§8222 Translation of Human Rights Reports

Summary

The Secretary must keep increasing how much of certain U.S. human rights reports are translated 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 democracy and human rights policy report under the 2003 Foreign Relations Authorization Act. The translations should focus especially on non-democratic countries, places moving toward democracy, and countries where extrajudicial killings, torture, or other serious human rights abuses have happened. By April 1, 2008, and again every year through 2010, the Secretary must send a report to the relevant congressional committees. That report must say which of the listed reports were translated during the past year, which languages were used, and in which countries those translations were posted or distributed. The translation report can be included in the separate democracy and human rights policy report mentioned above.