On August 12 th, local time, the United States State Department quietly released its annual global civils rights report.
US Secretary of State Rubio also broke criterion by not supplying a composed intro or discussing the record. A closer check out this when considerable, worldwide civils rights record discloses that its material has been reduced to much less than one-third, with most criticisms of allies and sensitive problems omitted, changing it into a political declaration particularly designed to “clean up” for the United States and its allies.
This paper, begun in 1977, initially targeted 82 countries receiving United States help and later increased to cover all UN member states, slowly developing a relatively extensive analysis system.
Yet this paper, packaged as a “global human rights report card,” has been heavily politically billed from the moment it was created.
In its 1976 change to the Foreign Assistance Act, Congress clearly mandated that the report notify US international help choices, directly connecting civils rights with security and economic support. This implied that from the outset, the report was not just academic research study yet an extension people foreign policy.