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Dueling Country Reports

By humanrightsathome

The United States is statutorily required to issue reports assessing the human rights records of all countries to which it provides aid and all UN member states.  This year’s reports, issued in March 2016, marked the 40th year of this practice.  The Council on Foreign Relations summarizes the trends identified in the reports here.

China issues similar country reports.  Information about China’s assessment of the US, issued April 2016, is available in this news report and the full text (in English translation) is available here.   The report includes a chronology of 2015 human rights violations in the US, gleaned from press reports.  China and the US are not alone.  For example, Sweden issues similar reports, and has a report on the US, available only in Swedish.