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

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

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Greg Owen (7 Feb 2026)

The latest annual report on the state of global human rights from Human Rights Watch presents a grim outlook for democracy and LGBTQ+ rights around the world.

Central to that assessment: the Trump administration.

"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."

"Authoritarian leaders have exploited public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantled the very institutions that brought them to power," Bolopion writes, citing India, Turkey, and Hungary, among other countries, without naming the U.S.

"Where democracy is undermined, so too are human rights," he says.

"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."

Both at home and abroad, the Trump administration and its allies are advancing an agenda that rolls back or eliminates protections for LGBTQ+ people.