YouA number of liberal countries, including France and the United States, in concert with the UN, have developed sustained diplomatic activity to promote, monitor and sometimes call to order countries that violate human rights. This diplomacy is today roundly denounced by the main “revisionist” regimes of the international system, particularly Russia and China, who consider it an illegitimate, hypocritical and obsolete means of Western influence and interference. It may be that, with the political agenda planned by the Trump II administration, its autocrats no longer have to worry about such a pretension.
The imperative to respect human rights has already been weakened within democracies themselves since the early 2000s by the effects of the war on terrorism, growing abuses by law enforcement, and restrictive policies motivated by the coronavirus pandemic. Covid-19.
Now they are formally denied by revisionist regimes, which have taken advantage of the same circumstances to develop a criminal arsenal and widespread police and social surveillance of their populations, amplified by digital techniques.
But there is another area where the regression of rights and freedoms was particularly felt, at the time when analysts began to worry about the impotence of the United Nations to enforce them. Currently, the new asymmetric forms of conflict are characterized by the return of unpunished criminal cruelty towards civilian populations, by States that no longer hesitate to free themselves from respect for humanitarian law in war, such as Russia or Israel.
It is also the international system for the defense of human rights. which is now being questioned through a game of denunciation and then “exit” from international or regional organizations, treaties, conventions and jurisdictional systems. Everything happens as if these States had found all kinds of fallacious reasons to torpedo the very logic of human rights. Some have deliberately sought to unbalance the international and regional organizations dedicated to them, through the use of legal remedies. judicial or extrajudicial and for political or diplomatic defamation.
Faced with the so-called “liberal totalitarianism”
A large ideological pollution movement with an illiberal tone has spread to various parts of the world since the 2010s. In some countries, repeated constitutional and legislative changes have specifically aimed to reduce the scope of rights and freedoms, in the name of the fight against their rights. “wokist” or pro-LGBTQIA + “drift” and the supposed destruction of traditional moral values.
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