture by Eritrean police and military from the early planning stages up to when they cross the border. Post compiled information from numerous sources, i [...] |
2008-12-04 11:11:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF KTIP ER |
| 08ATHENS1272 |
GREECE: ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP (2008-2009) [...] (SBU) On August 26, Charge, A/Polcouns, and PolAssistant delivered the TIP Action Guide to Minister of Justice Hatzigakis and SecGen of the Justice Ministry Gletsos. On August 28, Charge and Poloff delivered the guide to MFA General Secretary Agathocles. In these meetings, the Charge outlin [...] |
2008-09-09 09:07:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GR PHUM SMIG KCRM KWMN KTIP |
| 08ATHENS1541 |
GREECE: AMBASSADOR RAISES MLAT, TIP, IPR WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 6 meeting, Ambassador Speckhard raised with Georgios Panagiotopoulos, President and Justice of the Greek Council of State (an equivalent to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court), several legal issues: 1) the need for Greece to move expeditiously in ratifying the U [...] |
2008-11-12 07:47:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KTIP KCRM GR |
| 08ATHENS1607 |
GREECE: 18-DAY PRISON STRIKES END WITH GOG [...] (SBU) On November 21, an estimated 8,000 inmates nationwide ended their 18-day hunger strike against overcrowding in Greek prisons following GOG announcement that it would release almost half of Greece's prison population. Since November 3, the unrest in prison detention centers propelled supp [...] |
2008-11-28 15:39:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM KTIP GR |
| 08ATHENS1715 |
GREECE: DECEMBER 2008 TIP UPDATE [...] (U) This is Embassy Athens' third regular update on Greece's efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). REFTELS refer to previous TIP update cables. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Greek anti-TIP police continued aggressively tackling trafficking rings, successfully completing two major investigatio [...] |
2008-12-23 13:02:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KTIP GR |
| 08BAMAKO876 |
UPDATE ON DOW CHEMICALS, TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS, [...] No summary [...] |
2008-11-07 07:15:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP KCRM EINV ELAB ML |
| 08BANDARSERIBEGAWAN295 |
BRUNEI BRIEFING: AMBASSADOR TODD TALKS WITH BRUNEI, A [...] No summary [...] |
2008-12-05 08:03:00 | Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KTIP BX |
| 08BANGKOK2836 |
TIP UPDATE: ANOMA FACTORY INVESTIGATION CONCLUDES; CASE NOW [...] (SBU) Summary: The Thai police confirmed September 2 that the investigation into the Anoma factory trafficking in persons case was completed and filed August 19 with the office of Attorney General of Samut Sakhon province. Twenty civil and criminal charges were filed against two Thai citizens [...] |
2008-09-18 07:24:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PHUM KTIP TH |
| 08BANGKOK3081 |
Nomination for the Department of Labor's Iqbal Masih Award [...] Embassy Bangkok in coordination with Consulate General Chiang Mai enthusiastically nominates TRAFCORD for the Department of Labor's Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor. Nomination Package -- Data Summary ---------------------------------- 2. Organization Name: Anti-Traffi [...] |
2008-10-14 11:03:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PHUM KTIP TH |
| 08BANGKOK3424 |
ANTI-TRAFFICKING ENGAGEMENT PAYS DIVIDENDS [...] Summary: Over the course of 2008 the Embassy and Consulate General Chiang Mai have continued to broaden and increase our prevention activities in support of the Mission's anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) strategy. Each event has been a success, either energizing our local partners or raising [...] |
2008-11-20 09:12:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PHUM KTIP TH |
| 08BANGKOK3443 |
Labor Fraud Case: Thai Workers to Libya [...] (SBU) Summary: According to Thai authorities, in August and September 2008, the Thai Consular Section in Cairo, Egypt helped repatriate 57 Thai construction workers from Libya back to Thailand. The workers, all male adults, traveled to Libya to work for a construction firm and contacted the T [...] |
2008-11-21 10:16:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM KTIP TH |
| 08BANGKOK3588 |
THAILAND'S NEW TIP LAW: NOTABLE PROGRESS AFTER SIX MONTHS [...] (SBU) Summary: In the six months since its new Anti-Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Act came into force, the Royal Thai Government (RTG) has taken substantial steps to implement the law. The RTG is developing subordinate regulations to make the law's provisions operational, and has identified $1 [...] |
2008-12-09 07:17:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM KTIP TH |
| 08BANGUI247 |
FURTHER DEMARCHE TO GOCAR ON TIP PROBLEMS [...] (SBU) Ambassador Cook delivered reftel demarche in person to CAR MFA Dieudonne Kombo-Yaya in a meeting on December 17. The Ambassador explained the importance of increasing efforts to combat TIP, and said that U.S. law required host government engagement on the issue if the country was to remai [...] |
2008-12-18 16:36:00 | Embassy Bangui | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN PHUM SMIG KTIP CT |
| 08BEIJING3779 |
IMPLEMENTING CHINA'S ACTION PLAN TO COMBAT [...] (C) As part of its effort to combat trafficking in persons (TIP), China is working to implement its National Plan of Action (NPA) issued by the State Council on December 13, 2007. Both the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Civil Affairs are coordinating a national plan to combat [...] |
2008-09-29 07:09:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KTIP PGOV KWMN PREL KCOR KCRM KFRD KJUS |
| 08BEIJING3780 |
CHINA CONSIDERS ACCESSION TO UN PALERMO PROTOCOL [...] (C) China is seriously considering acceding to the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, according to a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official. China will hold a symposium October 23-24, co-hosted by the UN Inter-Agency Project on Hum [...] |
2008-09-29 07:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB KTIP KHUM KWMN KCRM CH |
| 08BEIJING4240 |
CHINA TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT 2009 [...] (U) China has made progress since April 2008 in combating human trafficking. The implementation of the National Plan of Action (NPA) on Combating Trafficking in Women and Children (2008-2012), led by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) in coordination with 28 other agencies, underscores Chi [...] |
2008-11-17 07:38:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN CH |
| 08BEIJING4347 |
Strengthening China's Anti-trafficking Legal Framework [...] (SBU) Participants from the Chinese Government and key non-governmental agencies agreed at a recent symposium that China must improve its efforts to combat human trafficking. Attendees discussed in detail whether China's existing laws could be modified to address trafficking better. Despite s [...] |
2008-11-26 07:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM KJUS CH |
| 08BEIJING4697 |
CHINA: YUNNAN PROVINCE LEADS THE WAY IN CHINA'S [...] (C) Yunnan Province in 2005 was one of the first regions in China to formulate its own action plan to combat trafficking in persons (TIP), thereby attracting international organizations early on and helping establish itself as a forerunner for anti-TIP programs around the country. Save the Ch [...] |
2008-12-31 03:44:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN CH |
| 08BELGRADE1168 |
SERBIA RESPONSE TO TIP ACTION GUIDE [...] We delivered reftel demarche to Serbian MFA North American desk officer Srdjan Miljkovic on November 12. Miljkovic will forward the action guide to the Ministries of Social Welfare, Interior, and Justice. 2. Miljkovic requested that we provide samples of anti-TIP training material for Se [...] |
2008-11-13 15:16:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG SR |
| 08BOGOTA3826 |
NOMINATION FOR IQBAL MASIH AWARD FOR ELIMINATION [...] Embassy Bogota would like to nominate the Cartagena Drivers Association (ASOCHOFECAR) for the Department of Labor's Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor. Information requested in reftel is listed below. 2. Nomination information: a) Cartagena Drivers Association (ASOCHOF [...] |
2008-10-21 19:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI KTIP CO |
| 08BRASILIA1588 |
BRAZIL: DRUG TRAFFICKING UP, DRUG FLIGHTS DOWN, TIP ISSUES LIMITED: A REPORT FROM THE FAR NORTH [...] (SBU) Summary. Drug flights into Brazil's far north have diminished by 75 percent since the introduction of Brazil's Air Bridge Denial (shootdown) program, but Brazilian authorities say pressure from Plan Colombia has actually increased the amount of cocaine entering Brazil. The region rem [...] |
2008-12-12 15:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SOCI KCRM ELAB FARC KTIP BR VE PE CO XR |
| 08BUENOSAIRES1592 |
ARGENTINA: 2008 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] Per Reftel instructions, below is post,s interim assessment of Argentina,s progress in its efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). Our response is keyed to points found in reftel. A) IMPLEMENTING THE RECENTLY ENACTED FEDERAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING LAW, INCLUDING ISSUANCE OF REGULATIONS OR [...] |
2008-11-23 17:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG AR |
| 08CASABLANCA222 |
THE MARRIAGE OF MINORS, POLYGAMY AND DIVORCE: THE [...] SUMMARY: (U) Women,s groups and the media roundly criticized the government,s failure to implement some aspects of the Mudawana or family code nearly four years after the ground-breaking reforms were passed. The criticism was prompted by a recent report by the Democratic League for the Rights [...] |
