Overview
- The group's annual report, published Tuesday, accuses leaders including Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu of pursuing domination through destruction and repression and urges governments and civil society to resist.
- Amnesty says international institutions are under unprecedented pressure, citing U.S. sanctions on International Criminal Court officials and retreats from global agreements as evidence that rule‑of‑law safeguards are weakening.
- The report alleges the United States carried out extrajudicial killings outside its borders and launched unlawful strikes on Venezuela and Iran, and it links the current Middle East conflict to a broader slide away from legal constraints.
- Amnesty accuses the Israeli government of continuing genocide in Gaza despite an October cease-fire and reports that Iranian authorities killed protesters in January 2026, while also documenting RSF massacres during the 18‑month siege and fall of El‑Fasher, M23 abuses in eastern DRC, and Myanmar forces dropping explosives from motorized paragliders.
- Despite the bleak outlook, the group points to steps toward accountability, including a special tribunal for the war in Ukraine and the transfer of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to the ICC, and it highlights worker and citizen actions that disrupted arms shipments to Israel.