Political Section
Counselor for Political Affairs: Colin Cleary
Phone: 380-44-490-4435/Fax: 380-44-490-4292
10 Yury Kotsubinskoho St.
Kyiv 01901 Ukraine
The Political Section's top priorities are to support and
strengthen U.S.-Ukrainian bilateral ties, to support Ukraine's
integration into Europe and Euro-Atlantic structures, to work with
Ukraine on nonproliferation and arms control issues, and to promote the
democratization of Ukrainian society. The Political Section helps
organize and facilitate high-level bilateral meetings and negotiations
in support of these goals. It reports on issues affecting the bilateral
relationship, as well as domestic political events, including
democratic practices, labor and human rights.
U.S. Department of State Reports on
Embassy Political Section page:
Human Rights Reports
Supporting Human Rights and Democracy
Religious Freedom Reports
Trafficking in Persons Reports
Human Rights Reports
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
by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. 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 is being
submitted to Congress for the first time and complements the annual
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.
Religious Freedom Reports
The International Religious Freedom Report for 2003 is submitted to the
Congress by the Department of State in compliance with Section 102(b)
of the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998. The law
provides that the Secretary of State shall transmit to Congress each
year "an Annual Report on International Religious Freedom supplementing
the most recent Human Rights Reports by providing additional detailed
information with respect to matters involving international religious
freedom." This Annual Report includes individual country chapters on
the status of religious freedom worldwide.
Trafficking in Persons Reports
The 140-country Trafficking in Persons Report is the most comprehensive
worldwide report on the efforts of governments to combat severe forms
of trafficking in persons. Its purpose is to raise global awareness and
spur countries to take effective actions to counter trafficking in
persons.
The efforts of governments to fight human trafficking are rated in
tiers in the report based on tangible actions taken throughout the
year.
