(SRN NEWS) The U.N. World Food Program says more than a million people in northeastern Nigeria could lose access to emergency food and nutrition aid within weeks unless funding is secured, as violence and hunger surge in the region. Northern Nigeria is bedeviled by two Muslim terrorist organizations which are preying on Christians and destabilizing the entire region. The violence has displaced around 3.5 million people in recent months, destroyed food supplies, and brought malnutrition to critical levels in several northern states. Officials say the widespread attacks have also deterred local farmers from using their land.
( ) The Trump administration is expanding its ban on foreign aid to include assistance going to international and domestic organizations that promote transgenderism as well as diversity, equity and inclusion programs. An administration official says the State Department has established rules that expand the scope of the Mexico City Policy, which bars U.S. taxpayer dollars from promoting abortion abroad. The policy was first established under President Reagan, rescinded by subsequent Democratic administrations and reinstated in President Trump’s first term. The expanded policy will apply to more than 30 billion dollars in foreign aid.
( ) The federal agency in charge of enforcing workplace anti-discrimination laws has voted to rescind its own guidance on how to guard against harassment at work. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s new Republican majority voted to rescind the Biden-era document because it promotes transgenderism. EEOC Chairman Andrea Lucas says “It is neither harassment nor discrimination for a business to draw distinctions between the sexes in providing single-sex bathrooms or other similar facilities.” President Trump has issued an executive order declaring that there are only two immutable sexes: male and female.
( ) The Trump administration has announced that the specialized LGBT option will be removed on the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline to focus on serving all callers. The hotline will no longer silo gay youth services, which had been the “Press 3 option” for 988 callers, in order to prioritize serving “all help seekers”. LGBT people will still be able to call and discuss their problems — they just won’t have a special number to select. The Trump administration says the specialized gay subnetwork’s initial pilot budget of 33 million dollars has long been exceeded and unifying services for all callers was a better option from the standpoint of cost and efficiency.
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