Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§8222 Translation of Human Rights Reports

Title 22 › CHAPTER 89 — ADVANCING DEMOCRATIC VALUES › SUBCHAPTER II — STRATEGIES AND REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE PROMOTION OF DEMOCRACY › § 8222

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must keep expanding quick translations of parts of several U.S. human rights reports — the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, the Trafficking in Persons Report, and any separate democracy and human rights policy report — into the main languages of as many countries as possible. Priority is for nondemocratic countries, countries moving toward democracy, and places with extrajudicial killings, torture, or other serious human rights abuses. By April 1, 2008, and again each year through 2010, the Secretary must send Congress a report about the previous year’s translations. The report must say which reports were translated into which main languages and which countries received those translations, whether posted online or distributed in other ways. The report can be included in the separate democracy and human rights policy report required by law.

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Title 22, §8222

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(a)In general

The Secretary shall continue to expand the timely translation of the applicable parts of the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices required under section 2151n(d) and 2304(b) of this title, the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom required under section 6412(b) of this title, the Trafficking in Persons Report required under section 7107(b) of this title, and any separate report on democracy and human rights policy submitted in accordance with section 665(c) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 (Public Law 107–228; 22 U.S.C. 2151n note) into the principal languages of as many countries as possible, with particular emphasis on nondemocratic countries, democratic transition countries, and countries in which extrajudicial killings, torture, or other serious violations of human rights have occurred.

(b)Report

(1)Requirement

Not later than April 1, 2008, and annually thereafter through 2010, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report describing any translations of the reports specified in subsection (a) for the preceding year, including which of such reports have been translated into which principal languages and the countries in which such translations have been distributed by posting on a relevant website or elsewhere.

(2)Form

The report required under paragraph (1) may be included in any separate report on democracy and human rights policy submitted in accordance with section 665(c) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003.

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22 U.S.C. § 8222

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110