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.”