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| 02ANKARA8696 | GOT MOVES ON TRAFFICKING-IN-PERSONS INITIATIVES [...] (C) Summary. MFA Deputy DirGen for Consular Affairs Topcuoglu told us 11/26 the GOT has established an inter-agency task force to address trafficking-in-persons (TIP) in Turkey. The group's first priority is to establish and adopt the GOT's National Action Plan on TIP. The plan, currently i [...] |
2002-11-27 14:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KWMN KCRM PHUM TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 02HANOI2598 | ORGANIZING THE MASSES: WOMEN AND YOUTH [...] (U) SUMMARY. VIETNAMESE "MASS ORGANIZATIONS" FOR WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ARE INCREASINGLY CHANGING THEIR FOCUS AWAY FROM BEING ONE-WAY COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA TOOLS TO BECOMING MORE DYNAMIC INSTITUTIONS REPRESENTING THE INTERESTS OF UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 025 [...] |
2002-10-28 09:57:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS SOCI VM TIP |
| 02HANOI2845 | SEX AND THE CITY -- HANOI STYLE [...] (U) SUMMARY. THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF VIETNAM (CPV) AND GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM (GVN) ADMIT THAT PROSTITUTION IS A MAJOR PROBLEM FOR THE COUNTRY. DISCOS, KARAOKE BARS, MASSAGE PARLORS, AND OTHER "FUN" LOCATIONS EVEN IN STAID HANOI INCREASINGLY OFFER PROFESSIONAL OR SEMI-PROFESSIONAL [...] |
2002-11-26 09:57:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI PGOV KHIV VM HIV AIDS TIP |
| 02HANOI3018 | VIETNAM: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS LEGAL ENVIRONMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: AT A NATIONAL SEMINAR ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP), GVN AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION PARTICIPANTS CONCLUDED THAT TIP IN VIETNAM AND THE REGION APPEARS ON THE INCREASE, ALTHOUGH LITTLE RELIABLE DATA IS AVAILABLE. SRV LAW GENERALLY CONFORMS TO THE UN PROTOCOL TO PREVENT, SU [...] |
2002-12-19 08:15:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN PREL PREF EAID ELAB SMIG SOCI VM TIP |
| 03ANKARA1396 | TURKEY: ANTI TRAFFICKING-IN-PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) As requested, Post's responses are keyed to questions in ref (A). Embassy point of contact is Christina Boiler, Political section (telephone: 90-312-455-5555; fax: 90-312-468-4775). Boiler (rank: junior officer) spent [...] |
2003-03-05 08:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TIP IN TURKEY |
| 03ANKARA1964 | GOT PROVIDES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR 2003 TIP [...] Action request--para 5. 2. March 24 MFA DDG for Consular Affairs Firat Topcuoglu provided us additional information for 2003 TIP report: (1) GOT TIP National Action Plan (NAP) and (2) GOT responses to TIP-related questions from post (ref B). Both have been sent ref (B). 3. Under th [...] |
2003-03-26 10:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 03ANKARA2574 | TURKEY: REQUESTED ADDITIONAL TIP INFORMATION [...] (C) Per reftels, additional trafficking-in-persons (TIP) information for Turkey is provided below. 2. (C) Below are the answers to ref (A), follow up questions from GOT report: -- Para 4. According to MFA Second Secretary Belgin Ergunes, the programs and activities referred to in thi [...] |
2003-04-21 13:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 03ANKARA4066 | GOT EXPRESSES DETERMINATION ON ANTI-TIP EFFORTS [...] (C) June 23 DCM delivered reftel talking points to Ambassador Umur Apaydin, MFA Director General for Consular Affairs. Apaydin stated GOT would review USG trafficking-in-persons (TIP) recommendations and guide its work as appropriate. Noting strong bilateral cooperation and thorough police i [...] |
2003-06-25 13:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 03ANKARA419 | EMBASSY REQUESTS MEETING FOR GOT CONFERENCE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 2. 2. (C) Action Request. That G/TIP director John Miller meet GOT trafficking-in-persons (TIP) inter-agency task force leader Fatma Firat Topcuoglu, MFA DDG for Consular Affairs, on the margins of Feb 2003 G/TIP-sponsored conference "Pathb [...] |
2003-01-16 14:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KWMN SMIG PHUM TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 03ANKARA4621 | TURKISH GOVERNMENT RELEASES ANTI-TIP CIRCULAR [...] In a significant step to further implementation of Turkish laws and policy combating trafficking in persons, the Interior Ministry (MOI) recently issued a circular to all governors and senior security officials -- including the Jandarma -- calling for tougher implementation of existing regulat [...] |
2003-07-23 08:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 03ANKARA5159 | GOT ACTIONS SINCE MARCH TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN [...] Summary: Emboffs met August 12-13 with MFA officials and contacted the director of the Ankara office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to discuss actions taken by the GOT to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) subsequent to March 30, the end of the period covered in the 200 [...] |
2003-08-13 14:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 03HANOI1555 | GVN Complains TIP Report Shorts Its Efforts [...] (U) Assistant Foreign Minister Nguyen Duc Hung complained to DCM during a June 20 meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) that Vietnam's placement on Tier II and in particular the evaluation of Vietnam's law enforcement efforts against Trafficking in Persons do not "truly reflect re [...] |
2003-06-20 09:27:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KWMN PGOV SOCI VM TIP |
| 03HANOI1671 | An Giang: TIP Problem Depends on Point of View [...] (U) Summary: An Giang local government and mass organization officials do not agree on the seriousness of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) in their province. Women's Union and the Department of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs (DOLISA) officials portray a fairly serious problem while loc [...] |
2003-07-02 07:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KWMN SNAR PGOV SOCI VM CNARC TIP |
| 03HANOI1797 | NEW EFFORTS TO COMBAT PROSTITUTION IN VIETNAM [...] (U) Summary. A new ordinance should strengthen efforts aimed at combating prostitution in Vietnam and its related effects. The most striking point of the new ordinance is its inclusion of purchasers of sex, specifically focusing on government officials, thus expanding prohibited acts to inc [...] |
2003-07-15 07:31:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN PGOV SOCI VM TIP |
| 03HANOI2323 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS IN VIETNAM [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 5. 2. (U) Summary: A large interagency conference chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem in Ho Chi Minh City September 9 articulated the GVN's intended next steps in a coordinated antitrafficking policy. The Deputy Prime Minister recomme [...] |
2003-09-15 00:10:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KCRM VM CH TW CA OMIG TIP |
| 03HANOI3232 | VIETNAM TIP: THE TAIWAN MARRIAGE PHENOMENON [...] Summary: Taiwan has become the export destination of choice for Vietnamese brides. 73,000 women - 95 percent of Vietnamese marrying foreigners - have married Taiwanese men since the phenomenon began to take off in 1995. Demand is growing, driven by (1) the desire of lower-middle class Taiwa [...] |
2003-12-15 02:03:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KCRM VM TW OMIG TIP |
| 03HANOI3288 | VIETNAM MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY ON TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior members of the General Criminal Division of the Ministry of Public Security described their frustration with current laws preventing them from engaging in closer cooperation with U.S. and other foreign law enforcement agencies, and described the trafficking in persons sit [...] |
2003-12-19 08:46:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KWMN KCRM VM CH TW CA OMIG TIP CNARC |
| 03HANOI388 | VIETNAM: USG HUMAN RIGHTS STRATEGY [...] (U) Ambassador and other Embassy and Consulate General officers demarched and spoke with GVN authorities at the national, provincial, and local levels numerous times throughout the year on various human rights issues including religious freedom as well as the status of persons of concern det [...] |
2003-02-19 03:09:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM KSEP XG VM HUMANR ETMIN TIP |
| 03HANOI527 | VIETNAM - ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (U) As instructed ref A, post provides input for the 2003 Anti-trafficking in Persons report. The point of contact in Vietnam is Tim Swanson, tel. 84-4-772-1500 and fax 84-4-772-2614. Post estimates that collecting information for and drafting the report required 48 hours, including 8 hours [...] |
2003-03-06 08:00:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB VM TIP LABOR |
| 03HANOI669 | VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA: LOOKING FORWARD [...] (U) SUMMARY. Vietnam and Cambodia have a complex relationship with a volatile history, but both sides now appear to focus on the future. Cross border smuggling of drugs and other goods as well as human trafficking have emerged as significant problems. Vietnam reportedly does not view the [...] |
2003-03-19 02:49:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR SOCI PHUM ETRD ECON EAID CB VM ETMIN CNARC ASEAN TIP |
| 03HARARE444 | ZIMBABWE - TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2002 - [...] (SBU) Overview of Zimbabwe's Activities to Eliminate Trafficking in Persons: --------------------------------------------- -- A. There continued to be infrequent anecdotal reports that Zimbabwe was a country of origin and transit for internationally trafficked persons, particularly women an [...] |
2003-03-03 10:42:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB ASEC ZI TIP |
| 03HOCHIMINHCITY1233 | FACE TO FACE WITH SMUGGLERS AND OFFICIALS ALONG THE [...] An Econ trip to the town of Chau Doc and the border area of An Giang Province revealed energetic levels of small time smuggling that is largely tolerated by local authorities. That fat man on the motorcycle may simply have his clothing stuffed full of cartons of cigarettes, locals say, but th [...] |
2003-12-15 11:00:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | VM ECON CB ETRD PREL SMIG SNAR SOCI CNARC TIP |
| 04ANKARA127 | CHARGE DISCUSSES ANTI-TIP EFFORTS WITH MFA [...] (U) Summary: Charge and Poloff met January 6 with MFA Deputy U/S Ertay and MFA Deputy DG Topcuoglu to discuss GOT efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) and the upcoming State Department TIP Report. Topcuoglu said neither the GOT nor its NGO partner have been able to secure funding to [...] |
2004-01-08 15:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL ELAB KCRM KWMN KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA1595 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: PROGRESS IN TURKEY [...] (U) SUMMARY: G/TIP officer and Emboff met with government and non-government organizations in Ankara and Trabzon February 23-24 to explore Turkey's progress in combating trafficking in persons (TIP). An MFA official anti-TIP noted progress in training programs, provision of humanitarian visa [...] |
2004-03-17 13:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA2007 | MFA MAKES CASE FOR ANTI-TIP EFFORTS [...] (SBU) In separate April 5 discussions with Turkish MP Egemen Bagis and MFA Director General of Consular Affairs Murat Ersavci, the Ambassador raised concerns about the GOT's silence on specific anti-trafficking efforts. The Ambassador engaged Bagis and Ersavci on repeated requests for inform [...] |
2004-04-06 15:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA2076 | Trafficking in Persons: HRDF Reports Recent [...] To establish a network among non-governmental organizations in Turkey and regional countries affected by human trafficking; 2. To provide training for government officers to refresh and consolidate on the recent amendments of Turkish Penal Code an [...] |
2004-04-09 14:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA2138 | Trafficking in Persons: IOM Reports Recent [...] (U) SUMMARY: In April 9 discussions with Emboff, IOM Chief of Mission Regina Boucault cited 1) ongoing anti-TIP training for Turkish law enforcement officials, and 2) implementation of a victim referral agreement between the Ministry of Interior and Turkey's leading TIP NGO as continuing evide [...] |
2004-04-13 13:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA2152 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: MFA REPORTS ONGOING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an April 13 meeting with MFA Deputy Director General for Consular Affairs Haldun Otman, visiting USDOJ Civil Rights Division Chief Al Moskowitz discussed USG efforts to combat trafficking in the United States, noting success in USG methods for 1) identifying victims, 2) disti [...] |
2004-04-14 13:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA2198 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about anti-TIP public information campaigns, post provides as examples the following TIP press reports published in daily newspapers and circulated nationwide. Text of the articles (originally published in Turkish) is provided through unofficial local FSN tr [...] |
2004-04-16 14:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA3048 | TIP: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, MAY 2004 [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about GOT anti-TIP public information, post provides as examples the following TIP press reports published in national and international news media. Text of the articles (originally published in Turkish unless otherwise noted) is provided through unofficial [...] |
2004-06-02 15:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA3427 | TIP DEMARCHE DELIVERED, TURKISH MFA AVERS DEEP [...] (C) June 14 Polcounselor delivered reftel points, TIP backgrounder and Turkey TIP Narrative to MFA DDG for Consular Affairs Haldun Otman. DDG Otman averred deep disappointment in Turkey's designation. TIP officer reviewed reasons for Turkey's Tier 2 Watch List ranking, noting that much of Tu [...] |
2004-06-16 13:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA3673 | TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, JUNE 1-15, 2004 [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about Turkey- specific anti-TIP public information, post provides as examples the following TIP press clips. Text of any articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation, unless otherwise noted. 2 [...] |
2004-06-29 15:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA3675 | TIP IN TURKEY: JOINT OPERATION RESULTS IN ARRESTS, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkish National Police (TNP) officials confirmed press reports (reftel) that a joint anti-TIP Turkish-Romanian Police operation (Mirage 2004) netted an international trafficking ring and freed seven Romanian TIP victims ages 17 to 20. TNP Foreigners, Borders and Asylum Department [...] |
2004-06-29 15:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA4141 | TIP IN TURKEY: UPDATED MFA COUNTRY REPORT ON HUMAN [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about anti-TIP public information campaigns, post provides the following Human Smuggling Country Report produced by the Turkish MFA's National Task Force on Human Trafficking. The Report is available on-line at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website: http:/ [...] |
2004-07-28 07:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA4147 | TIP IN TURKEY: UPDATED MFA COUNTRY REPORT ON [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about anti-TIP public information campaigns, post provides the following TIP Country Report produced by the Turkish MFA's National Task Force on Human Trafficking. The Report is available on-line at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website: http://www.mfa.gov [...] |
2004-07-28 09:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA4148 | TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, JULY 1-15, 2004 [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about anti-TIP public information campaigns, post provides as examples the following TIP press reports published in daily newspapers and circulated nationwide. Text of the articles (originally published in Turkish) is provided through unofficial [...] |
2004-07-28 09:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA42 | 1/6/04 TIP REPORT [...] (U) The following are recent developments related to trafficking in persons (TIP) in Turkey: ----------------- IOM Pilot Program ----------------- 2. (U) The Ankara office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has drafted a proposal for a USD 1.2 million pilot projec [...] |
2004-01-06 09:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM KWMN PHUM KFRD PREF PREL PGOV TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA4317 | TIP IN TURKEY: GOT APPROACHES EGYPTIAN EMBASSY FOR [...] (C) In a July 27 meeting with Emboff, Embassy of Egypt Second Secretary Ahmed El Sayed confirmed Turkish anti-TIP officials approached Egyptian Ambassador Ahamad Fathallah to propose a formal law enforcement and intelligence cooperation agreement between security officials from both government [...] |
2004-08-03 14:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EG KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA4416 | TIP IN TURKEY: IOM REPORTS ON TIP VICTIM [...] (U) In an August 5 meeting with Emboff, International Organization on Migration (IOM) Interim Country Director Meltem Ersoy asserted that an increase in TIP victim referrals from the GOT to IOM is a direct result of 1) a series of IOM-funded law enforcement training sessions that focus police [...] |
2004-08-06 11:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA4448 | TIP IN TURKEY: POLICE GUIDEBOOK ON TIP [...] (U) In an August 5 meeting at the Turkish Security Directorate, Foreigners Department Assistant Director Murat Oz provided para 2 text of the Turkish Security Directorate's anti-TIP guidebook. Oz told Emboff that the guidebook was published by the Security Directorate and dis [...] |
2004-08-09 13:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA4502 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH-AUSTRALIAN ANTI-TRAFFICKING [...] (C) SUMMARY. In November 2003, an Australian Coast Guard patrol intercepted an Indonesian smuggling vessel carrying 14 Turkish citizens. By July 2004, Australian Federal Police (AFP) agents had traced the human smuggling network organizers to Turkey, where smugglers and witnesses were engage [...] |
