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03/11/10 Cameroon 03/11/10 Cape Verde 03/11/10 Central African Republic 03/11/10 Chad 03/11/10 Comoros 03/11/10 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 03/11/10 Congo, Republic of the 03/11/10 Cote d'Ivoire 03/11/10 Djibouti 03/11/10 Equatorial Guinea 03/11/10 Eritrea 03/11/10 Ethiopia 03/11/10 Gabon 03/11/10 Gambia, The 03/11/10 Ghana 03/11/10 Guinea 03/11/10 Guinea-Bissau 03/11/10 Kenya 03/11/10 Lesotho 03/11/10 Liberia 03/11/10 Madagascar 03/11/10 Malawi 03/11/10 Mali 03/11/10 Mauritania 03/11/10 Mauritius 03/11/10 Mozambique 03/11/10 Namibia 03/11/10 Niger 03/11/10 Nigeria 03/11/10 Rwanda 03/11/10 Sao Tome and Principe 03/11/10 Senegal 03/11/10 Seychelles 03/11/10 Sierra Leone 03/11/10 Somalia 03/11/10 South Africa 03/11/10 Sudan 03/11/10 Swaziland 03/11/10 Tanzania 03/11/10 Togo 03/11/10 Uganda 03/11/10 Zambia 03/11/10 Zimbabwe East Asia and the Pacific 03/11/10 Australia 03/11/10 Brunei Darussalam 03/11/10 Burma 03/11/10 Cambodia 03/11/10 China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau) 03/11/10 Taiwan 03/11/10 Fiji 03/11/10 Indonesia 03/11/10 Japan 03/11/10 Kiribati 03/11/10 Korea, Democratic People's Republic of 03/11/10 Korea, Republic of 03/11/10 Laos 03/11/10 Malaysia 03/11/10 Marshall Islands 03/11/10 Micronesia, Federated States of 03/11/10 Mongolia 03/11/10 Nauru 03/11/10 New Zealand 03/11/10 Palau 03/11/10 Papua New Guinea 03/11/10 Philippines 03/11/10 Samoa 03/11/10 Singapore 03/11/10 Solomon Islands 03/11/10 Thailand 03/11/10 Timor-Leste 03/11/10 Tonga 03/11/10 Tuvalu 03/11/10 Vanuatu 03/11/10 Vietnam Europe and Eurasia 03/11/10 Albania 03/11/10 Andorra 03/11/10 Armenia 03/11/10 Austria 03/11/10 Azerbaijan 03/11/10 Belarus 03/11/10 Belgium 03/11/10 Bosnia and Herzegovina 03/11/10 Bulgaria 03/11/10 Croatia 03/11/10 Cyprus 03/11/10 Czech Republic 03/11/10 Denmark 03/11/10 Estonia 03/11/10 Finland 03/11/10 France 03/11/10 Georgia 03/11/10 Germany 03/11/10 Greece 03/11/10 Hungary 03/11/10 Iceland 03/11/10 Ireland 03/11/10 Italy 03/11/10 Kosovo 03/11/10 Latvia 03/11/10 Liechtenstein 03/11/10 Lithuania 03/11/10 Luxembourg 03/11/10 Macedonia 03/11/10 Malta 03/11/10 Moldova 03/11/10 Monaco 03/11/10 Montenegro 03/11/10 Netherlands 03/11/10 Norway 03/11/10 Poland 03/11/10 Portugal 03/11/10 Romania 03/11/10 Russia 03/11/10 San Marino 03/11/10 Serbia 03/11/10 Slovakia 03/11/10 Slovenia 03/11/10 Spain 03/11/10 Sweden 03/11/10 Switzerland 03/11/10 Turkey 03/11/10 Ukraine 03/11/10 United Kingdom Near East and North Africa 03/11/10 Algeria 03/11/10 Bahrain 03/11/10 Egypt 03/11/10 Iran 03/11/10 Iraq 03/11/10 Israel and the occupied territories 03/11/10 Jordan 03/11/10 Kuwait 03/11/10 Lebanon 03/11/10 Libya 03/11/10 Morocco 03/11/10 Western Sahara 03/11/10 Oman 03/11/10 Qatar 03/11/10 Saudi Arabia 03/11/10 Syria 03/11/10 Tunisia 03/11/10 United Arab Emirates 03/11/10 Yemen South and Central Asia 03/11/10 Afghanistan 03/11/10 Bangladesh 03/11/10 Bhutan 03/11/10 India 03/11/10 Kazakhstan 03/11/10 Kyrgyz Republic 03/11/10 Maldives 03/11/10 Nepal 03/11/10 Pakistan 03/11/10 Sri Lanka 03/11/10 Tajikistan 03/11/10 Turkmenistan 03/11/10 Uzbekistan Western Hemisphere 03/11/10 Antigua and Barbuda 03/11/10 Argentina 03/11/10 Bahamas, The 03/11/10 Barbados 03/11/10 Belize 03/11/10 Bolivia 03/11/10 Brazil 03/11/10 Canada 03/11/10 Chile 03/11/10 Colombia 03/11/10 Costa Rica 03/11/10 Cuba 03/11/10 Dominica 03/11/10 Dominican Republic 03/11/10 Ecuador 03/11/10 El Salvador 03/11/10 Grenada 03/11/10 Guatemala 03/11/10 Guyana 03/11/10 Haiti 03/11/10 Honduras 03/11/10 Jamaica 03/11/10 Mexico 03/11/10 Nicaragua 03/11/10 Panama 03/11/10 Paraguay 03/11/10 Peru 03/11/10 Saint Kitts and Nevis 03/11/10 Saint Lucia 03/11/10 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 03/11/10 Suriname 03/11/10 Trinidad and Tobago 03/11/10 Uruguay 03/11/10 Venezuela Appendices 03/11/10 Appendix A: Notes on Preparation of Report 03/11/10 Appendix B: Reporting on Worker Rights 03/11/10 Appendix C: Selected International Human Rights Conventions [ PDF version ] 03/11/10 Appendix D: Description of International Human Rights Conventions in Appendix C 03/11/10 Appendix E: FY 2009 Foreign Assistance Actuals 03/11/10 Appendix F: UN General Assembly's Third Committee Country Resolution Votes 2009 03/11/10 Appendix G: United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Related Material 03/11/10 Remarks to the Press on the Release of the 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Washington, DC 03/11/10 Briefing on the Release of the 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices; Assistant Secretary Michael H. Posner, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Washington, DC 03/02/10 Rollout of the 2009 Human Rights Report; Assistant Secretary Michael H. 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