In the Eyes of the Beholder: Analysis and Impressions of U.S State Department Human Rights and Religious Freedom Reports for Serbia, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine (2016–2020)
In the Eyes of the Beholder: Analysis and Impressions of U.S State Department Human Rights and Religious Freedom Reports for Serbia, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine (2016–2020)

Summary/Abstract: Each year, the United States Department of State publishes Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, and International Religious Freedom Reports for hundreds of countries throughout the world. The combination of these two reports provides a seemingly comprehensive analysis of a given country’s present human rights and religious regulations, laws and present concerns as they impact the population as a whole, specified minority communities residing in each country, and recorded human rights infringements therein. This analysis focuses on the four countries in the Carpathian Basin which are currently home to the largest ethnic, autochthonous Hungarian communities living outside of Hungary, specifically: Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia and Serbia. The Department of State’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and the International Religious Freedom Reports are evaluated from years 2016 through 2020. The analysis provides a comprehensive summary of the reports and their treatment, inclusion and absence of abuses against historical minority communities, with a particular focus on the local Hungarian communities from a United Stated based perspective.

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