13 August 2025: reports, usdos

USDOS publishes annual report on human rights for 2022

The country chapters are currently uploaded on ecoi.net and available under this link.

This issue was published significantly later in the year than usual. The following articles discuss differences between the current issue (the first under the Trump II administration) and those of previous years:

• NPR: State Department slashes its annual reports on human rights, 12 August 2025
  https://www.npr.org/2025/08/12/nx-s1-5495621/state-department-human-rights-reports-slashed
• NYT - New York Times: Human Rights Report Under Trump Blunts Language on Israel and El Salvador, 12 August 2025
  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/trump-human-rights-israel-saudi-arabia-china.html
• Washington Post: Rubio recasts long-held beliefs with cuts to U.S. human rights reports, 12 August 2025
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/12/rubio-human-rights-reports/
• Amnesty International USA: U.S. State Department’s Human Rights Report Puts Politics Above Human Rights, 12 Auguat 2025
  https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/u-s-state-departments-human-rights-report-puts-politics-above-human-rights/
• HRW - Human Rights Watch: US: Rights Report Mixes Facts, Deception, Political Spin, 12 August 2025
  https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/08/12/us-rights-report-mixes-facts-deception-political-spin
• CNN: State Department human rights report scaled back, omits details on abuses in politically allied countries, 12 August 2025
  https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/12/politics/state-department-human-rights-violations-report

We will update this blog post when more detailed discussions of the new reports become available.

The following report from the Congressional Research Service (from before their release) discusses the background to the reports' preparation:

• CRS - Congressional Research Service: Global Human Rights: The Department of State’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 4 August 2025
  https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/PDF/IF10795/IF10795.17.pdf