Embassy of the United States

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 

• 2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (released on May 24, 2012)
• Reports on the Czech Republic: 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004| 2003 | 2002 | 2001
• Reports on Human Rights Practices

International Religious Freedom Report

The International Religious Freedom 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 2011 report 
  (released on July 30, 2012)
• Full text of the 2010 report 
  (released on November 17, 2010) | 2010 Report in Czech (PDF, 280 kB)
• Full text of the 2009 report 
  (released on October 26, 2009) | 2009 Report in Czech (PDF, 260 kB)
• Full text of the 2008 report
  (released on September 19, 2008) | 2008 Report in Czech (PDF, 197 kB)
• Full text of the 2007 report 
  (released on September 14, 2007)

Reports on the Czech Republic:

• 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002

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 2011 report
  (released on June 27, 2011)
• Country Narratives: 2011 (PDF, 3.75 MB) | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004
  Please scroll down in the reports to see the narratives on the Czech Republic.

Terrorism

Country Reports of 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)

Country Reports can be found at http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/. Please scroll down in the reports to see the narrative on the Czech Republic.

International Narcotics

International Narcotics Control Strategy Report

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.

The reports can be found on http://www.state.gov/j/inl/rls/nrcrpt/. Please scroll down in the reports to see the narrative on the Czech Republic.

Global Anti-Semitism

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.

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.

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