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Human Rights Report Under Trump Blunts Language on Israel and El Salvador - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
The 2025 U.S. report on Israel omits key human rights abuses and legal cases, shrinking coverage by 91 percent compared to 2024, critics say it whitewashes violations.
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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…
The U.S. Department of State launders its allies and buries human rights violations A review of the annual human rights report removes key paragraphs and omits documented atrocities, from Gaza to the repression of LGBTI groups, to protect strategic interests. A Political Depuration That Tears Victims The new annual human rights report of the U.S. Department of State is a mutilated document. Not by accident, but by design. Previous leaks already …
The US State Department's annual report was significantly shorter than usual this year. Detailed criticism of close allies such as Israel and El Salvador was significantly reduced, and directed at countries considered rivals - including countries in Western Europe. References to corruption and persecution of LGBT people were also omitted.
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