2004-08-11 08:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KVPR PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG TU AU PINR TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA4503 | TIP IN TURKEY: AUSTRALIAN INVESTIGATION REPORT I [...] (C) The following confidential investigation report compiled by Australian Federal Police agent Shawn Selles includes names and contact information for suspected human smugglers described in reftel. TURKISH-BASED PEOPLE SMUGGLING NETWORK OPERATING TO AUSTRALIA AND OTHER COUNTRIES Backgrou [...] |
2004-08-11 08:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KVPR PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG TU AU PINR TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA4504 | TIP IN TURKEY: AUSTRALIAN INVESTIGATION REPORT II [...] (C) The following confidential investigation report compiled by Australian Federal Police (AFP) agent Shawn Selles includes names and contact information for suspected human smugglers described in reftel. TURKISH-BASED PEOPLE SMUGGLING NETWORK OPERATING TO AUSTRALIA AND OTHER COUNTRIES Sc [...] |
2004-08-11 09:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KVPR PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG TU AU PINR TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA4544 | TIP IN TURKEY: VISITING ARMENIAN DELEGATION TRIES [...] Summary: Visiting Armenian TIP-NGO Hope and Help and IOM Armenia Program Officer have briefed us on meetings with reps from Turkish NGOs, Armenian religious and media organizations, and Georgia's diplomatic mission in Turkey. Hope and Help rep described her meetings as "the first steps" in est [...] |
2004-08-12 14:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU AM TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA4580 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, AUGUST 1- [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about anti-TIP public information campaigns, post provides as examples the following TIP press reports. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published August 15, 2004 by the Internat [...] |
2004-08-16 08:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA4808 | TIP IN TURKEY: ANTI-TIP NGO HRDF BOARD CHAIRMAN [...] (U) SUMMARY. In August meetings with Emboff, Human Resources Development Foundation (HRDF) Board Chairman Turgut Tokus outlined past and present progress to bring HRDF's TIP victims shelter on-line. He characterized support from the GOT, particularly the MOI and the MFA, as excellent and than [...] |
2004-08-25 08:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA5002 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, AUGUST 15- [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about anti-TIP public information campaigns, post provides as examples the following TIP press reports. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published August 26, 2004 by Minsk Belaru [...] |
2004-09-03 15:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA5205 | TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, SEPTEMBER 1-15, [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about anti-TIP public information campaigns, post provides as examples the following TIP press reports. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published September 10, 2004 by Turkish l [...] |
2004-09-15 09:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA5708 | TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, SEPTEMBER 15-30, [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about anti-TIP public information campaigns, post provides as examples the following TIP press reports. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published September 27, 200 [...] |
2004-10-05 12:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA5750 | TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, September 2004 [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about anti-TIP public information campaigns, post provides as examples the following TIP press reports. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published September 28, 2004 by the Anato [...] |
2004-10-07 10:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA5751 | TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, OCTOBER 1-7, 2004 [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-07 10:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | IN KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF PREL SMIG TIP TU |
| 04ANKARA5789 | TIP IN TURKEY: NEW PENAL CODE REVISIONS STIFFEN [...] (U) On October 11, 2004, Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer signed into law revisions to the Turkish Penal Code (TPC) which, among other measures, prescribe harsher penalties for human trafficking. Penalties range from eight to twelve years of imprisonment (up from five to ten years in ear [...] |
2004-10-12 14:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA5860 | TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, OCTOBER 7-14, 2004 [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries about anti-TIP public information campaigns, post provides as examples the following TIP press reports. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published October 14, 2004 by the Anatoli [...] |
2004-10-15 12:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA5968 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH AMBASSADOR TO MOLDOVA [...] SUMMARY. Turkish Ambassador to Moldova Fatma Topcuoglu delivered the following speech at a 2-day conference on human trafficking in Chisinau, Moldova. END SUMMARY. 2. BEGIN TRANSCRIPT OF PREPARED REMARKS: SPEECH DELIVERED BY H.E. FATMA FIRAT TOPCUOGLU AMBASSADOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKE [...] |
2004-10-20 15:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA6072 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: MFA REPORTS ONGOING EFFORTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: In response to G/TIP inquires about anti-TIP public information campaigns, post provides the following October 2004 TIP Country Report produced by the Turkish MFA's National Task Force on Human Trafficking. The Report will be published on-line at the MFA website at http://www.mf [...] |
2004-10-26 14:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA6150 | TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, OCTOBER 14-31, 2004 [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published October 31, 2004 by [...] |
2004-11-01 13:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA6309 | TIP IN TURKEY: ISTANBUL SHELTER REPORTS SUCCESS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Anti-TIP NGOs International Office for Migration (IOM) and Human Resources Development Foundation (HRDF) reported the first successful repatriation this week of 3 Ukrainian trafficking victims through the Istanbul Human Trafficking Shelter. The event simultaneously highlighted m [...] |
2004-11-08 15:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA6366 | TIP IN TURKEY: INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR SPECIAL [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-10 14:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA6393 | TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, NOVEMBER 1-10, 2004 [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published November 10, 2004 by the Jerusalem [...] |
2004-11-10 16:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA6686 | TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, NOVEMBER 10-30, [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published November 30, 2004 by the Interna [...] |
2004-12-02 13:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA6688 | TIP IN TURKEY: REPORT FROM CLOSED TIP TASK FORCE [...] (S) SUMMARY: NGO participants provided to Emboff accounts of a closed TIP Task Force meeting that highlighted the GOT's internal and sometimes contentious struggle to organize Turkey's government and non-government anti-TIP efforts. The Task Force meeting, the second this calendar year, repor [...] |
2004-12-02 13:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA6690 | TIP IN TURKEY: TGNA PASSES, PRESIDENT APPROVES IOM [...] (U) Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA) Foreign Affairs Committee Advisor Osman Ulukan confirmed press reports that the TGNA, on November 25, 2004, unanimously approved legislation appropriating the 154,000 Swiss Franc equivalent fee for Turkey's membership in the International Office on Mi [...] |
2004-12-02 13:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA6691 | TIP IN TURKEY: EMERGENCY HOTLINE OPERATIONAL [...] (U) On December 2, 2004, Turk Telekom connected Turkey's first toll-free hotline (90-0800-211-6065) for victims of human trafficking. Human Resources Development Foundation (HRDF) staff will initially field calls from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., Monday through Friday until Russian- and Turkish-la [...] |
2004-12-02 13:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA6692 | TIP IN TURKEY: SHELTERED VICTIM LEADS POLICE TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: Characterizing the events that led to the arrest of at least one human trafficking network member in Corum, Turkey as a "real success story for the shelter," Human Resources Development Foundation (HRDF) Executive Director Demet Gural told Emboff that an Azeri victim resident at t [...] |
2004-12-02 13:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA6801 | TIP IN TURKEY: JANDARMA REQUESTS TECH ASSISTANCE, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A November 23-27 International Office on Migration (IOM) TIP workshop in Adana, Turkey highlighted the Jandarma's struggling but developing ground-level ability to investigate and prosecute trafficking crimes. According to IOM trainers (para 4) and TIP-NGO victim counselors (re [...] |
2004-12-07 13:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA6843 | TIP IN TURKEY: VICTIMS' STORIES [...] (U) SUMMARY: International Organization on Migration (IOM) Chief of Mission Marielle Lindstrom provided para 4 report on a Russian citizen victim admitted to the Istanbul TIP shelter November 13. The victim's story largely repeats other accounts we have heard about typical trafficking schemes [...] |
2004-12-09 15:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA6865 | TIP: GOT PUSHING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT PROTOCOLS [...] (U) During a visit to Ankara led by US Embassy Chisinau in November (septel), a Moldovan anti-TIP government delegation heard high-handed criticism from Turkish interlocutors about Moldova's failure to respond to a GOT-proposed anti-TIP protocol (para 3). The draft protocol, according to MFA D [...] |
2004-12-10 13:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA6938 | TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, DECEMBER 1-14, 2004 [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published December 12, 2004 by [...] |
2004-12-14 15:00:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04ANKARA7103 | TIP IN TURKEY: IOM REPORTS ON GOT PROGRESS [...] (C) Summary: IOM has passed us a summary of its anti-TIP actions and plans for cooperating further with GOT authorities. End Summary. 2. (C) International Office for Migration (IOM) Chief of Mission Marielle Lindstrom passed Emboff the following summary of TIP current events: BEGIN NOTES [...] |
2004-12-21 15:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 04BRASILIA1000 | BRAZIL'S INDIANS - PART III: LAND DISPUTES AND [...] (U) This is Part III of a three-part series about Indians in Brazil. This cable discusses current land disputes. Part I (ref B) provided an overview and Part II (ref C) discussed concerns of indigenous leaders. 2. (U) Summary. The government of Brazil is facing unhappiness among indigeno [...] |
2004-04-27 19:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON BR TIP |
| 04BRASILIA1849 | RACE, RURAL POVERTY, AND LAND REFORM - BRAZIL'S [...] SUMMARY. As it struggles to find resources to implement programs from agrarian land reform to Zero Hunger, the government of Brazil faces another challenge to its busy social agenda in bringing Brazil's quilombos (communities originally founded by fugitive slaves) into the modern world. The t [...] |
2004-07-26 20:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL SOCI BR TIP |
| 04BRASILIA755 | BRAZIL POSITIONS ON CUBA, CHINA, AND OTHER CHR [...] (C) Summary: According to the head of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry's Human Rights Division, Brazil will abstain on any Cuba or China resolutions and on a Chinese "no-action" motion. (Note: Ambassador will raise the Cuba and China resolutions at a more senior level again March 29. End note [...] |
2004-03-29 21:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CH CU PREL BR UNHRC TIP |
| 04BRASILIA985 | BRAZIL'S INDIANS - PART II: INDIAN CONCERNS [...] (U) This is Part II of a three-part series about Indians in Brazil. This cable reviews the concerns of indigenous leaders. Part I provides an overview and Part III discusses ongoing land disputes. 2. (C) Summary. During the 2002 presidential campaign Lula spoke about Indian rights and pro [...] |
2004-04-26 16:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON BR TIP |
| 04HANOI1010 | LABOR EXPORT SITUATION AND VIETNAM'S TIER [...] (U) Summary and action request: Embassy has reviewed the suggested language in the Trafficking in Persons report and would like to clarify some issues that appear to have led G/TIP to recommend a "watch list" designation for Vietnam. The GVN is engaged in monitoring and investigation of work c [...] |
2004-04-13 08:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN KCRM ELAB VM OMIG LABOR TIP |
| 04HANOI1074 | DAEWOOSA CASE NOT APPROPRIATE FOR 2004 TIP REPORT [...] (U) Summary: The GVN cracked down hard on the Vietnamese labor companies involved in the Daewoosa case, including jail terms for some executives, who publicly acknowledged their wrongdoing. Since that response to illegal trafficking-related activity in Vietnam, the GVN has reformed its labor [...] |
2004-04-14 10:39:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN KCRM ELAB VM OMIG LABOR TIP |
| 04HANOI1188 | PROTECTION OF TRAFFICKING VICTIMS IN VIETNAM [...] (U) Summary: In Ho Chi Minh City, various sectors of society - including the city government, Communist Party mass organizations, NGOs, and even local churches - are working together to protect victims and women identified as particularly vulnerable to trafficking. A visit to the central prov [...] |
2004-04-26 10:21:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN KCRM ELAB VM OMIG LABOR TIP |
| 04HANOI1190 | LAWSUIT AGAINST DAEWOOSA TRAFFICKING VICTIMS [...] (U) Ref A contained documents originally provided by G/TIP allegedly supporting the assertion that the GVN sued victims in the Daewoosa trafficking case to recover the back wages they were paid in the U.S. as part of the court settlement. It also described G/TIP's position that this lawsuit w [...] |
2004-04-27 02:10:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN KCRM ELAB VM OMIG TIP LABOR |
| 04HANOI1724 | RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN VIETNAM'S TIP EFFORTS [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam continues to take more direct steps to combat trafficking in persons (TIP), in part with assistance from the international community. New and ongoing strategies include: the creation of anti-trafficking police units in local provinces; a large-scale media and education c [...] |
2004-06-17 09:48:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN KCRM ELAB VM OMIG TIP |
| 04HANOI2107 | ENCOURAGING TIP PROGRESS IN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: To provoke the changes necessary to graduate Vietnam off the TIP Watch List, the USG should encourage greater protection of workers while staying out of the sensitive debate over the character and desirability of the labor export sector in Vietnam. We should push hard on areas [...] |
2004-07-29 09:06:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN KCRM ELAB VM OMIG LABOR TIP |
| 04HANOI2404 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY LEADER REACTS TO TIP REPORT [...] Summary. On July 28, Madame Ton Nu Thi Ninh, Vice Chairwoman of the External Relations Committee of the National Assembly (NA), made an unannounced appearance at the USAID-funded Development Alternative Initiative (DAI) meeting in Hanoi. Madame Ninh expressed the GVN's support for anti-traff [...] |
2004-08-31 06:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN KCRM ELAB VM OMIG TIP ASEAN |
| 04HANOI2499 | TIP IN VIETNAM: DISTRACTION FROM THE REAL ISSUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs (MOLISA) used a recent meeting with Emboffs and a visiting G/TIP officer to complain about the decision to resurrect a five year-old labor trafficking case in the 2004 TIP report. MOLISA challenged some of the fact [...] |
2004-09-13 09:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN KCRM ELAB VM OMIG TIP LABOR |
| 04HANOI2507 | UNICEF AND MPS REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN VIETNAM [...] (U) Summary: The Ministry of Public Security, working in cooperation with Cooperazione Italiana and UNICEF, released the government's first comprehensive statistical report on trafficking in Vietnam. At the same time, the GVN and other agencies in Vietnam agree that "official" trafficking st [...] |
2004-09-13 22:39:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN KCRM ELAB VM OMIG TIP |
| 04HANOI2888 | VIETNAM: AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON MOLISA MINISTER HANG [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 21 meeting with the Ambassador, Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) Madame Nguyen Thi Hang expressed hope that the Department of Labor would continue and expand its projects in Vietnam and gratitude for the selection of Vietnam as a President [...] |
2004-10-25 10:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EAID ECON VM HIV AIDS LABOR TIP |
| 04HANOI291 | SUPPORTING DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: VIETNAM [...] No summary [...] |
2004-02-03 06:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM VM ETMIN HUMANR LABOR RELFREE TIP |
| 04HANOI2921 | VIETNAM ISSUES NATIONAL PLAN OF ACTION ON TIP [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam has come up with the long-awaited national action plan on trafficking in persons. The plan focuses on the 2004-2010 period and addresses the major elements of prevention, prosecution and protection. It identifies the deficiencies in the current approach and the challenge [...] |
2004-10-29 01:23:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG VM OMIG TIP |
