Database Name: Federal Immigration - US State Department, Country Reports on Human Rights
Database Identifier: FIM-COUNTRY
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Current data
Content Highlights:
Text of the Country Reports on Human Rights submitted annually by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the Department of State to the U.S. Congress. Each country-specific report covers internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights as set forth in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Contents
The FIM-COUNTRY database contains human rights reports on various countries as required by federal law.
Derivation
This database includes documents obtained directly from the federal government for Westlaw.
Coverage
Contains the various countries' human rights reports as issued by the U.S. Department of State.
Source(s)
United States Department of State
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The abbreviations for the fields in this database are:
| PR | PRELIM | Title, source and date for a particular document. |
| SO | SOURCE | Information about the source of a document. |
| TI | TITLE | Title of each country report. |
| TE | TEXT | Text of each country report. |
| CI | CITATION | Unique citation to a decision or report. The unique citation is a Westlaw citation. |
| DA | DATE | Decision's or report's release date. |
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