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Amnesty secretary general Agnes Callamard condemned US President Donald Trump, Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu and Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin as \u2018predators\u2019. (File pic)
\nLONDON: The leaders of the US, Israel and Russia are seeking to impose a new \u201cpredatory\u201d world order while most countries are too cowardly to stop them, rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Launching the global group\u2019s annual report in London, secretary general Agnes Callamard condemned US President Donald Trump, Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin and Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu as \u201cpredators\u201d.<\/p>\n
Such leaders have rejected the multilateral system developed since World War II in favour of a \u201cvision without a moral compass\u201d, where \u201cwar, not diplomacy, rules\u201d, the report into global protection of human rights said.<\/p>\n
The report comes at a \u201cchallenging moment\u201d that could \u201cdestroy all that was built up over the last 80 years\u201d, Callamard warned in the preface.<\/p>\n
\u201cThroughout 2025, Trump, Putin and Netanyahu, among others, pursued economic and political domination through international destruction, suppression and violence on a massive scale,\u201d she said in her opening speech.<\/p>\n
These leaders are \u201cdestroying all that stands in the way of their domination and greed\u201d and \u201cassaulting the very foundations of universal human rights\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd rather than confront those predators, the majority of governments, most notably European governments, opted instead for appeasement.\u201d<\/p>\n
The spiralling conflict in the Middle East is \u201cjust the latest example of this new predatory world order\u201d, based on a vision of the world that is \u201cdehumanised through racist ideology\u201d, Callamard said.<\/p>\n
The Amnesty International chief accused Trump of \u201can unprecedented number of actions undermining the rule of law\u201d and \u201carbitrary use of power\u201d.<\/p>\n
Trump and Putin share a world view \u201cthat is highly racist, that is highly patriarchal\u201d, Callamard told AFP in a separate interview, citing Russia\u2019s crackdown on LGBT rights in the name of \u201cfamily values\u201d.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile under Trump, the US \u201chas done everything it could to undermine years, even decades, of effort to enshrine women\u2019s rights and to defend access to sexual and reproductive rights,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u2018Bullies and looters\u2019<\/p>\n
China is not on the \u201cpredator\u201d list because it has been \u201cmuch more discreet\u201d, she said, but the country nevertheless has \u201csupported the junta and the military operations in Myanmar\u201d and is \u201cinvolved in supporting Russia\u201d.<\/p>\n
Focusing on Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza, the report said: \u201cThe world\u2019s most powerful governments failed to take meaningful action to stop the genocide or to bring an end to Israel\u2019s unlawful occupation and apartheid.\u201d<\/p>\n
When it comes to facing up to these \u201cbullies and looters\u201d, almost every world leader \u201chas demonstrated cowardice\u201d, Callamard said, calling this the \u201cera of the coward\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of the world, sadly, has to be defined as a coward,\u201d she told AFP.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will tell you that almost the entire EU is concerned,\u201d she added, with the exception being Spain and Slovenia.<\/p>\n
Slovenia is one of the few EU countries to describe Israel\u2019s war in Gaza as \u201cgenocide\u201d, along with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.<\/p>\n
Governments around the world must hold Israel to account, including through economic means, the Amnesty chief said.<\/p>\n
She urged the EU to ditch a \u201cshameful\u201d association agreement with Israel and impose other measures such as sanctions.<\/p>\n
The report also criticised the UK for proscribing the Palestine Action group and arresting thousands of peaceful protesters against the ban.<\/p>\n
\u201cGovernments should stop cracking down on and criminalising dissent, including peaceful acts of civil disobedience,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amnesty secretary general Agnes Callamard condemned US President Donald Trump, Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu and Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[23291,23292,6300,23293,17600,316,23294,23295,23296,17370,328],"class_list":{"0":"post-35206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vladimir-putin","8":"tag-amnesty-report","9":"tag-civil-dissent","10":"tag-eu-policy","11":"tag-gaza-conflict","12":"tag-global-order","13":"tag-human-rights","14":"tag-political-repression","15":"tag-predatory-leaders","16":"tag-putin-netanyahu","17":"tag-trump-criticism","18":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116439975531901770","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}