| 04HANOI3071 | VIETNAM: INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT [...] (U) This is the Vietnam mission's interim assessment of Vietnam's anti-Trafficking in Persons performance according to the three questions posed in reftel A. QUESTION A: PROSECUTION OF TRAFFICKERS -------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) The Procuracy's new statistics office only [...] |
2004-11-15 03:55:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN KCRM ELAB VM OMIG LABOR TIP |
| 04HANOI330 | TIP IN VIETNAM: VISIT OF G/TIP PROGRAM OFFICER [...] Summary: G/TIP Foreign Affairs Officer Gregory Holliday's meetings in Vietnam were productive and reflected the hard work and effort Vietnam is putting into the fight against trafficking in persons. He heard about the GVN's increasing attention to trafficking and about recent changes to how [...] |
2004-02-06 09:55:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KCRM ELAB CB CH MY RP VM OMIG TIP LABOR |
| 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 |
| 04HANOI447 | ADMIRAL FARGO FOCUSES ON AREAS OF CONTINUED AND [...] SUMMARY. COMMANDER, UNITED STATES PACIFIC COMMAND (PACOM) WAS HOSTED BY THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE (MOD) FROM 08-11 FEBRUARY 2004. SENIOR MOD OFFICIALS CHARACTERIZED THE ADMIRAL'S VISIT AS "VERY SUCCESSFUL." IT WAS MARKED BY LESS CAUTION AND MORE WILLINGNESS TO COOPERATE THAN HAS BEEN EXPERIENC [...] |
2004-02-18 08:11:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MASS PTER SNAR KHDP KPOW KWMN KCRM VM ASEAN CTERR CNARC TIP |
| 04HANOI652 | INPUT FOR 2004 TIP REPORT - VIETNAM [...] Mission Vietnam's response to the TIP questions in reftel A follows, following the requested checklist format. 2. OVERVIEW OF VIETNAM'S ACTIVITIES TO ELIMINATE TIP A. Characterization of trafficking in Vietnam: Vietnam is a country of origin for trafficked, women, and children, but the [...] |
2004-03-04 03:51:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF CH TW CA VM OMIG TIP |
| 04HANOI786 | NEXT STEPS ON TIP IN VIETNAM: LEGAL REFORM [...] Summary: The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has the outline of a plan of action to reform TIP legislation in conformity with UN standards and to deal with the problem more effectively. The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) is on board but has some concerns about implementation. The plan is a dir [...] |
2004-03-18 09:58:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN KCRM ELAB VM OMIG TIP |
| 04HARARE1878 | INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR SPECIAL WATCHLIST [...] (SBU) The GOZ is collaborating with Interpol's Subregional Bureau for Southern Africa on a Regional Working Meeting on Trafficking in Human Beings scheduled to take place in Harare November 29-30. Sources at the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) indicated that they would share with us material o [...] |
2004-11-15 15:49:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN PHUM PREL ZI TIP |
| 04HARARE1970 | HARARE UPDATE ON INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR SPECIAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: The GOZ and Interpol's Subregional Bureau for Southern Africa jointly held a Regional Working Meeting on Trafficking in Human Beings in Harare on November 29-30. The Embassy sent observers to the meeting, at which officials articulated GOZ interest in developing anti-TIP legislat [...] |
2004-12-06 12:23:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN ZI TIP |
| 04HARARE356 | ZIMBABWE - TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2003 - [...] Overview of Zimbabwe's Activities to Eliminate Trafficking in Persons: --------------------------------------- A. There continued to be infrequent anecdotal reports that Zimbabwe was a country of origin and transit for internationally trafficked persons, particularly women and children. [...] |
2004-02-27 08:12:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB PGOV PINR ZI TIP |
| 04HARARE691 | TIP AND OUR AGENDA IN ZIMBABWE [...] (SBU) As the TIP process progresses to conclusion, I wanted to register my serious concern over Zimbabwe's proposed inclusion on Tier 3. As you know, the GOZ's comprehensive maladministration has precipitated ongoing political and economic crises that are exacting a tragic toll on the popula [...] |
2004-04-22 15:09:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN KFRD PREL SMIG KPAO ZI TIP |
| 04HOCHIMINHCITY196 | TRAFFICKING RETURNEES IN AN GIANG UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. An Giang province's program to help trafficking returnees resettle has met with mixed success, according to provincial officials. The NGO-supported project, working in conjunction with the provincial Women's Union and the Ho Chi Minh City-based Little Rose Shelter, has so far [...] |
2004-02-26 13:02:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN SOCI PGOV SMIG VM TIP |
| 04SAOPAULO1745 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: VISIT OF AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Begin Summary: Special Ambassador John Miller visited Brazil November 29-December 3 to survey Brazilian efforts to combat trafficking in persons. Ambassador Miller found that Brazilian efforts to educate and raise awareness have been outstanding in many areas, but more needs to be done ( [...] |
2004-12-17 17:59:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | BR ELAB PGOV PHUM PREL TIP |
| 04SAOPAULO843 | RACE RELATIONS IN BRAZIL: THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION [...] (U) Affirmative action measures aimed at improving the socioeconomic situation of Afro-Brazilians are fundamental to the "Movimento Negro," or Black Movement. Though affirmative action remains controversial, even among Afro- Brazilians, the controversy itself is drawing public attention to t [...] |
2004-06-04 19:20:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EINV SOCI BR TIP |
| 04WELLINGTON563 | NEW ZEALAND TIP REPORT: LESSONS LEARNED [...] (SBU/NF) Following the turbulent June 14 release of the 2004 TIP report, which named New Zealand for the first time (ref a), Embassy Wellington would like to add its strong support to the recommendations contained in Embassy Singapore's recent excellent cable (ref b). While the GNZ is hyperse [...] |
2004-07-02 05:41:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN PHUM PREL ELAB AMGT NZ TIP |
| 05ANKARA1097 | TURKEY: FIFTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT UPDATE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A, supplementing responses submitted previously in Reftels B, C, D, and E. Embassy point of contact is Maria Lane. Lane (rank: FS-05) spent approximately 20 hours in prepara [...] |
2005-03-02 07:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA1472 | TIP IN TURKEY: MFA ALLOCATES "157" HOTLINE NUMBER [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news article about TIP in Turkey. 2. (U) Published Thursday, March 10 by the semi-official Anatolian News Agency; http://www.anadoluajansi.com.tr/: TITLE: Foreign Ministry Allocate [...] |
2005-03-15 14:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA1552 | CARLIN TALKS TIP TACTICS WITH JUDICIAL OFFICIALS; [...] (U) IIP Speaker Barbara Carlin, Resident Legal Attache in Skopje, Macedonia, brought her expertise on prosecution of human trafficking cases to Turkey to support a Ministry of Justice conference for 50 judges and prosecutors on February 9. The conference, organized by the International Orga [...] |
2005-03-17 15:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG TU OIIP TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA1776 | TIP in Turkey: Developments in regional law [...] (U) Summary: Turkey's Mobile Training Team is training law enforcement authorities in the Balkans, Caucasus, and Central Asia on measures to counter human smuggling and trafficking in persons. The foreign ministers of Turkey and Georgia recently signed a protocol on cooperation in anti- traff [...] |
2005-03-28 16:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA1777 | TIP IN TURKEY: Interior Ministry reports details on [...] (U) During a March 3 meeting with Mehmet Terzioglu, the Interior Ministry's Head of the Department for Foreigners, Borders, and Asylum, we requested information on the following trafficking in persons cases appearing recently in the Turkish media. The response received is provided b [...] |
2005-03-28 16:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA1878 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, Feb 16-28, [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published Sunday, February 27 by Cumhuriyet [...] |
2005-04-01 12:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA2094 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, March 1-15, [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published in the weekly journal Temp [...] |
2005-04-12 13:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA2192 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, March 16- [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published on Monday, March 21 by Mil [...] |
2005-04-18 14:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA2242 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, April 1-15, [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published on Friday, April 1 by Hurr [...] |
2005-04-20 10:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA2491 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, April 15- [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published on Wednesday, April 20 in [...] |
2005-05-02 14:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA2782 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, May 1-15, [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published in Hurriyet on Tuesday, Ma [...] |
2005-05-16 14:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA3055 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, May 15-31, [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published in Radikal on Monday, May [...] |
2005-06-01 07:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA3178 | TURKEY ON 2005 TIP REPORT [...] We met with MFA's 2nd Secretary Ozlem Kural to deliver reftel demarche on June 3. Ms. Kural has newly taken up her position. She opined that the Tier 2 placement is "good" since, in her view, the GOT has worked hard on this issue in the past year. She mentioned that the GOT and the Governme [...] |
2005-06-07 13:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA3186 | GOT AND IOM LAUNCH INTERNATIONAL TRAFFICKING [...] Summary: The IOM and the GOT, with funding from the U.S., launched a first major multi-country prevention campaign to combat human trafficking across Turkey, Ukraine and Moldova. The campaign includes a toll-free "157" helpline, multi-national multi-media advertising, and passport inserts. [...] |
2005-06-08 04:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA331 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, JAN 1-15, [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published January 14 by Iran Mania News (FBI [...] |
2005-01-19 08:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA3490 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, June 1-15, [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by The Messenger, Georgia's Englis [...] |
2005-06-20 06:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA3833 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, June 16-30, [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by Hurriyet on Saturday, June 18: [...] |
2005-07-01 13:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA4117 | TIP IN TURKEY: REACTIONS TO NEW YORK TIMES [...] (U) SUMMARY. Craig Smith's June 27 New York Times article on Slavic women working in Turkey's growing sex trade has received mixed reaction in Turkey. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) On June 28 Hurriyet columnist, Kanal D News Director and news magazine host Fatih Altayli wrote that he had reported [...] |
2005-07-15 13:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA4149 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, July 1-15, [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by Sabah on Friday, July 1: [...] |
2005-07-18 10:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA4618 | DELIVERANCE OF TIP STRATEGY FOR TURKEY [...] We met August 2 with MFA Asylum and Migration deputy directorate officer Ozlem Kural to deliver the reftel Trafficking in Persons Strategy for Turkey. Kural welcomed the strategies and assured us that Turkey was working diligently on the trafficking issue. MCELDOWNEY [...] |
2005-08-08 10:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA4621 | TURKEY'S 157 TIP HELPLINE: IT SAVES LIVES [...] Summary: The USG's financing of a trafficking prevention campaign, put into effect by the International Office for Migration (IOM) working closely with the GOT, has demonstrated outstanding results from reclaimed lives to governmental cooperation. Twenty-four victims of trafficking have bee [...] |
2005-08-08 10:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA4794 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, July 31- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by Vatan on Sunday, July 31: [...] |
2005-08-16 08:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA5140 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, August 16- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by Tempo Magazine in its August 1 [...] |
2005-09-02 13:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA589 | TURKEY: FIFTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: PROTECTION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 4 of 4 (septel). Protection and Assistance to Victims ------------------------------------ A. (U) The GOT issued 26 humanitarian visas to allow victims [...] |
2005-02-02 11:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA590 | TURKEY: FIFTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: PREVENTION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 3 of 4 (septel). Prevention ---------- A. (SBU) Turkish MFA Illegal Migration Department Head Iskender Okyay stated that the two hundred sixty-two TIP [...] |
2005-02-02 11:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA591 | TURKEY: FIFTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: OVERVIEW [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 1 of 4 (septel). Embassy point of contact is Maria Lane, who replaces David McFarland following the submission of this report. McFarland (rank: FS-04) spent [...] |
2005-02-02 11:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA592 | TURKEY: FIFTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: PROSECUTION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 2 of 4 (septel). Investigation and Prosecution of Traffickers -------------------------------------------- A. (U) Chapter 1, Article 80 of the Turkish [...] |
2005-02-02 11:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA6303 | ANKARA'S NEW TIP SHELTER -- MUNICIPALITY SETS A [...] (C) SUMMARY: The first Ankara Trafficking in Persons (TIP) shelter, second in Turkey after Istanbul, will start accepting victims of trafficking (VOTs) by the end of October. The Ankara Municipality has delivered a first-rate shelter, totally renovated and furnished, and has offered to pay [...] |
2005-10-18 09:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA6318 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, October 1- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by Guardian Unlimited on Saturday [...] |
2005-10-19 11:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA6554 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, October 16- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by Hurriyet on Monday, October 17 [...] |
2005-11-02 11:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA6754 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, November 1- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published by Milliyet and also reported by [...] |
2005-11-16 11:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA7255 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, November 16- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. Published in the November 8th edition of Ye [...] |
2005-12-12 12:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA7394 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, December 1- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial Embassy translation. 2. Published by the Turkish Daily News on Thursd [...] |
2005-12-16 14:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA900 | TIP IN TURKEY: IOM TRAINS EAST EUROPEAN, RUSSIAN [...] (U) On February 4, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) conducted a seminar on trafficking in persons (TIP) for embassy officials from Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. Representatives from the embassies of Romania, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekista [...] |
2005-02-16 16:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG PREF KWMN TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA902 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, Feb 1-10, [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published Wednesday, February 9 by M [...] |
2005-02-17 07:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ANKARA903 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, Feb 11-15, [...] (U) In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial local FSN translation. 2. (U) Published Sunday, February 13 by the [...] |
2005-02-17 07:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05ATHENS1268 | MOLYVIATIS FOLLOWS UP ON TIP ISSUES IN GREECE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 9 meeting with Ambassador (following a May 5 Interministerial Council on TIP --the result of Molyviatis's April 29 telcon with U/S Burns), Molyviatis undertook to speed up agreement with Albania on a child repatriation protocol, to provide more comprehensive trafficking [...] |
2005-05-09 13:29:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KWMN GR TIP |
| 05ATHENS1611 | NGOS LOOK FOR MORE COOPERATION ON TIP, GOG ADMITS [...] THIS MESSAGE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED -- PLEASE HANDLE ACCORDINGLY. 2. (U) SUMMARY: During May 23-25 meetings with visiting Foreign Affairs Officer for Southeastern Europe, Suzanne Yountchi, officials from the Ministries of Health (MOH), Justice (MOJ), Public Order (MPO), Foreign Aff [...] |
2005-06-10 13:22:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KCRM GR TIP |
| 05ATHENS2742 | GREECE/TIP: NEW SHELTERS OPENED, BUT FEW VICTIMS [...] SUMMARY: The GoG continues to make progress on trafficking in persons (TIP) infrastructure, but has so far protected few victims. Probable causes are inadequate NGO involvement until now in the screening process and limited understanding on the part of the police and TIP victims of the prote [...] |