2008-11-21 17:11:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KWMN KTIP KISL MO |
| 08CHISINAU1100 |
PRIME MINISTER GRECEANII POSITIVE ON TIP [...] (C) Summary: In a November 6 meeting, Ambassador Chaudhry explained the next steps on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) to Prime Minister Greceanii, who reacted positively and described changes in high-level GOM responsibilities for TIP. The PM was concerned that the MCC report card was a harbin [...] |
2008-11-07 14:20:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KTIP AMGT MD |
| 08CHISINAU1277 |
THE CHANGING NATURE OF TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Two of Moldova's most experienced anti-TIP activists met Ambassador Chaudhry on December 19. They described subtle but profound changes in the methods used to recruit and trap victims of trafficking, and the challenges that these "kinder, gentler" methods posed to police and [...] |
2008-12-31 10:00:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM MD |
| 08CHISINAU977 |
Ambassador Discusses MCC, P.L. 480, Corruption and TIP, and [...] (C) Summary: In his first meeting with Prime Minister Greceanii, Ambassador Asif Chaudhry explained delays in the signing of a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact agreement; discussed P.L. debt; pressed on the issue of civilian oversight for the Center to Combat Economic Crimes and [...] |
2008-10-01 13:33:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KTIP MD |
| 08COLOMBO1034 |
TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR SRI LANKA [...] Post assesses that the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) has taken many positive steps to address Sri Lanka's trafficking problem. These efforts have mainly focused on the foreign employment of Sri Lankans, building awareness of trafficking, and increasing interagency coordination to counter traffi [...] |
2008-11-17 10:30:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG CE |
| 08COLOMBO1062 |
GUIDANCE NEEDED ON 699(G) RESTRICTIONS APPLIED TO [...] (C) In a meeting with Ambassador on November 25, Foreign Minister Bogollagama informed post that two U.S. defense contractors, a Kuwaiti company affiliated with the U.S.-based Oshkosh Corp and DynCorp International, had instituted hiring restrictions on Sri Lankan expatriate workers in Kuwait [...] |
2008-11-26 04:55:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON SMIG KTIP ELAB CE |
| 08CONAKRY720 |
2008 CHILD TRAFFICKING STATISTICS [...] (SBU) As part of the interim assessment process for the USG's annual Trafficking in Person's Report, we asked the Government of Guinea to provide annual statistics on trafficking cases within its borders. The GoG was not able to provide this information before the initial reporting deadline, [...] |
2008-11-25 16:17:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG GV |
| 08DHAKA988 |
CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND HARD PLACE: BANGLADESHI [...] (C) Following the deportation of nearly 1200 Bangladeshis alleged to have participated in violent strikes in Kuwait, the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) reacted by sending the Foreign Affairs Adviser on an official visit; he encouraged the Government of Kuwait (GOK) to compensate the workers. [...] |
2008-09-21 00:31:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KTIP PGOV PREL SOCI BG |
| 08DOHA675 |
FOR ADVISORY COUNCIL CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (U) On September 8, the Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Mohammed Bin Mubarak Al Khulaifi, Chairman of Qatar's Advisory Council (Note: The Advisory Council is a consultative body cosisting of 35 members appointed by the Amir. Itdebates the merits of proposals under consideratio by the Amir [...] |
2008-09-21 07:59:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM KTIP QA |
| 08DOHA791 |
SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR MARK LAGON'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Embassy Doha welcomes your visit to Qatar. We have requested meetings with Minister of State for Interior Affairs Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Al Thani, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Dr. Sultan Bin Hassan al-Dhabit al-Dousari, Minister of State for International Cooperation and Confer [...] |
2008-11-06 14:25:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KTIP ELAB QA |
| 08DOHA812 |
QATARIS DEBATE FOREIGN LABOR ON BBC [...] (U) In what its organizers said was a major milestone, two former Qatari cabinet ministers squared off during a November 17 session of the "Doha Debates," a joint project of the BBC and Qatar Foundation, which is filmed nine times a year in Doha and aired on BBC World. Former Justice Minister D [...] |
2008-11-19 04:35:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB KTIP QA |
| 08DOHA860 |
QATAR PROPOSES SENDING TIP DELEGATION TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) MFA Minister of State for International Cooperation and Conferences Khalid Al-Attiyah told Ambassador December 4 in follow up to TIP Director Lagon's visit (Ref B) that it is "time to take the outreached hand" of the United States on TIP issues and proposed sending a delegation to Washingto [...] |
2008-12-15 13:32:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KTIP QA |
| 08GEORGETOWN693 |
TIP: GUYANA 2008 INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (U) This is a response to reftel about progress made by the Government of Guyana (GoG) in addressing Trafficking in Persons issues. 2. (SBU) In 2008, The GoG continued its prosecution of a woman arrested in October 2006 in the town of Bartica, in which two teenage girls were allegedly traff [...] |
2008-12-09 20:12:00 | Embassy Georgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG GY |
| 08GUATEMALA1333 |
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER'S FAMILY MEMBER KIDNAPPED, [...] (C) On October 19, at approximately noon, the son-in-law of human rights defender Norma Cruz, Director of NGO "Fundacion Sobrevivientes" (Survivors Foundation), was assaulted and kidnapped while walking home from a soccer game in Guatemala City. He was reportedly forced inside a vehicle where [...] |
2008-10-27 22:54:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KTIP KWMN SMIG PGOV GT |
| 08GUATEMALA1450 |
GUATEMALA: TIP WATCH LIST INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] Below is a summary (keyed to reftel) of progress made by the GOG in combating trafficking in persons (TIP), particularly in the areas of legislative reform, enforcement, victim protection and assistance, identification of victims among vulnerable populations, and protection of foreign traffick [...] |
2008-11-19 18:05:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG GT |
| 08GUATEMALA1497 |
GUATEMALA: FY 2009 ANTI-TRAFFICKING PROJECT [...] No summary [...] |
2008-12-04 11:34:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP PHUM KWMN KCRM SMIG PREL PGOV GT |
| 08HARARE1030 |
TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT: STAGNATION IN ZIMBABWE [...] (SBU) As political negotiations continue, much government activity has come to a standstill. Not surprisingly, given the depth and breadth of Zimbabwe's serious economic, food, employment, and political problems, anti-trafficking efforts by the government have taken a back seat to other issues [...] |
2008-11-18 16:04:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV SMIG ZI |
| 08HELSINKI563 |
FINLAND: ELEVATING TRAFFICKING PROSECUTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Finnish government has been proactively pursuing trafficking cases and opportunities to raise public awareness about trafficking. A Finnish court recently handed down prison sentences to five Finns for a trafficking case involving a single Finnish woman. Finnish authoriti [...] |
2008-12-12 13:55:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP ELAB SOCI FI |
| 08HOCHIMINHCITY1063 |
HCMC TIP UPDATE: MORE POLICE BUSTS, NGOS FOCUS ON WOMEN'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Southern law enforcement officials continue to make progress in combating human trafficking, as recent arrests in HCMC and Tay Ninh province show. Local NGOs are also making headway in finding long-term solutions to support economic development and women's empowerment in Delta [...] |
2008-12-10 06:50:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KTIP PHUM VM |
| 08HOCHIMINHCITY756 |
SLOW AND STEADY PROGRESS COMBATING TIP IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM [...] (U) Summary: The GVN made positive strides in combating trafficking-in-persons (TIP) during the first half of 2008, with provincial police busting four trafficking rings in Tay Ninh and HCMC police conducted their biggest raid yet against an illegal marriage brokering agency catering to Korean [...] |
2008-08-22 06:21:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP PREL PGOV SOCI VM |
| 08ISLAMABAD3629 |
POST NOMINATION FOR U.S. LABOR AWARD [...] (U) Summary. Post highly recommends Mr. Muhammad Saifullah Choudhry for the U.S. Department of Labor's Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor (reftel A). Post believes Mr. Choudhry exemplifies the spirit of this award due to his contributions in reducing the worst forms of child [...] |
2008-11-18 11:40:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM SOCI KTIP PK |
| 08JEDDAH448 |
TAIF CHRISTIANS DEPORTATIONS MAY BE IMMINENT [...] (S) SUMMARY: An advocate for the Christian Indians arrested in April for holding a prayer service in Taif reveals to Poloff that deportation orders of these individuals are imminent. This is despite the fact that Assistant Minister of the Interior, Mohammed Bin Naif assured that this issue had [...] |
2008-10-26 13:59:00 | Consulate Jeddah | SECRET | ELAB KIRF KISL KTIP PHUM SA SMIG SOCI XF |
| 08JEDDAH498 |
EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS IN RIYADH/JEDDAH COMMENT ON [...] (C)SUMMARY: In 2004, two Egyptian doctors were arrested in Jeddah on multiple charges including drug smuggling and rape. Their punishment was recently increased significantly by an appeals judge. Officials from the Egyptian Embassy in Riyadh and the Consulate in Jeddah offered little support fo [...] |
2008-11-26 13:59:00 | Consulate Jeddah | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KIRF KISL KTIP PHUM SA SMIG SOCI XF |
| 08KABUL3036 |
DISCUSSIONS ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS LAW AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Afghan officials appear eager to implement the country's new anti-trafficking law, but the level of conceptual clarity on the definition of trafficking differed among government officials. Judicial delay, corruption, and weak coordination remain obstacles to effectively punishing [...] |
2008-11-24 10:13:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KTIP AF |
| 08KABUL3062 |
VIEW FROM THE NORTH: KUNDUZ WOMEN NAVIGATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Women in Kunduz Province face problems common throughout the country including illiteracy and violence. However, many Kunduz women are free to work, are much less covered in public than in other areas of the country, and express satisfaction with the Afghan government. The are [...] |
2008-11-24 12:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPOL PREL PHUM AF KTIP |
| 08KATHMANDU1223 |
NEPAL: NOMINATION FOR IQBQAL MASIH AWARD [...] Post is pleased to nominate the organization "CWISH" for the United States Department of Labor's Iqbqal Masih Award for Elimination of Child Labor. Full Name of the organization: CWISH - Children and Women in Social Service and Human Rights Address: P.O. Box 21433, Chabhil, Kathmandu, Nepal [...] |
2008-11-20 09:47:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI KTIP NP |
| 08KATHMANDU993 |
GTIP PROGRAMMING IN NEPAL [...] In 2006, GTIP, through USAID, approved a grant to World Education. GTIP approved the grant based on the proposal submitted by World Education. As part of the monitoring of the activity, GTIP conducted a national assessment of activities in Nepal and visited the World Education program in Feb [...] |
2008-09-05 08:55:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP USAID KOCI KWMN SOCI PHUM KCRM ELAB PGOV |
| 08KINGSTON1014 |
JAMAICAN OFFICIALS ADDRESS PREVENTION, PROTECTION, AND [...] On November 22 poloff spoke at a panel discussion on trafficking in persons (TIP) hosted by local NGO Woman, Inc. The discussion, one of several themed talks over a two-day trade fair/fundraiser for the NGO, featured Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lisa Palmer Hamilton, Director of the N [...] |
2008-12-01 15:50:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI PGOV KTIP JM XL |
| 08KINSHASA1009 |
DRC - TIP WATCH LIST INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: The GDRC has taken first steps to address human trafficking. The Congolese National Demobilization Agency (in French--Unite d'Execution du Programme National de Desarmament, Demobilisation, et Reinsertion (UEPN-DDR)) launched a national awareness campaign of zero tolerance for [...] |
2008-11-14 14:40:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN CG |
| 08KINSHASA1137 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DRC: 2008 TIP TIER 2 WATCH LIST ACTION [...] PolCouns and PolOff delivered reftel demarche to the new Vice-Minister of Justice, Musonda Kalusambi on November 21 and conveyed the same demarche to the new Minister of Gender, Family, and Children, Marie-Ange Lukiana on December 17. 2. The recommendations given in the non-paper were well [...] |
2008-12-19 10:34:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SMIG KCRM KWMN KTIP CG |
| 08KINSHASA787 |
GDRC TAKING STRIDES TO ADDRESS TIP ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: The GDRC has recently taken positive steps to address trafficking in persons. It has made some progress in addressing the problems of child soldiering and children working in the mining sector. NGO groups, however, have highlighted a troubling trend throughout the DRC of grow [...] |
2008-09-23 06:52:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SMIG PHUM PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM KWMN CG |
| 08KINSHASA919 |
INTERVIEWS WITH ESCAPED CNDP SOLDIERS [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 20 Goma Poloff had the opportunity to speak with three escaped CNDP soldiers. The soldiers, 13, 15, and 23 years old, had been brought to Goma by MONUC. The interview took place on the MONUC DDRRR compound where a handful of CNDP and FDLR escapees trickle in on a d [...] |
2008-10-22 16:03:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS KPKO KTIP CG |
| 08KUALALUMPUR1010 |
AMBASSADOR RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT TRAFFICKING OF [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The Ambassador raised allegations of trafficking of Burmese refugees during his November 11 call on Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, noting U.S. Senate concerns and urging Malaysia to take action on this issue. Polcouns highlighted the refugee trafficking alle [...] |
2008-11-13 09:40:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM KTIP MY |
| 08KUALALUMPUR1017 |
MALAYSIA: INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) Embassy Kuala Lumpur provides the following submission as an interim assessment of targeted actions by Malaysia on trafficking in persons (TIP) since April 2008, as requested ref A. Implementing and Enforcing the Law ---------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Malaysia is in the pr [...] |
2008-11-17 09:33:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB SMIG KCRM KWMN KTIP MY |
| 08KUALALUMPUR1049 |
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST IRENE FERNANDEZ ACQUITTED [...] (U) Summary and Comment: The Kuala Lumpur High Court on November 24 acquitted human rights activist Irene Fernandez of her 2003 conviction of "maliciously publishing false news" against the government, thus bringing to a close Malaysia' longest running court case. The government originally b [...] |
2008-11-28 09:45:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KTIP MY |
| 08KUALALUMPUR1060 |
MAID'S ABUSER FOUND GUILTY, SENTENCED TO 18 YEARS [...] (U) In Malaysia's highest profile domestic worker abuse case, a Kuala Lumpur sessions court judge on November 27 found Yim Pek Ha guilty of three charges of "causing grievous hurt" to Indonesian maid Nirmala Bonet, a 2008 U.S. TIP Report Hero. Nirmala suffered horrendous physical abuse, incl [...] |
2008-12-04 08:55:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN KCRM KTIP ID MY |
| 08KUALALUMPUR1073 |
MALAYSIA SEEKS USG EXPERTISE ON COMBATING TIP [...] (SBU) Government of Malaysia (GOM) ministries and agencies with responsibility for combating trafficking in persons (TIP) in recent months have increasingly requested U.S. expertise to guide policy and build GOM's anti-TIP capacity in the framework of Malaysia's comprehensive anti-trafficking [...] |
2008-12-09 08:27:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KTIP KCRM KJUS MY |
| 08KUALALUMPUR1110 |
AMBASSADOR VISITS GOVT TIP SHELTER; MORE VICTIMS [...] (SBU) The Ambassador visited the Malaysian government's trafficking victims' shelter for women in Kuala Lumpur on December 17 at the invitation of the Women's Minister. The shelter housed 11 adult victims of sex trafficking, while the nearby children's shelter housed four girls. A senior Wo [...] |
2008-12-22 09:04:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM MY |
| 08KUALALUMPUR786 |
STAFFDEL LUSE ENGAGES PM'S OFFICE, MFA ON [...] (SBU) Senate Foreign Relations Committee Professional Staffer Mr. Keith Luse met with GOM officials at the Prime Minister's Office, the Foreign Ministry's Southeast Asia Office, and at the Southeast Asia Regional Center for Counter Terrorism (SEARCCT) August 27-29. Luse raised concerns ab [...] |
2008-09-09 09:14:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PREF PTER KDEM KTIP MY |
| 08KUALALUMPUR799 |
STAFFDEL LUSE DISCUSSES TRAFFICKING OF BURMESE [...] (C) Keith Luse, Professional Staff Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, visited Malaysia August 25-31 to investigate reports of the trafficking of Burmese refugees to Thailand and the alleged involvement of Malaysian Immigration officials in such trafficking, as previously reported by [...] |
2008-09-10 09:56:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL KTIP BM TH MY |
| 08KUALALUMPUR880 |
EMBASSY DELIVERS TIP ACTION PLAN TO MALAYSIAN [...] (SBU) Post delivered the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Tier 2 Watch List Action Plan for Malaysia to senior government officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Ministry of Human Resources in late September, with further meetings pending. On September 24, the DCM and Political Co [...] |
2008-10-06 10:08:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG SOCI |
| 08KUALALUMPUR934 |
AMBASSADOR URGES MINISTERS TO ADDRESS BURMESE [...] (SBU) The Ambassador on October 8 wrote to both Foreign Minister Rais Yatim and Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar, drawing the ministers' attention to reports of the trafficking of refugees from Malaysian immigration detention camps to Thailand and urging Malaysian government actions to address [...] |
2008-10-22 09:51:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM KTIP TH MY |
| 08KUALALUMPUR940 |
FINNISH COMPANY POLAR ELECTRO ASSISTS FORCED LABOR [...] (SBU) Finnish company Polar Electro recently provided compensation and repatriation assistance to 40 forced labor victims from its Malaysian joint-venture company, following interventions by an international NGO and Post. The Polar Electro case appears illustrative of the challenges facing so [...] |
