U.S. Department of State’s Human Rights Report focuses on labour issues, women, and Indigenous people

Consequently, despite occasional warts, it would be a more humane world were there 198 other entities with Canadian attributes.

The annual U.S. Department of State's Human Rights Report, considered existentially a socio-political document which has long moved past 'traditional' human rights, is one of the few legacies of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, writes David Jones. Photograph courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY DAVID JONES

May 28, 2018

WASHINGTON, D.C.—On April 20, the Department of State released its annual Human Rights Report (HRR). Officially designated Country Reports on Human Rights Practices—2017, the report, mandated by Congress, was technically due on Feb. 25. In recent years, however, this deadline has been m...

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