Amnesty International Secretary-General Agnès Callamard wrote reflections for 2025 and this year so far, where she accused "predators" like Trump, Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin of carrying "out their conquests for economic and political domination through destruction, suppression and violence on a massive scale."
Callamard said the world leaders undermined international law, made attacks against the International Criminal Court and abandoned United Nations agencies, replacing "peace and security mechanisms" with a new order, or "self-serving alternatives."
"War, not diplomacy, rules: Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues in spite of the so-called ceasefire; Russia’s crimes against humanity in Ukraine escalate; the USA engages in extraterritorial extrajudicial killings and unlawful attacks on Venezuela and Iran, and threats to take over Greenland," Callamard said, adding that crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Sudan remain unchecked and the Middle East has been plunged into chaos again.
Callamard also said that very few nations stood up to said world leaders and encouraged politicians, diplomats, activists and others to resist during a very challenging moment.
"History is not just something that is done to us. It is also ours to make. And for the sake of humanity, it’s time to make human rights history," Callamard said.
