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TO RUEHAH/AMEMBASSY ASHGABAT PRIORITY 1767-1769
RUEHLM/AMEMBASSY COLOMBO PRIORITY 6212-6214
RUEHKA/AMEMBASSY DHAKA PRIORITY 1978-1980
RUEHDBU/AMEMBASSY DUSHANBE PRIORITY 1460-1462
RUEHIL/AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD PRIORITY 4527-4529
RUEHNE/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI PRIORITY 7623-7625
RUEHNT/AMEMBASSY TASHKENT PRIORITY 1603-1605

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 STATE 114330 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
SIPDIS 
 
C O R R E C T E D COPY CAPTION 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KCRM KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG AJ BG CE IN PK TI UZ
SUBJECT: SCA: INSTRUCTIONS FOR 2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT 
 
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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 SCA/RA and 
G/TIP -- no later than November 16. 
 
6.(U) Interim Assessment Requirements: 
 
¶A. FOR EMBASSY DHAKA:  Please summarize the progress, or lack 
thereof, the Government of Bangladesh has made in: a) 
integrating anti-labor trafficking objectives into national 
anti-trafficking policies and programs; b) significantly 
increasing criminal prosecutions and 
punishments for all forms of labor trafficking, including 
those involving fraudulent labor recruitment and forced child 
labor; c) continuing to investigate and prosecute government 
officials who may be suspected of complicity in trafficking; 
d) greatly improving oversight of Bangladesh,s 700 
international recruiting agencies to ensure they are not 
promoting practices that contribute to labor trafficking; and 
e) providing protection services for adult male trafficking 
victims and victims of forced labor.  Please report on any 
other significant 
developments. 
 
¶B. FOR EMBASSY NEW DELHI:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of India has made in: a) 
continuing to expand central and state government law 
enforcement capacity to conduct intrastate and interstate law 
enforcement activities against trafficking and bonded labor; 
b) considering expanding the Central Ministry of Home Affairs 
&nodal cell8 on trafficking to coordinate law enforcement 
efforts to investigate and arrest traffickers who cross state 
and national lines; c) significantly increasing law 
enforcement efforts to 
decrease official complicity in trafficking, including 
prosecuting, convicting, and punishing complicit officials 
with imprisonment; d) continuing to increase law enforcement 
 
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efforts against sex traffickers, including prosecuting, 
convicting, and punishing traffickers with imprisonment; e) 
improving central and state government implementation of 
protection programs and compensation schemes to ensure that 
certified trafficking victims actually receive benefits, 
including compensation for victims of forced child labor and 
bonded labor, to which they are entitled under national and 
state law; and f) increasing the quantity and breadth of 
public awareness and related programs to prevent both 
trafficking for labor and commercial sex.  Please report on 
any other 
significant developments. 
 
¶C. FOR EMBASSY ISLAMABAD:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of Pakistan has made in: a) 
significantly increasing law enforcement activities, 
including adequate criminal punishment, against bonded labor, 
forced child labor, and fraudulent labor recruiting for 
purposes of trafficking; b) continuing to vigorously 
investigate, prosecute, and punish acts of government 
complicity in trafficking at all levels; and c) expanding 
victim protection services for victims of forced labor and 
sex trafficking.   Please report on any other significant 
developments. 
 
¶D. FOR EMBASSY COLOMBO:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of Sri Lanka has made in: a) 
vigorously investigating and prosecuting suspected 
trafficking offenses and convict and punish trafficking 
offenders, particularly those responsible for recruiting 
victims with fraudulent offers of employment and excessive 
commission fees; b) following through with the creation of 
the national anti-trafficking task force; c) developing and 
implementing through training of law enforcement personnel 
formal victim referral procedures; and d) ensuring that 
victims of trafficking found within Sri Lanka are not 
detained or otherwise penalized for unlawful acts committed 
as a direct result of their being trafficked.  Please report 
on any other significant developments. 
 
¶E. FOR EMBASSY DUSHANBE:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of Tajikistan has made in: a) 
vigorously investigating and prosecuting trafficking 
offenses, especially those involving labor trafficking, and 
convict and punish trafficking offenders with imprisonment; 
b) ensuring better coordination between law enforcement and 
security institutions, particularly the State Committee on 
National Security; c) prosecuting and convicting government 
officials who participate in or facilitate trafficking in 
persons and ensure they serve time in prison; d) ensuring 
identified victims are not assaulted or re-victimized by 
government officials and ensure such allegations of assault 
are fully investigated and culpable offenders are prosecuted 
and criminally punished; e) providing financial or in-kind 
assistance to existing trafficking shelters; f) being 
directly involved in trafficking awareness campaigns, and 
ensuring that anti-trafficking information appears in 
government media outlets; g) prohibiting the forced or 
coerced labor of children and adults in the annual cotton 
harvest by monitoring school and university attendance, 
inspecting cotton fields during the harvest, and enforcing 
existing laws prohibiting the use of forced labor; h) making 
efforts to improve trafficking data collection and analysis; 
and i) developing a victim identification and referral 
mechanism.  Please report on any other significant 
developments. 
 
¶F. FOR EMBASSY ASHGABAT:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of Turkmenistan has made in: a) 
implementing the 2007 Law on the Battle Against Trafficking 
in Persons by completing revisions to the national criminal 
code to prescribe penalties for both sex and labor 
trafficking as defined in the 2007 Law on the Battle Against 
Trafficking in Persons; b) vigorously investigating, 
prosecuting, and convicting trafficking offenders; c) 
investigating individual instances of government officials 
complicit in the facilitation of trafficking d) providing 
victim identification, victim referral, and victim 
sensitivity training for border guards and police; e) 
providing financial assistance to anti-trafficking 
organizations assisting victims; f) continuing to expand and 
improve systematic victim identification and referral 
procedures; g) establishing safeguards and training 
procedures to ensure victims are not punished for acts 
committed as a direct result of trafficking, such as 
migration violations; and h) conducting a trafficking 
 
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awareness campaign to inform the general public about the 
dangers of trafficking.  Please report on any other 
significant developments. 
 
¶G. FOR EMBASSY TASHKENT:  Please summarize the progress, or 
lack thereof, the Government of Uzbekistan has made in: a) 
taking substantive action to end the use of forced labor 
during the annual cotton harvest; b) implementing the 
national anti-trafficking action plan; c) continuing to work 
with UNICEF and improve cooperation with ILO to reduce the 
reliance on forced labor during the annual cotton harvest; d) 
allowing international experts to conduct an independent 
assessment of the use of forced labor during the annual 
cotton harvest; e) investigating, prosecuting, convicting, 
and sentencing government officials complicit in trafficking; 
f) providing financial or in-kind support to anti-trafficking 
NGOs to provide assistance and shelter for victims; g) taking 
steps to establish additional shelters outside of 
Tashkent; h) and continuing efforts to improve the collection 
of law enforcement trafficking data.  Please report on any 
other significant developments. 
CLINTON