The U.S. has also previously criticized alleged human rights violations in Afghanistan, China, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela. While the "human rights reports describe abuses in all these nations, the level of detail has been reduced" under the Trump administration's guidelines, said The Washington Post.

A long-awaited report on global human rights from the Trump administration features hand-wringing about purported anti-white racism, downplays abuses against women and completely omits references to anti-LGBTQ discrimination.