13 August 2025: reports, usdos
USDOS publishes annual report on human rights for 2024
The US Department of State released its annual report on human rights, covering 2024. [Post updated 17 October].
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
- Forced Migration Current Awareness: News: 2024 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 13 August 2025
https://fm-cab.blogspot.com/2025/08/news-2024-country-reports-on-human.html
- Asylos: New USDOS reports downplay human rights abuses, raising doubts over impartiality and reliability, August 2025
https://asylos.org/new-usdos-reports-downplay-human-rights-abuses/
- Council of Foreign Relations: The New Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 18 August 2025
https://www.cfr.org/blog/new-country-reports-human-rights-practices
- New Lines Institute: 2024 U.S. Human Rights Report: Omissions, Exclusions, and Obfuscations, 22 August 2025
https://newlinesinstitute.org/rules-based-international-order/2024-u-s-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices-omissions-exclusions-and-obfuscations/
Please also see the "Methodology" section of our source description on the USDOS(as of 6 October 2025).
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:
[This post was updated on 2 September 2025, adding several articles, and aon 17 October 2025, adding a link to our new source description]
