The U.S. has also previously criticized alleged human rights violations in Afghanistan, China, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela. While the "human rights reports describe abuses in all these nations, the level of detail has been reduced" under the Trump administration's guidelines, said The Washington Post.

The State Department is out Monday with its long-delayed annual Human Rights Report, and this year's edition looks much different than previous installations.

Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.