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Artemio Dumlao - The Philippine Star
April 30, 2025 | 12:00am
Former US President Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks on as he speaks at a campaign rally in East Del Valle, Austin, Texas on October 25, 2024. Donald Trump has pledged to launch -- on day one of his presidency -- the largest deportation operation of undocumented immigrants in US history. Carrying it out may be another matter. Aside from the legal and humanitarian issues, a mass deportation of millions of people would entail enormous budgetary and economic costs and be a logistical nightmare.
AFP / Sergio Flores
MANILA, Philippines — The Trump administration’s anti-rights campaign is fueling a global human rights crisis, Amnesty International (AI) warned yesterday.
In its annual report titled “The State of the World’s Human Rights,” AI believed that the Trump administration has intensified the damage to human rights done by other world leaders throughout 2024.
According to Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s secretary general, governments and civil society must work with urgency to lead humanity back to safer ground.
“One hundred days into his second term, President Trump has shown only utter contempt for universal human rights. His government has swiftly and deliberately targeted vital US and international institutions and initiatives that were designed to make ours a safer and fairer world. His all-out assault on the very concepts of multilateralism, asylum, racial and gender justice, global health and life-saving climate action is exacerbating the significant damage those principles and institutions have already sustained and is further emboldening other anti-rights leaders and movements to join his onslaught,” Callamard said in the annual report.
AI’s annual report documents vicious, widespread clampdowns on dissent, catastrophic escalations of armed conflict, inadequate efforts to address climate collapse and a growing global backlash against the rights of migrants, refugees, women, girls and LGBTI people.
The report also cited Israel’s livestreamed genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, “which laid bare just how hellish the world can be for so many when the most powerful states jettison international law and disregard multilateral institutions.”
