US EditionAmnesty International paints a grim picture for human rights
Powerful leaders like Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu are building a predatory world order, causing a global backslide in human rights, Amnesty International warns.
- Amnesty International released its annual report Monday evening, warning the world faces a "perilous new era" driven by powerful states and corporations assaulting international law and human rights.
- The "Amnesty Report 2025" denounces political leaders like President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Netanyahu for carrying out conquests through violence, undermining the global order built over the past 80 years.
- Assessing human rights in 144 countries, Amnesty details how double standards and selective compliance with international law have weakened the multilateral system, enabling impunity for powerful actors.
- Amnesty International Canada warned that Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is backsliding on Indigenous rights, with new legislation threatening self-determination while prioritizing resource development and budget cuts.
- Despite the grim assessment, widespread civil society resistance offers hope, as Amnesty urges states and global bodies to reject appeasement and collectively rebuild the rules-based order around human rights.
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Iran, Gaza, Sudan or the USA: Amnesty International takes a gloomy look at the situation of human rights, but there are bright spots.
The human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) documented systemic injustices in 2025, the patterns of which continued in 2026, while the general secretary of the organization, Agnes Callamard, warned of the emergence of a "predatory world order".
The year 2025 was marked by attacks on multilateralism, international law and civil society, according to a report on the state of human rights in 144 countries last year by the non-governmental organization Amnesty International (AI).
US and Israel driving ’predatory’ world order, Amnesty warns
Humanity is "under attack" from a predatory world order in which powerful states trample international law with near-total impunity, Amnesty International has warned in its annual assessment of global human rights on Tuesday. The organisation said 2025 was marked by widespread violations, systemic injustices and a collapse of accountability, with the Middle East and North Africa offering the starkest illustration of a world "falling into lawless…
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