The Trump administration released a long-delayed, drastically scaled-back version of the State Department’s annual human rights report. Shrinking it to just one-tenth the length of last year’s. Entire sections on abuses against women and LGBTQ people are gone, replaced by a narrower focus on restrictions of free expression applied to both U.S. adversaries and allies, while many other longstanding human rights issues are left unaddressed. The shift marks a break from previous reports and raises questions about which abuses are no longer being documented.
The report softens or omits criticism of several nations aligned with Trump. El Salvador is now said to have “no credible reports” of major abuses, despite earlier findings of killings, torture, and harsh prison conditions. Israel’s entry leaves out the Gaza humanitarian crisis, and references to Russia’s anti-LGBTQ+ crackdowns have been erased entirely.
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