US Guts Criticism of Indigenous Rights Abuses, Mentions of Climate Change From Annual Human Rights Reports
Data and R code to reproduce the analysis underlying this Aug. 14, 2025 Inside Climate News article, scrutinizing the text of the 2024 edition of the U.S. State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, compared to reports from previous years.
We downloaded the individual country pages for all reports from 2016 to 2024, which are in the folder html, then parsed their contents using the script scraper.R. The resulting data, including the full text of each country report, is in the file reports.RData in the processed_data folder.
Subsequent text analysis is in the file index.Rmd and online here.
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