Human rights, democracy, refugee, war crime.
He is some of the major responsibilities of the state department that the state secretary Marco Rubio intends to shutter as part of a large restructuring plan for his agency, which he unveiled on Tuesday.
The official goal of the office – Under Secretary for Civil Defense, Democracy and Human Rights – is “to help countries to build more democratic, safe, stable and only societies.”
In a post on Substack on Tuesday, Mr. Rubio called the change against the evil Liberal Bureauckets a blow, saying that the office had created a fertile atmosphere for the workers to redefine “human rights” and ‘democracy’ and to carry out his projects at the taxpayer’s expense even when struggling with the goals of the President.
The nine bureau of the office will be dropped down and in most cases will be merged with other parts of the department under Mr. Rubio’s scheme. The bureau slates for elimination include people who combat global criminal justice and antisementism.
Two of the bureau, including a small democracy and human rights bureau, will be present under a new office of the coordinator for foreign aid and human affairs. But that office will now be led by an under secretary.
On Tuesday, Tammy Bruce, a spokesman of the State Department, warned that changes did not mean the end of values-based initiatives in the US foreign policy, arguing that the target was a “nimblar” department.
However, the critics of Mr. Rubio say the clear message is that those values are being downgrated, breaking up with the US diplomatic tradition for decades – not mentioning Mr. Rubio’s record as Florida’s Republican Senator.
Christopher Le Mon said, “The end of the most human rights officer of the State Department sends a clear indication that the Trump administration has less cared about fundamental freedom, which is about cutting deals with auto -freedom, which is about cutting deals with autocats and oppressors,” Krristopher Le Mon said, who served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary in Biden Administration.
Some said that Mr. Rubio has long been one of the strongest supporters in any side of human rights efforts of the department.
“When I run the Human Rights Bureau of the State Department, some senators were more interested in our work than Marco Rubio,” Tom Malinowski, who ran a bureau under President Barack Obama before becoming a Democratic Congressman in New Jersey, recently written on X.
Mr. Rubio’s Substac Post Especially took out the former bureau of Mr. Malinowski for Scorn, called it “a platform for leftist activists” to promote his personal views, in which Mr. Rubio called “his hatred”.
This bureau serves as a kind of voice of discretion for policy makers because they balance the interests of America with their values. During the Biden administration, it offered Israel’s internal criticism, arguing that it was not enough to protect citizens in Gaza.
The bureau also creates a widely cited annual report of the department on human rights abroad, although that document may change.
Mr. Malinowski posted in a response to an NPR report that the Trump administration officials had directed the bureau of professionals to tell them from many categories of abuses that they had condemned for a long time. They include NPR, harassment of LGBTQ people, violations of women’s rights and government corruption and a similar report of Politico. A former bureau officer called those news accurate.
The guards of the bureau say that it has done a lot of work to praise the conservatives. During the first Trump administration, it played an important role in making a case for state secretary Mike Pompeo to declare that China gave a massacre to the harassment of its ethnic Uyghur minority.
It has also argued for difficult policies against the governments of Iranian and Venezuela, which are notorious human rights criminals.
The office was created in 1977 as a bureau of human rights and human affairs in 1977 after motivating the role of human rights in the US foreign policy. The Clinton Administration changed its name to become democracy, human rights and labor bureau and expanded it.
Under the scheme of Shri Rubio, it will be replaced again as the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Religious Freedom.
The under secretary status, in which it reports, and Mr. Rubio plans to develop the new diplomatic challenges after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1994 by the Clinton Administration’s reorganization of the State Department.
In 1994, State Secretary Warren M. Christopher created an under secretary for global affairs, who was responsible for increasing the importance of so -called international issues. Reaching its current form during the Obama administration, the office developed and expanded over years.
Mr. Le Som dismissed the notion that changes would give rise to more efficient policy making.
He said, “We need a serious bilateral interaction about how the Foreign Department reorganized the challenges and dangers of the 21st century,” he said. “But this proposal is not so serious, and it is dissatisfied and ignorant to behave ‘efficiency’ as the only goal for reforms.”
