Countries enforcing race or gender diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies will now be at risk of the Trump administration deeming them as infringing on human rights.
The State Department is issuing the new rules to all US embassies and consulates involved in compiling its annual report on global human rights abuses.
The new instructions also deem countries that subsidise abortion or facilitate mass migration as infringing on human rights.
The changes, which the State Department says are intended to stop "destructive ideologies", have been condemned by rights campaigners who argue the Trump administration is re-defining long-established human rights principles to pursue ideological goals.
The changes reflect a major shift in Washington's established focus on global human rights protection, and signal the expansion into foreign policy of the Trump administration's domestic agenda on issues that have become a lightning rod of division in the US over recent years.
A senior State Department official said the new rules were "a tool to change the behaviour of governments".
DEI policies were designed with the objective of improving outcomes for specific racial and identity-based groups. Since assuming office, US President Donald Trump has aggressively sought to terminate DEI and restore what he calls merit-based opportunity in the US.
The senior official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "The United States remains committed to the Declaration of Independence's recognition that all men are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights."
The official added that rights were "given to us by God, our creator, not by governments".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24200d7y9o.amp
The State Department is issuing the new rules to all US embassies and consulates involved in compiling its annual report on global human rights abuses.
The new instructions also deem countries that subsidise abortion or facilitate mass migration as infringing on human rights.
The changes, which the State Department says are intended to stop "destructive ideologies", have been condemned by rights campaigners who argue the Trump administration is re-defining long-established human rights principles to pursue ideological goals.
The changes reflect a major shift in Washington's established focus on global human rights protection, and signal the expansion into foreign policy of the Trump administration's domestic agenda on issues that have become a lightning rod of division in the US over recent years.
A senior State Department official said the new rules were "a tool to change the behaviour of governments".
DEI policies were designed with the objective of improving outcomes for specific racial and identity-based groups. Since assuming office, US President Donald Trump has aggressively sought to terminate DEI and restore what he calls merit-based opportunity in the US.
The senior official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "The United States remains committed to the Declaration of Independence's recognition that all men are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights."
The official added that rights were "given to us by God, our creator, not by governments".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24200d7y9o.amp
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