对南非白人阿非利卡人、反共主义及其他事业的支持,揭示了美国如何重新定义人权资格。
在资金到期前的最后几个小时里,特朗普政府正推动将国务院旗舰人权基金中超过1.75亿美元的资金,用于一系列奖项,其中包括向一个反共基金提供4000万美元的巨额拨款、支持一个在南非推进白人阿非利卡人权利的组织、针对巴西最高法院的运动,以及奖励欧洲那些保护“西方文明规范”的意识形态盟友的项目。
Support for white Afrikaners, anti-communism and others reveals how US redefining what qualifies as human rights With hours left before the funding expires, the Trump administration is pushing to direct more than $175m of the state department’s flagship human rights fund to a slate of awards that includes a massive $40m grant for an anti-communism fund, support for a group advancing white Afrikaner rights in South Africa, a campaign against Brazil’s supreme court, and programs that would reward ideological allies in Europe who protect “western civilisational norms”.
批评人士关注到,这43笔总计1.769亿美元的拨款将支持全球各地的右翼和保守派事业,并可能因干涉他国内政而激怒美国盟友。
Critics have focused on 43 awards of a combined $176.9m that will bolster rightwing and conservative causes around the world while likely angering US allies over interference in internal politics.
卫报查阅了这些有争议的拨款样本,这些拨款占国会为整个人权与民主基金(HRDF)拨出的2.05亿美元资金的大部分。
The Guardian has seen a sample of the controversial grants, which makes up most of the $205m in funding that Congress has appropriated for the entire human rights and democracy fund (HRDF).