the naming and ranking of countries based on compliance with the establishment of commonsense minimum standards
Howard Smith
The Public Record
I and others have raised repeatedly the issue of the juicy bars in South Korea.
I look forward to hearing, discussing with our witnesses today, exactly why the administration is convinced these countries need yet another year to get their acts together.
I have tried, me personally, to get a visa to go to Cuba, primarily to go to the prisons and to try, if possible, to meet with the political prisoners there, to meet with Fidel Castro to raise directly--or his brother Raul--the issue of human rights, and particularly the mistreatment, the torture, the degradation that is suffered by political prisoners in Cuba.
With regards to Cuba, a Tier III country which was granted a waiver on September 30 for cultural and educational exchanges, my question is how does granting that waiver actually promote democracy, rule of law, respect for human rights?
Human rights conditions in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) remained poor in the Commission's 2011 reporting year.
If you want to have economic prosperity, the means to that end is to limit the number of children.