2008-10-24 08:16:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV ELAB KTIP FI VM ID MY |
| 08KUALALUMPUR955 |
MALAYSIA'S NEW ANTI-TRAFFICKING SECRETARIAT [...] (SBU) Polcouns and Poloff met with Malaysian officials leading the newly established anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) Secretariat, located in the Home Ministry, on October 23. Polcouns reviewed U.S. recommendations for anti-TIP measures in Malaysia, outlined the 2008 U.S. TIP report proces [...] |
2008-10-31 02:48:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KTIP MY |
| 08KUWAIT1021 |
LABOR ISSUES REMAIN AT THE FORE IN KUWAITI [...] (C) Since an outbreak of violent labor strikes in late July, Kuwaiti officialdom and the media have continued to scrutinize TIP and labor issues. The GOK appears to be leveraging a 'law and order' approach to violent strikers, including the planned deportation of thousands of undocumented wo [...] |
2008-09-29 14:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI ELAB KTIP KU |
| 08KUWAIT1114 |
NORTH KOREAN LABORERS VIE FOR EMPLOYMENT [...] (C) In response to rumors that North Korean laborers -- a group with a small silhouette on the Kuwaiti landscape -- were particularly vulnerable to human trafficking, Embassy queried local Korean and MFA sources about the status of those workers. The sources claim that the approximately 4000 [...] |
2008-11-06 10:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KTIP KU KN ZO |
| 08KUWAIT292 |
MFA U/S AL-JARALLAH ON TIP [...] (C) On March 4, CDA briefed MFA U/S Khaled Al-Jarallah on the upcoming TIP report and expressed concern about the lack of recent concrete progress on the part of the GOK. CDA listed the commitments made by the GOK last fall and cited positive steps taken by some of Kuwait's Gulf neighbors in [...] |
2008-03-13 12:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KTIP SMIG KU |
| 08KUWAIT954 |
KUWAIT: SOUL-SEARCHING ON LABOR ABUSES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Stung by international media attention to widespread labor abuses by Kuwaiti contractors, the GOK continues to discuss and investigate TIP-related issues and promises significant action. Domestic media continue to provide wide coverage of the issues. Recent developments includ [...] |
2008-09-09 12:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI ELAB KTIP KU |
| 08LAGOS430 |
NIGERIA: REPORTS OF "BABY FARM" DEMONSTRATE GAP IN [...] (SBU) Summary: An October 8 BBC News article claimed the discovery of a "baby farm" in Enugu, which was allegedly holding pregnant women hostage, then selling their babies to traffickers after birth. While an official from the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and [...] |
2008-10-31 12:03:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KTIP NI |
| 08LISBON2613 |
PORTUGAL'S CHILD LABOR LEADERSHIP [...] No summary [...] |
2008-10-01 13:23:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI |
| 08MANAMA613 |
ANDHRA PRADESH LABORERS IN BAHRAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: Most of the trafficked laborers in Bahrain come from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, according to an anti-trafficking activist. She said the efforts of Bahrain's new labor authority and source country embassies to blacklist abusive recruitment firms is working. End summary. [...] |
2008-09-11 13:20:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP ELAB KMIG IN BA |
| 08MANAMA770 |
TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: This message serves as post's input to the Trafficking In Persons (TIP) interim assessment. Paragraphs are keyed to ref B para 6A questions. End Summary. 2. (C) Question (a): The GOB established a new anti-human trafficking unit (HTU) under the economic crimes unit at the C [...] |
2008-11-16 12:35:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP KCRM KWMN PHUM PGOV SMIG BA |
| 08MANAMA777 |
TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT - CORRECTED COPY [...] (SBU) Per ref E request, post is transmitting a re-classified version of this assessment. 2. (SBU) Summary: This message provides post's input to the Trafficking In Persons (TIP) interim assessment. Paragraphs are keyed to ref B para 6A questions. End Summary. 3. (SBU) Question (a): Th [...] |
2008-11-20 07:02:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KCRM KWMN PHUM PGOV SMIG BA |
| 08MEXICO3385 |
NOMINATION FOR IQBAL MASIH AWARD ) MEXICO [...] No summary [...] |
2008-11-14 17:27:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI KTIP MX |
| 08MONTEVIDEO92 |
IOM PROPOSAL FOR G/TIP-FUNDED PROJECT [...] (U) SUMMARY: IOM proposed a third-phase of its successful previous G/TIP-funded projects. The Embassy fully endorses the proposal, which is summarized in this cable. The GOU has also emphasized its support for continued cooperation in this vital area. Post submitted the full proposal with [...] |
2008-02-22 14:51:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ELAB KTIP EINV SOCI UY |
| 08MUSCAT647 |
SULTAN QABOOS REPLACES LABOR MINISTER AND MUSCAT [...] (C) In a surprise move to many, Sultan Qaboos removed Oman's Minister of Manpower in a September 6 royal decree and replaced him with a government official who, although reportedly very competent, has little direct experience in labor issues. The reason for the Minister's ouster is unknown, [...] |
2008-09-10 12:09:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB SMIG KTIP MU |
| 08MUSCAT729 |
SCENESETTER FOR THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Mr. Deputy Secretary: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you to Oman. As one of our oldest friends in the region (the Omanis refer to their relationship with us as "strategic" ), the Sultanate remains a trusted U.S. partner. This year marks the 175th anniversary of the U.S.-Oman "Treaty [...] |
2008-10-16 14:24:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET | PREL PTER ECON ENRG ETRD KNNP KPAL KTIP SMIG |
| 08MUSCAT732 |
OMAN PLEASED WITH FINAL TIP TIER RANKING, PROMISES [...] (C) The Ambassador informed Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General, on October 18 of the President's determination upgrading Oman from Tier 3 to Tier 2 Watch List in the Department's most recent Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. Sayyid Badr was very pleased [...] |
2008-10-19 08:53:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KTIP SMIG MU |
| 08MUSCAT744 |
DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETINGS WITH OMANI SULTAN [...] (C) The Deputy Secretary of State and the Ambassador met on October 19 with Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi to discuss bilateral relations and regional issues. Bin Alawi welcomed Oman's upgrade from Tier 3 to Tier 2 Watch List in the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) [...] |
2008-10-28 06:37:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KTIP MNUC ECON ETRD SMIG IR IZ MU |
| 08MUSCAT759 |
ILO POSITIVE ABOUT PROGRESS ON LABOR UNIONS AND [...] (C) Summary: According to International Labor Organization (ILO) representatives conducting training in Oman, the new Minister of Manpower is solidly behind efforts against Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and is in support of labor unions. As part of the ILO labor inspector training, Omanis are [...] |
2008-11-04 08:53:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ELAB KTIP MU |
| 08MUSCAT793 |
MAINTAINING FORWARD MOVEMENT ON TRAFFICKING IN [...] No summary [...] |
2008-11-19 11:31:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR KTIP KWMN MU |
| 08MUSCAT796 |
MAINTAINING FORWARD MOVEMENT ON TRAFFICKING IN [...] (C) On November 16, the DCM and Pol-Econ Chief paid an introductory call to Ambassador Lyutha bint Sultan bin Ahmad al-Mughairy, the new director of the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General, Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi. (Note: As Sayyid Badr is post's senior Omani interlocu [...] |
2008-11-19 13:06:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR KTIP KWMN MU |
| 08MUSCAT811 |
OMAN ADOPTS ANTI-TRAFFICKING LAW [...] (U) On November 24, Sultan Qaboos issued Royal Decree 126/2008 promulgating the "Combating Human Trafficking Law," which will take effect on December 2, the day of publication in Oman's Official Gazette. The decree also cancels any existing laws that contradict the new legislation. The full [...] |
2008-11-24 13:51:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KTIP MU |
| 08MUSCAT830 |
DETAILS ON OMAN'S NEW ANTI-TRAFFICKING LAW [...] (C) Oman's new anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) law defines trafficking broadly, institutes significant penalties for offenders, provides for care and protection for victims, and establishes a National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking led by a government minister. Shaikh Abdullah al-Bak [...] |
2008-12-03 14:13:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KTIP MU |
| 08MUSCAT860 |
INDIAN EMBASSY ADDRESSES LABOR ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: The new Indian DCM gave post an overview of the situation for Indian workers in Oman, noting the particular difficulties faced by housemaids. She also discussed her embassy's process for dealing with laborers' problems and noted that given time, the Omani government system gener [...] |
2008-12-21 10:13:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KTIP MU |
| 08NDJAMENA528 |
CHAD: TIP WATCH INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] This message provides responses to the questions posed in para 6(O) of Ref A. a) Finalizing and Enacting Draft Law on Child Trafficking: no progress; the draft legislation has yet to emerge from the Ministry of Justice b) Increasing Efforts to Arrest, Prosecute, and Convict Traffickers [...] |
