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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/
- Access to procedures 1
- Anglican 8
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 23
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 3
- Assemblies of God 8
- Assyrians 1
- Asylum policy 1
- Asylum-seekers 1
- Baha'i 10
- Baptist 7
- Catholic 8
- Chaldean 5
- Child labour 6
- Child prostitution 5
- Children's rights 18
- Children-at-risk 16
- Christian 10
- Convention against Torture (CAT) 1
- Copts 6
- Corruption 3
- Criminal justice 4
- Democracy 3
- Deportation / Forcible return 1
- Disappeared persons 15
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 19
- Domestic violence 2
- Druze 9
- Economic, social and cultural rights 13
- Effective protection 1
- Effective remedy 1
- Elections 7
- Evangelical 8
- Extrajudicial executions 14
- Forced labour 24
- Forced marriage 2
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 17
- Freedom of assembly and association 23
- Freedom of expression 21
- Freedom of information 6
- Freedom of movement 18
- Freedom of religion 36
- Freedom of speech 19
- Gender discrimination 21
- Gender-based persecution 1
- HIV and AIDS 1
- Hindu 2
- Honour killings 1
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 14
- Human rights monitors 3
- Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
- Immigration Detention 1
- Impunity 5
- Independence of judiciary 5
- International protection 3
- Jehovah's Witness 5
- Jew 1
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 6
- Lutheran 7
- Maronite 7
- Migrant rights 2
- Migrants 7
- Minorities 8
- Mormon 5
- Muslim 10
- National security / Public order 1
- Opposition 2
- Orthodox Christian 8
- Palestinian 7
- Pentecostal 7
- Persecution based on nationality 1
- Persecution based on political opinion 6
- Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
- Persons with disabilities 9
- Police 6
- Political parties 1
- Pre-trial detention 1
- Presbyterian 7
- Prison or detention conditions 9
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
- Protestant 2
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 3
- Refoulement 1
- Refugee camps 1
- Refugees 7
- Registration 1
- Rejection at border 1
- Religious discrimination 27
- Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 12
- Right to education 2
- Right to employment 1
- Right to registration at birth 1
- Right to self-determination 4
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 7
- SGBV 18
- Sabean Mandean 1
- Security forces 8
- Seventh Day Adventist 7
- Sexual and reproductive rights 1
- Shia 9
- Social group discrimination 13
- Sunni 10
- Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 3
- Temporary protection 1
- Terrorism 21
- Threats / Intimidation 4
- Torture 4
- Trafficking in persons 32
- Withdrawal of nationality 1
- Women's rights 18
- Women-at-risk 13
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