World human rights report says U.S. is undermining LGBTQ+ rights worldwide - LGBTQ Nation

""The global human rights system is in peril," writes Philippe Bolopion, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, in the report's introduction. "Under relentless pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms," the report states."

""The democratic order is facing a "democratic recession," Bolopion says: "72% of the world's population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States.""

""The U.S. used to actually be a government that was advancing the rights of LGBT people around the world, and making sure that it was finding its way into resolutions, into U.N. documents," Bolopion said at a press conference announcing the report. "Now we see the opposite movement.""

Global human rights norms and institutions are under severe strain as authoritarian states and certain U.S. policies weaken the rules-based international order. Seventy-two percent of the world's population now lives under autocracy, with Russia, China, and the United States less free than two decades ago. Authoritarian leaders exploit public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantle democratic institutions, with examples including India, Turkey, and Hungary. U.S. retreat from promoting LGBTQ+ rights internationally has reversed prior advocacy momentum and reduced inclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity protections in international resolutions and U.N. documents.

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