News from July 2021
By State Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
Release: Section 353 Corrupt and Undemocratic Actors Report.
By State Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
Release: Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland and an interagency delegation, including representatives from the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, and the U.S. Southern Command, visited Paraguay, Panama, and El Salvador from June 27-30. The delegation met with Paraguayan...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded the Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) Technical Assistance Contract (CTAC) to Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc., a woman-owned small business from Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney Karin Hoppmann announces that a federal jury has found Derremy Jerrell Walker (31, Sanford) guilty of two counts of using, or attempting to use, children to produce sexually explicit videos. Walker’s sentencing hearing has been set for Sept. 21, 2021.
By State Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
Release: VIETNAM: Tier 2 Watch List. The Government of Vietnam does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. These efforts included an increase in prosecutions of traffickers, and-for the first time-the government reported comprehensive...
By State Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
Release: The State Department hosted Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin and a delegation from the Government of Tajikistan for the eighth U.S.-Tajikistan Annual Bilateral Consultations on July 1, following 30 years of bilateral partnership between the United States and Tajikistan.
By State Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
Release: PALAU: Tier 2 Watch List. The Government of Palau does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. These efforts included charging one government official with labor trafficking, conducting trafficking research with an international...
By State Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
Release: DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Tier 3.
By State Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
Release: DJIBOUTI: Tier 2 Watch List. The Government of Djibouti does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. These efforts included funding civil society organizations to provide services to potential trafficking victims; assisting vulnerable...
By State Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
Release: BHUTAN: Tier 2 Watch List. The Royal Government of Bhutan does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. These efforts included amending Section 154 of the penal code to further align the definition of trafficking with the definition...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By State Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
Release: ETHIOPIA: Tier 2 Watch List. The Government of Ethiopia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. These efforts included partnering with international organizations and foreign donors to train police, prosecutors, and judges...
By State Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
Release: ECUADOR: Tier 2. The Government of Ecuador does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period, considering the impact of the COVID-19...
By State Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
Release: FIJI: Tier 2. The Government of Fiji does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period, considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Wilver Veras, a/k/a “Gavi," age 31, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment to be followed by five years on supervised release on June 29, 2021, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani for conspiring to possess and distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
News Release: The Thomas Stone NHS Visitor Center is open. Hours of operation are Thursday-Sunday, 10 am- 4 pm. Capacity is set to 13 visitors at one time. The Thomas Stone House remains closed at this time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities have arrested a Redondo Beach man on charges of producing child pornography, allegedly by developing a relationship with at least one boy in the Philippines who performed sex acts online in exchange for money.
By State Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
Release: HUNGARY: Tier 2. The Government of Hungary does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period, considering the impact of the COVID-19 ...
By State Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
Release: COLOMBIA: Tier 1. The Government of Colombia fully meets the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. The government continued to demonstrate serious and sustained efforts during the reporting period, considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its anti-trafficking capacity; therefore...
By State Newswire | Jul 1, 2021
Release: VENEZUELA: Tier 3. The Government of Venezuela does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making any efforts to do so, even considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, on its anti-trafficking capacity; therefore Venezuela remained on Tier 3. On January...
