US to Scale Back Human Rights Accusations Against 3 Countries

[Rogue Valley]

US to scale back human rights accusations against 3 countries: Report

The Washington Post said the three drafts it reviewed omit any mention of violence against LGBTQ+ people.

www.newsweek.com

8.6.25
The administration of President Donald Trump is scaling back criticism of certain foreign governments over their human rights records, including their treatment of LGBTQ+ people, in a shift from the traditional U.S. promotion of rights, The Washington Post reported. The apparent shift on human rights reflects a pattern of disengagement from international conventions and comes as the administration has already moved to abandon long-held positions and norms in areas like trade, the environment and relations with allies. Diplomats in U.S. embassies around the world have drawn up the annual rights report for almost 50 years. Their findings are considered the most thorough and wide-ranging of their kind. The newspaper reviewed leaked draft reports on El Salvador, Israel and Russia being prepared for the State Department's annual report on human rights practices in countries around the world. the reports it reviewed are significantly shorter than the ones prepared last year by the administration of former President Joe Biden. They cut all references to LGBTQ+ people or crimes against them, and the descriptions of government abuses that remain have been softened. The draft for El Salvador says it had "no credible reports of significant human rights abuses" in 2024. The previous report for El Salvador, documenting 2023, identified "significant human rights issues" there—including government-sanctioned killings, instances of torture and "harsh and life-threatening prison conditions."

The Trump administration is turning a blind eye on the human rights abuses of the government in El Salvador that has agreed to house US immigration deportees in its horrendous CECOT prison.

Trump is friends with Benjamin Natanyahu of Israel who was indicted by the International Criminal Court for Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza. Netanyahu is also on trial in Israel for bribery and other criminal offenses.

Trump is friends wth Vladimir Putin, who was indicted for War Crimes in Ukraine. Putin murders his political opponents (see: Alexei Navalny) and his authoritarian government persecutes various ethnicities in Russia, the LGBTQ+ community, and non-Orthodox religions.

 

[dmpi]

A country has a right and obligation to formulate it's own opinion regarding LBGTQ+ taking into account the county's unique cultural, religious and social mix. The left displays classic American arrogance trying to ram down their own well meaning but misguided beliefs on the world's population. That was pretty much the charter for USAID.

 

[Integrityrespec]

US to scale back human rights accusations against 3 countries: Report

The Washington Post said the three drafts it reviewed omit any mention of violence against LGBTQ+ people.

www.newsweek.com

The Trump administration is turning a blind eye on the human rights abuses of the government in El Salvador that has agreed to house US immigration deportees in its horrendous CECOT prison.

Trump is friends with Benjamin Natanyahu of Israel who was indicted by the International Criminal Court for Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza. Netanyahu is also on trial in Israel for bribery and other criminal offenses.

Trump is friends wth Vladimir Putin, who was indicted for War Crimes in Ukraine. Putin murders his political opponents (see: Alexei Navalny) and his authoritarian government persecutes various ethnicities in Russia, the LGBTQ+ community, and non-Orthodox religions.

I suspect it may be a reaction to the extremism of those pushing transgender policies. As far as the Gaza claims, it's bullshit, it's a war and Hamas, whom the Gazan electorate put into power, caused it. If someone breaks into your home and tries to kill your family and you have a loaded gun, what are you going to do?

 

[noonereal]

The left displays classic American arrogance trying to ram down their own well meaning but misguided beliefs on the world's population. That was pretty much the charter for USAID.

This is called progress
We should all always be aiming for this.

 

[Integrityrespec]

This is called progress
We should all always be aiming for this.

Progress is subjective, right?

 

[noonereal]

Progress is subjective, right?

Wrong.