A new U.S. State Department report has labeled the governments of Russia, Iran, China and North Korea as “morally reprehensible” with human rights violations on a daily basis, making them “forces of instability.”
While releasing the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2017, an annual examination of human rights practices of nearly 200 countries, acting Secretary of State John Sullivan said on April 20 that while some governments are not able to maintain security and meet the basic needs of their people, others “are simply unwilling.”