2005-10-20 13:52:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV GR TIP |
| 05ATHENS2802 | HHS ASSISTANT SECRETARY ADVANCES AGENDA ON TIP AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: Dr. Wade Horn, Assistant Secretary for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, shared domestic U.S. policy and his compelling experiences on trafficking in persons, welfare issues, pension reform, and refugee integration during his October 9-11 [...] |
2005-10-27 09:43:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB PREL PREF GR TIP |
| 05ATHENS2927 | GREECE/TIP: RESPONSES FOR INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR [...] (U) SUMMARIZE THE PROGRESS, OR LACK THEREOF, THE GOG HAS MADE IN DEVELOPING AN EFFECTIVE SCREENING AND REFERRAL MECHANISM FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND NGOS TO USE IN IDENTIFYING VICTIMS AND DIRECTING VICTIMS TO APPROPRIATE CARE. -The GoG is actively negotiating a "Memorandum of Cooperation" (MOC [...] |
2005-11-15 15:37:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM GR TIP |
| 05ATHENS589 | GREECE PART 1: FIFTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT SUBMISSION [...] The following is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Below are Embassy Athens' responses to the Fifth TIP report questionnaire. Text is keyed to requests under "Overview" and "Prevention." -------- Overview -------- A. Greece is a destination countr [...] |
2005-03-01 17:22:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB GR TIP |
| 05ATHENS634 | ATHENS TIP CONFERENCE RAISES AWARENESS ON NEED TO [...] SUMMARY: An embassy-organized Athens TIP symposium on February 23 raised awareness on the need for better cooperation among law enforcement and justice officials to fight trafficking in Greece. Following the February 15-16 training seminar for Greek judiciary and police officers in Thessalon [...] |
2005-03-07 08:56:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL PHUM SMIG GR TIP |
| 05BANGKOK1321 | THAILAND TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS/LABOR DEVELOPMENTS [...] (U) Summary. Senior Royal Thai police (RTP), accompanied by a post NGO anti-trafficking partner, traveled to Malaysia to enhance cooperation in countering the increasing cross-border trafficking of women and children. A low-ranking Thai policeman was convicted for trafficking a 14-year old g [...] |
2005-02-23 03:03:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KWMN PHUM PREF PREL SMIG TH TIP |
| 05BANGKOK1760 | TIP/PISCES UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Washington-based Terrorist Interdiction Program(TIP)/PISCES Director Keith McCoy and Program Officer Julie Reynolds along with PISCES Thailand Coordinator Tang Penland met with Thai Immigration Bureau and National Security Council (NSC) officials February 20-25 to discuss the [...] |
2005-03-10 08:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC KFRD TH KRCM TIP |
| 05BRASILIA1317 | BRAZIL LANDLESS ACTIVISTS STAGE LARGE MARCH IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As part of its continuous campaign for agrarian reform, Brazil's Landless Movement (MST) often schedules a wave of land occupations and other activities in the month of April. But 2005 has been a slow year for MST, and the traditional "Red April" events were delayed and downsi [...] |
2005-05-18 14:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI BR PHUM TIP |
| 05BRASILIA1325 | BRAZILIAN INDIANS DEMAND RIGHTS, FAULT GOB FOR [...] (U) Summary. In his September 2002 "Commitment to the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil," then-candidate Lula da Silva recognized past GOB policy errors on indigenous issues and pledged to create "a coherent indigenous policy" to address land and other human rights issues. During Lula's first two [...] |
2005-05-18 19:19:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PNAT SOCI BR TIP |
| 05BRASILIA1444 | Trafficking in Persons LOA for Brazil [...] (SBU) Begin Summary: Our efforts to negotiate a Letter of Agreement (LOA) with the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) concerning the President's Initiative on Trafficking in Persons have made no progress and we do not anticipate movement any time soon. Since the Brazilian impleme [...] |
2005-05-31 13:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EAID PGOV PREL PHUM BR TIP |
| 05BRASILIA1672 | BRAZIL: RESPONSE TO UNCHR REFORM DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) On June 22, Poloffs delivered reftel points to Human Rights Division Deputy Director Marcia Ramos at the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE). Ramos reviewed our points with interest and agreed that the UNCHR was in need of reform. Ramos told Poloffs that the GOB is in favor o [...] |
2005-06-23 13:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KUNR BR UNCHR TIP |
| 05BRASILIA1680 | BRAZIL: GOB LABOR TASK FORCE LANDS MAJOR BUST [...] (U) SUMMARY. On June 15 a Brazilian Labor Ministry task force made its largest bust to date, freeing approximately 1,200 slave laborers working at an ethanol refinery in Mato Grosso state. The GOB sanctioned the refinery for labor violations previously, and as a result, ethically conscious c [...] |
2005-06-23 18:57:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV SOCI BR TIP |
| 05BRASILIA1922 | BRAZILIAN HUMAN RIGHTS SECRETARIAT DOWNGRADED; [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-18 18:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV BR TIP |
| 05BRASILIA2208 | BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT PROMOTES HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH [...] (U) SUMMARY. On August 8-9, poloffs met with National Secretariat of Public Security (SENASP) representatives to SIPDIS discuss new training programs designed to promote respect for human rights amongst police and other public security officials in Brazil. States' budgetary constraints and [...] |
2005-08-18 18:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV SOCI SNAR KCRM BR TIP |
| 05BRASILIA229 | BRAZIL: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY [...] No summary [...] |
2005-01-25 17:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KDEM KSEP PGOV PHUM PREL BA TIP |
| 05BRASILIA2692 | BRAZIL'S LANDLESS MOVEMENT INVADES AMERICAN-OWNED [...] (U) Summary. Between three and five hundred members of Brazil's Landless Movement (MST) invaded AgroReservas do Brazil, an American-owned farm management company based out of Utah, as part of its "Red September" offensive, launched during the week of September 26. The MST's actions are aimed [...] |
2005-10-11 13:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI BR TIP |
| 05BRASILIA2767 | BRAZIL: REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT ASSISTANCE FOR [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraph four for action request. 2. (U) On October 13, poloff delivered reftel talking points to Marcelo Bohlke at Brazil's Ministry of External Relations United Nations Division (DNU). Poloff also provided points to Marcia Ramos at the Ministry's [...] |
2005-10-17 18:35:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PTER PHUM PREF PINR BR TIP |
| 05BRASILIA320 | JUVENILE OFFENDERS FREED DURING ASSAULT IN BRASILIA [...] Summary. On January 30, armed men in Brasilia freed two teenage detainees from a vehicle and held six others hostage while en route to the CAJE juvenile detention center. The CAJE facility is often criticized for understaffing, overcrowding, and poor security. End Summary. 2. On the eveni [...] |
2005-02-04 11:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PGOV PHUM BR TIP |
| 05BRASILIA369 | Murder of AmCit Dorothy Mae Stang [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified. 2. (U) Summary. US citizen and Catholic nun Dorothy Mae Stang was murdered in the northern Brazilian state of Para February 12. She was an advocate for the landless and had been involved in land disputes with powerful landlords. Brazilian sta [...] |
2005-02-14 17:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC PGOV PREL BR TIP |
| 05BRASILIA437 | Update on Murder of AmCit Dorothy Mae Stang [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified. 2. (SBU) Summary. Warrants for the arrests of three individuals for the murder of Amcit Dorothy Mae Stang have been issued; the suspects are still at large. Violence continues in the region, with the murder of the leader of a landless community. [...] |
2005-02-18 15:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC PGOV PREL BR TIP |
| 05BRASILIA464 | THREE SUSPECTS IN CUSTODY IN STANG MURDER, BUT [...] (C) By February 22, police had arrested three of the four suspects in the February 12 murder of US missionary Dorothy Stang in Para state in northern Brazil. Both alleged gunman plus the middleman who hired them are now in custody. The fourth suspect, the landowner who is the alleged mastermind of [...] |
2005-02-22 20:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | BR CASC KCRM PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI TIP |
| 05BRASILIA532 | BRAZILIAN HUMAN RIGHTS SECRETARIAT SPEAKS ABOUT [...] (C) Summary. On February 23, Poloff met with Perly Cipriano, Under Secretary for Human Rights Promotion at the Brazilian Secretariat for Human Rights, to discuss the Dorothy Stang murder case (reftels A, B, and C). During the meeting, Poloff and Cipriano discussed Stang's refusal to accept p [...] |
2005-03-01 16:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CASC PHUM PREL SOCI KCRM BR TIP |
| 05BRASILIA581 | Brother of Murdered Nun Pushes for [...] (SBU) Summary. David Stang, brother of murdered US citizen nun Dorothy Stang, visiting Brazil this week, told Ambassador Danilovich that while pleased with GoB reaction to his sister's death he believed it important that the Brazilian federal government take over from the state authorities the [...] |
2005-03-03 20:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC PGOV PREL BR TIP |
| 05BRASILIA606 | BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT REQUESTS FEDERALIZATION OF [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-07 18:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CASC PHUM PREL SOCI KCRM BR TIP |
| 05GABORONE273 | BOTSWANA'S ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2004 [...] (SBU) Summary: At this time, post believes Botswana is not a country of origin, transit or destination for a significant number of human trafficking victims. This is partly because the Government of Botswana regards trafficking as a serious threat and has taken measures to prevent it from em [...] |
2005-02-24 13:29:00 | Embassy Gaborone | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BC TIP |
| 05HANOI1505 | U.S.-FUNDED TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS WORKSHOP IN [...] (U) Summary: Between May 25 - 27, The Asia Foundation, using Department of State grant money, held an anti- trafficking in persons workshop in Quang Ninh, a Northeastern province of Vietnam. The workshop, which received USD 243,915 in funding from the Department, attracted a diverse set of p [...] |
2005-06-17 05:52:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN PINS CH VM TIP |
| 05HANOI1748 | U.S.-FUNDED TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS WORKSHOP IN [...] (U) Summary: Between May 25 - 27, The Asia Foundation, using Department of State grant money, held an anti- trafficking in persons workshop in Quang Ninh, a Northeastern province of Vietnam. The workshop, which received USD 243,915 in funding from the Department, attracted a diverse set of p [...] |
2005-07-11 07:11:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN PINS CH VM CVR TIP |
| 05HANOI207 | VIETNAM: FY2005 NON LAW ENFORCEMENT TIP PROPOSALS [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The Mission's Anti- Trafficking Working Group has identified two project proposals for activities aimed at empowering women and combating trafficking in women and children in and from Vietnam that are especially deserving of funding. Nine project proposals were sub [...] |
2005-01-24 09:48:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB SMIG EAID KCRM KFRD VM TIP |
| 05HANOI214 | VIETNAM: FY2005 LAW ENFORCEMENT TIP PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) Post received one project in response to reftel Request for Proposal. The proposal came from UNODC in Vietnam, and is Phase 2 of the existing USG-funded UNODC anti-trafficking project. Phase 1 of the UNODC project has been an exceptional success: a recent internal audit by UNODC ranked [...] |
2005-01-25 09:13:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB SMIG EAID KCRM KFRD VM TIP |
| 05HANOI2515 | EAP DAS Eric John's Meeting with Assistant Foreign [...] (SBU) Summary: EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Eric John, the Ambassador and EAP/MLS Director Scot Marciel discussed bilateral relations and regional cooperation with Assistant Foreign Minister Nguyen Duc Hung on September 27. After praising the momentum and goodwill that the Vietnamese Prime [...] |
2005-09-29 09:50:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV PREL PHUM KIRF PGOV OVIP AMGT ABLD VM HUMANR RELFREE TIP APEC ASEAN WTO |
| 05HANOI2546 | EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Eric John's Meeting [...] (SBU) Summary: EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Eric John discussed bilateral relations and regional cooperation with Foreign Minister Nguyen Zy Nien on September 27. After emphasizing the value of senior-level visits and exchanges and asking DAS John to help encourage more of them, FM Nien re [...] |
2005-09-30 10:21:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV PREL PHUM KIRF PGOV AMGT ABLD VM WTO RELFREE HUMANR HIV AIDS AFLU APEC TIP |
| 05HANOI2760 | RECENT GVN SUCCESSES IN COMBATING TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) Summary and Comment: Vietnam, grimly aware of its humiliating status as a source country for trafficking in persons, continues to make a strong effort to combat the crime and has racked up an impressive number of trafficking prosecutions and convictions. Security officials have identifie [...] |
2005-10-20 09:42:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN PINS CH CB VM TIP CVR |
| 05HANOI2831 | AMB/QUANH NINH CMTE: PROVINCIAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS [...] (SBU) Summary: Quang Ninh, the north easternmost province of Vietnam and a key gateway to China, has high levels of economic growth, thorny economic liberalization problems, some of the worst trafficking, smuggling and narcotics problems in the country, and substantial natural resources as wel [...] |
2005-10-26 07:46:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ETRD EINV ECON VM SOE TIP CNARC HUMANR RELFREE WTO |
| 05HANOI2864 | AMB VISITS QUANH NINH HIV/AIDS, TIP, DISABILITY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador recently inspected several successful U.S.-funded aid projects in Quang Ninh Province. While demonstrating what can be achieved with only a modest investment of aid money, the trip also brought to light serious problems for people living with HIV/AIDS, and for the [...] |
2005-10-28 04:15:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ETRD EINV ECON VM HIV AIDS TIP |
| 05HANOI3256 | Codel Chris Smith Discusses Human Rights, TIP with [...] (SBU) Summary: Visiting Congressman (and vice-Chairman of the House International Relations Committee) Christopher Smith (R-NJ) met with two of Vietnam's most seasoned America experts, Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang and National Assemblywoman Madame Ton Nhu Thi Ninh in separate meetings. C [...] |
2005-12-13 03:25:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM OVIP VM TIP HUMANR RELFREE APEC ASEAN |
| 05HANOI3259 | CONGRESSMAN SMITH DISCUSSES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Visiting Congressman (and Vice-Chairman of the House International Relations Committee) Christopher Smith (R-NJ) met with Vietnamese government officials, and Catholic, Protestant and Buddhist leaders in Hanoi on December 2. Principal issues discussed were improvements and chal [...] |
2005-12-13 03:55:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV VM HUMANR RELFREE TIP HIV AIDS ETMIN |
| 05HANOI3268 | INITIAL RESULTS OF A USG-FUNDED TIP PROJECT [...] (U) Summary: The Department of State (PRM) funded a USD 155,000 International Organization for Migration (IOM) project to combat trafficking in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh. The project provides considerable training in preventing trafficking, HIV prevention and public health, in [...] |
2005-12-14 05:49:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM PHUM PREL PINS KWMN VM TIP HIV AIDS |
| 05HANOI509 | INPUT FOR 2005 TIP REPORT - VIETNAM [...] Mission Vietnam's response to the TIP questions in ref A, paragraphs 18-21 follows, following the alphabetical checklist format. 2. OVERVIEW OF VIETNAM'S ACTIVITIES TO ELIMINATE TIP A. Characterization of trafficking in Vietnam: Vietnam is a country of origin for trafficked women and [...] |
2005-03-02 06:44:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF CH TW CA VM OMIG CVR TIP |
| 05HANOI841 | VIETNAM HOSTS SIX-COUNTRY TIP MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The ambitious three-day Senior Officials Meeting 3 (SOM 3) of the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking (COMMIT) was held in Hanoi March 29-31. The purpose of the meeting was to translate the MOU signed at the previous COMMIT meeting in Rango [...] |
2005-04-11 05:42:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG VM OMIG APEC TIP |
| 05HARARE339 | ZIMBABWE ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2004 - [...] Overview of a Country's Activities to Eliminate Trafficking in Persons: ----------- -- A. There continued to be anecdotal reports that Zimbabwe was a country of origin and transit for trafficked persons, but there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that there is a sustained, organized ef [...] |
2005-03-01 16:05:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF EAID ZI TIP |
| 05HARARE443 | ZIMBABWE TIP UPDATE [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-22 06:52:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF EAID ZI TIP |
| 05HOCHIMINHCITY11 | DELTA FACES DIFFICULTIES ON THE ROAD TO PROSPERITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Visiting the Mekong Delta, the Ambassador found that considerable investment in infrastructure, education and government reform are needed to set conditions for rapid economic growth. The long, porous border with Cambodia is a challenge for local officials, who are struggling t [...] |
2005-01-06 08:44:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EINV PREL SOCI ETRD PHUM VM KCRM SMIG SNAR LABOR HIV AIDS TIP CNARC |
