"Per the new rules, which were recently shared with various embassies, consulates, and diplomats involved with putting together the report, the document will now flag countries with any policy that could be considered subsidizing abortion, and will also include "the total estimated number of annual abortions" for that country, according to the BBC. The report will also flag DEI policies in the workplace, as well as any policies that permit gender-affirming care for minors, such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy."
""The Trump administration will not allow these human rights violations, such as the mutilation of children, laws that infringe on free speech, and racially discriminatory employment practices, to go unchecked," Tommy Pigott, a department spokesperson, said of the changes on Thursday. A senior official further the report would align more with the U.S.' domestic politics, and "The United States remains committed to the Declaration of Independence's recognition that all men are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights." But they emphasized that such rights are "given to us by God, our creator, not by governments." This is some real Under His Eye bullshit."
The United States will include policies such as abortion subsidies, DEI workplace programs, and gender-affirming care for minors as human rights violations in its annual human rights report. The report will note the total estimated number of annual abortions for each flagged country. The new guidance was circulated to embassies, consulates, and diplomats responsible for compiling the report. Department officials framed the changes as measures against practices described as mutilation of children, free speech infringements, and racially discriminatory employment. A senior official tied the revisions to domestic political values and to a view of unalienable rights as divinely granted. Critics call this an Orwellian reversal of meaning.
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