Democrats Propose Woke Foreign Policy

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WASHINGTON, D.C., April 10 (C-Fam) A bill on international disability rights introduced by Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) would make diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) a permanent priority of U.S. foreign policy. It would also include programming to promote gender ideology and abortion.

The “State Department Disability Policy and Accommodations Act” was referred to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in March. It builds and funds a global network of bureaucrats at the State Department and the United Nations that would work through US-backed non-governmental organizations to push woke disability policies internationally.

The bill was proposed ahead of the possible Democrat take over of Congress in the mid-term elections this November. If passed into law, it would give Democrats control of key U.S. Foreign Policy programs and defend them from future reforms by a Republican president. It would force the Trump administration and future Republican administrations to promote the same woke policies and programs that President Trump ended by executive order and that Marco Rubio has been undoing at the U.S. State Department.

The Kaine bill states that disability rights are “foundational to achieving global peace, stability, and prosperity.” It requires the creation of a State Department office for disabilities to “coordinate all international disability policy and international assistance provided by the United States Government.” It also establishes a U.S. ambassador-at-large for international disability rights and a U.S. International Disability Strategy.

It is unlikely that Democrats believe the Bill can advance disability rights internationally in any meaningful way. Aside from urgent assistance like food and medicines, foreign aid for social programs has a poor record of success. The bill is an effort to fund Democrat-allied bureaucratic institutions at home and abroad, and to place a straitjacket on the executive branch’s ability to develop and reform U.S. foreign policy.

It creates several layers of bureaucratic red tape for all U.S. missions and programs abroad, even those that aren’t directly related to disability rights. It requires the woke disability agenda to be integrated into other sources of U.S. foreign assistance, other than those specifically designated for international disability policy, including humanitarian and development assistance.

All U.S. diplomats and State Department personnel will be required to receive training to promote woke disability policies in their day to day work. This expressly includes supporting non-governmental organizations abroad to build compliant woke constituencies for political organizing and lobbying in foreign countries.

It also includes requirements to consult and work through the United Nations and other international organizations, foreign governments, powerful foundations, and non-governmental organizations in developing U.S. disability policy and delivering U.S. assistance.

The bill specifically refers to international documents as required guidance, the “Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) guidelines and the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action.” These international documents were entirely created by UN bureaucrats without democratic input. They include gender ideology, DEI, and abortion programming in line with the recommendations of UN agencies and UN human rights bodies. As previously reported in the Friday Fax, abortion groups and progressive governments have targeted disability policy as a way to promote their agenda for some time.

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