{"id":1629118,"date":"2024-04-25T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/?p=26498"},"modified":"2024-04-25T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T08:00:26","slug":"amnestys-annual-state-of-the-worlds-human-rights-report-2023-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/25\/amnestys-annual-state-of-the-worlds-human-rights-report-2023-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty\u2019s annual State of the World\u2019s Human Rights report 2023 is out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/amnesty-internationa.jpg\"><img width=\"380\" height=\"166\" data-attachment-id=\"2053\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/2013\/02\/24\/egypt-restricts-freedom-of-association-of-human-rights-defenders\/amnesty-internationa\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/amnesty-internationa.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"458,201\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Amnesty-Internationa\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/amnesty-internationa.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/amnesty-internationa.jpg?w=380\" src=\"https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/amnesty-internationa.jpg?w=380\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/amnesty-internationa.jpg?w=378 378w, https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/amnesty-internationa.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/amnesty-internationa.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/amnesty-internationa.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Powerful governments cast humanity into an era devoid of effective international rule of law, with civilians in conflicts paying the highest price<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rapidly changing artificial intelligence is left to create fertile ground for racism, discrimination and division in landmark year for public elections<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Standing against these abuses, people the world over mobilized in unprecedented numbers, demanding human rights protection and respect for our common humanity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The world is reaping a harvest of terrifying consequences from escalating conflict and the near breakdown of international law, said Amnesty International as it launched its annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/documents\/pol10\/7200\/2024\/en\">The State of the World\u2019s Human Rights report<\/a>, delivering an assessment of human rights in 155 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amnesty International also warned that the breakdown of the rule of law is likely to accelerate with rapid advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) which, coupled with the dominance of Big Tech, risks a \u201csupercharging\u201d of human rights violations if regulation continues to lag behind advances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Amnesty International\u2019s report paints a dismal picture of alarming human rights repression and prolific international rule-breaking, all in the midst of deepening global inequality, superpowers vying for supremacy and an escalating climate crisis,<\/em>\u201d said Amnesty International\u2019s Secretary General, Agn\u00e8s Callamard.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIsrael\u2019s flagrant disregard for international law is compounded by the failures of its allies to stop the indescribable civilian bloodshed meted out in Gaza. Many of those allies were the very architects of that post-World War Two system of law. Alongside Russia\u2019s ongoing aggression against Ukraine, the growing number of armed conflicts, and massive human rights violations witnessed, for example, in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar \u2013 the global rule-based order is at risk of decimation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawlessness, discrimination and impunity in conflicts and elsewhere have been enabled by unchecked use of new and familiar technologies which are now routinely weaponized by military, political and corporate actors. Big Tech\u2019s platforms have stoked conflict. Spyware and mass surveillance tools are used to encroach on fundamental rights and freedoms, while governments are deploying automated tools targeting the most marginalized groups in society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn an increasingly precarious world, unregulated proliferation and deployment of technologies such as generative AI, facial recognition and spyware are poised to be a pernicious foe \u2013 scaling up and supercharging violations of international law and human rights to exceptional levels,\u201d said Agn\u00e8s Callamard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring a landmark year of elections and in the face of the increasingly powerful anti-regulation lobby driven and financed by Big Tech actors, these rogue and unregulated technological advances pose an enormous threat to us all. They can be weaponized to discriminate, disinform and divide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VKYyudDx2CU?feature=oembed&#038;version=3&%23038;rel=1&%23038;showsearch=0&%23038;showinfo=1&%23038;iv_load_policy=1&%23038;fs=1&%23038;hl=en&%23038;autohide=2&%23038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/campaigns\/2024\/04\/amnesty-researchers-share-their-biggest-human-rights-concerns-in-2023-24\">Read more about Amnesty researchers\u2019 biggest human rights concerns for 2023\/24.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Amnesty International\u2019s report paints a dismal picture of alarming human rights repression and prolific international rule-breaking, all in the midst of deepening global inequality, superpowers vying for supremacy and an escalating climate crisis<\/em>. Amnesty International\u2019s Secretary General, Agn\u00e8s Callamard<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/2024\/04\/25\/amnestys-annual-state-of-the-worlds-human-rights-report-2023-is-out\/\">Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is reaping a harvest of terrifying consequences from escalating conflict and the near breakdown of international law, said Amnesty International as it launched its annual The State of the World\u2019s Human Rights report, delivering an assessment of human rights in 155 countries. Amnesty International also warned that the breakdown of the rule of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1437,1168,59300,857,827,6,1424,82,4,473,14,369,62204],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638375,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629118\/revisions\/1638375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}