American human rights reports criticize NATO allies and reduce some violations – national

The Trump administration was issued on Tuesday human rights Reports of countries around the world that eliminate the discrimination signals faced by people LGBTQ2, reduce the previous focus on reproductive rights and criticize the restrictions imposed on political speech by American allies in Europe, which US officials targeted right -wing politicians.

Reports covering 2024 in front of the president Donald Trump He took office, reflecting his administration’s focus on freedom of expression and restricting access to miscarriage.

However, reports also submitted a glimpse of the administration’s point of view of bitter human rights conditions in some countries that agreed to accept migrants deported from the United States under the Trump Immigration Campaign.

The US State Department said: “This year’s reports have been simplified to improve the benefit and accessibility in this field and partners.”

Reports delegated in Congress have been used in the past to refer to them and were martyred by lawmakers, policy makers, academic researchers and other potential claims to take refuge or look at conditions in specific countries.

The reports were to be issued in March.

In an overview, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the delay occurred because the Trump administration decided in March to “control” the reports, which were collected during the Biden administration.

Among other deletions, reports do not include accounts from individual abuse or witnesses.

“Often, eyewitnesses are eager or prevented from reporting what they know,” she said.

“On the other hand, individuals and opposition groups of the government may have an incentive to exaggerate or manufacture violations. In a similar way, some governments may distort or exaggerate violations attributed to opposition groups.”

Human rights groups denounced the changes in focusing and neglecting certain groups of discrimination and possible abuse.

“With the issuance of the US State Department’s human rights report, it is clear that the Trump administration has participated in very selective documents of human rights violations in some countries,” Amnesty International said in a statement.

“In addition to eliminating the entire sections of some countries – for example discrimination against gay people+ LGBTQ – there are also arbitrary ingredients within the current sections of the report based on the country.”

Reports follow previous practices in criticizing human rights violations on a large scale in China, Iran, North Korea and Russia.

The report on Russia, in addition to a separate presentation on the areas occupied by Russia in Ukraine, is heading towards this in documenting its violations in Ukraine-including recognition of war crimes-from Trump or US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in public places.

She says Moscow “has not taken reliable steps or measures to determine and punish most officials who committed human rights violations.”

The Ukraine report provides for the Ukrainian government to reduce the freedoms of the press and expression, although it is noted that many measures are due to the martial law imposed during wartime.

The report on Israel was much shorter than the issuance of last year and did not mention any mention of the severe humanitarian crisis or the number of deaths in Gaza.

Reports are exposed to what the Trump administration believes is restrictions on freedom of expression imposed against the votes of the overall in the United Kingdom, France and Germany.

Reports use an identical language to say that human rights conditions in each of the three NATO allies “worsened during the year”.

“Important human rights issues included credible reports on serious restrictions on freedom of expression, including the enforcement or threat of criminal or civil laws in order to reduce expression, crimes, violence, or threats of violence stimulates anti -heavenly.”

These governments rejected these assurances made by senior US officials, including Trump, Rubio and Vice President JD Vance.

The report on Canada is less important and does not recognize any change in American assessments of human rights conditions. However, it repeats the language that claims “reliable reports of dangerous restrictions on freedom of expression” and accuses the federal government of limiting freedom of the press.

A male of continuous trials related to the “Freedom Caravan” protests for 2022 says that she protested “dramatic closure measures that have been largely affected by societies and economic livelihoods for many Canadians.”

The report issued last year, issued by the Biden Administration, said that the Canadian government “did not shorten or disrupt access to the Internet or online content for control” and allowed independent media to “express a wide range of observations without restrictions.”

Previous reports have taken a special case with violence and threats against minority groups, including indigenous people and LGBTQ2.

Although such deportation has not started until after Trump took office, the reports, with the exception of one noticeable, are the details of poor human rights conditions in many countries that agreed to accept migrants, even if they were not citizens in that nation.

The exception is El Salvador, which was the first among many countries in Latin America and Africa to agree to accept non -citizens immigrants from the United States

Despite the claims of rights defenders on the contrary, the report on the country says, “There were no reliable reports of major human rights violations” in El Salvador in 2024 and that “the government has taken reliable steps to determine and punish officials who committed human rights violations.”

Human rights groups accused the authorities of violations, including in a notorious prison where many immigrants are sent.

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However, for Eswatini – a small country in Africa previously known as Swaziland – South Sudan and Rwanda, reports draw a Grimmer image. All of them agreed to accept the deportees in the third country of the United States.

In all three countries, reports indicated that “important human rights issues included reliable reports on arbitrary or illegal killings, torture, harsh, inhuman treatment, treatment or punishment … dangerous restrictions on freedom of expression and freedom of the media, or prohibiting independent unions or important or methodological restrictions on the freedom of the association for workers.”

Reports said that these governments “did not take reliable steps or measures to determine and punish officials who committed human rights violations.”

South Africa has also been distinguished by the human rights situation “exacerbated greatly.”

The report referred to the unfair treatment of the whites after signing the main land reforms that the Trump administration said a discrimination against that minority, which was running the country’s apartheid government.

This system brutally imposes the apartheid, which pressed the black majority, for a period of 50 years before it ended in 1994.

With the signing of this law in December, the report said that “South Africa has taken a largely disturbing step towards the confiscation of lands from African and increased violations against ethnic minorities in the country.”

She also said that the government “did not take reliable steps to investigate, try and punish officials who committed human rights violations, including the inflammatory racist discourse against Africans and other ethnic minorities, or violence against ethnic minorities.”

This year, the administration, as refugees, admitted some groups of white Africans.

On Wednesday, the South African government rejected the report that it was “inaccurate and deeply defective.”

The issues of freedom of conversation in Brazil were also raised, which recently angered Trump by prosecuting his ally-right-wing president, Jer Bolsonaro-and led to the imposition of huge American tariffs and sanctions against the President of the Supreme Court in the High Brazil.

The report said: “The human rights situation in Brazil decreased during the year.” “The courts have taken extensive and invisible measures to undermine freedom of expression and the freedom of the Internet by preventing millions of users from reaching information on a major social media platform in response to the case of harassment.”

He added that the government “undermines a democratic debate by restricting access to the online content, which is considered to be undermining democracy” specifically, and he mentioned the suppression of Polsonaro’s speech and supporters.

– With additional files from Global News and Reuters