The State Department released its long-awaited reports on international human rights Tuesday, and they drastically reduce the types of government repression and abuse that the United States under ...

The U.S. State Department has released a heavily edited version of its annual report on human rights around the world. The report did not include any mention of LGBTQ+ rights violations and other ...

Economic freedom, in and of itself, is a “negative” human right. That is, it is a right vested unalienably in individuals to act free from government infringement. Economic freedom concerns itself ...

Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations. State Department slashes its annual reports on human ...