| 05HOCHIMINHCITY1299 | VIETNAMESE BRIDES TO TAIWAN [...] (SBU) Summary: During a December 6 meeting with DPO and PolOff, representatives of the HCMC Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) said that in 2005 they had instituted a system of one-on-one interviews with prospective Vietnamese brides and their Taiwanese fiancees in response to mounting [...] |
2005-12-20 14:19:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL CVIS KWMN ELAB SMIG SOCI TW VM TIP |
| 05HOCHIMINHCITY1309 | PORTRAIT OF AN ALIEN SMUGGLER [...] Reftel outlined a recent incident in which Amcit Tim Thai was caught while apparently attempting to smuggle aliens with photo-subbed Canadian passports through Uzbekistan. The story of Mr. Thai's life over the past 25 years illustrates the challenges facing our consular sections as we strive t [...] |
2005-12-21 09:59:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS CPAS CASC SMIG VM TIP |
| 05HOCHIMINHCITY328 | TRANSNATIONAL CRIME IN VIETNAM - HCMC CONSULATES GENERAL [...] (SBU) Key Ho Chi Minh City consulates met March 23 for the second quarterly, informal discussion of transnational crime issues. Australia National Police rep has organized this group in an effort to foster law enforcement cooperation between key countries and Vietnam. Participation includes co [...] |
2005-03-30 01:39:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PREL KCRM SNAR PTER EFIN AS VM CNARC TIP |
| 05ISTANBUL329 | MUNICIPALITY TO FUND ISTANBUL TIP SHELTER, BUT [...] Summary and comment: In recent Istanbul meetings on trafficking in persons (TIP), G/TIP officer Jennifer Donnelly discussed the upcoming TIP report and Turkey's Tier 2 watch list placement with Istanbul prosecutors, municipal and governorate officials and the leading Turkish NGO on TIP issues. [...] |
2005-02-28 14:25:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TU BO MD PHUM KCRM PGOV KJUS TIP IN TURKEY |
| 05KINGSTON1041 | UPDATE ON ANTI-TIP EFFORTS IN JAMAICA [...] This cable provides an update on GOJ anti-TIP efforts since Post's initial input (ref A) for the 2004-2005 anti-TIP report. Post will continue to report any substantive developments in advance of the April 30 submission deadline. --------------------------------------------- Senior Official [...] |
2005-04-15 13:17:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | JM KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF TIP |
| 05KINGSTON1316 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE TRAVEL DOCUMENT INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jamaica is one of the countries in the Caribbean which exempts U.S. citizens traveling to the island for tourism from the requirement of a passport or visa. Ref (A) announced that effective December 31, 2005, DHS will require all U.S. citizens traveling to and from the Caribbe [...] |
2005-05-20 18:04:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CPAS CVIS JM KFRD TIP |
| 05KINGSTON1444 | GOJ OFFERS MIXED RESPONSE ON TIP, CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (SBU) On May 31 and June 2, emboffs met with GOJ officials to discuss the imminent release, on June 3, of the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. The different meetings yielded varying responses. On May 31, Charge met with National Security Minister Peter Phillips at the Minister's req [...] |
2005-06-06 19:42:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG JM TIP |
| 05KINGSTON1447 | NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW REGARDING SUSPENSION OF TITLE [...] (SBU) Post is unaware of any recent measures taken by the GOJ to advance democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. Post has no evidence that the GOJ has substantially changed its policies or actions toward Cuba in the six months since the submission of our last assessment in [...] |
2005-06-06 20:50:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC ETRD CU JM TIP |
| 05KINGSTON1472 | MEETING WITH PAULWELL - NO GUARANTEE OF ACTION IN [...] (U) This is an action request. See Paragraph 14. 2. (SBU) Summary: On June 6, Charge and Econoff met with Commerce Minister Paulwell to discuss the ongoing blocking of telecommunications circuits by Jamaican carriers. Emboffs communicated USG concern about the tactic of blocking and infor [...] |
2005-06-09 15:31:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN JM TIP |
| 05KINGSTON1531 | OFFICE OF PRIME MINISTER DRIVING JAMAICA'S [...] (U) Since the June 3 release of the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report (Ref A), the GOJ has not engaged Post on the issue, nor has there been any official reaction to the Tier 3 Action Plan delivered to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) on June 2. However, follow [...] |
2005-06-17 18:58:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG JM TIP |
| 05KINGSTON1534 | KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: MAY 7 - JUNE 16, 2005 [...] This week's topics: -- TIP: GOJ Responding to Threat of Sanctions -- Foreign Carriers Yield After Call Blocking Crisis -- Mayor of Spanish Town Resigns Following Arrest -- Seaga Offers Advice on his 75th Birthday -- Crime Statistics - Count Them Yourself -- Tax Laws to Fight Crime -- Prime [...] |
2005-06-17 19:11:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV JM SNAR KCOR KCRM ELAB CASC TIP |
| 05KINGSTON1611 | A DEFENSIVE NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER HOSTS TIP [...] (U) On June 24, at the request of National Security Minister Peter Phillips, Charge, USAID Mission Director, and Poloff (notetaker) attended a meeting hosted by Phillips on the subject of trafficking in persons (TIP) at the Ministry of National Security (MNS). Unfortunately, Phillips used the [...] |
2005-06-29 20:51:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG JM TIP |
| 05KINGSTON1622 | CABINET OFFICE HOSTS TIP WORKING SESSION [...] On June 28, the Cabinet Office hosted a working meeting with USAID Mission Director and Poloff to review actions taken to date by the GOJ to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). The meeting had been scheduled as a follow up to a June 24 meeting on TIP at the Ministry of National Security (MNS [...] |
2005-06-30 18:40:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG JM TIP |
| 05KINGSTON1784 | DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS VISIT KINGSTON TO EVALUATE [...] (U) On July 14 and 15, G/TIP Reports Officer Rachel Owen and WHA/PPC Senior Labor Advisor Michael Puccetti visited Kingston to assess what actions the GOJ had taken to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) in the 60-day grace period following the June 1 publication of the 2005 TIP Report (Ref A) [...] |
2005-07-21 20:48:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG JM TIP |
| 05KINGSTON1802 | KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: JULY 1-21, 2005 [...] This week's topics: -- Hurricanes Cause More Damage in Jamaica -- Government Leads Opposition in National Poll -- Police Raids Target Trafficking Victims -- Murder Leading Cause of Death in Males -- Jamaica Opens Embassy in Beijing -- President of Ghana Visits Jamaica -- Tranquility Bay Ru [...] |
2005-07-22 20:15:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV KCRM CASC JM UNGA TIP |
| 05KINGSTON1904 | ASSESSMENT OF RECENT GOJ ACTION ON TIP [...] The GOJ has responded energetically to the June 3 publication of the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, in which Jamaica was downgraded to Tier 3 (Ref A). Coordinated from the highest levels by the Office of the Prime Minister and various other Cabinet-level officials, a National TIP Ta [...] |
2005-08-10 13:28:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG JM TIP |
| 05KINGSTON1919 | KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: JULY 22 - AUGUST 12, [...] This week's topics: -- U.S. Trafficking Report a Wake-Up Call, Says PM -- Two More Officers Charged in Crawle Case -- Six Police Officers Charged in Flankers Case -- Murder Rate Continues to Soar -- Jamaica to Miss Inflation Targets -- Tourism Bookings Tumble -- Hurricane Damage Near USD 3 [...] |
2005-08-12 18:30:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV KCRM PHUM JM TIP |
| 05KINGSTON2059 | GOJ LAUNCHES TIP PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN [...] Summary: The GOJ on August 30 launched a yearlong public awareness campaign to educate its citizens about the dangers of trafficking in persons (TIP). In a move that appears to indicate the GOJ's determination to make sustained efforts against trafficking, the Cabinet Office organized a publi [...] |
2005-09-01 16:28:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG JM TIP |
| 05KINGSTON211 | COMBATING TIP IN JAMAICA: PROSECUTION AND [...] Per reftel request, the following text constitutes Post's INCLE-funded anti-trafficking in persons project proposal to G/TIP for funding considering from FY 2005 appropriations. This is a joint proposal with Kingston USAID Mission. Please contact Post (see para 23) for clarification and furth [...] |
2005-01-24 21:21:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | JM KCRM KWMN PHUM ASEC ELAB EAID SMIG TIP |
| 05KINGSTON228 | COMBATING TIP IN JAMAICA: AWARENESS AND EDUCATION [...] Per Ref A request, the following text constitutes Post's ESF-funded anti-trafficking in persons proposal to G/TIP for funding consideration from FY 2005 appropriations (Ref B includes Post's INCLE-funded anti-TIP proposal). This is a joint proposal with Kingston USAID Mission. Please contact [...] |
2005-01-27 15:17:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | JM ASEC ELAB EAID KWMN KCRM KDEM PHUM SMIG TIP |
| 05KINGSTON2552 | JAMAICA: INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT [...] The following constitutes Post's submission for Jamaica's Interim TIP Assessment, per Ref A instructions. In addition to the information reported below and in Ref B and Ref C, Post has details of recent TIP-related law enforcement actions that are available upon request. ------------------ [...] |
2005-11-15 21:15:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG JM TIP |
| 05KINGSTON63 | DELIVERED: FINAL INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT FOR JAMAICA [...] On January 4, poloff delivered reftel text of Jamaica's Interim TIP Assessment by fax to Ann Scott, Assistant Director, Caribbean and Americas Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT). Scott acknowledged receipt of the fax, and stated that she would pass the informati [...] |
2005-01-07 17:22:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN PHUM PGOV PREL JM TIP |
| 05KUWAIT4219 | GOK ADVISED OF PRESIDENTIAL DETERMINATION ON [...] (C) On September 27, PolChief advised Hamad Al-Mashan, Second Secretary in the America's Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of the President's September 21 determination that Kuwait would remain a Tier 3 country with regard to Trafficking in Persons (TIP), but that sanctions would be w [...] |
2005-09-28 07:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB KDEM SOCI KWMN KCRM KU TIP |
| 05KUWAIT4279 | AMBASSADOR AND FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSS WAY AHEAD [...] (C) During an October 1 meeting, the Ambassador reviewed with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah the President's September 21 determination to maintain Kuwait's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) ranking as a Tier 3 country, but to waive applicable sanctions for [...] |
2005-10-02 08:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ELAB KDEM SOCI KWMN KCRM KU TIP |
| 05KUWAIT4425 | AMBASSADOR PROVIDES GOK WITH STEPS TO IMPROVE TIP [...] (C) As a follow-up to an October 1 meeting during which Ambassador committed to providing examples of actions taken by Qatar and the UAE to permit their reclassification to the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Tier 2 Watch List (reftel), Ambassador presented a letter outlining these steps to Forei [...] |
2005-10-15 15:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KU TIP |
| 05RECIFE113 | ANTI-TIP AND ANTI-ORGAN TRAFFICKING CONFERENCE IN BRAZIL [...] (U) Summary. Noting Brazil's prominent role as an exporting and a recipient country, speakers at the August 11-12 trafficking in persons (TIP) symposium in Recife, Pernambuco sponsored by the Latin American Institute for the Protection and Defense of Human Rights (ILADH) NGO cited financial gai [...] |
2005-08-31 19:14:00 | Consulate Recife | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV SOCI BR TIP |
| 05RECIFE78 | UPDATE ON AMCIT MISSIONARY SHOT IN NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL [...] (SBU) Summary. John David Leonard, an American citizen missionary shot in Brazil, has been medevaced back home to a hospital in Des Moines, IA, where he remains under medical care. Embassy LegAtt and A/LegAtt traveled to the area where Mr. Leonard was attacked, and report that investigation [...] |
2005-07-14 17:33:00 | Consulate Recife | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC PGOV PREL BR TIP |
| 05RIODEJANEIRO353 | Brazilian Police Arrest Suspect in Environmentalist's [...] Brazil's Federal Police arrested hunter Leonardo de Carvalho Marques, who shot environmentalist Dionisio Julio Ribeiro Junior in the head with a shotgun on February 23 in the Tingua Natural Reserve in Nova Iguacu. Ribeiro Junior had spent fifteen years of his life defending the Reserve from [...] |
2005-03-03 18:55:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SENV TBIO TSPA SOCI BR TIP |
| 05SAOPAULO283 | THE TIP REPORT [...] (U) This is version II of the Brazil TIP report, incorporating answers to questions raised by version I, and additional information. This report was a coordinated effort between Sao Paulo and Embassy Brasilia, which supplied much of the new information. 2. (SBU) Begin Summary: Brazil conti [...] |
2005-03-11 10:25:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF TIP |
| 05SAOPAULO875 | AFFIRMATIVE ACTION DEBATE CONTINUES IN BRAZIL [...] (U) Summary: On June 10-11, government officials, non- profit organizations, educators, interested citizens, and representatives from 20 public Brazilian universities met in Sao Paulo for a two-day nation-wide conference to discuss nascent affirmative action programs in higher education. Man [...] |
2005-07-22 14:25:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM ECON PHUM BTIO EINV SOCI BR TIP |
| 05TAIPEI1434 | FALSE MARRIAGES USED FOR TRAFFICKING IN TAIWAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Kaoshiung County Police officials are investigating an organized crime case involving six Cambodian women who were trafficked to Taiwan and forced into prostitution. The women were promised jobs in a factory in Southern Taiwan and trafficked to Taiwan under false marriages. A [...] |
2005-03-28 09:25:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ASEC TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI1512 | TAIWAN MAKING SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS ON TIP [...] (U) Action Request see paragraph 7. 2. (U) AIT officers visited the Hsinchu Detention Center on March 29 and found the situation considerably improved for TIP victims since the November 2004 G/TIP visit. Ministry of Interior (MOI) authorities have made substantial efforts to improve protec [...] |
2005-03-29 10:53:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ASEC TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI1526 | MILITARY OFFICERS INVOLVED IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND [...] (SBU) Summary: A year-long investigation into a illegal loan-sharking operation run by two Taiwan Army officers has resulted in a number of arrests and revealed additional involvement in prostitution, human trafficking and illegal weapons sales, according to local prosecutors. Kaohsiung pro [...] |
2005-03-31 00:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ASEC TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI1751 | TAIWAN ACTIVELY TACKLES TIP CHALLENGE [...] (SBU) Action request: see paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) Summary. Since AIT and G/TIP's November 2004 visit, Taiwan immigration authorities have demonstrated at both the Hsinchu and Ilan Detention Centers that they have adopted a comprehensive screening process for trafficking in persons (TIP) vic [...] |
2005-04-12 09:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV TW ASEC TIP |
| 05TAIPEI1752 | PRC MEDIA BAN: MAC ADMITS MISTAKE BUT POLICY STANDS [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan officials are trying to contain negative political and media fallout from an April 10 announcement that Taipei would ban journalists from PRC-owned Xinhua and the People's Daily in retaliation for Beijing's enactment of the Anti-Secession Law. Mainland Affairs Council (MAC [...] |
2005-04-12 10:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR CH TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI2122 | BEIJING BLOCKING TAIWAN EFFORTS TO REPATRIATE PRC [...] (SBU) Summary. PRC reluctance to accept back its own citizens detained in Taiwan as illegal immigrants, including many TIP victims, creates unnecessary hardship for both groups and a heavy financial burden on the Taiwan government. Contrary to claims by Beijing authorities (reftel) that the [...] |
2005-05-11 09:27:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ASEC TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI2486 | TAIWAN REACTION TO TIP DOWNGRADE: SUBDUED IN [...] (SBU) Public reaction to Taiwan's downgrade from "Tier 1" to "Tier 2" in the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report has been surprisingly subdued. Press coverage, in fact, was so light that AIT did not proceed with inviting the Taiwan media to a coffee with the Deputy Director on June 6. On [...] |
2005-06-07 08:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | CM PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI2553 | Congressman Kennedy and Vatican Representative in [...] (SBU) Congressman Mark Kennedy (R-MN) met with Apostolic Nunciature Charge D'affaires Monsignor Ambrose Madtha on June 6, 2005. Madtha estimated there were currently 300,000 Catholics in Taiwan and 5-10 new priests came out of Taiwan's seminaries every year. Growth of the Catholic populatio [...] |
2005-06-10 07:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PHUM PREL CH TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI2651 | G/TIP DELEGATION JUNE 8-12 VISIT TO TAIWAN [...] (SBU) Summary: G/TIP made Taiwan its first stop in Asia after the release of the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. The delegation responded to questions about Taiwan's downgrade to Tier 2 and reviewed improvements Taiwan has made in screening TIP victims, providing victim protection, a [...] |
