The new human rights reports have been reorganized into a more condensed structure, and many topics from previous years have beenremoved.
2023 outlineRemovedPartially removed
Executive Summary
Section 1. Respect for the Integrity of the Person
Arbitrary deprivation of life and other unlawful or politically motivated killings
Disappearances
Torture or cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment, and other related abuse
Removed: Prison and detention center conditions, including abusive physical conditions, administration (whether credible allegations were investigated), independent monitoring, improvements if any.
Arbitrary Arrest or Detention
Arrest procedures and treatment of detainees
Arbitrary arrests
Pretrial detention
Removed: Denial of Fair Public Trial
Removed: Trial procedures
Removed: Political prisoners or detainees
Removed: Arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy, family, home, or correspondence
Removed: Property seizure and restitution
Transnational repression
Extraterritorial killing, kidnapping, or violence
Threats, harassment, surveillance, or coercion
Misuse of international law enforcement tools
Efforts to control mobility
Bilateral pressure
Knowing cooperation with other governments to facilitate their acts of transnational repression
Conflict related abuse
Killings
Abductions
Physical abuse, punishment, or torture
Child soldiers
Other conflict related abuse
Section 2. Respect for civil liberties
Freedom of expression, including for members of the press and other media
Freedom of expression (this subsection for non media only)
Violence and harassment
Censorship or content restrictions for members of the press and other media
Removed: Libel and slander laws
Removed: National security (used as pretext for punishing critics)
Nongov impact (i.e. no state actors inhibiting freedom of expression)
Actions to expand freedom of expression
Internet freedom
Removed: Freedom of peaceful assembly and association
Removed: Freedom of peaceful assembly (restrictions on)
Removed: Freedom of association (restrictions on)
Freedom of religion or belief
Removed: Freedom of movement and the right to leave the country
Removed: In-country movement
Removed: Foreign travel
Removed: Exile
Removed: Citizenship
Protection of refugees
access to asylum
Removed: Refoulment
Removed: Abuse of refugees and asylum seekers
Removed: Freedom of movement
Removed: Employment
Removed: Access to basic services
Durable solutions
Temporary protection
Removed: Status and treatment of IDPs and returning refugees
Removed: Stateless persons
Removed: Section 3. Freedom to participate in the political process
Removed: Abuses or irregularities in recent elections
Removed: Political parties and political participation
Removed: Participation of women and members of marginalized or vulnerable groups
Removed: Section 4. Corruption in government
Removed: Section 5. Government posture towards international and nongov monitoring and investigation of alleged abuses of human rights
Removed: Retribution against human rights defenders
Removed: The UN and other international bodies
Removed: Government human rights bodies
Section 6. Discrimination and Societal abuse
Women
Removed: Rape and domestic violence
Removed: Female genital mutilation/cutting
Removed: Other forms of gender-based violence
Removed: Discrimination
Partially removed: Reproductive rights(kept content about forced abortions or sterilization)
Children
Removed: Birth registration
Removed: Education
Removed: Medical care
Removed: Child abuse or neglect
Removed: Sexual exploitation of children
Child marriage
Removed: Infanticide, including of children with disabilities
Systemic racial or ethnic violence or discrimination
Indigenous people
Antisemitism
Trafficking in persons
Removed: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex persons
Removed: Criminalization
Removed: Violence and harassment
Removed: Discrimination
Removed: Availability of legal gender recognition
Removed: Involuntary or coercive medical or psychological practices
Removed: Freedom of expression, association, peaceful assembly
Removed: Persons with disabilities
Removed: Institutionalization of children with disabilities
Removed: Other societal violence or discrimination
Removed: Forced organ harvesting
Section 7. Worker rights
Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining
Prohibition of forced or compulsory labor
Prohibition of child labor and minimum wage for employment
Acceptable conditions of work
Wage and hour laws
Occupational safety and health
Wage, hour, and OSH enforcement
2024 outline
Executive Summary
Section 1. Life
Extrajudicial killings
Coercion in population control
War crimes, crimes against humanity, and evidence of acts that may constitute genocide, or conflict-related abuses
Section 2. Liberty
Freedom of the press
Physical attacks, imprisonment, and pressure
Censorship by governments, military, intelligence, or police forces, criminal groups, or armed extremist or rebel groups
Efforts to preserve the independence of media
Worker rights
Freedom of association and collective bargaining
Forced or compulsory labor
Acceptable work conditions
Disappearance and abduction
Disappearance
Prolonged detention without charges
Violations in religious freedom
Trafficking in persons
Section 3. Security of the person
Torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment
Protection of children
Child labor
Child soldiers
Child marriage
Protection to refugees
Provision of first asylum
Resettlement
Acts of antisemitism and antisemitic incitement
Instances of transnational repression
Extraterritorial killing, kidnapping, or violence or threats of violence
Threats, harassment, surveillance, or coercion
Misuse of international law enforcement tools
Efforts to control mobility
Bilateral pressure
Note: Individual reports follow this overall structure, but may not include all sub-items in the outline. This was also true of reports in past years.