{"id":33418,"date":"2021-03-29T13:58:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T20:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33418"},"modified":"2021-03-29T13:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T20:58:20","slug":"secretary-blinken-to-release-the-2020-human-rights-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33418","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken to Release the 2020 Human Rights Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03\/29\/2021 04:37 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will deliver on-camera remarks on the release of the 2020\u00a0<em>Country Reports on Human Rights Practices<\/em>\u00a0at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, in the Press Briefing Room at the U.S. Department of State.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Assistant Secretary Lisa Peterson of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor will take questions in the Briefing Room immediately following Secretary Blinken\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Promoting and defending human rights and fundamental freedoms are central to who we are as a country, and the United States will continue to support those around the world struggling for human dignity and liberty.\u00a0 Required by U.S. law,\u00a0the 2020\u00a0<em>Country Reports on Human Rights Practices<\/em>\u00a0document the status of human rights and worker rights in nearly 200 countries and territories.<\/p>\n<p>Instructions for embargoed access to the country reports will be sent to members of the press on Tuesday, March 30,\u00a0at\u00a0 12:00 p.m.\u00a0 The entire report is EMBARGOED until the start of the press briefing.\u00a0 The reports will be available to the public on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDEsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMTAzMjkuMzc5MTY3ODEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5zdGF0ZS5nb3YvIn0.HjN0mbcKcvnQ-i3UaFcx7vzBwcc92XIPH0AGrxEa33E\/s\/1421353029\/br\/101119786397-l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDEsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMTAzMjkuMzc5MTY3ODEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5zdGF0ZS5nb3YvIn0.HjN0mbcKcvnQ-i3UaFcx7vzBwcc92XIPH0AGrxEa33E\/s\/1421353029\/br\/101119786397-l&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1617137608609000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFbQGCRsEjlFVGqBbL3haDIolGj-w\">www.state.gov<\/a>\u00a0following the Secretary\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03\/29\/2021 04:37 PM EDT Office of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33419,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33418\/revisions\/33419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}