KATHMANDU:- The Amnesty International has launched its annual flagship report on the State of the World’s Human Rights for the year 2025-26.     

The document highlights about predatory attacks on multilateralism, international law and civil society. “The world is on the brink of a perilous new era, driven by powerful states’, corporations’ and anti-rights movements’ assaults on multilateralism, international law and human rights,” reads the report.

World leaders have been far too submissive in the face of attacks on international law and the multilateral system. Their silence and inaction are inexcusable. It is morally bankrupt and will bring nothing but retreat, defeat and the erasure of decades of hard-fought human rights gains. To appease aggressors is to pour fuel on a fire that will burn us all and scorch the future for generations to come,” said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.

“Some may be tempted to dismiss the system built over the last 80 years as nothing but an illusion. This is to ignore the hard-fought achievements towards the recognition of universal rights, the adoption of multiple international conventions and national laws protecting against racial discrimination and violence against women, enshrining the rights of workers and trade unions, and recognizing the rights of Indigenous Peoples. It is to forget the poverty addressed, the reproductive rights strengthened and the justice delivered when states chose to uphold the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

“The political and economic predators, and their enablers, are declaring the multilateral system dead not because it’s inefficient but because it’s not serving their hegemony and control. The response is not to proclaim it an illusion or beyond repair, but to confront its failures, end its selective application and keep transforming it so that it’s fully capable of defending all people with equal resolve,” the report states.

The report incorporates crimes against international law, genocide, crime against humanity, war crime, irresponsible transportation of arms, and impunity took place in 144 nations in 2025. The report indicates that such incidents have risen in 2025.

Amnesty International Nepal Director Nirajan Thapaliaya is of the view that the annual document indicates that the status of world’s human rights is not satisfactory.