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Home Embassy NewsU.S. Citizen ServicesVisas to the U.S.U.S. Policy & IssuesResources Embassy Highlights Human Rights: Annual Reports Released SECRETARY RICE: Good afternoon. I am pleased today to join Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor – Jonathan Farrar – in announcing the publication of the Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2007. In every region of the world, men and women are working peacefully, and often at great risk to themselves and their families, to secure human rights and fundamental freedoms, to follow their consciences and speak their minds without fear, to choose those who would govern them and to hold their leaders accountable and to achieve equal justice under the law.(more) Latest Headlines From the Embassy News Flash On March 14, the director of a U.S. adoption agency, and three of the agency s employees were prevented from departing Liberia with recently adopted children. The children were in possession of lawful adoption decrees and valid U.S. immigrant visas, and their escorts had Powers of Attorney from the adoptive parents of the children which allowed them to act as escorts. The director of the agency was later told that adoptive children will not be permitted to depart Liberia with an escort unless their travel had been cleared by the Ministers of Justice and Gender. The U.S. Embassy in Monrovia is seeking confirmation of this new requirement. The Government of Liberia is currently reviewing its adoption laws and regulations with the aim of strengthening the current system. Swift Assists Vessel in Distress Off Liberian Coast HIGH SPEED VESSEL SWIFT (HSV 2), At Sea – While transiting off the coast of Monrovia, Liberia as part of Africa Partnership Station (APS), High Speed Vessel Swift (HSV 2) received a distress call relayed from Cap Lara, a Greek flagged vessel, of a Portuguese fishing vessel, the Princesa Do Guadiana, stranded off the coast ...