2008-11-17 08:16:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG CD |
| 08NDJAMENA541 |
SUDAN REBEL RECRUITMENT SURGE IN REFUGEE CAMPS [...] No summary [...] |
2008-11-19 11:51:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL MARR KPKO KTIP UNAUS CD |
| 08NEWDELHI3058 |
INDIA: TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Criminal prosecutions against individuals for trafficking offenses remain a challenge in India, due to several inherent problems. Law and order is a state responsibility per the Indian constitution, which makes it difficult for the central government to intervene to enforce laws effecti [...] |
2008-12-04 09:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | IN KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SOCI KTIP |
| 08NIAMEY1104 |
NIGER - TIP WATCHLIST INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] Summary: Niger is taking several steps to reduce the incidence and consequences of trafficking in persons and raise public awareness, but needs to pass long-awaited legislation to give authorities leverage to prosecute traffickers. End summary. 2. Updates over the past year are as follows: [...] |
2008-11-19 04:41:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM SOCI SCUL NG |
| 08NICOSIA911 |
CYPRUS TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT RESPONSE [...] (U) Embassy responses to the TIP interim assessment for Special Watch List countries are keyed Reftel order. 2. (SBU) Law enforcement efforts to combat trafficking: During the interim period covered by this report (April 1 - November 15), the Republic of Cyprus opened 24 cases for investig [...] |
2008-11-18 14:17:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KCRM KWMN PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG CY |
| 08PARAMARIBO434 |
SURINAME: POLICE TIP UNIT RESCUES TWO TEENAGE MINORS [...] (SBU) Summary. During a routine nightclub check, officers from the Surinamese Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Unit discovered two minor teenage Guyanese girls being used for sexual exploitation. The club manager was arrested and her daughter, also under suspicion of involvement, is being sought b [...] |
2008-10-14 18:41:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KTIP SNAR NS |
| 08PHNOMPENH772 |
CAMBODIA: OPEN TO "INTERNATIONAL MEGAN'S LAW," [...] (SBU) Summary: From September 2-5 a six-member U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs Staff Delegation met with Cambodian government officials, immigration and police contacts, and NGO representatives during a fact-finding visit to Cambodia. The visit was prompted by the introduction of a [...] |
2008-09-12 05:46:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN KTIP CB |
| 08PRETORIA2249 |
IOM SURVEY: HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSIDE SOUTH AFRICA [...] A survey of internal trafficking in persons (TIP) due for release on October 29 reveals that TIP is a nationwide problem in South Africa, with domestic as well as cross-border victims. Funded by USAID under the auspices of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the survey indica [...] |
2008-10-15 08:00:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP PREL PGOV PHUM SF |
| 08PRETORIA2454 |
TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT: SAG GAINING MOMENTUM [...] To combat trafficking in persons (TIP), South Africa is active across multiple fronts -- from legislation and prosecution, to training and development of response procedures, to victims' support and public awareness campaigns. While passage of a draft anti-TIP law remains the key hurdle to m [...] |
2008-11-06 14:04:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KTIP PHUM SF |
| 08QUITO1100 |
ECUADOR IMPLEMENTS TRAVEL DOC REQUIREMENTS FOR [...] (C) Summary. Mission Ecuador has coordinated a joint strategy with our Chinese counterparts for delivering demarches to the GOE on its visa policies, specifically the lack of control over "tourists", and working with Ecuadorian authorities to improve their controls (Ref A). Both the U.S. an [...] |
2008-11-28 21:31:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PREL PGOV ASEC CMGT KCRM KFRD KTIP EC |
| 08QUITO1127 |
TRAVEL DOCUMENT REQUIREMENT FOR CHINESE: A [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the GOE signed an MOU with China on November 20 to implement a new travel document policy for Chinese tourists traveling to Ecuador, to be effective on December 1, the policy had not been implemented as of December 5. Until it receives clear instructions from the GOE [...] |
2008-12-05 22:28:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL PGOV ASEC CMGT KCRM KFRD KTIP EC |
| 08RIYADH1620 |
NO INDICATION SAG HAS CHANGED POLICY ON TAIF [...] (S) In an October 27 meeting with Saudi Assistant Minister for National Security Affairs Prince Mohammed bin Naif (MBN), Charge Rundell raised the issue of the Taif Christians (ref A). MBN reiterated previous assurances that the deportation orders in question had been rescinded. Nevertheless, [...] |
2008-10-29 10:12:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | ELAB KIRF KISL KTIP PHUM SA SMIG SOCI XF |
| 08RIYADH1690 |
TAIF CHRISTIAN "DEPORTATION" ISSUE RESOLVED [...] ZFR CANCEL///ZFR CANCEL///ZFR CANCEL//// CABLE WILL BE RETRANSMITTED UNDER DIFFERENT MRN WITH NEW PRECEDENCE. PLEASE DESTROY ALL COPIES. ZFR CANCEL///ZFR CANCEL///ZFR CANCEL//// RUNDELL [...] |
2008-11-12 11:17:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | ELAB KIRF KISL KTIP PHUM SA SMIG SOCI XF |
| 08RIYADH1691 |
TAIF CHRISTIAN "DEPORTATION" ISSUE RESOLVED [...] (S/NF) DEPORTATIONS RESCINDED: On November 9 and 10, two contacts confirmed to Poloff that the Makkah Governorate's orders to deport 13 Taif Christians (Ref A) have been rescinded. Reji Johnson (strictly protect) asserted that the situation had been definitely resolved thanks to a higher ord [...] |
2008-11-12 12:12:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | ELAB KIRF KISL KTIP PHUM SA SMIG SOCI XF |
| 08SANJOSE829 |
SEVENTH COSTA RICA-NICARAGUA BINATIONALS: MORE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Seventh Binational Commission Meeting between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, held on October 3 in San Jose, produced 20 "accords" but little substance. Most agenda items in the final document simply called for further dialogue. Of note, however, Costa Rica agreed to grant high [...] |
2008-10-20 15:16:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENVI PBTS KTIP SENV CS NU |
| 08SANJOSE833 |
PROSECUTIONS POSSIBLE, BUT NOT LIKELY IN DOMINICAN [...] (SBU) Although local media alleged in April that 400-500 Dominican women had been trafficked into Costa Rica through proxy marriages to work in the sex trade, the story is not so straightforward. As the complicated facts have slowly emerged, it is apparent that the "victims" may have entered [...] |
2008-10-22 19:29:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KTIP CVIS CS DR |
| 08SANJOSE882 |
GOCR FEARS THAT LAX ECUADOR VISA POLICY IS FUELING [...] (C) "Ecuador is causing instability for all America" since it dropped its tourist visa requirements for all nationalities in June, according to Mario Zamora, head of the GOCR General Directorate of Immigration (DGI, Spanish acronym). GOCR Immigration officials that traveled to Ecuador in Octo [...] |
2008-11-12 22:09:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ASEC CVIS KCRM KFRD EC KTIP CS |
| 08SANJOSE911 |
COSTA RICA: TIP WATCH LIST INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] The 2008 TIP Tier Two Watchlist downgrade succeeded as a wake-up call for the GOCR's anti-TIP National Coalition (officially the National Coalition against Smuggling of Migrants and Trafficking in Persons), headed by Vice Minister of Public Security and Governance Ana Duran. The GOCR made sign [...] |
2008-11-21 21:39:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG CS |
| 08SANJOSE925 |
GOCR FEARS THAT LAX ECUADOR VISA POLICY IS FUELING [...] (SBU) This is the unclassified version of San Jose 882, being transmitted at the request of the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center (HSTC). ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) GOCR Immigration officials who traveled to Ecuador in October reported that approximately 10,000 Chinese had e [...] |
2008-11-26 17:33:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER ASEC CVIS KCRM KFRD EC KTIP CS |
| 08SANTODOMINGO1439 |
GODR REACTIONS TO TIP TIER 2 WATCH-LIST PLAN [...] (U) Summary: Per reftel instructions, Poloff delivered demarche and left the Tier 2 watch-list action plan recommendations as a non-paper with key Dominican officials. Our recommendations may be of assistance as the GODR is in the process of developing its own, multi-agency "integrated action [...] |
2008-09-12 15:31:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KTIP DR |
| 08SANTODOMINGO1815 |
DR TIP WATCH LIST INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (U) The following is Embassy Santo Domingo's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Watch List Interim Assessment, per ref A request. 2. (U) Authorities of the Dominican Republic report that they are working to prevent human trafficking, protect TIP victims and prosecute offenders under the "Traffick [...] |
2008-11-28 18:33:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SMIG KCRM KTIP KWMN DR |
| 08SAOPAULO412 |
G/TIP LAGON VISIT TO SAO PAULO REVEALS BOTH PROGRESS AND [...] (SBU) Ambassador-at-Large Mark P. Lagon, Director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP), visited Sao Paulo on June 26-27 as part of a multi-city trip to Brazil. Ambassador Lagon met with both federal and state-level members of the judicial and la [...] |
2008-07-30 15:33:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF KCRM PHUM ELAB KTIP BR |
| 08SAOPAULO678 |
