The first report covered the year 1976, issued in 1977. The
second Trump administration removed several sections from the publication, including sections discussing systemic
racial and
ethnic discrimination,
child abuse,
child sexual exploitation, discrimination against
women,
LGBTQ+ people,
disabled people, and
indigenous people,
free and fair election restrictions,
government corruption, harassment of
human rights organizations,
non-refoulement,
environmental issues,
privacy violations,
sexual violence against children,
infanticide,
gender-based violence, forced
organ harvesting,
freedom of movement,
freedom of assembly and
association,
right to a fair trial,
prison conditions, and
female genital mutilation from the 2024 reports. In November 2025, the U.S. Department of State announced that it would include
DEI policies,
mass migration, and government funding of
abortion medications as “human rights infringements” in its future country human rights reports. == Reactions ==