The leaders of the United States, Russia and Israel are seeking to impose a new “predatory” world order, while most countries are too cowardly to stop them, human rights group Amnesty International said on 21 April.
Presenting the international human rights organisation’s annual report in London, Amnesty International head Agnès Callamard denounced Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu as “predators”.
The report on “reflections on human rights in 2025/26” quotes Callamard as saying that “insatiable predators prowl our shared global resources, lumbering hunters stealing unjust trophies. Political leaders like Trump, Putin and Netanyahu, among many others, have exercised their conquests for economic and political domination through destruction, suppression and violence on a grand scale.”
Callamard emphasised that the adoption in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Genocide Convention, as well as many other normative instruments that were debated and adopted over the next 80 years, “are not an illusion”.
“They are concrete manifestations of a post-war world order based on a multilateral system of equal states, founded on universal human rights and dedicated to preventing the repetition of atrocities,” she added.
“We all know that the promise of the system has remained unfulfilled, but it is not for those who broke it to call that promise a fantasy”, the AI secretary general concluded.
The leaders mentioned in the report have not yet commented on it.
In one of its previous reports on human rights, Amnesty International noted that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 led to numerous war crimes and caused a global energy and food crisis, and showed the double standards of Western states in responding to the Kremlin’s aggression.