The State Department is 'streamlining' what it will cover in its report on international human rights (now it's redefining human rights)

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The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the State Department's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, government corruption and restrictions on participation in the political process, NPR has learned.

Despite decades of precedent, the reports, which are meant to inform congressional decisions on foreign aid allocations and security assistance, will no longer call governments out for such things as denying freedom of movement and peaceful assembly. They won't condemn retaining political prisoners without due process or restrictions on "free and fair elections."

Forcibly returning a refugee or asylum-seeker to a home country where they may face torture or persecution will no longer be highlighted, nor will serious harassment of human rights organizations.

Well, we wouldn't want them to be hypocrites, would we? And we wouldn't want to make our friends look bad, either.

The Trump administration recently negotiated the transfer of immigrants from the U.S. into El Salvador's notorious prison system. In a draft of the forthcoming report on that country reviewed by NPR, the section on prison conditions is erased.

And we'll get rid of WOKE garbage like criticizing countries for:

• Extensive gender-based violence.
• Violence or threats of violence targeting people with disabilities.

 

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Trump administration moves focus of key human rights report away from persecuted groups; defines DEI and abortion as infringements on human rights.​

The State Department’s next human rights report will move away from calling out the persecution of marginalized groups such as women, ethnic and racial minorities, people with disabilities and the LGBTQ+ community and instead focus on the “natural rights” of the individual, a senior State Department official said Thursday.

“We believe that every individual has these rights, no matter their group identity,” the senior State Department official said in a briefing to reporters.

New guidance was sent to all U.S. embassies and consulates abroad Thursday mandating that U.S. diplomats also note other instances that were described as infringements on human rights, according to a second senior State Department official.

Those violations include the chemical or surgical mutilation of children in operations that attempt to modify their sex; the enforcement of DEI policies like affirmative action; the facilitation of mass or illegal migration across a country’s territory into other countries; state subsidization of abortions; attempts to coerce individuals into engaging in euthanasia; and medical abuses including forced testing, forced organ harvesting and eugenic gene-editing practices on human embryos.

Historically, U.S. administrations have grounded their human rights policy in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which strives to avoid Western or American definitions in favor of a more common understanding and international standard.

 

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state subsidization of abortions

What are the odds of Israel getting called out on this? Zero? It’s zero right?