United States Department of State
The Department of State is the lead institution for the conduct of American diplomacy, a mission based on the role of the Secretary of State as the President's principal foreign policy adviser. Each year, the Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor submits to the U.S. Congress a 5,000-page report on human rights conditions in 196 countries, referred to as the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. The Department of State also submits to Congress a yearly Report on International Religious Freedom. Website: www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/
- Abduction 5
- Access to procedures 1
- Albinism/Persons with Albinism 1
- Animist 3
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 21
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 11
- Asylum-seekers 1
- Baha'i 8
- Catholic 8
- Child labour 12
- Child prostitution 4
- Child soldiers 1
- Children's rights 18
- Children-at-risk 13
- Christian 9
- Contemporary forms of slavery 10
- Corruption 7
- Coup d'état 1
- Criminal justice 4
- Disappeared persons 15
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 14
- Domestic violence 1
- Economic, social and cultural rights 13
- Effective protection 1
- Effective remedy 1
- Elections 4
- Emigrants 1
- Extrajudicial executions 18
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) 4
- Forced labour 28
- Forced marriage 6
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 16
- Freedom of assembly and association 22
- Freedom of expression 20
- Freedom of information 4
- Freedom of movement 18
- Freedom of religion 32
- Freedom of speech 16
- Gender discrimination 19
- Gender-based persecution 1
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 14
- Human rights monitors 2
- Immigration Detention 1
- Impunity 3
- Independence of judiciary 5
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 3
- International protection 2
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 1
- Minorities 5
- Muslim 9
- Opposition 1
- Persecution based on political opinion 2
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 1
- Persons with disabilities 5
- Police 5
- Political parties 1
- Pre-trial detention 5
- Prison or detention conditions 9
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 6
- Protestant 8
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
- Refugees 4
- Religious discrimination 19
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 10
- Right to self-determination 2
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 1
- SGBV 18
- Security forces 5
- Shia 8
- Social group discrimination 15
- Sufi 2
- Sunni 8
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
- Terrorism 12
- Torture 2
- Trafficking in persons 35
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
- Women's rights 17
- Women-at-risk 13
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