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Reported: State Department will omit sections in its 2025 annual Human Rights Report

  1. Original Date Announced

    March 19, 2025

    According to documents obtained by Politico, DOS plans to omit sections about women, indigenous people, people with disabilities, the LGBTQ+ community, and more from its annual human rights report. The 2024 report, expected to be released in spring 2025, is being edited "to get rid of several sections and limit the number of abuse cases under each." These omissions may impact individuals' ability to obtain asylum in the U.S., as asylum officers and immigration judges routinely rely on DOS human rights reports.

    Trump 2.0 [ID #1628]

    2025.03.25 Reported: DOS drastically cutting back annual human rights report - Politico
  2. Subsequent Trump and Court Action(s)

    • April 18, 2025

      2025.04.18 Reported: The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights - NPR

      NPR reports that the Trump administration is cutting significant sections of the State Department’s annual human rights reports by removing long-standing sections such as prison conditions, government corruption, and political repression. A leaked memo directs staff to cut them down "to only that which is legally required" and to align the reports with "current U.S. policy" and "recently issued Executive Orders." Any references to violence against LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, and restrictions on free assembly are being stripped out. In the El Salvador report, a section on abusive prison conditions has been erased, after the Trump administration transferred immigrants from the U.S. into that prison system. Advocates say these changes signal "an American retreat from its position as the world's human rights watchdog."

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Current Status

None

Original Trump Policy Status

Status: Reported
Trump Administration Action: Change in Practice
Subject Matter: Asylum, Withholding and CAT
Agencies Affected: DOS

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