{"id":60299,"date":"2025-08-12T20:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/trump-administration-revises-annual-human-rights-report"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:51:29","slug":"trump-administration-revises-annual-human-rights-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/trump-administration-revises-annual-human-rights-report","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Revises Annual Human Rights Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The Trump administration has significantly rewritten and downscaled the US government\u2019s annual report on global human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>The document, previously seen as the most comprehensive study of its kind by any government, significantly reduces criticism of some US allies such as Israel and El Salvador while escalating disapproval of perceived foes such as Brazil and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Entire sections included in reports from previous yeas are also eliminated, dramatically reducing coverage of issues including government corruption and persecution of LGBTQ+ individuals.<\/p>\n<p>State department officials say it has been \u201crestructured\u201d to \u201cremove redundancies\u201d and \u201cincrease readability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The report also describes the human rights situation as having \u201cworsened\u201d in major European democracies including the UK, France and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The language used echoes previous criticism by the Trump administration and some US tech bosses who oppose online harm reduction laws in some European countries, portraying them as attacks on free speech.<\/p>\n<p>Uzra Zeya, a former senior state department official who now runs the charity Human Rights First, accused the Trump administration of \u201cgutting\u201d decades of highly respected work on human rights protections and an \u201cabandonment of core values\u201d to the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sends a signal that there\u2019s going to be a free pass from the United States government, that it will look the other way if a government is willing to cut deals or do the bidding of this administration,\u201d she told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>The document has been published following a months\u2019 long delay amid reports of significant internal dissent at the state department over its contents.<\/p>\n<p>It follows internal guidance issued by political leaders earlier this year reportedly advising staff to shorten the reports to remove some references to issues including corruption and gender-based crimes, and follows some executive orders on related issues issued by President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>During a visit to Saudi Arabia earlier this year Trump berated \u201cWestern interventionists\u201d and said the US would no longer be \u201cgiving you lectures on how to live or how to govern your own affairs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Lesotho<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. 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