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Encyclopedia > Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
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Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress. The reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.


One country, the People's Republic of China, has responded to frequent criticism in this report by releasing its own annual report titled the "Human Rights Record of the United States." The Human Rights Record of the United States (informally referred to as the China Human Rights Report) is an annual publication of the Information Office of Chinas State Council, an agency of the government of the Peoples Republic of China. ...


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Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2004 (8090 words)
The report entitled "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices" is submitted to the Congress by the Department of State in compliance with sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA), as amended, and section 504 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended.
Thus the reports assess key internationally recognized worker rights, including the right of association, the right to organize and bargain collectively, prohibition of forced or compulsory labor, the status of child labor practices, and the minimum age for employment of children, and acceptable work conditions.
In a number of countries, one of the most significant problems related to the abuse of women and children is the failure of the state to combat vigorously against conditions that engender the trafficking of women and children.
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