The Age of Impunity

The Policy Institute and Ipsos MORI conducted a major 24-country, 17,000-interview online survey on global attitudes to human rights to inform David Miliband’s 2019 Fulbright Legacy Lecture series.

Key findings from the survey show that:

Britain ranks alongside Sweden as top for prioritising human rights in international trade, with 50% of the public saying we should only trade with countries that have a good human rights record, even if it harms our economy.
Iran is most likely to be seen as using its influence for bad from all the countries asked about in the study (31%). This is followed by Russia (25%), Saudi Arabia (25%) and Israel (24%).
Three in ten (29%) across all countries think the US is less likely to use its influence for good compared with 10 years ago.
Four in ten (38%) around the world think their country should never break international laws on human rights, while one in five (21%) think their country should break these laws in extreme circumstances (21%).