SAO PAULO STATE ORGANIZES TIP MEETING [...] (U) Summary: The State of Sao Paulo and the Secretary of Justice and Citizen Defense organized a broad-based meeting for NGOs and government agencies dedicated to fighting Trafficking in Persons (TIP) in Sao Paulo on December 16. Panelists stressed their commitment to "institutionalizing" th [...] |
2008-12-19 17:05:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF KCRM PHUM ELAB KTIP BR |
| 08SECTIN03OF03KABUL3036 |
DISCUSSIONS ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS LAW AND [...] No summary [...] |
2008-11-24 10:13:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KTIP AF |
| 08SEOUL2306 |
NEW NGO REVEALS ABUSE AT PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN DPRK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the November 18 inaugural gathering of Campaign for North Korean Freedom (NK Freedom), Yonsei University Associate Professor of Law Hong Seong-phil explained that the group's founding was based on the notion that defectors needed to take ownership of the North Korean human r [...] |
2008-12-02 22:11:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM PGOV PROP KTIP KS KN |
| 08SEOUL2402 |
DAY IN LIFE OF NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS IN SOUTH [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff attended the second annual group wedding for four North Korean defector couples organized by a South Korean NGO. The couples were grateful for the ceremony, which they postponed because of lack of funding. Poloff also met with two of the brides to discuss their experien [...] |
2008-12-15 08:23:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PINR KS KN |
| 08SHENYANG116 |
PRC-DPRK BORDER DEFENSE, BORDER-CROSSERS, NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The PRC has made some progress in PRC-DPRK border security in recent years, but advances ought not be overestimated, say northeast China experts. Although new investment, infrastructural improvements and modern technologies have enhanced defense capacity, the border remains porou [...] |
2008-08-20 05:20:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV PREF ASEC KTIP SNAR KN CH |
| 08STATE111745 |
PORTUGAL: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP [...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 2 when host governments are not meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), but are making signif [...] |
2008-10-20 21:34:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN PHUM PO PREL SMIG KTIP |
| 08STATE111994 |
THE NETHERLANDS: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP [...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 2 when host governments are not meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), but are making signif [...] |
2008-10-21 17:05:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG NL |
| 08STATE112382 |
UKRAINE: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP [...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 2 when host governments are not meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), but are making signif [...] |
2008-10-22 13:39:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG UP |
| 08STATE112701 |
IRELAND: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP [...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 2 when host governments are not meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), but are making signif [...] |
2008-10-22 21:34:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG EI |
| 08STATE115695 |
SPAIN: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP (2008-2009) [...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 1 when host governments are fully meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Remaining on Tier [...] |
2008-10-30 13:46:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG SP |
| 08STATE115726 |
CORRECTED COPY: THE NETHERLANDS: TIP ACTION GUIDE [...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 1 when host governments are fully meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Remaining on Tier [...] |
2008-10-30 14:21:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG NL |
| 08STATE125145 |
OSCE GUIDANCE: DRAFT MINISTERIAL DECISION ON [...] Encourages those participating States that have not yet done so to ensure that all forms of trafficking in human beings as defined in the OSCE Action Plan are criminalized in their national legislation and that perpetrators of human trafficking do not enjoy impunity; STATE 00125145 002 OF [...] |
2008-11-25 22:48:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PHUM PREL KTIP |
| 08STATE125506 |
CROATIA: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP [...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 1 when host governments are fully meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Remaining on Tier [...] |
2008-11-26 18:23:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG CR |
| 08STATE132279 |
ITALY: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP (2008-2009) [...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 1 when host governments are fully meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Remaining on Tier [...] |
2008-12-17 21:30:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG IT |
| 08STATE132759 |
PREPARING THE NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) This is an action message for all posts. See paras 12-29. This cable describes the annual reporting requirement for Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and provides instructions for posts' contributions. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000, as amended, requires the Department t [...] |
2008-12-19 03:39:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF |
| 08STATE133170 |
DENMARK: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP [...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 1 when host governments are fully meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Remaining on Tier [...] |
2008-12-19 22:37:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG DA |
| 08TASHKENT1085 |
PRESIDENT KARIMOV SIGNS TIP CRIMINAL CODE [...] (U) Summary: On September 16 President Islam Karimov signed long-awaited criminal code amendments into law specifically criminalizing trafficking in persons and outlining stricter punishments of up to 12 years in prison for convicted traffickers. In adopting the amendments, the Government of [...] |
2008-09-19 11:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM KWMN PHUM UZ |
| 08TASHKENT1226 |
UZBEKISTAN: PROSECUTOR GENERAL PUBLISHES MAJOR [...] (U) On October 17 Uzbekistan Prosecutor General Rashitjon Qodirov prominently published a major 3,000 word report on trafficking in persons (TIP) in the state-controlled newspaper "Narodnoe Slovo" (People's Word). This is the first high-profile action by Qodirov in his capacity as the Chairma [...] |
2008-10-24 08:25:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN UZ |
| 08TASHKENT1265 |
UZBEKISTAN: OFFICIALS DESCRIBE EFFORTS TO [...] (U) Summary: On September 29-30, poloff and a visiting officer from the Department's Office to Combat and Monitor Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) met with Uzbek officials from the Ministries of Internal and Foreign Affairs, the Office of the General Prosecutor, and the National Women's Committee [...] |
2008-11-03 09:20:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN UZ |
| 08TASHKENT1304 |
UZBEKISTAN: AUTHORITIES TO OPEN REHABILITATION [...] (U) On November 11, the state-controlled UzReport.com website reported that - in line with a resolution of President Karimov's from November 5 - the Ministry of Labor will open a national rehabilitation center in Tashkent to assist and protect human trafficking victims. According to the webs [...] |
2008-11-13 11:35:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB KTIP KWMN KCRM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
| 08TASHKENT1314 |
UZBEKISTAN: TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2008-11-17 09:12:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB KTIP KWMN KCRM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
| 08TIRANA825 |
GOA STRUGGLING TO CONTROL SOUTHERN BORDER [...] (C) Summary: On a November 14 visit to Gjirokaster and the Kakavije border point, GOA officials, while generally positive, bemoaned a lack of resources to effectively patrol the border for traffickers of humans, arms, narcotics and contraband. Working level cooperation with the Greek police s [...] |
2008-11-20 11:45:00 | Embassy Tirana | CONFIDENTIAL | SMIG PREL KWMN KTIP PHUM SNAR PGOV AL GR |
| 08TOKYO2577 |
JAPAN CONSIDERING WITHDRAWING COOPERATION ON TIP [...] (U) Charge James Zumwalt met Deputy Vice-Minister for Foreign Policy Koro Bessho for lunch on Tuesday, September, 17. Bessho was accompanied by Akihiko Nakajima, Deputy Director-General for Foreign Policy, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation, who also handles trafficking-in-persons issues fo [...] |
2008-09-18 08:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PGOV PREL JA KTIP |
| 08TRIPOLI895 |
LIBYA: INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT [...] (U) Libya has no legal or regulatory framework to separate victims of trafficking from the general migrant population and undocumented presence in Libya is generally considered a crime. In practice, however, the GOL has drawn on other elements of its existing criminal code to prosecute traffick [...] |
2008-11-17 12:33:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KCRM KWMN PHUM PGOV SMIG LY |
| 08USUNNEWYORK962 |
UN TO COMMEMORATE BICENTENNIAL OF END OF SLAVE [...] In plenary session on October 20, The UN General Assembly (UNGA) received the Secretary-General's report on the Follow-up to the Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (A/63/213), and passed a resolution on a Permanent Memorial to and Remembra [...] |
