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State Department's Overhauled Human Rights Report Faces Diplomatic Rebukes and Lawsuit
The report narrows focus on free speech, omits abuses against women and LGBTQ people, and softens criticism of US allies, reflecting a politicized approach aligned with "America First" values.
- The 2024 Human Rights Report from the US State Department has significantly softened criticism of countries like El Salvador and Israel, which rights groups claim have human rights issues.
- The report highlighted human rights concerns in Brazil and South Africa, stating that both countries experienced a decline in their human rights situations.
- Tammy Bruce, a department spokesperson, stated that the report was restructured to enhance readability, omitting earlier critical assessments of certain countries.
- The report noted a decline in human rights in South Africa, highlighting arbitrary killings and repression of Afrikaners, a concern echoed by South Africa's government.
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What a cheek! The US is in no position to lecture us about free speech
An annual global human rights report from the US state department has declared that freedom of speech is under threat in the UK. The British are too polite to tell the Trump administration what we really think about that – but I’m not, writes Sean O’Grady
Human rights report under Trump blunts language on Israel and El Salvador - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
The State Department on Tuesday released an annual collection of reports on human rights records in nearly 200 nations, but left out language on persistent abuses in many nations that was present in prior reports.
The report on Israel is the litmus test of the new course: nine pages in 2025 against 103 in 2024. So far considered by international observers to be among the most complete sources on the subject, the Report on human rights violations in the world drawn up every year by the US State Department has seen the volume of pages and the information contained therein plummet. “The reports - reads the presentation published on August 12 - have been simp…
State Department butchers human rights abuse report for the new Trump era
A long-awaited report on global human rights from the Trump administration features hand-wringing about purported anti-white racism, downplays abuses against women and completely omits references to anti-LGBTQ discrimination.
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