The U.S. Department of State released the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
for 2020 earlier this week. The annual report provides overviews of human
rights violations in some 200 countries and territories. More info is provided
in the
transcript
of the Secretary of State's remarks.
The State Dept. also announced that later in the year it would publish "an
addendum to each 2020 country report that expands the subsection on women in
Section 6, entitled 'Discrimination, Societal Abuses, and Trafficking in
Persons,' to include a broader range of issues related to reproductive
rights," noting that "these topics were included in previous Country Reports
on Human Rights Practices, and they will be included again in future
years."
More info on this addendum is provided in that Human Rights Watch news story. In addition, this Politico article describes how this year's reports "differ in both subtle and overt ways
from versions published under then-President Donald Trump." A much more extensive assessment of the deficiencies in past Country Reports is presented in this Asylum Research Centre report.
Finally, more details on how the reports were compiled and the source materials used can be found in Appendix A on the 2020 Country Reports page as well as ecoi.net's lengthy source description.
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