LONDON: In its annual report released on Tuesday, Amnesty International stated that a “multiplicity of assaults” that have increased since US President Donald Trump’s return to office pose a danger to the international legal and human rights system. Agnes Callamard, the secretary general of the rights group, stated that “unprecedented forces are hunting down the ideals of human rights for all, seeking to destroy an international system forged in the blood and grief of World War Two and its Holocaust.”
Conflicts and violations in the Middle East, Sudan, Ukraine, and Afghanistan, where women’s rights are still being restricted, have “devastated” the lives of millions of people in 2024. Some of the most powerful nations in the world, including the US, Russia, and China, were specifically mentioned in the study for “undermining” the accomplishments of international law as well as the struggle against prejudice and poverty.
According to Amnesty, Trump has been a “super-accelerator” of these “reckless and punishing offensives,” which had been going on for a number of years. US foreign aid has been stopped by the incoming government, and funding for a number of UN agencies has been cut. Callamard called for “concerted resistance,” citing the “multiplicity of assaults — against human rights accountability, against international law, and against the UN” that have characterised the beginning of Trump’s second term.
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