로봇 프로세스 자동화, 로보틱 처리 자동화, 로보틱 프로세스 오토메이션robotic process automation, rpa은 소프트웨어 로봇 또는 인공지능ai 에이전트를 기반.

기존의 사람이 하는 정형화되고 규칙적인 backoffice 업무를 sw를 통해 자동화시키는 것에서.

Will Human Rights Survive a Trumpian World?

Authoritarian Advances Threaten Rules-Based Order

The global human rights system is in peril. Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms. To defy this trend, governments that still value human rights, alongside social movements, civil society, and international institutions, need to form a strategic alliance to push back.

To be fair, the downward spiral predated Trump’s reelection. The democratic wave that began over 50 years ago has given way to what scholars term a “democratic recession.” Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States.

Of course, democracy is not a panacea for human rights violations; the US and other longtime democracies have their own histories of colonial crimes, racism, abusive justice systems, and wartime atrocities. More recently, authoritarian leaders have exploited public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantled the very institutions that brought them to power. Democratic institutions are crucial to represent the will of the people and keep power in check. It’s no surprise that whenever democracy is undermined, rights are too, as evident in recent years in India, Türkiye, the Philippines, El Salvador, and Hungary.

The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 3, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 3, 2026.

FIRST: The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Ozan Köse/AFP via Getty Images

In this context, 2025 may be seen as a tipping point. In just 12 months, the Trump administration has carried out a broad assault on key pillars of US democracy and the global rules-based order, which the US, despite inconsistencies, was, with other states, instrumental in helping to establish.

In short order, Trump’s second-term administration has undermined trust in the sanctity of elections, reduced government accountability, gutted food assistance and healthcare subsidies, attacked judicial independence, defied court orders, rolled back women’s rights, obstructed access to abortion care, undermined remedies for racial harm, terminated programs mandating accessibility for people with disabilities, punished free speech, stripped protections from trans and intersex people, eroded privacy, and used government power to intimidate political opponents, the media, law firms, universities, civil society, and even comedians.

A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 3, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

Claiming a risk of “civilizational erasure” in Europe and leaning on racist tropes to cast entire populations as unwelcome in the US, the Trump administration has embraced policies and rhetoric that align with white nationalist ideology. Immigrants and asylum seekers have been subjected to inhumane conditions and degrading treatment; 32 died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2025, and as of mid-January 2026, an additional 4 have died. Masked immigration enforcement agents have targeted people of color, using excessive force, terrorizing communities, wrongfully arresting scores of citizens, and, most recently, unjustifiably killing two people in Minneapolis, whose deaths Human Rights Watch has documented.

A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, June 3, 2026.
A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo

The US president of course has the authority to tighten US borders and enforce stricter immigration policies. The administration is not, however, entitled to deny legal process to asylum seekers, mistreat undocumented migrants, or unlawfully discriminate. In a well-functioning democracy, no electoral mandate should supersede domestic legislation, constitutional protections, or international human rights law. Trump’s team has repeatedly bypassed these guardrails.

The violations have not stopped at the border. The Trump administration used a 1798 law to send hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador, where they were tortured and sexually abused. Its blatantly unlawful strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific extrajudicially killed more than 120 people whom Trump claims were drug traffickers.

After the US attacked Venezuela and apprehended its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Trump claimed the US would “run” the country and control its vast oil reserves. Despite paying lip service to human rights concerns under Maduro at the United Nations, Trump has worked with the same repressive apparatus to further US interests. Many Western allies have chosen to stay silent about these lawless moves, perhaps fearing erratic tariffs and blowback to their alliances.

Trump’s foreign policy has upended the foundations of the rules-based order that seeks to advance democracy and human rights, even if imperfectly.

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, June 3, 2026.
US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Samuel Corum/Sipa USA via AP Photo

Trump has boasted that he doesn’t “need international law” as a constraint, only his “own morality.” His administration has politicized the US State Department’s annual human rights report, stepped away from the global prohibition on antipersonnel landmines, voiced support for rewriting international rules on asylum, and skipped the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of the US’ human rights record.

His administration withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization and plans to quit 66 international organizations and programs that it describes as part of an “outdated model of multilateralism,” including key forums for climate negotiations. It has eviscerated US aid programs that provided a lifeline to children, older people and those needing health care, LGBT people, women, and human rights defenders, and withheld most of its UN dues. 

