Requires the State Department to publish annual, credible, fact-based Human Rights Reports that are free from political favoritism and to collect information from human rights defenders, journalists, victims, and civil society. It amends existing U.S. human-rights reporting rules to expand and clarify required topics, adding items such as movement restrictions, statelessness and internal displacement, privacy intrusions, limits on political participation and civic space, serious corruption, discrimination and violence against specified groups, and due process and prison conditions.

Imposes clearer content obligations on the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices so the reports remain complete, accurate, and useful to activists, journalists, scholars, governments, and the public; it emphasizes that altering or narrowing the reports for political reasons would undermine credibility and accountability.