2008-10-22 19:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KTIP AORC |
| 08VALLETTA530 |
MALTA: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Bordonaro met with Minister for Justice and Home Affairs, Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici, on December 9, to discuss Malta,s progress on implementing the Trafficking in Persons Action Plan in the hopes of attaining Tier 1 status in 2009. Malta has recently taken a number of p [...] |
2008-12-19 09:59:00 | Embassy Valletta | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN MT PHUM PREL SMIG KTIP |
| 08VANCOUVER288 |
BRITISH COLUMBIA HOLDS CONFERENCE ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] Summary: The BC Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons (OCTIP) held its first ever conference bringing together law enforcement, NGOs, academics, government and political representatives to share ideas and best practices on addressing human trafficking. DPO and representatives of the Consul [...] |
2008-11-15 00:07:00 | Consulate Vancouver | UNCLASSIFIED | CA PGOV KTIP |
| 08YAOUNDE1227 |
ACOTA SCORES WIN-WIN WITH CAMEROON TRAINING [...] (U) This cable is supplemented by photographs and other records of the event available on Yaounde's unclassified website at http://yaounde.usembassy.gov/ln_121209.html 2. (U) Summary: A Cameroonian battalion of 600 soldiers has completed ACOTA training in preparation for an eventual pea [...] |
2008-12-18 16:29:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PHUM KPKO KWMN KTIP AORC PREL CM |
| 08YEREVAN555 |
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER UPBEAT, ENGAGED ON FIGHTING TIP [...] (SBU) On July 4, Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorkian convoked his first meeting with the international community and NGOs in his capacity as chair of the new Ministerial Anti-Trafficking Council. He asserted that henceforth no one will doubt the seriousness of Armenian intentions on fighting [...] |
2008-07-08 12:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM |
| 08ZAGREB793 |
CROATIA TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Croatian government has continued to actively address the issue of trafficking in persons during 2008. The government has worked aggressively to increase public awareness and to train government employees, public officials, and NGOs in identification and prevention. The governm [...] |
2008-11-18 08:01:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP KWMN PREL SMIG HR KCRM PGOV |
| 09ABIDJAN309 |
MODEL ANTI-TIP EFFORTS IN SOUTHEASTERN COTE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Cote d'Ivoire (GoCI)has implemented a robust and comprehensive program to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) in the southeastern part of the country, with technical and financial assistance from the German development agency GTZ. The southeast is a major tra [...] |
2009-05-13 08:22:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP PHUM SOCI PGOV IV |
| 09ABIDJAN36 |
COMMENT ON DOL DRAFT LIST FOR TVPRA [...] (C) Embassy Abidjan believes Cote d'Ivoire should be deleted from the Department of Labor's (DOL) draft list, prepared under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), for production of gold using child labor. 2. (C) Gold production is concentrated in the northern, sav [...] |
2009-01-15 16:01:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI KTIP IV |
| 09ABIDJAN391 |
IVOIRIAN GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO TIER 2 WATCH LIST [...] (U) SUMMARY: Embassy has informed the Ministry of Family that Cote d'Ivoire will face sanctions in 2011 if the country continues to remain on Tier 2 Watch List status. Representatives of both the Ministry of Family and the National Committee to Fight Trafficking told Poloff that they are ham [...] |
2009-06-26 13:02:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI IV |
| 09ABUDHABI1010 |
UAE LABOR MINISTER ON TRAFFICKING, SPONSORSHIP, AND STATE OF [...] (C) Summary. Addressing a group of foreign business leaders and diplomats on October 27, UAE Minister of Labor Saqr bin Ghobash Saeed Ghobash discussed the country's problem with trafficking in persons, its fragmented labor market, the challenges of Emiratization, and high unemployment rates a [...] |
2009-10-27 14:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PHUM KTIP AE |
| 09ABUDHABI1070 |
UAE'S HIGH PROFILE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) Summary. In the five months since the State Department released its annual trafficking in persons(TIP) country reports, the UAE government has taken highly visible steps to crack down on human trafficking through enhanced measures of prevention, protection, and prosecution. Immediate re [...] |
2009-11-12 12:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ELAB KTIP KCRM AE BG CH IN NP PK RP |
| 09ABUDHABI1086 |
2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR UAE [...] (SBU) Post presents the following update in response to reftel request for a summary of UAEG progress on selected anti-trafficking issues. 2. (SBU) In October, the Dubai Attorney General announced the creation of a permanent task force to handle human trafficking cases. The task force is a [...] |
2009-11-17 08:42:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ELAB KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG AE |
| 09ABUDHABI1096 |
G/TIP AMBASSADOR LUIS CDEBACA'S VISIT TO UAE [...] (SBU) Summary. During his November 9-11 visit to the United Arab Emirates, Ambassador Luis CdeBaca, head of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP), met with senior federal and emirate-level officials, and toured government and foreign shelters. UAE officials said they [...] |
2009-11-22 04:18:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ELAB KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG AE |
| 09ABUDHABI111 |
EMIRATES HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION IN DISARRAY [...] No summary [...] |
2009-01-29 09:00:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KTIP KMPI AE |
| 09ABUDHABI202 |
UAE: 2008 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] (U) The following is Post's submission of the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. 2. (SBU) The Embassy's point of contact for the Trafficking in Persons Report is: Kundai Mashingaidze Tel: +971 2-414-2621 Fax: +971 2-414-2639 Email: mashingaidzek@state.gov Number of hours spent on th [...] |
2009-02-26 14:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG AE |
| 09ABUDHABI243 |
UAE TIP SHELTER OPTIONS INADEQUATE BUT THERE IS HOPE [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Abu Dhabi - Consulate General Dubai cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: UAE shelter options for victims of domestic abuse and trafficking (sexual or otherwise) remain limited. In Dubai, there is only one officially recognized facility of whose existence the wider Dubai co [...] |
2009-03-13 17:25:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KCRM ELAB KMPI KTIP AE |
| 09ABUDHABI244 |
UNOFFICIAL TIP SHELTER OPTIONS IN UAE [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Abu Dhabi - Consulate General Dubai cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: In both Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the UAE's main urban hubs, unofficial shelters have been established over time to accommodate the immediate needs of vulnerable groups (one of the more active being run by [...] |
2009-03-13 17:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KCRM ELAB KMPI KTIP AE |
| 09ABUDHABI513 |
UAE AND UNICEF CONTINUE TO ASSIST REPATRIATED [...] (U) Summary: The effort to repatriate young foreign camel jockeys was the headline focus of the UAE's anti-TIP efforts just a few years ago; the follow-up continues unabated, with significant UAE effort and resource applied to the rehabilitation of prior jockeys. End summary. 2. (SBU) U [...] |
2009-05-21 08:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KTIP EAID MR SU BG PK UN AE |
| 09ABUDHABI603 |
UAEG DISAPPOINTED WITH TIP RANKING [...] (C) In giving advance notification of the TIP Report as instructed Ref A, Ambassador was told by Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (and National anti-TIP Committee chair) Dr. Anwar Gargash that the U.S. decision to downgrade the UAE in spite of ongoing and significant efforts to tackle the [...] |
2009-06-15 11:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KCRM KTIP ELAB AE |
| 09ABUDHABI622 |
UAE: STATE DEPARTMENT TIP REPORT "DISAPPOINTING AND [...] (U) Summary: Following release of the TIP report in Washington June 16, the UAEG's official news agency WAM issued a sharply-worded statement condemning the UAE text as "disappointing and distorted." The UAEG accused the report of "changing the goal posts", lacking objectivity in evaluating t [...] |
2009-06-17 14:16:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KCRM KTIP ELAB AE |
| 09ABUDHABI626 |
SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT ON [...] Summary: Media coverage by UAE Arabic and English daily newspapers of the State Department's Trafficking in Persons report generally did not extend beyond reprinting the official Emirates News Agency (WAM) release. The release quoted Dr. Anwar Gargash, Minister of State of Foreign Affairs and [...] |
2009-06-18 14:12:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL AE OIIP KMDR |
| 09ABUDHABI634 |
SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT ON [...] Summary: UAE reaction to the 2009 Trafficking in Persons report was limited to one report and one op-ed piece by a UAE writer. The report, in the Dubai-based English-language daily "Gulf News" 6/21, cited UAE officials in the field of law and welfare describing the report as disappointing and [...] |
2009-06-22 04:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL AE OIIP KMDR |
| 09ABUDHABI871 |
