US Says Diversity Policies Breach Human Rights
According to new US regulations, nations with diversity policies violate human rights.
The Trump administration may now consider nations that implement diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) programs based on gender or ethnicity to be violating human rights.
All US embassies and consulates participating in the State Department's yearly report on violations of human rights across the world are receiving the new guidelines.
Additionally, the new guidelines consider nations that support mass migration or subsidise abortion to be violating human rights.
Rights activists have denounced the modifications, which the State Department claims are meant to prevent "destructive ideologies," claiming the Trump administration is redefining long-standing human rights norms in order to achieve ideological objectives.
The revisions signify the expansion of the Trump administration's domestic agenda into foreign policy on issues that have become a major source of conflict in the US in recent years, and they also indicate a significant departure in Washington's long-standing focus on international human rights protection.
The new regulations are "a tool to change the behaviour of governments," according to a senior State Department official.
The goal of DEI policies was to improve results for particular racial and identity-based groupings. US President Donald Trump has actively worked to end DEI and bring back what he refers to as merit-based opportunities in the US since taking office.
Speaking under the condition of anonymity, the senior official stated: "The United States remains committed to the Declaration of Independence's recognition that all men are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights."
"Given to us by God, our creator, not by governments" is how the official continued.
US embassies will be instructed to classify the following additional foreign government practices as violations of human rights:
Abortion subsidies "as well as the total estimated number of annual abortions"
The state agency defines gender-transition surgery for children as "operations involving chemical or surgical mutilation... to modify their sex." Encouraging large-scale or unlawful migration "across a country's territory into other countries" "
Arrests or "official investigations or warnings for speech" - a reference to the Trump administration's resistance to internet safety legislation established by various European countries to combat online hate speech
According to Tommy Pigott, deputy spokeswoman for the State Department, the new guidelines are meant to prevent "new destructive ideologies [that] have given safe harbour to human rights violations."
He further stated: "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."
He went on, "Enough is enough."
The administration has come under fire for allegedly altering long-standing global human rights norms in order to further its own ideological objectives.
The Trump administration is "weaponising international human rights for domestic partisan ends," according to Uzra Zeya, a former senior State Department official who currently leads the nonprofit organisation Human Rights First.
"Attempting to label DEI as a human rights violation sets a new low in the Trump administration's weaponization of international human rights," she stated.
The rights of "women, LGBTQI+ persons, religious and ethnic minorities, and non-believers - all of whom enjoy equal rights under US and international law, despite the meandering and obtuse rights rhetoric of the Trump Administration" were not included in the new guidelines, she continued.
According to Ms. Zeya, the new regulations showed "jaw-dropping" hostility against LGBTQI+ individuals.
In the past, the State Department's yearly human rights report has been regarded as the most thorough analysis of its sort by any government.
Torture, extrajudicial executions, and political persecution of minorities are among the violations that it has reported. Its scope and purpose had mostly not changed between Republican and Democratic governments.
The new directives come after the Trump administration released its most recent annual report in August, which was drastically revised and trimmed back from prior years.
It increased condemnation of perceived enemies while decreasing criticism of some US friends. Reports from prior years that covered topics like government corruption and persecution of LGBTQ+ people were drastically reduced by the removal of entire sections.
According to the report, rules prohibiting hate speech online have "worsened" the human rights situation in various European democracies, such as the UK, France, and Germany.
The report's rhetoric, which portrays online harm reduction regulations as assaults on free expression, was similar to earlier comments made by several US tech executives who oppose them.
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