But the shift in focus points to the more fundamental and universal challenges confronting the post-World War II liberal international order. The report identifies three most troubling manifestations of the erosion of human rights values. It points to 36 countries that illegally deported refugees to states where their rights would be at risk. The erosion of human rights leadership, the report says, reverberates across the multilateral stage, where mature democracies in pursuit of a narrow nationalist agenda have no locus standi to promote global cooperation. Amnesty has, against this backdrop, called upon people around the world to resist attempts to undermine hard-won human rights in return for the promise of immediate material prosperity and security.

Source: The Hindu March 01, 2017 20:48 UTC