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Viewing cable 09STATE111958, EAP: INSTRUCTIONS FOR 2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
09STATE111958 2009-10-29 22:45 2011-08-30 01:44 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Secretary of State
VZCZCXRO4039
PP RUEHKN
DE RUEHC #1958/01 3022306
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 292245Z OCT 09
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING PRIORITY 1073
RUEHKN/AMEMBASSY KOLONIA PRIORITY 2143
RUEHML/AMEMBASSY MANILA PRIORITY 2924
RUEHPF/AMEMBASSY PHNOM PENH PRIORITY 0352
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 STATE 111958 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KCRM KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG RP CB CH FM
SUBJECT: EAP: INSTRUCTIONS FOR 2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT 
 
REF: NONE 
 
1.(U) This is an action cable; action request in paras 5 and 
6. 
 
2.(SBU) The Trafficking Victims Protection Act, as amended in 
2003, requires the Secretary of State to submit a "Special 
Watch List" of countries on the TIP Report that either 1) had 
moved up a tier on the TIP Report over the last year or 2) 
were ranked on Tier 2 but a) had not shown evidence of 
increasing efforts to address severe forms of TIP from the 
previous year, b) were placed on Tier 2 because of 
commitments to carry out additional future actions over the 
coming year, or c) had a significant or significantly 
increasing number of victims of severe forms of TIP. 
 
3.(SBU) The "Special Watch List" has been submitted to 
Congress, as required, along with the President's 
determinations for sanctions of Tier 3 countries.  The TVPA, 
as amended, now requires the Secretary to submit to Congress 
an Interim Assessment on the Special Watch List countries no 
later than February 1, 2010. 
 
4.(SBU) The Interim Assessment, which the Department plans to 
release on January 5, 2010, will serve as a narrowly-focused 
progress report, assessing only a country's key deficiency(s) 
highlighted in the June 2009 TIP Report.  Measuring progress 
or lack of progress in addressing these deficiencies (the 
basis for which the country was placed on the Watch List 
initially) is the main purpose of the Interim Assessment. 
This will not/not serve as a large-scale analysis of 
anti-trafficking efforts in the relevant country.  Similarly, 
it will not describe the trafficking problem in that country 
(readers can refer to the 2009 TIP Report for that). 
Finally, it will not mention Tiers or allude to progress in 
achieving a higher tier or, conversely, forecast a fall to a 
lower tier. 
 
5.(U) Action Request for Action Addressees:  Please answer 
the questions addressed to your Post in para 6 in concise 
analytical terms, citing examples of the progress (or lack 
thereof) sparingly.  Post's submission should not exceed four 
or five paragraphs.  The final Interim Assessment will 
include a narrative of no more than half a page on each 
country's progress.  Please provide these responses to the 
Department via front-channel cable -- slugged for EAP/RSP and 
G/TIP -- no later than November 16. 
 
6. (U) Interim Assessment Requirements: 
 
A.  FOR EMBASSY BEJING:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of China has made in (a) 
revising anti-trafficking laws and the National Plan of 
Action to criminalize and address all forms of labor and sex 
trafficking in a manner consistent with international 
standards; (b) significantly improving efforts to investigate 
and prosecute trafficking offenses and convicting and 
punishing trafficking offenders, including public officials 
complicit in trafficking; (c) increasing efforts to address 
labor trafficking, including prosecuting and punishing 
recruiters and employers who facilitate forced labor and debt 
bondage, and providing protection services to victims of 
forced labor; (d) continuing to increase cooperation with 
foreign governments on cross-border trafficking cases; (e) 
adopting proactive procedures to identify victims of 
trafficking among vulnerable groups, such as migrant workers 
and foreign women and children arrested for prostitution; (f) 
increasing efforts to protect and rehabilitate both sex and 
labor trafficking victims; (g) providing foreign victims with 
legal alternatives to removal to countries in which they may 
face hardship of retribution; (h) conducting a campaign to 
reduce the demand for forced labor and commercial sex acts; 
and (i) adhering to its obligations as party to the 1951 
Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, including by not 
expelling North Koreans protected under those treaties and by 
cooperating with UNHCR in the exercise of its functions. 
Please report on any other significant developments. 
 
B. FOR EMBASSY PHNOM PENH:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of Cambodia has made in (a) 
training law enforcement and other government officials to 
place greater emphasis on enforcing the human trafficking 
provisions in the February 2008 law; (b) significantly 
improving the number of prosecutions, convictions and 
punishments of trafficking offenders; (c) substantially 
 
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improving efforts to prosecute, convict and criminally punish 
public officials complicit in trafficking; (d) holding labor 
recruiting agencies criminally responsible for labor 
trafficking induced by fraudulent recruitment; (e) improving 
interagency cooperation and collaboration, particularly 
between government officials and law enforcement officers 
working on trafficking; (f) increasing efforts to proactively 
identify victims of trafficking among vulnerable groups such 
as foreign women and children arrested for prostitution; (g) 
instituting procedures to ensure that victims are not 
arrested, incarcerated, or otherwise punished for acts 
committed as a direct result of being trafficked; and (h) 
conducting a public awareness campaign aimed at reducing 
demand by the local population and Asian visitors for 
commercial sex acts. Please report on any other significant 
developments. 
 
C. FOR EMBASSY KOLONIA:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of the Federated States of 
Micronesia has made in (a) developing and implementing a 
comprehensive federal anti-human trafficking law; (b) 
creating or supporting campaigns to educate and inform the 
public about the dangers of trafficking; (c) monitoring the 
practices of overseas employment recruiters and investigating 
recruiters who may be involved in trafficking; and (d) 
developing an internal structure which ensures victims' 
access to protective services. Please report on any other 
significant developments. 
 
D. FOR EMBASSY MANILA:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of the Philippines has made in 
(a) significantly improving efforts to prosecute, convict, 
and punish trafficking offenders, including officials 
complicit in trafficking; (b) dedicating more resources to 
efforts to prosecute trafficking cases; (c) assessing methods 
to measure and address domestic labor trafficking; (d) 
implementing anti-trafficking awareness campaigns directed at 
domestic and foreign clients of the sex trade in the 
Philippines; (e) dedicating increased funding for the 
Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking and improving 
anti-trafficking coordination between government agencies; 
(f) disseminating information on the 2003 law throughout the 
country; and (g) training law enforcement officers and 
prosecutors on the use of the 2003 law.  Please report on any 
other significant developments. 
CLINTON