🔗 Share this article Fresh American Rules Label Countries with Diversity Policies as Basic Freedoms Violations Nations implementing racial and gender-based diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives will now face American leadership deeming them as infringing on basic rights. US diplomatic corps is issuing updated regulations to all US embassies tasked with compiling its annual report on global human rights abuses. Updated guidelines additionally classify nations funding pregnancy termination or facilitate large-scale immigration as breaching human rights. Major Policy Shift The new guidelines represent a major shift in Washington's established focus on international freedom safeguarding, and demonstrate the extension into foreign policy of the Trump administration's domestic agenda. A high-ranking American representative stated these guidelines were "a mechanism to alter the actions of governments". Understanding Diversity Initiatives Inclusion initiatives were designed with the aim of enhancing results for specific racial and population segments. Upon entering the White House, American leadership has actively pursued to end diversity programs and reinstate what he terms merit-based opportunity throughout the United States. Classified Violations Other policies by international authorities which United States consulates receive directives to label as human rights infringements encompass: Supporting pregnancy termination, "along with the overall projected figure of regular procedures" Gender-transition surgery for minors, described by the state department as "interventions involving chemical or surgical mutilation... to modify their sex". Enabling large-scale or unauthorized immigration "through national borders into foreign states". Arrests or "official investigations or cautions about communication" - a reference to the Trump administration's opposition to online protection regulations enacted by some EU nations to deter online hate speech. Leadership Stance American foreign ministry official the spokesperson declared these guidelines are meant to stop "new destructive ideologies [that] have provided shelter to rights infringements". He stated: "American leadership will not allow these human rights violations, like the mutilation of children, regulations that violate on free speech, and demographically biased employment practices, to continue unimpeded." He continued: "This must stop". Dissenting Perspectives Detractors have claimed the leadership of reinterpreting historically recognized international freedom standards to advance its ideological goals. A previous American representative presently heading the charity Human Rights First declared American leadership was "utilizing global freedoms for ideological objectives". "Trying to classify diversity initiatives as a human rights violation establishes a fresh nadir in the American leadership's weaponization of international human rights," she said. She added that the new instructions omitted the freedoms of "female individuals, gender-diverse individuals, religious and ethnic minorities, and agnostics — each of these possess equivalent freedoms under US and international law, notwithstanding the confusing and unclear liberty language of the Trump Administration." Historical Background US diplomatic corps' regular freedom evaluation has traditionally been regarded as the most thorough examination of this category by any nation. It has documented breaches, including abuse, non-judicial deaths and partisan harassment of population segments. Much of its focus and range had stayed generally consistent across conservative and liberal governments. These guidelines come after the US government's release of the latest annual report, which was extensively redrafted and diminished compared to prior editions. It decreased disapproval of some United States friends while escalating disapproval of perceived foes. Whole categories featured in reports from previous years were removed, significantly decreasing coverage of matters comprising state dishonesty and discrimination toward gender-diverse persons. The assessment additionally stated the rights conditions had "worsened" in some EU states, comprising the United Kingdom, French Republic and Germany, because of regulations prohibiting internet abuse. The language in the report mirrored prior concerns by some United States digital leaders who oppose internet safety measures, characterizing them as attacks on free speech.