§8222 Translation of human rights reports

Summary

The Secretary must keep expanding translations of parts of U.S. human rights reports into the main languages of as many countries as possible. This covers the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, the Trafficking in Persons Report, and any separate report on democracy and human rights policy. Priority is for nondemocratic countries, countries moving toward democracy, and places where extrajudicial killings, torture, or other serious rights abuses have occurred. By April 1, 2008, and each year after that through 2010, the Secretary must send the appropriate congressional committees a report about the previous year’s translations. The report must say which reports were translated, which languages were used, and in which countries the translations were posted on a website or otherwise distributed. That report can be included in the separate democracy and human rights policy report submitted under section 665(c) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003.