The United Nations leader warned Monday (February 23, 2026) that "the rule of force" was spreading, as the powerful trample on international law and wield artificial intelligence and other technologies to attack human rights.
"Human rights are under a full-scale attack around the world," Antonio Guterres told the opening of the U.N. Human Rights Council's annual session in Geneva. "The rule of law is being outmuscled by the rule of force."
The U.N. secretary-general stressed that "this assault is not coming from the shadows, or by surprise.
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