US State Dept politicized human rights reports making them useless globally and aligning with China's perspective on human rights basically. Entire categories of reporting eliminated (seemingly as it would also contrast with domestic policies in the USA), and odd results such as listing Germany as worse than El Salvador. Mostly bc of things like treating any moderation of hate speech as censorship and limiting of freedom of speech, equating freedom of speech w freedom of consequences and responsibility. A peculiar US hang-up that happens to align with what makes bigtech platforms profitable. Another example of USA soft power not just being eroded but removed.

What are protected characteristics?

It is interesting to note that a pregnant woman cannot be subject to the death penalty, presumably because the baby would also by necessity be subject to the death penalty, i,e. the unborn baby is a human being.

How is "human being" defined and how does this relate to abortion?