Highlight Island Marshall Travel

TravelingEd.org is a nonprofit organization committed to increasing students' international awareness through their classroom environment by providing web-based, interdisciplinary curriculum designed around the adventures of a world traveler. Currently, TravelingEd.org is running its six week Pilot Program, featuring one traveler Kelly, who is in Thailand. Since October, Kelly has been sending photos and diary entries that enhance the curriculum designed for each country she visits. The final week of the Pilot Program corresponds with IEW! ... [Read More]

International Education Week Events and Activities

Community College of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) - The College recently announced its first-ever London, England Study Abroad Program to take place during the Summer 2001 Semester. A special "Coffee Break" will be held for participants in the College's Integrated International Year Program. This program matches nearly a dozen student from the International Education Program with international students. The College welcomes Ms. Paule Marshall, noted author of "Brown Girl, Brownstones." Ms. Marshall will read from and sign copies of her novel "The Fisher King." ... [Read More]

Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record

Question:   How does the State Department determine which countries will be listed as the "most dangerous" to travel to as far as travel warnings are concerned? What are the indicators? ...

Answer:   Please refer to www.travel.state.gov. ... [Read More]

(F) Europe Overview

Six proindependence Corsican groups joined in proclaiming a cease-fire in late 1999, but bomb attacks against government offices on the island continued intermittently in 2000. One such Corsican group claimed responsibility for a failed attack in Paris in June. In October, Corsican separatists placed a car bomb in front of the police station in Marseilles. The device was not built to detonate but to serve as a warning for a possible future attack and to highlight the group's capabilities. Also in October, French courts sentenced 10 Corsican nationalists to four years' imprisonment for an attack that damaged an estate complex on Corsica in 1994. ... [Read More]

Europe and Eurasia

In addition, the Embassy sponsored several exchange programs, some of which are targeted at journalists. During 2003, ten Moldovan journalists traveled to St. Louis and spent three weeks discussing strategies and methods of investigative journalism with their American counterparts. The Embassy has also sent Moldovan journalists to the United States each year for the past several years to participate in a program called Television Cooperation. Through this program, teams of Moldovan journalists have the opportunity to work with an American producer and create programs about American life and American approaches to various issues for broadcast in Moldova. Last year, a team from Euro TV traveled to the United States and produced a series of programs on local elections in the United States. ... [Read More]

M) Money Laundering and Financial Crimes

Marshall Island non-resident corporations (NRCs), the equivalent of international business companies (IBCs), are of the greatest concern with respect to money laundering. By December 2000, there were reportedly 4000 NRCs registered, half of which are companies formed for registering ships. NRCs are allowed to offer bearer shares. Corporate officers, directors, and shareholders may be of any nationality and live anywhere. NRCs are not required to disclose the names of officers, directors and shareholders or beneficial owners and corporate entities may be listed as officers and shareholders. The authorities also do not actually possess the relevant information on non-resident companies. Although NRCs must maintain a registered office in the Marshall Islands, corporations can transfer domicile into and out of the Marshall Islands with relative ease. Marketers of offshore services via the Internet promote the Marshall Islands as a favored jurisdiction for establishing NRCs. NRCs are prohib ... [Read More]

Europe and Eurasia

An Embassy official who is a former defense attorney spoke on several occasions to members of the Turkish National Police. The official discussed concepts such as "due process of law" and "chain of custody" under the U.S. Constitution. The Institute for the Study and Development of Legal Systems (ISDLS) was awarded a continuation grant to address specific measures to improve the handling of freedom of expression, police conduct and trial alternatives in the criminal justice process. An ISDLS-U.S. delegation traveled to Turkey in September, and a Turkish delegation examining alternatives to criminal trial will travel to the U.S. in March 2005. Working with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training, the United States will collaborate with the Turkish Ministry of Justice to organize workshops in two cities in March 2005 on prosecution of police misconduct cases. ... [Read More]