State department released on Tuesday Long -awaited series On human rights practices worldwide, which reveal the scale-back criticism of select countries, including Al Salvador and Harshar Assessment of traditional American colleagues including the United Kingdom and Germany.
The release has been followed by the period of amendment that the administration officials said that the reports were to “streamlined”, which in 2024 covers events in about 200 countries and had completed to a large extent by the end of the biden administration. A note involved with reports states that they were “adjusted”, which was “aligned with executive orders of administration.”
The 2024 report abandons references to issues of LGBTQ discrimination and withdraw the remedies for issues, including gender-based violence and government corruption. They no longer include dedicated classes dedicated to systemic racial or ethnic discrimination or violence, or for child abuse or child sexual abuse between other deleters.
Compulsory, reports have been produced by the state department for decades and have been used by American policy makers, human rights workers, foreign governments and judicial bodies as a resource to inform the sale of potential arms worldwide and court proceedings, and they also serve as an American-dated checks on government corruption and misbehavior.
The rights groups and former officials of the former state department reduced the amendment in the form of “elimination” of the plight of the marginalized communities and what they said was a politically motivated step that reduced the prior value of the reports.
“I think the signs are quite loud and quite obvious of whose value they value and who they do not,” said former Special Representative Desi Comerier Smith for racial equity and justice, now with diplomacy and justice for alliance.
In the case of Al Salvador, which End In the beginning of August, the presidential limit is one more agreement To accept and detain unlikely outbuages from the US with the Trump administration, reports that “there was no reliable report of the ostent human rights violations” and the government “took reliable steps to identify and punish the” human rights violations “.
The 2023 report paid attention to the reports of Al Salvador’s crowded prisons and “arbitrary killings” torture or cruel, inhuman, or reduced treatment by security forces;
This year’s report for Hungary notes “No reliable reports of vital human rights violations” although last year’s “serious government corruption” and widespread mention of sanctions on media independence.
Meanwhile, the 2024 report for the United Kingdom “deteriorated” human rights situation deteriorated, “Citing a reliable reports of serious sanctions on freedom of expression, including the enforcement of criminal or civil laws to limit the expression, and the threats of crime, violence, or violence, including the threats of violence induced by antitamitism. “A uniform assessment was offered to Germany and France, officials of the administration of countries including Vice President JD Vance have publicly accused of suppressing sensorship and free speech.
Asked by a reporter how the Trump administration has taken his strict monitoring of independent expression through social media accounts of US visa applicants, which restrictions hatred speech with his criticism of European countries, Tammy Bruce, a spokesman of the State Department, said in a press briefing on Tuesday, “For the restriction, fumigation and bombing against the disgrace, there was a press briefing” Cataly
The 2024 report for Israel, West Bank and Gaza does not include a death toll for Israel or Palestinians since October 7, 2023, Hamas attack On Israel, a figure that was included in 2023.
The report accepted a committee by a committee to protect journalists of 82 Palestinian journalists killed in the struggle last year, but also said that one line included “” that “”[i]n some cases, the IDF claimed that the slain journalists were embedded with Hamas militants. ,
The report admitted to harassing human rights records in many countries, with which it has killed agreements to deport the third national citizens, such as LibiaThis “noted reliable reports of arbitrary or illegal killings; disappearance; torture or cruel, inhuman, or derogatory treatment or punishment; arbitrary arrests and detention” and other abuses.
It also mentioned Afghanistan that “there was a widespread disregard for the rule of law and official impurities for those responsible for human rights violations.” America End Last month, temporary protected status for Afghans, weakened over 12,000 for exile.
Reports for Russia, China, North Korea and Iran noted this year, as they did in previous years, included “important” human rights issues and criticized their inaction by the governments who abused them to identify or punish them.
A senior State Department official said in a briefing last week, “The 2024 human rights report has been reorganized in such a way that removes excesses, increases the readability of the report and is more responsible for the legislative mandate that outlines the report.” “American policy has not changed when promoting respect for human rights for human rights worldwide, or in a particular country.”
James Laporta contributed to this report.
