Forget Indigenous rights, climate change and environmental protection. That’s the stark message from the latest edition of the U.S. Department of State’s reports on human rights practices across the world, according to an Inside Climate News analysis .

The 196 country reports released Tuesday—relied on by businesses, lawmakers, courts, civil society, diplomats and others—cover issues during 2024, the final year of the Biden administration. But they bear heavy fingerprints from officials working to further the agenda of President Donald Trump and his secretary of state, Marco Rubio.

The reports were extensively reworked to reflect the Trump administration’s priorities, which explains their late arrival. For the previous eight years, the reports were released in March or April. They have a

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