2005-06-16 08:58:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | CM PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI3344 | TAIWAN'S GIO DEFENDS BROADCAST LICENSING POLICY [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan's Government Information Office insists its July 31 decision not to renew seven television broadcast licenses was justified by these broadcasters violations of licensing terms spelled out in the 1999 Satellite Broadcasting Law. GIO dismissed allegations that the decision [...] |
2005-08-11 08:26:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS PGOV PHUM TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI474 | TAIWAN TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) AIT Acting Deputy Director Chuck Bennett delivered reftel Trafficking in Persons (TIP) talking points on February 2 to the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) Administrative Vice Minister and the Ministry of Interior (MOI) Administrative Deputy Minister. AIT Political Section Chief James Huskey d [...] |
2005-02-03 23:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI4796 | TAIWAN TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS CONFERENCE: [...] Summary: Taiwan recently hosted an international conference on combating human trafficking which included representatives from law enforcement, government, NGOs, and academia. Taiwan, downgraded from Tier 1 to Tier 2 in the Department's 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, indicated th [...] |
2005-12-05 08:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI859 | MEDIA REACTION: HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] Summary: Four major Chinese-language dailies and two limited-circulation English-language newspapers in Taiwan reported March 2 on the "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for the Year 2004," which was released by the State Department Monday. These reports, all straight news coverage ca [...] |
2005-03-02 06:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI866 | 2005 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: TAIWAN [...] (U) Following is AIT/T's 2004-05 trafficking-in-persons (TIP) report. The report is according to reftel sections, beginning with 18 A. -------- Overview -------- 18 A. (SBU) Is the country a country of origin, transit or destination for international trafficked men, women or children? [...] |
2005-03-02 22:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG TW TIP |
| 05TAIPEI872 | MEDIA REACTION: HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-03 08:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW TIP |
| 06ANKARA1547 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, February 16- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial Embassy translation. 2. Published by the Turkish Daily News on Sunday [...] |
2006-03-24 08:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 06ANKARA1622 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, March 1-15, [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial Embassy translation. 2. Reported by Aksam on Thursday, March 2: TITLE: "The C [...] |
2006-03-27 13:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 06ANKARA1812 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, March 16- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial Embassy translation. 2. Reported by Anadolu Ajansi on Friday, March 17: TITLE: [...] |
2006-04-05 12:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 06ANKARA183 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, December 16- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial Embassy translation. 2. Published by the Turkish Daily News on Friday [...] |
2006-01-18 14:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 06ANKARA2478 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, April 1-15, [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial Embassy translation. 2. Published by Vatan on Monday, April 3: TITLE: Mobile [...] |
2006-05-04 14:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 06ANKARA2586 | TIP IN TURKEY: FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR OUTLINES RESEARCH, [...] (U) Ambassador hosted Fulbright scholar Dr. Cindy J. Smith May 5 for a lecture and discussion on trafficking in persons (TIP), attended by more than 60 government officials, international and domestic organization representatives, academics and others. Smith, from the University of Baltimore, [...] |
2006-05-09 13:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 06ANKARA296 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, January 1- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial Embassy translation. 2. Published by Sabah on Sunday, January 1: [...] |
2006-01-26 15:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 06ANKARA550 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, January 16- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial Embassy translation. 2. Published by Sabah on Tuesday, January 17: [...] |
2006-02-08 15:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 06ANKARA999 | TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, February 1- [...] In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and international media sources published the following news articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles originally published in Turkish is provided through unofficial Embassy translation. 2. Published by Hurriyet on Wednesday, February [...] |
2006-02-28 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY |
| 06ATHENS1524 | GREECE: GOG AND MEDIA CALL 2006 TIP REPORT [...] SUMMARY: The Greek government and press responded positively to the release of the 2006 TIP report, calling Greece's advancement to Tier 2 from Tier 2 Watch List (T2WL) "encouraging." News articles relied on post's press release, press conference, and the report narrative for straightforwar [...] |
2006-06-14 11:34:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KPAO GR TIP |
| 06ATHENS1836 | NEW TIP SPOKESMAN DETAILS GOG EFFORTS TO STOP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador discussed the latest TIP developments and passed the 2006-2007 TIP action plan to the GOG's new Spokesman for its Interministerial Committee on trafficking in persons on July 10. The Spokesman detailed the GoG's recent TIP actions and goals, including training offi [...] |
2006-07-14 14:47:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KWMN GR TIP |
| 06ATHENS328 | STAR-STUDDED TIP CONFERENCE PRODUCES ETHICAL [...] SUMMARY: Royalty, celebrities, and prominent business executives were in Athens January 23 for a roundtable discussion and fundraising dinner on the global business community's responsibility to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). Held under the slogan "END HUMAN TRAFFICKING NOW!" and orga [...] |
2006-02-06 11:42:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM GR TIP |
| 06ATHENS346 | TIP IS KEY TOPIC AT THESSALONIKI ANTI-ORGANIZED [...] (U) SUMMARY: Law enforcement officials and prosecutors from the Balkan region, as well as reps from regional and international organizations met February 1-2 in Thessaloniki at a conference co-sponsored by the Embassy/Consulate and the Stability Pact to compare notes on fighting trafficking [...] |
2006-02-06 17:04:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM GR TIP |
| 06ATHENS414 | INTERNATIONAL TIP EXPERTS DISCUSS BEST PRACTICES [...] (U) SUMMARY: The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Hellenic Aid Division, and Embassy Athens co-organized a January 24 roundtable that brought together local NGOs with international TIP experts who were in Athens for a separate business community [...] |
2006-02-14 10:15:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KWMN CVIS GR TIP |
| 06ATHENS431 | TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT MEDIA REACTION FOCUSES ON [...] SUMMARY: Post held an on-the-record February 2 press conference for the TIP Interim Assessment release, which resulted in eight TIP articles published February 2 through February 11. The event not only provided post the opportunity to discuss TIP and the Assessment with journalists, but also [...] |
2006-02-15 12:17:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KPAO GR TIP |
| 06ATHENS570 | GREECE PART 2: TIP REPORT SUBMISSION 2006 [...] The following is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Below are Embassy Athens' responses to the 2006 TIP report questionnaire. Text is keyed to Ref A request for "Prevention" Section. This is the second of four cables. 3. PREVENTION: --------------- - [...] |
2006-03-01 05:00:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL ELAB GR TIP |
| 06ATHENS571 | GREECE PART 3: TIP REPORT SUBMISSION 2006 [...] The following is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Below are Embassy Athens' responses to the 2006 TIP report questionnaire. Text is keyed to Ref A request for "Investigation and Prosecution" Section. This is the third of four cables. 3. INVESTIGATIO [...] |
2006-03-01 05:00:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL ELAB GR TIP |
| 06ATHENS572 | GREECE PART 1: TIP REPORT SUBMISSION 2006 [...] The following is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Below are Embassy Athens' responses to the 2006 TIP report questionnaire. Text is keyed to Ref A request for "Overview" Section. This is the first of four cables. 3. SUMMARY: Greece has made signific [...] |
2006-03-01 05:01:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL PREF ELAB GR TIP |
| 06ATHENS573 | GREECE PART 4: TIP REPORT SUBMISSION 2006 [...] The following is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Below are Embassy Athens' responses to the 2006 TIP report questionnaire. Text is keyed to Ref A request for "Protection and Assistance to Victims" Section. This is the fourth of four cables. 3. PROT [...] |
2006-03-01 05:02:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL ELAB GR TIP |
| 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 |
| 06HANOI1916 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HIV/AIDS, TIP, LABOR EXPORT LAW AND [...] (SBU) On July 20, the Ambassador met with the Chairwoman of the National Assembly (NA) Social Affairs Committee to encourage legislation supporting HIV/AIDS programs, assisting counter-trafficking in persons efforts, establishing labor export oversight and establishing better foreign adoption c [...] |
2006-07-28 09:32:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM HUMANR TIP HIV AIDS ETRD EINV ECON VM |
| 06HANOI775 | VIETNAM: HIGH-LEVEL GVN TIP REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: "Complicated developments" in trafficking in persons (TIP) in Vietnam (which is coded official language for a worsening of the situation) provoked a surprisingly high-level conference on TIP in Hanoi that involved two Politburo members and numerous other senior officials in a r [...] |
2006-04-04 09:35:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM PINS VM TIP |
| 06HANOI833 | Vietnam Tackling Abusive Export Labor Firms [...] (SBU) Summary: Confronted with problems related to a burgeoning export labor industry, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) is taking action to regulate the industry and protect workers from potential abuse. In an effort to mitigate unemployment and develop its pool of skilled workers, the Governm [...] |
2006-04-12 10:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PHUM KCRM PINS VM TIP |
| 06HANOI885 | TIP/Vietnam: Vietnam Ministries Get Action [...] (SBU) The Government of Vietnam has begun implementation of a new decision consolidating each responsible ministry's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) efforts and instructing government agencies to develop new programs to deal with the issue. 2. (SBU) Issued by Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khi [...] |
2006-04-19 10:46:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM PINS VM TIP |
| 06HOCHIMINHCITY437 | HCMC POLICE DISCUSS RECENT TIP RING BUST [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 18, PolOffs met with HCMC Ministry of Public Security officials to review details of a late March police sweep against an international Trafficking in Persons ring that operated in HCMC and the Mekong Delta. Police confirmed that 39 young women from southern Vietnam res [...] |
2006-04-25 12:56:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CVIS KWMN TIP ELAB SMIG SOCI TW VM |
| 06HOCHIMINHCITY456 | MORE ON VIETNAMESE BRIDES TO TAIWAN [...] (SBU) Summary. During a recent visit to the Mekong Delta province of Can Tho, a local reporter and expert on women's issues estimated that at least 14,000 women -- mostly poor and uneducated -- have married Taiwanese and some South Korean men since 2000. The perceived economic benefits of ove [...] |
2006-04-28 11:24:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CVIS KWMN TIP ELAB SMIG SOCI TW VM |
| 06HOCHIMINHCITY521 | TIP IN THE MEKONG: THE EXPERIENCE OF CAN THO PROVINCE [...] (SBU) Summary: During an April visit by ConGen officers to the Mekong Delta province of Can Tho, provincial police and Women's Union officials reviewed their enforcement and education outreach efforts to combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP). The officials demonstrated an understanding of the ch [...] |
2006-05-19 04:49:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CVIS KWMN TIP ELAB SMIG SOCI TW VM |
| 06HOCHIMINHCITY587 | DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTHERN MEKONG DELTA: AMBASSADOR'S [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador visited Tien Giang, Ben Tre and Tra Vinh provinces May 3-5. All three neighboring provinces face similar challenges in improving transport infrastructure, boosting competitiveness and finding new sectors for growth. Ben Tre appears to have progressed furthest, lar [...] |
2006-06-02 08:08:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL ECON EAID KWMN TIP SOCI PGOV VM |
| 06HOCHIMINHCITY612 | CHINESE ALIEN SMUGGLING THROUGH HCMC [...] (U) On May 9, the HCMC branch of the Anti-Social Evils Police (PC-14) rescued four Chinese children from a traffickers' "safe house" in HCMC. According to press reports, the rescue came from a tip-off from a bus driver in neighboring Tay Ninh province who noticed that the children did not spea [...] |
2006-06-08 05:05:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CVIS KWMN TIP ELAB SMIG SOCI TW CH VM |
| 06KUWAIT1013 | KUWAIT CRACKS DOWN ON LABOR DOCUMENT FORGERS [...] (SBU) Dr. Salih Al-Shaykh, Acting Assistant Undersecretary for Labor Affairs at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL), confirmed in a March 19 meeting with EmbOffs news reports that the GOK has uncovered a scheme to allow companies to hire foreign workers illegally. MOSAL limits [...] |
2006-03-22 08:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT1041 | KUWAIT'S DOMESTIC LABOR ADMINISTRATION TAKES [...] (U) Summary and Comment. PolOff and PolAssistant visited the Domestic Worker Administration (DWA) on March 18, and PolOff followed up with an unannounced visit to the DWA on March 22 to see how the GOK deals with domestic workers who have complaints. The DWA's role, as reported to Emboffs [...] |
2006-03-25 13:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB RP KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT1084 | LABOR MINISTRY REQUESTS TIP TRAINING IN CONTEXT OF [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) In a March 19 meeting, Amina Jowhar, Director of the International Relations Department at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL), told EmbOffs that the GOK is reviewing plans to host a UN-sponsored conference on migran [...] |
2006-03-28 12:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT1095 | 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT UPDATE: [...] (C) Summary and comment: While much work remains to be done, Post believes that the GOK is making significant efforts to combat human trafficking and to improve the working conditions and status of the large expatriate labor community. In the 2006 TIP report, we recommend that Kuwait be li [...] |
2006-03-29 13:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT1096 | KUWAIT REQUESTS U.S. PARTICIPATION IN EXPATRIATE [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) Amina Jowhar Ghazi (aka Amina Jowhar), Director of the International Relations Department of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL), faxed Post a copy of a letter from the Undersecretary's office announcing MOSAL's inten [...] |
2006-03-30 08:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT1345 | KUWAIT PASSES ANTI-TRAFFICKING LAW [...] (U) Kuwait's National Assembly passed, and Amir Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah signed, a law giving the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime the full force of law in Kuwait. Kuwait signed the Convention on December 12, 2000 but this action now gives it th [...] |
2006-04-18 12:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB ZP TIP |
| 06KUWAIT1549 | KUWAIT EXECUTES CITIZENS WHO MURDERED DOMESTIC [...] Kuwait executed two Kuwaiti citizens on May 2 for crimes committed against domestic workers. Kuwaiti citizen Mohammad Al-Shimmari abducted an Asian domestic worker, who died when she threw herself out of his car as he sped away. He then returned to where she lay, drove her to another area, a [...] |
2006-05-03 07:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT1664 | FIVE YEARS IN PRISON FOR RESIDENCE PERMIT TRADER [...] The Arabic-language daily Al-Watan reported on May 10 that the Criminal Court sentenced an Iraqi man to five years in prison and subsequent deportation for fraudulently obtaining residence permits. The convicted man was using a Bahraini identification card to sponsor workers. He aroused sus [...] |
2006-05-10 09:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB KU IZ BA TIP |
| 06KUWAIT1684 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOR MORE EFFECTIVE MEASURES TO [...] (U) During a May 8 speech at the opening of a conference entitled, "Kuwait: A Financial and Commercial Center," the Ambassador praised recent Kuwaiti signature of UN labor protocols to protect against trafficking, but emphasized that more still needed to be done in Kuwait to protect basic wor [...] |
2006-05-13 06:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT1934 | KUWAIT INITIATES AWARENESS CAMPAIGN TARGETING [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs (MAIA) has initiated the National Project for Domestic Workers (in Arabic it is the National Project for Domestic Worker Awareness-Raising) a project to raise awareness of the rights and responsibilities of domestic employees and their employer [...] |
2006-05-29 08:34:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT2024 | DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER/INTERIOR MINISTER WELCOMES [...] (C) The Ambassador met with First Deputy Prime Minister Shaykh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, who holds the Defense and Interior portfolios as well, on May 31 to discuss TIP issues. (The meeting had been scheduled before the change in release dates, so the Ambassador spoke about TIP issues in ge [...] |
