Amnesty International released a report on Tuesday highlighting a general decline in human rights around the globe since Donald Trump took office, due to a rise of authoritarianism and corporate greed emboldened by the Trump administration’s policies.

The organization noted both positive and negative trends in the sphere of international justice, applauding the enforcement of International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants against former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, but condemning sanctions imposed by the US against ICC prosecutor Agnès Callamard in retaliation for the ICC’s issuance of arrest warrants against Israeli officials.

In particular, human rights have seen regression in the context of global migration, armed conflict, climate change impact, LGBTQ+ rights, freedom of speech, and freedom to protest. Although trends through 2024 already demonstrated a general regression of human rights around the globe, according to Amnesty International, declines have been exacerbated by the Trump administration.

Examples of how the Trump administration has negatively impacted the state of human rights globally include his administration’s continued supply of weapons and support of Israel, cuts to foreign aid, his administration’s imprisonment of immigrants without trial, the administration’s freezing of funding for universities that do not follow his government’s social policies, his attempted ban of transgender passports and transgender people from the military, and targeting of pro-Palestine protestors with deportation. Cuts to US foreign aid, in particular, have made worse ongoing humanitarian crises due to armed conflict in Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Myanmar and Yemen.

The decline in respect for human rights is expected to be exacerbated by the impacts of climate change, with Amnesty International criticizing states for not doing enough to prevent the inevitable natural disasters that will result from increasing global temperatures.