U.S. State Department Country Reports

March 10th, 2006 at 10:11 Björn Hallberg

Not surprising, the U.S. State Department is still issuing ludicrous reports on the state of the world. Unfortunately they always take the opportunity to single out nations that for foreign policy reasons are on bad terms with the U.S. Inversely, nations like Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Lebanon and Liberia get a pat on the back. How transparent can you get?

But the main problem of course with their yearly hatchet job, much like their equally laughable report on religious freedom, is that it omits the U.S. itself or at least a serious analysis of the same. Also …

[T]he report is focused almost exclusively on political and civil rights and rights to personal integrity. It generally ignores those rights contained in the UN Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, which has never been ratified by the United States.

Which is of course why “Country Reports” is a close to worthless measure of human rights.

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