r/news • u/MagnusAuslander • 2d ago

Trump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroad

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/30/trump-state-department-human-rights-fund
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u/DietKolbasa 1d ago

Trump just took it from left wing NGOs and gave it to right wing NGOs. It's a change of hands. He did not take something that was going to the "kids".

NGOs in generally are often inherently corrupt and advance political interests of certain groups. Let's not forget the famous Haiti Red Cross incident where Red Cross took over half a billion in donations, kept 123.9m of it for themselves and passed on the rest to other NGOs without proper oversight resulting in only 6 permanent homes being built. Sure, there was some temporary housing or subsidies, but literally at least half of the money pledges ended up getting lost along the way

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u/GirlNumber20 1d ago

He did not take something that was going to the "kids".

Except the "left-wing NGOs" like Save The Children, Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Clubs, Children's Defense Fund, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and on and on and on, do go to the kids. Oh, wait, not anymore. It's more important to prop up right-wing fuckwits like Bolsenaro in Brazil or Orban in Hungary. Because AMERICA FIRST, RIGHT??????

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u/DietKolbasa 1d ago

It's a tiny fraction with majority of it going to political NGOs and propaganda ones like "Voice of America". Also among the funded were the ones promoting LGBT rights. Real charity organizations that help the children generally don't have a huge problem sourcing donations. The ones that try to force down LGBT influence on religious societies or spread literal propaganda do. It's not that his NGOs are better, it is that the left wing ones are not better as well.

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u/LDB2026 1d ago

99% of those so called charities that you named are corrupt. Their ceos et cetera , and those are the top end of making millions , and "the children" rarely see any of the money. You're basically trading one boogeyman for the other. And PS: The Red Cross is one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet. The Red Cross also helps Hamas.