By Melanie Nathan, April 22, 2024
The 2023 State department Human Rights Reports are being released today. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivered on-camera remarks on the release of the 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices today.
Senior Bureau Official Robert Gilchrist from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor then took the podium made a statement and answered questions. The department press briefing with Spokesperson Matthew Miller followed.
Mr. Gilchrist spoke to the bravery and importance of human rights defenders across the globe. These reports are mandated by Congress and must be issued every year. They usually appear in March of the year following reporting. The current reports will be 2023 reports for each country across the globe and available on the State department website.
Not a SINGLE REPORTER asked a SINGLE question about the heightened criminalization of Africa’s LGBTQI+ community emanating from Uganda, leading to a trend and resulting in the anti-Homosexuality surge apparent in several other countries to include Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and more.
Also nothing asked about South Sudan and the major rape, killing , forced displacement and hunger crisis at this time.
State departments notes: “Promoting respect for human rights and defending fundamental freedoms is central to who we are as a country. The United States will always support those around the world struggling for human dignity and liberty. The 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices — required by U.S. law to be submitted to Congress — documents the status of respect for human rights and worker rights in nearly 200 countries and territories.”
Melanie Nathan Executive Director of African Human Rights Coalition, as an expert witness, provides country conditions reporting and testimony for LGBTQI+ asylum seekers in the United States and globally. These State Department Human Rights reports, which lack detail, do in fact provide an excellent and critical guideline, while lending credibility to much of what we know through our own data collection and further extensive sourcing.
RE COUNTRY CONDITIONS TESTIMONY:
If you are Counsel or an asylum seeker who has engaged Melanie Nathan for reporting / testimony and require an update, please contact Melanie directly at nathan@AfricanHRC.org
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Melanie Nathan, Executive Director of African Human Rights Coalition is a qualified country of origin expert witness in the United States and global immigration courts, providing expert written country conditions reports and testimony for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, non-binary, LGBTQI + asylum seekers from African Countries, to include activists, allies and human rights defenders.
Melanie also consults multinational corporations regarding briefings and policy for operations and issue impacted by anti-homosexuality laws and country conditions.
COUNTRIES:
Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea-Conakry, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Malawi, Mauritania, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Tanzania, The Gambia, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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