2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Violations: the United States
2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Violations: the United States
Since the distant past, the United States has been claiming to defend the foundations and principles of human rights, the protection of which is deemed one of the most important slogans and claims chanted by the American authorities in the international fora. This comes as the anti-human rights measures implemented by the U.S. in all dimensions, at both domestic and international levels, are a testament to the fact that the American authorities’ positions vis-à-vis the human rights situation in the world are adopted based upon political preferences and interests. Such a modus operandi has led to the United States’ instrumentalization of human rights at the international level, and formed Washington’s basis of action towards the target States. Given the aforesaid facts, the Supreme Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution has always emphasized upon unmasking cases of human rights violations in countries that operate under the pretexts of defending human rights, through which they lay the groundwork for interference in the internal affairs of other States. Therefore, the present report examines and clarifies the most important instances of human rights violations committed by the United States at both domestic and international levels.
The first part of the report examines the broad aspects of the United States’ anti-human rights actions at the domestic level, including but not limited to: increase in the culture of using weapons, illegal use of coercive force by the police against minorities, targeted discrimination against people of African descent by the police and judicial system, complex modus operandi of issuing the death penalty and discriminatory implementation thereof against minorities of color, violent treatment of asylum seekers, spike in sexual violence against women, violation of children’s rights, violation of indigenous peoples’ rights, imposition of sanctions against other countries, and interference in their internal affairs.
The second part of the report touches upon the anti-human rights actions perpetrated by the United States at the international level, the hypocrisy thereof in claiming to be the global flag-bearer of human rights, and the instrumentalization of human rights for interfering in and commenting on the situation of human rights in other countries.
2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Violations: the United States