Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

On March 6, 2006, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice released the 2005 Country Reports. The most recent print volume NESL has is 2004; however the Portia record links to this 2005 report online.

"The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These rights include freedom from torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, from prolonged detention without charges, from disappearance or clandestine detention, and from other flagrant violations of the right to life, liberty and the security of the person."