2006-05-31 17:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT2113 | POST INFORMS GOK OF TIP RANKING; OFFICIALS LOOK [...] (SBU) Poloff met with representatives of three Kuwaiti Ministries on June 5 to inform them of Kuwait's rise from Tier 3 to Tier 2 Watchlist: Saud Al-Saeedi, who handles human rights issues in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Legal Department, Zakaria Al-Ansari, Assistant Director of the Inte [...] |
2006-06-06 14:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT2147 | KUWAIT'S AMBASSADOR TO INDONESIA CRITICIZES GOK ON [...] (C) Kuwait's Ambassador to Indonesia, Mohammad Fadel Khalaf, met with the DCM on May 23 to discuss his concerns over the treatment of Indonesian domestic workers in Kuwait. He criticized Indonesia and especially his own government for not doing enough to protect Indonesian workers, and sugges [...] |
2006-06-07 17:15:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL KIRF JO ID KU TIP RELIGIOUS FREEDOM |
| 06KUWAIT2231 | CHALLENGES AND SUCCESSES OF FOREIGN LABORERS IN [...] (C) Summary: The Egyptian expatriate labor community is Kuwait's second largest, surpassed only by the Indians. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Egyptian workers do not suffer as badly as workers from other expatriate communities. Post consulted with Egyptian Embassy officials as well as E [...] |
2006-06-12 10:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM ELAB PREL EG KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT2395 | INTERIOR MINISTRY OFFICIALS SAY TIP PROGRESS TO [...] (SBU/NF) The Charge met June 19 with Brigadier General Ahmad Nawaf Al-Sabah, Assistant Undersecretary for Citizenship, Passports and Bidoon Affairs at the Ministry of Interior, to present the findings of the TIP report and to encourage the GOK to follow through on the promises it has made to [...] |
2006-06-19 14:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM ELAB PINR KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT2569 | KUWAITI NGO SAYS IT WILL BREAK THE IMPASSE OVER [...] (C) Summary: Social Work Society Chairman Faisal Al-Masoud called Poloff to say that the GOK had decided it could not implement the standard domestic worker contract it promised as part of an effort to improve the lot of domestic workers because of popular opposition. Al-Masoud claims he h [...] |
2006-06-27 14:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT3322 | NEW SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND LABOR MINISTER LISTS [...] (C/NF) Summary: New Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Shaykh Sabah Al-Khalid told the Ambassador August 15 that he intended to improve Kuwait's international image through better oversight of charities and strengthening the legal protections for Kuwait's expatriate worker population. He [...] |
2006-08-16 10:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM SOCI PGOV PTER KU TIP KTFN |
| 06KUWAIT3440 | AMBASSADOR ENCOURAGES GOK TO STRENGTHEN EFFORTS TO [...] (C/NF) The Ambassador met August 22 with Kuwaiti First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, and Minister of the Interior Shaykh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah to review ongoing GOK efforts to strengthen legal protections for foreign domestic workers. He had a similar meeting with new [...] |
2006-08-23 10:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT3741 | KUWAIT TAKES ACTION ON KEY TIP ACTION PLAN ITEMS: [...] (C/NF) Summary. The GOK has made progress on a number of key items on the Kuwait TIP Tier 2 Watchlist Action Plan. The Ministry of Interior announced the implementation of a standardized domestic worker contract beginning October 1. Post will monitor implementation closely. GOK contacts hav [...] |
2006-09-18 07:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ELAB PHUM KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT3747 | POST MARKS LAUNCH OF 2006 TIP ESF PROJECT FOR [...] (SBU) The Ambassador hosted a reception on September 12 to mark the launch of Project FALCON (Fostering Awareness of Labor Conditions) (ref E). The project is funded through G/TIP ESF funds and is designed to raise awareness among foreign workers of their rights and responsibilities while w [...] |
2006-09-19 06:34:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT3993 | GOK CONFIRMS THAT STANDARDIZED DOMESTIC LABOR [...] (C/NF) PolCounselor and PolOff visited Abdullah Al-Ruwaih, the Director of Immigration at the Ministry of Interior (MOI), on October 3 to inquire about the Ministry's plans to begin enforcing the standardized, three-party domestic labor contract on October 1. Al-Ruwaih confirmed that as of [...] |
2006-10-04 13:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT410 | ROBOTS REQUIRED AT KUWAIT CAMEL RACING [...] On February 5, Poloff and LES Pol Assistant attended the opening day of the Sixth Annual Camel Racing Championship, which runs through February 9. Robots have been used in the more minor races leading up to this event (ref A). This was the first of the annual championship races in Kuwait, how [...] |
2006-02-06 14:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV ELAB KCRM KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT4351 | NGOS SAY NEW DOMESTIC LABOR CONTRACT IS A FIRST [...] (C/NF) Summary. After more than a year of delay, the GOK recently implemented a rule that all domestic laborers coming to Kuwait must sign a standard, three-party (recruitment agency, worker, employer/sponsor) contract. The contract provides for, among other things, minimum wages and daily [...] |
2006-11-05 05:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM ELAB IN SL ET KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT436 | FY 2007 ESF PROPOSAL: "PROJECT RESPECT" TO RAISE [...] Embassy Kuwait requests ESF funding for an anti-Trafficking in Persons (TIP) campaign targeted primarily at increasing protection for East and South Asian workers, the most vulnerable labor communities in Kuwait. Project RESPECT (Reaching Employers and Sponsors to Prevent and End Crimes of T [...] |
2006-02-07 14:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM SMIG ELAB EAID KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT4463 | KUWAIT TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (C/NF) The GOK has provided Post with updated figures on prosecutions of trafficking-related crimes (Kuwait does not have a specific anti-trafficking law). The statistics address some of the deficiencies noted in last year's figures in that they specify not only the number of convictions, but [...] |
2006-11-15 13:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT4649 | FILIPINO LABOR ATTACHE SAYS MINIMUM WAGE FOR [...] (C/NF) PolOff met with Filipino Labor Attache Leopoldo De Jesus on December 12 to discuss recent reports that the Philippines intends to increase the monthly minimum wage for Filipino domestic workers from USD 200 to USD 400. De Jesus verified that all domestic workers leaving the Philippine [...] |
2006-12-13 12:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KHUM ELAB RP KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT632 | NEW SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND LABOR MINISTER RECEPTIVE TO [...] (C) The Ambassador met February 22 with new Minister for Social Affairs and Labor Shaykh Ali Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah to congratulate him on his post and used the occasion to raise U.S. concerns about the insufficient protection of expatriate worker rights. The Ambassador stated that protection of [...] |
2006-02-23 09:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT745 | LABOR MINISTER TO REVITALIZE EXPAT LABOR COMMITTEE [...] (U) Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Shaykh Ali Al-Jarrah publicly announced that Prime Minister Shaykh Nasser Mohammad has personally asked him to fight residence-permit trading and other violations of expatriate worker rights. The statement was covered in the March 1st edition of the lo [...] |
2006-03-05 10:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM ELAB KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT759 | MINISTRY OF LABOR SAYS EXPATRIATE LABORERS CAN [...] (U) Hamad Al-Ma'dadi, Assistant Undersecretary for Labor at Kuwait's Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL), issued instructions in mid-February to allow expatriates whose families live in Kuwait to stay in the country temporarily if the company that sponsors them is shut down for viol [...] |
2006-03-06 13:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PHUM KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT849 | IMPLEMENTATION OF STANDARD DOMESTIC LABOR CONTRACT [...] (U) The GOK has decided to again delay the implementation of its standard domestic labor contract until August. The three-party contract is between the worker, the employer/sponsor, and the Kuwaiti recruitment agency and clearly spells out wages, benefits, breaks and other working conditions [...] |
2006-03-13 14:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT921 | IMPLEMENTATION OF STANDARD DOMESTIC LABOR CONTRACT [...] (U) The GOK has decided to again delay the implementation of its standard domestic labor contract until August. The three-party contract is between the worker, the employer/sponsor, and the Kuwaiti recruitment agency and clearly spells out wages, benefits, breaks and other working conditions [...] |
2006-03-18 10:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT972 | FREEDOM AGENDA: THE PROPOSED NEW LABOR LAW: [...] (U) Summary: The Government has identified passing a new Labor Law as one of its legislative priorities, though Post contacts doubt its passage in the short term. The Kuwait Bar Association held March 13 a seminar to debate the benefits of a proposed new Labor Law. The participants, represen [...] |
2006-03-20 09:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM KU TIP |
| 06KUWAIT976 | IOM'S EFFORT TO ESTABLISH MIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER [...] (SBU) The UAE Permanent Mission in Geneva sent a letter on February 8 to the Geneva headquarters of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) stating that the GCC countries would not host a migrant resource center. Mohammad Al-Nassery, IOM Chief of Mission in Kuwait, presented a copy [...] |
2006-03-20 13:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 07HANOI1594 | VIETNAM TO DRAFT NEW TIP LAW, IMPROVE INTER-AGENCY [...] (SBU) On June 27, the GVN issued a new Directive to strengthen, midterm, the implementation of its six-year National Program of Action against Crimes of Trafficking in Women and Children. The new anti-TIP Directive calls for greater GVN inter-agency cooperation, greater scrutiny of export labo [...] |
2007-09-07 09:06:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV TIP ELAB KWMN KCRM SMIG PREL VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY155 | CONDITIONS IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: DEBRIEFING NEW VISAS-93 [...] (SBU) Summary: In early February, ConGen conducted private interviews in HCMC with six VISAS-93 (family reunification) ethnic minority applicant families from the Central Highlands. The results are consistent with previous rounds of interviews and show improvement in overall conditions for e [...] |
2007-02-14 04:13:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CVIS KWMN TIP ELAB SMIG SOCI TW VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY191 | MEKONG DELTA PROVINCES STRUGGLE TO COMBAT TIP [...] (SBU) Officials in the Mekong Delta told us they were conducting three investigations of trafficking-in-persons (TIP) involving at least 35 women trafficked to Malaysia, Cambodia and, possibly, South Korea for sex exploitation and forced marriages. Six suspects had been arrested and an Interp [...] |
2007-03-01 09:49:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CVIS KWMN TIP ELAB SMIG SOCI TW VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY196 | HCMC POLICE CONTACT ON TIP CONCERNS [...] (SBU) On February 23, PolOff met with Colonel Hoang Tan Viet, Deputy Director of Criminal Police of the HCMC Ministry of Public Security (MPS) to follow up the status of the investigation into an international trafficking-in- persons ring that reportedly involved over 100 Vietnamese women from [...] |
2007-03-02 08:34:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CVIS KWMN TIP ELAB SMIG SOCI TW VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY90 | POLICE BUST MALAYSIA-LINKED TIP GANGS IN HCMC AND MEKONG [...] (SBU) On January 17, we called the senior HCMC Ministry of Public Security official in charge of trafficking in persons to discuss HCMC press reports that police broke up two criminal rings trafficking Vietnamese women to Malaysia for prostitution. According to the official, on January 10, po [...] |
2007-01-25 03:57:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CVIS KWMN TIP ELAB SMIG SOCI TW VM |
| 07KUWAIT1006 | FOREIGN MINISTER TAKES INTEREST IN EMBASSY [...] (SBU) At a June 26 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah inquired about why Kuwait had been listed lower than the United Arab Emirates on the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. Ambassador said that he did not know, but the UAE had apparent [...] |
2007-06-27 13:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV ELAB AE KU TIP |
| 07KUWAIT1070 | TIP REPORT FOLLOWUP: GOK TARGETS 60-DAY REVIEW, [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Kuwait's placement on Tier Three of the TIP report has generated a great deal of interest in the three weeks since the report's release. The newspapers have devoted significant space to the report. Many of the stories have been critical, but many have also used the [...] |
2007-07-07 11:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV ELAB KU TIP |
| 07KUWAIT1099 | LABOR MINISTER TO TAKE "TIP" BULL BY THE HORNS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Shaykh Sabah Al-Khalid told the Ambassador on July 9 that the Cabinet had focused its attention on trafficking and had given him full authorization to take decisive steps on fighting trafficking in persons. The Minister hinted th [...] |
2007-07-10 13:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 07KUWAIT1124 | FM'S CHIEF OF STAFF EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT U.S. [...] (C/NF) Dr. Ahmed Nasser Mohammed Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah's Chief of Staff, told Charge during a July 15 office call that Kuwait viewed the prospect of an "early" U.S. withdrawal from Iraq with great concern. H [...] |
2007-07-16 11:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ELAB PGOV PHUM PREL KU TIP |
| 07KUWAIT1166 | GOK APPROVES TIP SHELTER, OUTLAWS PASSPORT [...] (C/NF) Summary and Comment: Highlighting his personal commitment to fighting TIP, the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor made an unexpected personal appearance at PolOff's July 22 meeting with a ministry official to provide the Embassy with a copy of a ministerial decree authorizing the e [...] |
2007-07-24 15:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 07KUWAIT1246 | FILIPINO ENVOY RESEARCHING TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 7, a Filipino Presidential Envoy visited Post as part of a fact-finding mission in the investigation of reports of Filipino citizens being trafficked by a Kuwaiti firm into Iraq to build the new American Embassy. According to the delegation, the Kuwaiti firm is coope [...] |
2007-08-13 10:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM TIP KU |
| 07KUWAIT1251 | KUWAIT TIP ACTION PLAN REVIEW [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the past sixty days, the GOK has made progress on G/TIP's Short-Term Action Plan (Ref B). The Government of Kuwait (GOK) has drafted anti-TIP legislation, criminalized the withholding of passports, provided concrete examples of TIP criminal prosecution, authorized the esta [...] |
2007-08-14 13:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV ELAB BG RP KU TIP |
| 07KUWAIT1397 | PHILIPPINES AMBASSADOR: KUWAIT "WORST" PLACE FOR [...] (C/NF) Summary: Filipino Ambassador Ricardo Endaya told the Charge on September 3 that Kuwait is the "worst" country in the Gulf region for domestic workers. He said the shelter at his embassy houses more runaway domestic workers (200) than any other Filipino Embassy shelter in the world. [...] |
2007-09-16 06:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM ELAB RP KU TIP |
| 07KUWAIT1413 | MFA U/S SUPPORTS U.S. IN IRAQ, IRAN AND TIP [...] (C) On September 17, Charge met with Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Suliman Al-Jarallah to deliver reftel demarche and discuss the positive role of the U.S. in Iraq, the French FM's remarks on Iran and how trafficking in persons is damaging Kuwait's image. End summ [...] |
2007-09-19 11:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KU PINR TIP |
| 07KUWAIT1421 | DOMESTIC WORKER SHELTER NEARS COMPLETION [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 18, GOK officials gave PolOff a tour of the GOK's shelter for potential victims of trafficking, which is scheduled to open by September 26. The two-building complex is basic but clean. It has recreation and kitchen facilities and will be able to house approxima [...] |
2007-09-20 09:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 07KUWAIT1489 | KUWAIT'S DOMESTIC WORKER SHELTER OPERATIONAL; GOK [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Mark Lagon, Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP), visited Kuwait on September 26 to review Kuwait's progress on its 60-day action plan and to engage high-level GOK officials on combating TIP. The highlight of the trip was a tour o [...] |
2007-10-09 05:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ELAB PHUM KU TIP |
| 07KUWAIT1571 | KUWAITI POLICE WELCOME TIP TRAINING; REQUEST U.S. [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) PolOff met on October 28 with Brigadier General Dr. Hassan Hussayn Al-Abdulsalam, Director of Kuwait's Police Academy, to stress the importance of training police officers to identify potential TIP victims and to handle poten [...] |
2007-11-01 09:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 07KUWAIT1623 | KUWAIT'S TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. Following the very positive development of establishing a shelter for domestic workers, Kuwait has not taken addditional actions to improve its efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) since Ambassador Lagon's September 26 visit and the subsequent October 18 Tier placem [...] |
2007-11-15 15:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV ELAB KU TIP |
