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sheshe2

(95,901 posts) Sat Nov 22, 2025, 06:59 PM Nov 22

Abortion, DEI Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Officials Say

"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."

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Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the State Department that will impact how the agency conducts its annual Human Rights Report.

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The new guidance also includes instructions to report any diversity, equity and inclusion laws in the workplace, any policies that support gender transition surgeries for children and any policies that facilitate mass migration into other countries.

Also targeted are so-called “hate speech laws,” like the internet safety laws adopted by some European countries to deter online hate speech, which the human rights report will now consider violations of free speech.

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Former senior State Department official and head of the Human Rights First charity Uzra Zeya told the BBC that the rules reflect "jaw-dropping" animosity towards LGBTQ+ people and said "attempting to label DEI as a human rights violation sets a new low in the Trump administration's weaponization of international human rights." Amanda Klasing of Amnesty International USA told AFP, a global news agency, that the new standards “send the message that the US no longer believes in the foundational element of the human rights system it helped build.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/11/21/abortion-dei-now-considered-violations-of-human-rights-us-officials-say/

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Abortion, DEI Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Officials Say (Original Post) sheshe2 Nov 22 OP

... Solly Mack Nov 22 #1

SOunds like... 2naSalit Nov 22 #2

Except Saudi Arabia drmeow Nov 22 #5

Well it's not a human rights violation to dismember people. Crunchy Frog Nov 22 #17

Human Rights are a violation of human rights sarisataka Nov 22 #3

Fuck Off Neo Nazi Gestapo. Cha Nov 22 #4

This is probably coming from the same people who sue companies and Universities for having basic EEO policies ChicagoTeamster Nov 22 #6

This is just nonsense. Iris Nov 22 #7

Nonsense, yes Cirsium Nov 22 #9

Lets be honest. quakerboy Nov 22 #13

Upside Down Values 2na fisherman Nov 22 #8

Good post, 2na fisherman. sheshe2 Nov 22 #15

They can say all they want over and over Marthe48 Nov 22 #10

No more money to Israel, right?!? maspaha Nov 22 #11

Oh, yippee....... HighFired49 Nov 22 #12

He took his vorpal sword in hand; struggle4progress Nov 22 #14

Trump thinks that he gets to rule the entire world. Crunchy Frog Nov 22 #16

Practically Everyday there's something thats stupid, disgraceful, disgusting, or danerous, ETC from drumphf & Co!!! electric_blue68 Nov 22 #18

Solly Mack

(96,339 posts)

1. ...

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 07:01 PM

Nov 22

2naSalit

(100,017 posts)

2. SOunds like...

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 07:02 PM

Nov 22

They want the whole world to be a them against US situation.

Fuck that noise.

drmeow

(5,929 posts)

5. Except Saudi Arabia

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #2)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 07:11 PM

Nov 22

and all the other countries ruled by men who want to live in the 1400's.

Crunchy Frog

(28,214 posts)

17. Well it's not a human rights violation to dismember people.

Reply to drmeow (Reply #5)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 09:12 PM

Nov 22

Or deprive women of all rights. Those things are perfectly normal and acceptable.

sarisataka

(22,232 posts)

3. Human Rights are a violation of human rights

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 07:05 PM

Nov 22

Also 2+2=5

Cha

(316,788 posts)

4. Fuck Off Neo Nazi Gestapo.

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 07:05 PM

Nov 22

ChicagoTeamster

(442 posts)

6. This is probably coming from the same people who sue companies and Universities for having basic EEO policies

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Sat Nov 22, 2025, 07:49 PM

Nov 22

Iris

(16,844 posts)

7. This is just nonsense.

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 07:50 PM

Nov 22

Cirsium

(3,363 posts)

9. Nonsense, yes

Reply to Iris (Reply #7)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 07:58 PM

Nov 22

"Nonsense" is too weak.

They want DEI replaced by CIE - conformity, injustice, exclusion.

quakerboy

(14,714 posts)

13. Lets be honest.

Reply to Cirsium (Reply #9)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 08:51 PM

Nov 22

They want everything they've claimed to be Sharia law put in place in the US, with exemptions for the rich and powerful.

2na fisherman

(238 posts)

8. Upside Down Values

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 07:56 PM

Nov 22

So those who are opposed to DEI are in favor of having a monoculture with no diversity, and want an individual's rights to be unequal and also want to exclude those "others" who don't look or behave like them. But who decides all of this? By now, a majority of people are so racially and culturally blended that it is pointless to pursue such a policy of us vs them. Diversity is a basic rule of biology since it leads to more chances for survival of the human species. So it is also suicidal to promote these policies.

sheshe2

(95,901 posts)

15. Good post, 2na fisherman.

Reply to 2na fisherman (Reply #8)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 09:09 PM

Nov 22

Marthe48

(22,725 posts)

10. They can say all they want over and over

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 07:58 PM

Nov 22

The increments of pacifying the insanity will stop. The frog in the water analogy is in play. Rather than waiting for the water to boil, more and more people will hop out.

Human rights violations are enslaving women, kidnapping people, sending military and quasi-military thugs to American cities and the rest of the cruel and inhuman treatment of people. There will be hell to pay and I hope soon.

maspaha

(707 posts)

11. No more money to Israel, right?!?

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Sat Nov 22, 2025, 08:04 PM

Nov 22

HighFired49

(458 posts)

12. Oh, yippee.......

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 08:42 PM

Nov 22

I can hardly wait to get back to segregated schools and businesses, and all straight white male businesses and/or management. Just wait, I'd be willing to bet that out environmental protection laws are next. They want to get rid of every law that prevents straight, white, males from doing whatever they please.

struggle4progress

(125,380 posts)

14. He took his vorpal sword in hand;

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 09:01 PM

Nov 22

Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

Crunchy Frog

(28,214 posts)

16. Trump thinks that he gets to rule the entire world.

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 09:10 PM

Nov 22

And therefore can dictate internal policies and laws to other countries.

They'd better tell him to go pound sand.

electric_blue68

(25,929 posts)

18. Practically Everyday there's something thats stupid, disgraceful, disgusting, or danerous, ETC from drumphf & Co!!!