Study: Trump's State Department Ignores Anti-LGBTQ+ Abuses Abroad
Comparative Analysis of U.S Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, “identifies serious omissions of human rights issues and inadequately substantiated reports of improvements in the U.S.
State Department’s country reports,” says a press release from the organization.ARC compared the State Department’s assessment of the situation in Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Sudan in 2016, the last year of President Barack Obama’s administration to reports on events in 2017, 2018, and 2019 under the Trump administration.The reports for those three years “were not consistent with the situation on the ground as documented by other sources and have the effect of downplaying the seriousness of the human rights situations in these.
