U.S. State Department Releases 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

Washington, April 8, 2011

In releasing an annual report on human rights worldwide April 8, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that the struggle for basic human rights begins by telling the truth, over and over again.

Clinton told reporters during a special briefing that the annual report “represents a year of sustained truth telling by one of the largest organizations documenting human rights conditions in the world: the United States State Department.”

The annual report — entitled Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2010 — is prepared for Congress. This year’s report examines the legal status of human rights in more than 194 countries and territories around the world.

The U.S. Department of State is required by law to provide Congress with a complete report regarding the status of internationally recognized human rights for countries that receive assistance and countries that are members of the United Nations. The report provides extensive information that often informs U.S. policymaking.

But the report is also an invaluable reference tool for other governments, international institutions, NGOs, human rights activists and journalists. The report is translated into more than 50 languages and made available online by the State Department.

Czech Republic

According to the U.S. Department of State’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices notable human rights problems included official corruption, trafficking of persons for commercial sexual exploitation and labor, neo-Nazi and nationalist extremism directed at Roma and other minorities, and societal discrimination against Roma.


The full text of the country report on Czech Republic is available on the State Department Web site.