THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM IS COLLAPSING AND WORLD PLUNGED BACK TO WWII
April 28, 2024Amnesty International secretary general Agnès Callamard says that the failure of rights mechanisms and Israel’s top ally, the United States, to rein in Israel’s “unprecedented” assault on Gaza indicates that the rules-based international order is “on the brink of collapse.”
“…people who are violating international law are justifying their violations and that means they are pretending that international law either has no meaning or does not apply to them…the world is being plunged back to where we were promised will happen never again,” Callamard said in a full interview with Amy Goodman on @democracynow.
AN IMPORTANT AND ACCURATE ACCOUNT ON THE STATE OF OUR WORLD AND WHO THE REAL CULPRITS ARE THAT ARE DISMANTLING THE STRUCTURES THAT WERE CREATED TO PROTECT HUMANITY.
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English Script:
Agnes Callamard: The scale of the violations committed over the last six months is unprecedented, and I want to insist on that. It is unprecedented. The harm to civilians is unprecedented. And what is making matters worse is that this is all broadcasted every day, in front of our very eyes. And yet nothing, nothing is being done to prevent that bloodshed. The United States has been using its right of veto at the Security Council to prevent any kind of meaningful intervention. It has shielded, Israel from the denunciation that was required. It has protected them. It has pretended for the longest period of time that no violations were committed. This is why Amnesty International is concluding that the international system is on the brink of collapse right now. International law is not just violated. People who are violating international law are justifying their violations. And that means they are pretending that international law either has no meaning or does not apply to them. But whatever intention they have, the outcome is the emptying out of international law, the emptying out of the Geneva Convention that are supposed to regulate war, the emptying out of the Genocide Convention, the emptying out of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the completely uselessness of the Security Council. We have an International Court of Justice that could play a role, and yet its rulings are being ignored. So, all in all, coming on the heels of Russia’s aggression of Ukraine, the only conclusion that we can reach is that the international system is collapsing and that the world is being plunged back to where we were promised would happen never again.
