Recent international events – including the immigrant crisis, terrorism, protests against governments and unusual presidential campaigns – raise questions about their impact on the public's basic human rights, which are now becoming a casualty in the eyes of some governments. This incidents are outlined in The State of the World's Human Rights 2016/17, published Tuesday by international rights group Amnesty International.

The annual report provides in-depth accounts of the state of human rights in 159 countries and territories. "The consequences of "us vs them" rhetoric setting the agenda in Europe, the United States and elsewhere is fueling a global pushback against human rights and leaving the global response to mass atrocities perilously weak," warns Amnesty International in the report.

The report cites actions taken by world leaders, including President Donald Trump, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

"Divisive fear-mongering has become a dangerous force in world affairs. Whether it is Trump, Orban, Erdoğan or Duterte, more and more politicians calling themselves anti-establishment are wielding a toxic agenda that hounds, scapegoats and dehumanizes entire groups of people," Amnesty International said in a statement.

Refugee Crisis and Violations of International Law: 36 Countries

The refugee crisis is one of the major news events that has led to debates and conflicts of interest among nations in 2016. Conflicts in the Middle East, particularly Syria, as well as in Africa and elsewhere are dispatching thousands of refugees from their homelands. Nearly 1 in 100 people are displaced from their homes worldwide, leading to calling for immediate action in neighboring countries for shelter.

Amnesty International's annual report documents 36 countries' violations of international law by sending refugees back to a country where their lives were at risk.

Governments around the world have turned a blind eye to these war-stricken countries and to the people who have fled in order to save their lives, the rights group argues.

"Most recently, President Donald Trump put his hateful xenophobic pre-election rhetoric into action by signing an executive order in an attempt to prevent refugees from seeking resettlement in the USA; blocking people fleeing conflict and persecution from war-torn countries such as Syria from seeking safe haven in the country," the group said in a statement.

"President Trump's policies have brought the US to a level of human rights crisis that we haven't seen in years," said Margaret Huang, executive director of Amnesty International USA, in a statement. "This administration, like other governments across the world, is playing politics with people's lives. President Trump and leaders across the globe should be reaffirming and upholding international human rights protections, not exploiting fear and prejudice for their own agendas."

Meanwhile, politicians in other countries such as China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Thailand and Turkey are also laying out platforms for a hateful rhetoric and policies based on people's ethnic backgrounds, the report says.

War Crimes: 23 Countries

"With world leaders lacking political will to put pressure on other states violating human rights, basic principles from accountability for mass atrocities to the right to asylum are at stake," Salil Shetty, secretary general of Amnesty International, said in a statement.

The report documents war crimes committed in at least 23 countries in 2016, including countries like Syria, Afghanistan and Central America. This number has risen from 19 countries in the 2015 report.

Thousands of civilians are killed as casualties of war in each of these war-stricken countries. The conflict in Afghanistan killed and injured more than 11,000 civilians in 2016, a 24 percent increase in casualties from 2015. This is the highest number recorded since 2009, according to UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan figures.

Peaceful Protests Turned Violent: 22 Countries

"We cannot passively rely on governments to stand up for human rights, we the people have to take action. With politicians increasingly willing to demonize entire groups of people, the need for all of us to stand up for the basic values of human dignity and equality everywhere has seldom been clearer," Shetty said.

Amnesty International's annual report documents people killed for peacefully standing up for human rights in 22 countries in 2016.