Top US diplomat snubs launch of own rights report

Washington (AFP) – Low-profile US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson came under attack on Friday for failing to appear in public to launch his own department’s annual human rights report.
President Donald Trump’s chief diplomat, who has all but dropped from public view since taking office a month ago, penned a brief preface to the survey of the rights record of 199 countries.
But there was no event or news conference to mark the report’s launch, and the State Department pr