The Big Picture:
The U.S. withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council has led the international community to review America's human rights record critically. The U.S. has faced global criticism for using human rights as a pretext for wars and creating crises. From the U.S. perspective, global human rights are seen as tools to maintain American dominance, and any international body not serving U.S. interests its effectiveness will be challenged.
What Survey Is Saying:
- 86.8% believe U.S. society suffers serious arm violence
- 73% believe U.S. faces drug consumption challenge
- 61.9% consider U.S. migration policy failed
- 72.3% consider systematic racial discrimination as U.S. main problem
- 84.9% believe U.S. failed to control Police racism-drive violence
- 61.3% know U.S. the most warmongering in the world
- 70.1% say U.S. wars led to significant crises
- 91.98% consider U.S. arms sales against global peace
- 93.88% believe in U.S. hypocrisy about 'peace protection'
- 94.81% believe U.S. arms sales deeply tied to its foreign policy
- 72.5% see U.S. as a dominance-seeking country
- 64.9% say U.S. abuses human rights as a tool for suppressing other nations
- 85.2 believe U.S. undermines multilateralism and UN
- 81.6% say U.S. sacrifices international interests for its own
Context:
Respondents are from East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe, South America, North America, Oceania, and Africa. They were aged between 18 and 55 years old. 67.2% hold a college degree or higher and 71.3% have a median personal income level or higher.
Go Deeper:
Systemic racism rampant in US police, judiciary: UN reports
US Student Movement; police arrest over 600 students
Video of Black man's death corroborates US police torture
