State Dept. Releases 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
The reports document the state of human rights in nearly 200 countries and territories across the globe.
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On April 22, the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2023—which is also referred to as the Human Rights Report (HRR). The HRR—compiled by employees of the State Department in U.S. missions abroad and in Washington, D.C.—intends to track, document, and analyze the human rights abuses and advancements in the nearly 200 countries receiving U.S. assistance as well as all United Nations member states.
In the report’s preface, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken emphasized that the HRR helps to “connect U.S. diplomatic and foreign assistance efforts to the fundamental American value of protecting and promoting respect for human rights for all, while helping to inform the work of civil society, human rights defenders, scholars, multilateral institutions, and others.” Blinken highlighted human rights abuses in Russia, Sudan, Israel, Gaza, Iran, Afghanistan, China, and Cuba, but also noted advancements in human rights in Kenya, Japan, Estonia, Slovenia, and Jordan.
You can read the 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices here or below:
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Republic of the Congo
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- The Gambia
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
East Asia and Pacific
- Australia
- Brunei
- Burma
- Cambodia
- China (Includes Hong Kong, Macau, and Tibet)
- Fiji
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Kiribati
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Marshall Islands
- Micronesia
- Mongolia
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- North Korea
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Samoa
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- South Korea
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
Europe and Eurasia
- Albania
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kosovo
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
Near East (Middle East and North Africa)
- Algeria
- Bahrain
- Egypt
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel, West Bank and Gaza
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Morocco
- Oman
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Syria
- Tunisia
- United Arab Emirates
- Yemen
South and Central Asia
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- India
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyz Republic
- Maldives
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Sri Lanka
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan
Western Hemisphere
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Saint Knitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Suriname
- The Bahamas
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Uruguay
- Venezuela