state department reports

U.S. Department of State Annual Reports

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

The 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.

• Full text of the 2005 report (released on March 8, 2006)
• Reports on the Czech Republic:
  2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999

Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record

This report is submitted to the Congress by the Department of State in compliance with Section 665 of P.L. 107-228, the Fiscal Year 2003 Foreign Relations Authorization Act, which was signed into law on September 30, 2002. It requires the Department to report on actions taken by the U.S. Government to encourage respect for human rights. This report complements the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.

• 2005-2006 | 2004-2005 | 2003-2004 | 2002-2003

Country Reports on Terrorism

U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism.

• Full text of the 2005 report (pdf) (released on April 28, 2006)
  

International Religious Freedom Report

The report describes the status of religious freedom in each foreign country, government policies violating religious belief and practices of groups, religious denominations, and individuals, and U.S. policies to promote religious freedom around the world. It is submitted in compliance with the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.

• Full text of the 2006 report (released on September 15, 2006)
  Reports on the Czech Republic: 
  2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001

Report on Global Anti-Semitism

This one-time report mandated by the President gives an account of acts of anti-Semitism worldwide and efforts to eradicate them.

• Full text of the report (released on January 5, 2005)
  Please scroll down in the report to see the narrative on the Czech Republic.

Trafficking in Persons Report

The Secretary of State submits the annual "Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000: Trafficking in Persons Report" to Congress. This report covers "severe forms of trafficking in persons" defined as:
"(a) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or (b) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery."

Full text of the 2006 report (released on June 2, 2006)

• Country Narratives: 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 
  Please scroll down in the reports to see the narratives on the Czech Republic.