UAE FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS MFA PREPARED TO ENGAGE WITH US ON [...] (C) During a 31 August meeting with UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ), Ambassador pressed the UAE to engage with the US on Trafficking in Persons issues, urging that the issue not be left unaddressed. (NOTE: the UAEG was shocked by the publication of the annual TIP report, and it [...] |
2009-09-01 13:38:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KTIP ELAB AE |
| 09ABUJA1064 |
NIGERIA: 2009 TIP REPORT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel country narrative of the ninth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). NAPTIP's Director of Investigations and Monitoring, Muhammed Babandede, and Executive Secretary, Simon Egede, [...] |
2009-06-15 15:15:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KMWN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG |
| 09ABUJA1399 |
NIGERIA: GTIP HOTLINE DATA [...] (U) The National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic In Persons (NAPTIP) operates eight shelters for victims, each with offices serving administrative and prosecution functions. Each location has a local tip line; calls are toll-free only to Zain subscribers. There is one telephone company [...] |
2009-07-30 17:31:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV NI KTIP XA PHUM |
| 09ABUJA1437 |
NIGERIA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS MEETINGS A MIX OF [...] (U)SUMMARY: G/TIP Ambassador Luis CdeBaca visited Lagos, Benin City and Abuja on a July 5-15 fact-finding tour of Africa to exchange ideas on sombating trafficking in persons. He met with government officials and civil society groups to learn first hand what actions are being taken in Nigeri [...] |
2009-08-05 17:38:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NI KTIP PHUM |
| 09ABUJA1705 |
NIGERIAN PARTICIPANT IN FY-10 MRP "COMBATING [...] (SBU) Per Reftel Request, please find information on Nigeria's IVLP nomination of Ms. Motunrayo Odepidan to participate in subject program. Surname: Odepidan Given Names: Mutunrayo Omobolanle DOB: 04 April 1971 POB: Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria Passport number: A1046360 Date of ppt issue: 29 June [...] |
2009-09-16 05:53:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KTIP KPAO SCUL NI |
| 09ABUJA1768 |
NIGERIAN NUGGETS -- SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 [...] (U) Mission Nigeria provides the following compilation of recent political, economic, and social developments not reported previously. --------------------------------------- DUTCH DELIVER DIGITAL EVIDENCE TRAINING --------------------------------------- 2. (U) Law enforcement and legal [...] |
2009-09-24 18:10:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SENV KTIP KPAO NI |
| 09ABUJA1822 |
NIGERIAN NUGGETS -- OCTOBER 2, 2009 [...] (U) Mission Nigeria provides the following compilation of recent political, economic, and social developments not reported previously. ------------------------------------------- NIGERIA STRIVES FOR FAA CATEGORY ONE RATING ------------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Nigeria cont [...] |
2009-10-02 17:20:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EFIN EMIN PHUM PINR KTIP NI |
| 09ABUJA2059 |
2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR [...] (SBU) The Nigerian Government (GON) has made progress since the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report by continuing strong efforts to prosecute and convict trafficking offenders. Through October 2009, prosecutors obtained 25 convictions, compared with 23 convictions for all of 2008. As of [...] |
2009-11-16 15:42:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KTIP NI |
| 09ABUJA2110 |
NIGERIAN NUGGETS -- NOVEMBER 20, 2009 [...] (U) Mission Nigeria provides the following compilation of recent political, economic, and social developments not previously reported. ----------------------- CORRUPT FORMER GOVERNOR ----------------------- 2. (C) Human rights lawyer and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) p [...] |
2009-11-23 15:08:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KTIP PHUM PINR NI |
| 09ABUJA2145 |
NIGERIA: NOMINATION FOR 2010 WOMEN OF COURAGE [...] U.S. Mission nominates Veronica K. Umaru for the 2010 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. 2. Mrs. Veronica Umaru serves as National Coordinator of the Women Trafficking and Child Labor Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF). Under Mrs. Umaru's leadership, WOTCLEF has undertak [...] |
2009-11-25 17:21:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KWMN KPAO PHUM KTIP PINR NI |
| 09ABUJA290 |
NIGERIA: 9TH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) The following is Mission Nigeria's submission for the 9th Annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Paragraphs respond to questions in reftel. 2. (SBU) THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION: -- A. The main sources of available information are the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffi [...] |
2009-02-17 15:58:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB |
| 09ABUJA326 |
(C) NIGERIA: NAPTIP'S NEW LEADER CAUSES CONCERN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Carol Ndaguba, Executive Secretary of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), was "officially retired" on February 19 and replaced by Simon Egede, a close confidante to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) Michael [...] |
2009-02-23 16:11:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KTIP NI |
| 09ABUJA600 |
NIGERIA'S NON-MILITARY SECURITY CHALLENGES AND [...] (U) The following is U.S. Mission Nigeria's collective response to questions posed in reftel regarding the assessment of law enforcement and judicial training needs of the non-military security apparatus of the Government of Nigeria (GON). Given the poor performance of Nigeria,s top anti-graf [...] |
2009-04-07 16:13:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KCRM SNAR KCOR KTIP KJUS KTFN KIPR |
| 09ABUJA951 |
NIGERIA: UPDATED ASSESSMENT OF ANTI-TIP EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary: In response to a request from G/TIP (ref A), Poloff met with a number of Abuja-based contacts involved in the fight against trafficking in persons (TIP) to get an updated assessment of the GON's progress, discuss the possibility of government complicity in human trafficking, and [...] |
2009-06-02 09:42:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KTIP NI |
| 09ACCRA1122 |
GHANA CONVICTS TRAFFICKER AND ARRESTS OTHERS IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: In two recent cases, Ghanaian law enforcement used undercover operations to arrest human traffickers. A man from the Western Region was sentenced to four years in prison for attempting to sell his eight year old brother, and a woman from the Ashanti Region is being prosecuted for [...] |
2009-10-23 13:12:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP PHUM PGOV XA GH |
| 09ACCRA1327 |
CHILD TRAFFICKING ON LAKE VOLTA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Poloff and Democracy and Human Rights Program Coordinator (DHRC) spent December 1-3 in fishing villages on Lake Volta with the West Africa Regional Director for the NGO Free the Slaves and the Director of the Ghanaian NGO Challenging Heights following children believed to have be [...] |
2009-12-15 16:53:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB KTIP XY GH |
| 09ACCRA182 |
ACCRA 2009 ANNUAL TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Ghana (GoG) continued to make progress during the reporting year toward combating trafficking in persons. The Ghana Police Service (GPS) was involved in several rescues, particularly of children; during July and August of 2008, nearly 200 children were rescu [...] |
2009-03-04 16:23:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG ELAB KTIP KCRM KFRD GH |
| 09ACCRA294 |
GHANA CONVICTS HUMAN TRAFFICKER--AND U.S. JUSTICE [...] (U) Summary. A Ghanaian court has convicted a Nigerian woman for her role in the trafficking of a fourteen year old Togolese female. The conviction is the second under Ghana's 2005 Human Trafficking Act, with at least one other high profile case pending. The head of the Ghana Police Service's [...] |
2009-04-02 15:29:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | GH PHUM PREL KTIP SNAR JUS PGOV |
| 09ACCRA525 |
GOVERNMENT OF GHANA INCREASES RHETORIC ABOUT CHILD [...] (U) The GoG has increased its rhetoric about eliminating child prostitution, and the new Chief Executive of Accra (also called the Mayor) has pledged to demolish Soldier Bar, a brothel known to have employed children, within the next two weeks. He sees the issue as part of overall economic and [...] |
2009-06-05 10:45:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PHUM SOCI KTIP XA XY NI TO IV GH |
| 09ACCRA585 |
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] |
2009-06-22 09:33:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP XA XY GH |
| 09ACCRA692 |
GHANA CONVICTS HUMAN TRAFFICKERS [...] (U) On June 22, the Fast Track High Court in Accra sentenced three Chinese nationals to imprisonment with hard labor for trafficking eight Chinese women to Ghana for prostitution. The court found James Xu Jin guilty of recruiting, transporting, and harboring the women who were forced to engag [...] |
2009-07-21 10:12:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP PHUM XA XY GH |
| 09ACCRA693 |
SOLDIER BAR PARTIALLY DESTROYED [...] (U) Part of Soldier Bar, a brothel in Accra known to have employed child prostitutes was demolished by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on July 1. The brothel was made famous over a year ago following an undercover report by an investigative journalist who shot secret video footage of gir [...] |
2009-07-21 10:14:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP PHUM XA XY GH < |