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.
Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record
Released April 5, 2007
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.
Country Reports on Terrorism
This report is submitted in compliance with Title 22 of the United States Code, Section 2656(f) (the "Act"), which requires the Department of State to provide Congress with a full and complete annual report on terrorism for those countries and groups meeting the criteria of Section (a)(1) and (2) of the Act. (Previously Patterns of Global Terrorism)
Full text of the 2006 Report (pdf) (released on April 30, 2007)
Country Reports (pdf):
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2005 |
2004 Please scroll down in the reports to see the narrative on Bulgaria.
International Narcotics Control Strategy Report -2007
The 2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is an annual report that describes the efforts of key countries to attack all aspects of the international drug trade in Calendar Year 2006.
The Department of State's International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) - due to Congress March 1st annually - is prepared in accordance with §489 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (the "FAA," 22 U.S.C. §2291). The INCSR is the United States Government's country-by-country two volume report that describes the efforts to attack all aspects of the international drug trade, chemical control, money laundering and financial crimes.
Note: The annual Narcotics Control Reports have been renamed starting with the March 2005 report to reflect the year they were released to the public. Therefore, there is no "2004 INCSR." The 2005 report covers 2004. The 2006 report will cover 2005, etc.
International Religious Freedom Report
Reports on Bulgaria: 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 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 2008 Report (released on June 4, 2008) Country Narratives: 2008| 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004
Please scroll down in the reports to see the narratives on Bulgaria. Report on Global Anti-Semitism
This report gives an account of acts of anti-Semitism worldwide and efforts to eradicate them.
Full text of the Report (released on March 13, 2008)
Please scroll down in the report to see the narrative on Bulgaria.
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