The Trump administration on Tuesday released its annual human rights reports for every country in the world. Gone from the documents are entire sections on human rights abuses including gender-based violence, attacks on LGBTQ+ and women’s rights, and discrimination along racial or ethnic lines. Several of the updated reports omit evidence of abuses in countries whose leaders are allied with Donald Trump. The U.S. report on Israel was slashed by over 80% and removes almost all criticisms of the Israeli government — with no mention of the humanitarian catastrophe caused by Israel’s blockade of Gaza. A report on Hungary no longer documents extensive government corruption, nor a crackdown on LGBTQ+ people, instead concluding, “There were no credible reports of significant human rights abuses.” That’s the same conclusion in the executive summary of the 2024 report on El Salvador, which has been slashed by three-quarters and no longer cites abuses that many asylum seekers previously used as evidence for their cases. By contrast, the 2023 human rights report on El Salvador, written by the Biden State Department, cites arbitrary killings, enforced disappearances, torture, life-threatening prison conditions, attacks on the independence of the judiciary, widespread gender-based violence and more. On Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce defended the changes.

Tammy Bruce: “We weren’t going to release something compiled and written by the previous administration. It needed to change, based on the point of view and the vision of the Trump administration.”

Meanwhile, the updated report on South Africa alleges the mistreatment of white Afrikaner farmers, while Brazil’s human rights report criticizes the prosecution of Trump ally and former President Jair Bolsonaro for attempting a coup.