Promoting Human Rights Or Creating Confrontation?——On U.S. State Department's Human Rights Report

The U.S. State Department published on June 24, 2003 a report entitled Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2002-2003. The report for the first time highlights the U.S. efforts to "promote human rights and democracy" in 92 countries and entities—the 92 claimed to have "the most human rights abuses"—in addition to its annual country report that heaps on accusations against 196 countries and entities for what it calls their human rights conditions.