Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor(DRL)

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor champions American values, including the rule of law and individual rights, that promote strong, stable, prosperous, and sovereign states. They advance American security in the struggle against authoritarianism and terrorism when they stand for the freedoms of religion, speech, and the press, and the rights of people to assemble peaceably and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.