Amnesty: World seeing near breakdown of international law amid wars in Gaza and Ukraine ( apnews.com )

The world is seeing a near breakdown of international law amid flagrant rule-breaking in Gaza and Ukraine, multiplying armed conflicts, the rise of authoritarianism and huge rights violations in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar, Amnesty International warned Wednesday as it published its annual report.

The human rights organization said the most powerful governments, including the United States, Russia and China, have led a global disregard for international rules and values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with civilians in conflicts paying the highest price.

Agnes Callamard, Amnesty’s secretary general, said the level of violation of international order witnessed in the past year was “unprecedented.”

“Israel’s flagrant disregard for international law is compounded by the failures of its allies to stop the indescribable civilian bloodshed meted out in Gaza,” she said. “Many of those allies were the very architects of that post-World War Two system of law.”

Sodium_nitride ,

The rule of law is always synonymous with the rule of force. A law which isn't implemented by force is just a suggestion. The international rules based order could by definition, never have been anything more than the rule of the hegemon.

AcidLeaves ,

Lol they somehow shoehorned China bad in this

I hope Russia keeps breaking more international laws to subdue Ukraine and NATO and that Israel burns in hell

Liberal laws are a sham

Korkki ,

International law in this context just means that a single global hegemon can no longer push everybody else around and call it's will and interests "law" and therefore it's interest somehow benevolent. That is exactly what "rules based intnernational order" means.

Not that we have ever had any law that equally applies to everybody equally. All laws and even international law needs a hobbesian Behemoth that is more powerful than any other to enforce "international law" and is in the end above it since it is at the best position to enforce and set the "law". The UN and it's institutions are basically basically a discussion club by design and it can't do shit so post 1990 world the Behemoth has been the world hegemonic United states. Now that US has declined relatively as Russia, China, India, Iran, etc have risen it finds itself unable to enforce anything through hard or soft power and therefore the idea of law, stability and peace under US dissipates. Not that it was ever lawfully, peaceful or stable, that illusion only applied to the western core nations of this now dead American world.

lemmyseizethemeans ,

It's ok we've got the 'rules based international order' now lol

NuraShiny ,

"The thing we made up and that never worked to help people...is failing! OOOOH NOOOOO!"

hangukdise ,

"international law" haha

ShimmeringKoi ,
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The Our-Rules-based international give you Orders

Mrkawfee ,

US built up a rules based system to secure global peace and then threw it away over a bullshit war in Iraq and to support its psychopathic colony Israel

iturnedintoanewt ,
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So all the other wars/CIA murders were by the book?

freagle ,

Your 90s is showing

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