*This brief has been updated to reflect new Concluding Observations made by UN Treaty Bodies as of July 8, 2025. Tax policy is inextricably bound up with governments’ human rights obligations. Under ...
The United States has been publishing reports on human rights practices in other countries since 1977. Initially, only countries receiving foreign U.S. assistance were covered. Today, all countries ...
The urgency to increase critical mineral security has sent more economically developed countries racing into resource-rich, less economically developed countries at unprecedented speed. There has been ...
When companies consider what ESG issues are material to their business, it’s common to see issues such as climate change, product safety and cybersecurity prioritized. While each of these issues are ...
The US State Department on Tuesday released a pared-down version of its annual report meant to catalogue human rights concerns in countries around the world. The report covers the 2024 calendar year – ...
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For nearly half a century, the State Department has reported annually on human-rights conditions in countries around the world. The purpose of this exercise is not to cast aspersions, but to collect ...