Post-WWII order on ‘brink of collapse’: Amnesty head
LONDON: Amnesty International said Wednesday that the post-World War II order was on the “brink of collapse”, threatened by bitter conflict on multiple fronts to the rapid and unregulated rise of artificial intelligence. “Everything we’re witnessing over the last 12 months is indicating that the international global system is on the brink of collapse,” Amnesty’s secretary general Agnes Callamard told AFP as the group released its annual “State of the World’s Human Rights” report.
“In particular, over the last six months, the United States has shielded and protected the (Zionist) authorities against scrutiny for the multiple violations committed in Gaza,” she said. “By using its veto against a much-needed ceasefire, the United States has emptied out the (United Nations) Security Council of what it should be doing.”
The Zionist entity’s offensive has killed at least 34,262 people in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s health ministry. The global rights monitor said that Hamas had carried out “horrific crimes” on Zionist communities bordering Gaza but that the Zionist entity had responded with “a campaign of collective punishment”.
“It is a campaign of deliberate, indiscriminate bombings of civilians and civilian infrastructure, of denial of humanitarian assistance and an engineered famine,” Callamard wrote in her foreword to the report. “For millions the world over, Gaza now symbolizes utter moral failure by many of the architects of the post-World War Two system,” she said. The Zionist entity’s allies, including those arming them, were complicit, she said, lamenting a lack of action by international institutions and questioning whether postwar ideals of “never again” were now at an end.
Other “powerful actors”, including Russia and China, are also “demonstrating a willingness to put at risk the entirety of the 1948 rule-based order”, Callamard warned. The report documented “flagrant rule-breaking by Russian forces during their continued full-scale invasion of Ukraine... and the use of torture or other ill-treatment against prisoners of war”.