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Human Rights Watch Excoriates Trump Administration

Authoritarianism condoned in Washington, threatening rules-based order, annual report says

Our Correspondent
Feb 04, 2026
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HRW Director Philippe Bolopion

The New York-based NGO Human Rights Watch has launched a blistering attack on the administration of US President Donald Trump, accusing him of using relentless pressure to crush the rules-based international order, “threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and…

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