{"id":6444,"date":"2026-02-01T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=6444"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:49:02","slug":"trump-administration-to-block-aid-from-subsidizing-dei-and-trans-rights-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/01\/trump-administration-to-block-aid-from-subsidizing-dei-and-trans-rights-overseas\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration to block aid from subsidizing DEI and trans rights overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US administration has announced a new policy to prevent foreign aid funds from being used to support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives or transgender rights advocacy abroad. The Trump administration has announced a major expansion of the &#8220;Mexico City policy,&#8221; blocking foreign aid from organizations that support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) or transgender rights initiatives. Now, this directive extends the &#8220;global gag rule&#8221; beyond abortion services to include any international or U.S.-based NGOs that promote what the administration terms &#8220;gender ideology.&#8221; State Department spokesperson framed the move as a fulfillment of the president&#8217;s promise to end &#8220;woke foreign assistance.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 22, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/22\/trump-foreign-aid-dei-trans-rights\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US administration has announced a new policy to prevent foreign aid funds from being used to support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives or transgender rights advocacy abroad. The Trump administration has announced a major expansion of the &#8220;Mexico City policy,&#8221; blocking foreign aid from organizations that support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":6447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6781,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions\/6781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}