Kathmandu, May 1 -- The world is hurtling into a time of human rights regression, Amnesty International warned on Tuesday, with its latest annual report revealing a rise in authoritarian creep, impunity, and systemic abuses across 150 countries, including Nepal.

The watchdog's 2025 edition of 'The State of the World's Human Rights', released on Tuesday, lays bare the widening assault on freedoms, stoked in part by what it calls the accelerating 'Trump effect'.

In the preface to the report, Secretary General Agnes Callamard describes Trump's term as a "multiplicity of assaults-against human rights accountability, against international law, and the UN".

Nepal emerges in the report as a country where human rights are deteriorating under t...