LONDON: The leaders of the United States, Israel and Russia are seeking to impose a new “predatory” world order while most countries are too cowardly to stop them, rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
Launching the global group’s annual report in London, Secretary General Agnes Callamard condemned US President Donald Trump, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu as “predators”.
Such leaders have rejected the multilateral system developed since World War II in favour of a “vision without moral compass”, where “war, not diplomacy, rules”, the report into global protection of human rights said.
The report comes at a “challenging moment” that could “destroy all that was built up over the last 80 years”, Callamard warned in the preface.
“Throughout 2025, Trump, Putin and Netanyahu, among others, pursued economic and political domination through international destruction, suppression and violence on a massive scale,” she said in her opening speech. These leaders are “destroying all that stands in the way of their domination and greed” and “assaulting the very foundations of universal human rights”, she said.
“And rather than confront those predators, the majority of governments, most notably European governments, opted instead for appeasement.” The spiralling conflict in the Middle East is “just the latest example of this new predatory world order,” based on a vision of the world that is “dehumanised through racist ideology”, Callamard said.
The Amnesty International chief accused Trump of “an unprecedented number of actions undermining the rule of law” and “arbitrary use of power”. Trump and Putin share a world view “that is highly racist, that is highly patriarchal”, Callamard said in a separate interview, citing Russia’s crackdown on LGBT rights in the name of “family values”.
Meanwhile under Trump, the US “has done everything it could to undermine years, decades of effort to enshrine women’s rights and to defend access to sexual and reproductive rights”, she said.
Published in Dawn, April 22nd, 2026
