The release of the Jeffrey Epstein files has once again dragged into public view what survivors have known for decades: powerful men abuse women and girls — and powerful systems protect them. Among the names linked to Epstein is Donald Trump, a man who has already been found liable in a U.S. court for sexual abuse, yet now enjoys near-total immunity as President.

If justice cannot reach him, then conscience must.

This is not about American politics. This is about global moral leadership.

Trump is not just another controversial politician. He is a man whose recorded words bragged about sexual assault, whose court ruling confirmed abuse, and whose name appears in files connected to one of the world’s most notorious sex trafficking networks. Yet world leaders continue to shake his hand, pose for photographs, and offer him diplomatic legitimacy — as though the suffering of survivors is an inconvenience, not a moral red line.

Where is the outrage?

Where is the solidarity with survivors?

Where is the ethical courage?

Leaders of the United Kingdom, India, the European Union, Canada, and beyond must take a stand. Not a symbolic statement. Not a carefully worded concern. But a clear diplomatic boycott of Donald Trump until accountability is possible.

If sanctions can be imposed on leaders for violating borders, or destabilizing economies, why not for violating bodies?

If the world can isolate dictators for political crimes, why can it not isolate a man accused — and legally found liable — of sexual violence?

This silence is not neutrality. It is complicity.

Survivors of abuse across the world — from trafficked girls in South Asia to silenced women in war zones, from abused domestic workers to survivors of clerical violence — are watching. They see powerful men protected, excused, rehabilitated, and celebrated. And they learn a brutal lesson: justice is not for them.

A diplomatic boycott would not overturn U.S. law. But it would declare something just as important: that moral legitimacy does not come from elections alone — it comes from respect for human dignity.
Leaders who truly claim to stand for women’s rights, child protection, and gender justice must draw a line. Not later. Not after another exposé. Not after another survivor is silenced.

Now.

History does not judge leaders only by the laws they passed, but by the abuses they refused to normalize.

The question facing the world is simple:

Will you stand with survivors — or with power?

You cannot do both.