| 07KUWAIT1769 | NEW MINISTER OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND LABOR ON TIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 13, CDA met with MoSAL/Justice Minister Jamal Ahmed Al-Shihab. The Minister said that the GOK was appreciative of external pressure (up to a point) to resolve TIP issues and promised to partner with the Embassy to make further progress on TIP. Minister Al-Shihab was [...] |
2007-12-31 04:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB KIPR KU PGOV PHUM PREL KTFN TIP |
| 07KUWAIT239 | PROGRESS FOR DOMESTIC WORKERS SLOWED BY BUREACRACY [...] (C/NF) Summary: GOK attempts to address the abuse of domestic workers through a mandatory contract have so far fallen short, with the contracts proving difficult or impossible to enforce. GOK enforcement officials acknowledge unscrupulous practices at domestic recruitment offices, but expre [...] |
2007-02-19 11:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM ELAB ID KU TIP |
| 07KUWAIT359 | UNDP REPORTS PROGRESS ON KUWAIT-HOSTED LABOR [...] (C/NF) UNDP Kuwait Deputy Director Mohammad Al-Nassery told PolOff on March 10 that the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor (MOSAL) had written a letter formally approving a Kuwait-hosted international labor conference in May. The conference would bring together mid-level representatives of [...] |
2007-03-11 14:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 07KUWAIT382 | TIP UPDATE: KUWAIT'S DOMESTIC LABOR AWARENESS [...] (SBU) Saad Al-Hajji and Eqbal Mallallah, the Director and Assistant Director of the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs' National Project to Raise Awareness of Domestic Workers (the project is also known as "Barirah," after one of the prophet's wife Aisha's female servants), met with PolOf [...] |
2007-03-14 13:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 07KUWAIT475 | TIP UPDATE ON PROSECUTIONS, SHELTER, LABOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOK recently provided a response to formal questions regarding this year's TIP report, including an update of prosecution figures. The response states that Kuwait has agreed to establish a shelter for domestic workers, though further clarification is needed. The respons [...] |
2007-04-04 06:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM ELAB KU TIP |
| 07KUWAIT938 | KUWAITIS DEFENSIVE ABOUT TIER 3 TIP RANKING, [...] (SBU) Summary: The demotion of Kuwait to Tier 3 in the 2007 TIP report garnered a great deal of attention. Kuwaiti officials criticized the TIP report as inaccurate, but pledged to continue working with the U.S. on anti-TIP efforts. Officials and a number of columnists attacked the U.S. h [...] |
2007-06-18 11:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV ELAB BG RP KU TIP |
| 07KUWAIT952 | UN LABOR CONFERENCE IN KUWAIT IN DOUBT, MAY MOVE [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke with UN Resident Representative Valerie Cliff by telephone on June 16. He urged the ILO (International Labor Organization) positions on TIP and the labor situation in the region be made clear, since local officials are claiming that the ILO has not criticized local [...] |
2007-06-19 13:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB AE SA QA KU TIP |
| 07NICOSIA1010 | DECEMBER 2007 TIP UPDATE: CHURCH OF CYPRUS JOINS [...] SUMMMARY: December proved a busy and fruitful month in the fight against trafficking in persons (TIP) in Cyprus. First, a new and highly-visible actor -- the Church of Cyprus -- vowed to "get involved" in combating trafficking. The Church intends to study the severity of TIP on the island and [...] |
2007-12-27 13:51:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL TIP KCRM KWMN CY |
| 07NICOSIA80 | NEW MAYOR OUTLINES PRIORITIES, AMONG THEM TIP [...] (U) SUMMARY: The fight against trafficking in persons "ought to be a priority," new Nicosia Mayor Eleni Mavrou told the Ambassador January 26. Revealing the municipality had not yet finalized its strategic plans, Mavrou promised her team would search out areas where it could take action on [...] |
2007-01-29 15:04:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UNFICYP TIP CY |
| 07NICOSIA881 | EMBASSY NICOSIA, CYPRIOT NGO ANTI-TRAFFICKING [...] SUMMARY: In addressing the grave problem of trafficking in persons in Cyprus, Embassy Nicosia has adopted a multi-pronged, multi-sector strategy that leverages the efforts of our Bicommunal Support Program (BSP), Public Affairs Section (PAS), USAID mission, Political Section (POL), and Regio [...] |
2007-11-02 07:53:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL TIP KCRM KWMN CY |
| 07RIYADH2453 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MINISTER OF LABOR GHAZI [...] Summary. During the Ambassador's call on Minister of Labor Ghazi al-Gosaibi on December 10, al-Gosaibi discussed the challenge of curbing Saudi unemployment in the midst of demographic expansion. Al-Gosaibi explained that he is trying to make employing Saudis more attractive by making hirin [...] |
2007-12-10 15:27:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM TIP SA |
| 08AMMAN1262 | CIRCUMSTANCES OF REMAINING VIETNAMESE WORKERS AT [...] (SBU) On April 24 PolCouns paid another visit to W&D Apparel Company in the Tajamouat Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) to follow up on the conditions of the remaining 101 Vietnamese laborers after the departure from Jordan of over 150 Vietnamese (refs A and B) and in light of continuing accusa [...] |
2008-04-24 15:25:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM TIP JO VM |
| 08ANKARA1709 | TURKEY/TIP: NEW PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The GOT has launched a media campaign, including posters, TV and radio spots, to raise public awareness of TIP and promote the "157" hotline, and is taking additional steps to generate public support in the fight against TIP. A draft GOT-commissioned report on demand for TIP i [...] |
2008-09-25 12:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TIP SMIG PHUM KWMN KFRD ASEC ELAB TU |
| 08ANKARA1956 | COMBATING TIP IN TURKEY: UNEVEN PROGRESS TOWARD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkey is facing a number of deadlines in 2009 in achieving long-term and sustainable support for core aspects of its anti-trafficking program: the TIP shelters and the "157" hotline. Our EU, NGO and GOT contacts remain confident that Turkey will do so, but the effort has take [...] |
2008-11-12 15:44:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | TIP SMIG PHUM KWMN KFRD ASEC ELAB TU |
| 08HANOI309 | GVN REACTS TO LABOR CASES IN JORDAN, MALAYSIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The GVN is reacting to two recent high-profile labor cases, one involving 176 female garment workers on strike in Jordan and one regarding Vietnamese worker deaths in Malaysia. On March 13, Dao Cong Hai, Deputy Director General, Department of Overseas Labor of the GVN Ministry o [...] |
2008-03-17 04:34:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV TIP ELAB KWMN KCRM SMIG PREL VM |
| 08HANOI356 | MFA ON JORDAN LABOR CASE AND IOM ROLE [...] (SBU) Summary: PolCouns held a detailed one-hour meeting on March 27 with MFA Consular Department Chief of Overseas Consular Affairs Vu Le Ha regarding resolution of the case of over 200 Vietnamese factory workers on strike in Amman, Jordan. PolCouns stressed the benefit of involving the Inter [...] |
2008-03-27 10:22:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV TIP ELAB KWMN KCRM SMIG PREL VM |
| 08HANOI400 | STRIKING OVERSEAS WORKERS RETURN FROM JORDAN; PAID STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 31, the last group of 157 striking overseas Vietnamese garment workers (Refs, A-C) were repatriated from Jordan and 156 arrived at Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport. According to knowledegable third party sources, en route to Hanoi one of the returnees broke off from the group in [...] |
2008-04-08 10:10:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV TIP ELAB KWMN KCRM SMIG PREL VM |
| 08HANOI429 | VIETNAM SIGNS ANTI-TIP COOPERATION MOU WITH THAILAND [...] (SBU) On March 24, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Royal Thai Government (RTG) on strengthening cooperation between the two countries on eliminating trafficking in persons (TIP) and providing assistance to TIP victims. According to Senior Lie [...] |
2008-04-14 08:06:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV TIP ELAB PREL KWMN KCRM SMIG TH VM |
| 08HANOI435 | ENGAGING VIETNAM ON TIP [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent high-profile labor dispute involving Vietnamese workers in Jordan threatens to distract attention from the steady and increasing progress Vietnam continues to make on its anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) efforts. Despite the significant efforts the GVN has made particu [...] |
2008-04-14 08:52:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV TIP ELAB KWMN KCRM SMIG PREL VM |
| 08HANOI471 | VIETNAM TAKES ON OVERSEAS EMPLOYMENT BROKERS [...] (SBU) Summary: The GVN is completing investigation of a recent series of export-labor fraud cases, 80 percent of which involved Vietnamese laborers recruited to work in South Korea. Over 100 individuals, involved in the 2006-2007 labor brokerage fee scam, have been prosecuted for taking advant [...] |
2008-04-23 09:52:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV TIP ELAB KWMN KCRM SMIG PREL VM |
| 08HANOI663 | VIETNAM - 2008 TIP REPORT DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) On June 4, Poloff delivered the 2008 TIP Report Country Narrative for Vietnam, as well as reftel talking points, to Mr. Pham Hoang Tung, Chief of the Legal and Consular Affairs Division, Consular Department, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Poloff reviewed with Tung the recommend [...] |
2008-06-05 09:18:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV TIP ELAB KWMN KCRM SMIG PREL VM |
| 08HOCHIMINHCITY964 | TIP ARRESTS AND PROSECUTIONS IN HCMC ON THE RISE, VICTIMS [...] Summary. The GVN continues make strides in arresting and prosecuting human traffickers in HCMC and prosecute those responsible for trafficking in persons, with two new investigations underway and a stiff sentence upheld at a trafficker's appeals trial in October. Anti-TIP NGO AFESIP says coo [...] |
2008-10-27 02:40:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV TIP KWMN KCRM VM |
| 08KUWAIT613 | THE IMPORTANCE (AND FINANCIAL BENEFITS) OF BEING [...] (C) For a small country with a population of approximately 3.2 million, Kuwait possesses tremendous wealth; according the CIA World Fact Book, Kuwait has the world's sixth largest GDP per capita in terms of purchasing power. Kuwaiti citizens, an exclusive group that makes up about one third of [...] |
2008-05-28 11:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD TIP KU |
| 08KUWAIT772 | KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - Update: TIP Report Coverage in [...] (U) Summary. The TIP report's June 4 release triggered a plethora of articles, editorials, and op-eds responding to the report's contents. Initially, articles harshly challenged the report's content; some articles continued to cover the Government of Kuwait's (GOK) refutation of the report's [...] |
2008-07-09 03:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU TIP MEDIA REACTION |
| 08KUWAIT782 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES RIHS AND TIP WITH THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador discussed the UNSCR 1267 designation of Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) (Ref B) and TIP July 9 with Hussain Nasser Al-Huraiti, the new Minister of Justice and Minister of Awqaf (religious endowments) and Islamic Affairs. The Minister, a RIHS boardmember, de [...] |
2008-07-10 09:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KTFN KISL TIP KU |
| 08KUWAIT799 | GOK RESPONSE TO 2008 TIP REPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the weeks since the release of the 2008 TIP report, Kuwait's Tier 3 ranking has received widespread media coverage and appears to have galvanized members of the newly appointed government and some MPs to rally behind the cause of combating TIP. Initial media coverage was nega [...] |
2008-07-16 09:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SOCI KWMN TIP |
| 08KUWAIT913 | MOVING KUWAIT FORWARD ON LABOR STANDARDS [...] (C) Embassy examined with interest and appreciation Ref A suggestion that we explore addressing labor rights abuses in Kuwait through a trilateral meeting with Kuwaiti and Bangladeshi officials followed by a series of multilateral roundtables with representatives of all major labor-sending cou [...] |
2008-08-21 15:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV TIP KU |
| 08NICOSIA125 | G/TIP VISITOR SEES FIRST-HAND CYPRIOT EFFORTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: G/TIP Official Jennifer Donnelly visited Cyprus January 31 - February 2 to evaluate RoC efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) on the island. In her meetings, Donnelly acknowledged government successes, such as the recent passage of comprehensive anti-TIP legislation an [...] |
2008-02-22 07:14:00 | Embassy Nicosia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TIP KCRM KWMN CY |
| 08STATE120334 | OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO THE SPECIAL [...] (U) Post is authorized to make the following statement at the November 13 meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin Text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is a pleasure to welcome Special Representative Biaudet to the Permanent Council today. Your report bears witness to the [...] |
2008-11-12 23:58:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PGOV PREL TIP |
| 09BAGHDAD3080 | EMBASSY BAGHDAD 2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Human trafficking for the purposes of labor and sexual exploitation continues to be a problem in Iraq according to senior GOI and judicial officials. While the GOI has drafted legislation to prosecute and punish those who engage in trafficking, the draft law remains stalled i [...] |
2009-11-24 12:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ TIP NEA RA |
| 09HANOI1 | Repatriated Vietnamese Workers Face Debt and Bureaucratic [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a series of interviews conducted in November and December, ten Vietnamese workers repatriated from Jordan in March 2008 shared stories of their recruitment, treatment in Jordan, and the February 2008 strike that ultimately led to their return to Vietnam, as well as their exp [...] |
2009-01-02 02:31:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV TIP KWMN KCRM VM |
| 09HANOI64 | Vietnam-China Border Issues in Lang Son Province [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the recent announcement of the completion of border demarcation between China and Vietnam (Ref A), the DCM visited the Chinese border province of Lang Son January 7 - 8. Provincial officials emphasized expanding trade relations with China while admitting a growing tra [...] |
2009-01-23 06:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV TIP KWMN KCRM SNAR VM |
| 09MOSCOW2722 | MOSCOW'S CHINESE DIASPORA A WIN-WIN FOR RUSSIA AND [...] 4 (b). Â [...] |
2009-11-03 12:51:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR ECON ETRD KCOR SMIG TIP RS |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT711 | SLAVERY IN MAURITANIA: AN OVERVIEW AND ACTION PLAN [...] (C) Summary: A deeply entrenched social, cultural and economic phenomenon, slavery is present in both the Moor and Afro-Mauritanian communities and is linked to a caste system rather than exclusively racial considerations. Slavery practices still exist in many forms -- from the most tradit [...] |
2009-11-03 16:10:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM TIP PGOV KDEM MR |
| 09NOUAKCHOTT718 | SOMEBODY'S PROPERTY: SLAVE VICTIMS TALK ABOUT [...] (C) On November 5, PolOff had the rare opportunity to meet with nine "runaway slaves" from the Eastern city of Bassikounou in the Hodh Echargui region. These slavery victims traveled to Nouakchott at SOS Esclaves' invitation to tell their stories to UN Special Rapporteur for Contemporary Fo [...] |
2009-11-05 15:37:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MR KDEM TIP |
| 10BAGHDAD385 | 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS INFORMATION FOR IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary: This is post's summary of trafficking in persons activities for the period of mid- February 2009 to mid-February 2010. Despite numerous issues facing the Government of Iraq (GOI) during this reporting period, it has taken decisive steps towards addressing the issue of human t [...] |
2010-02-15 05:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TIP LAURA PENA INL DRL PRM NEA RA KTIP |
| 10BAGHDAD480 | TIP IN IRAQ: DIVISION AND MOMENTUM [...] (C) Summary: Discussions with Government of Iraq (GOI) officials, as well as political developments, indicate that trafficking in persons (TIP) remains a divisive topic, but one whose profile is rising. Recent movement on the GOI's anti-trafficking draft legislation has emboldened various [...] |
2010-02-23 11:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | TIP DRL NEA RA KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB |
| 10BAGHDAD74 | S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSAL: WOMEN TRAFFICKING VICTIMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the absence of comprehensive data, trafficking of women and girls for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and indentured servitude in Iraq appears to be a persistent and widespread problem. As the Government of Iraq (GOI) has not taken significant steps to [...] |
2010-01-12 05:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM TIP AID SGWI TRSY ODAG |
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* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment), services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS), anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR), and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works), industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP), namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN), and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP), Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
By year:
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment), services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS), anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR), and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works), industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP), namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN), and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP), Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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