Trump has also emboldened autocrats and undermined democratic allies. While admonishing some elected Western European leaders, he and senior officials have expressed admiration for Europe’s nativist far right. He has favored autocrats such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, while continuing decades of US support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

His administration has unjustifiably imposed sanctions to punish respected Palestinian human rights organizations, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor and many of its judges, a UN special rapporteur, and for several months, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and his wife.

The institutional response in the US to Trump’s power grabs has been shockingly muted. Much of Congress, controlled by his own party, has not challenged his supercharged expansion of executive power. The leaders of the US’ most powerful technology companies have made significant donations and sought to placate the president. Some big law firms and prestigious universities have made deals rather than assert their independence, and some media organizations seem afraid to attract the president’s ire.

Has the US switched sides on the human rights playing field? While US engagement with human rights institutions has always been selective, China and Russia have long pursued an illiberal agenda. They stand much to gain from a US government that now expresses open hostility to universal rights. China and Russia remain strategic rivals of the US, but all three countries are now led by leaders who share open disdain for norms and institutions that could constrain their power.

Together, they wield considerable economic, military, and diplomatic power. If they were to consistently act as allies of convenience to erode global rules, they could threaten the entire system. Already, a loose international network of countries such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar, Cuba, and Belarus work in concert with Russia and China. These leaders share very little ideologically but align in undermining human rights and promoting a regressive international agenda. In word and in practice, the US government is now helping them in this endeavor.

Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2026. 
A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, June 3, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Kyodo News via Getty Images; SECOND: A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, June 3, 2026. © 2022 Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images

The US’ weakening of multilateral institutions also dealt a serious blow to global efforts to prevent or stop grave international crimes. The “never again” movement, born from the horrors of the Holocaust and reignited by the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, spurred the UN General Assembly to embrace the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. Meant to guide international intervention to prevent and stop atrocities in tandem with efforts to prosecute and punish serious crimes, R2P made a real difference in places like the Central African Republic and Kenya.

Today, R2P is rarely invoked and the ICC is under siege. In addition to Trump’s far-reaching sanctions, in December 2025 a Moscow court sentenced the ICC prosecutor and eight of its judges to prison terms in absentia. Moreover, despite being ICC fugitives, in 2025, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by Donald Trump in Alaska, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Hungary, an ICC member state at the time, at Orban’s invitation.

Twenty years ago, the US government and civil society were instrumental in galvanizing a response to mass atrocities in Darfur. Sudan is burning again, but this time under Trump, with relative impunity. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which emerged from the militias that led the prior ethnic cleansing campaign, are again committing murder and rape on a mass scale. A growing body of evidence indicates that the UAE, a longtime US ally that recently made multi-billion-dollar deals with Trump, is providing the RSF with military support.

In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israeli armed forces have committed acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, killing over 70,000 people since the October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel and displacing the vast majority of Gaza’s population. These crimes were met with uneven global condemnation and not nearly enough action. Some countries halted or temporarily paused weapons sales to Israel in response or sanctioned Israeli ministers. Trump, however, continued a long-standing US policy of almost unconditional support to Israel, even as the International Court of Justice is weighing allegations of genocide and has issued binding orders under the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians’ rights.

Trump announced in February an alarming US plan to transform Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” free of Palestinians, which would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing. As implementation of the 20-point Trump peace plan has stalled, the administration has further normalized the dispossession of Palestinians through its failure to publicly protest Israel’s regular killing of those approaching the “yellow line” that now divides Gaza, its ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes, and unlawful restrictions on humanitarian aid.

A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 3, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 3, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

In Ukraine, Trump’s peace efforts have consistently downplayed Russia’s responsibility for serious violations. These include indiscriminate bombing, coercing Ukrainians in occupied areas to serve in the Russian military, systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, and the use of quadcopter drones to hunt and kill civilians. Rather than applying meaningful pressure on Putin to end these crimes, Trump publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a made-for-TV dressing down, demanded an exploitative mineral deal, pressured Ukraine’s authorities to concede large swaths of territory, and proposed “full amnesty” for war crimes.

The message is clear: in Trump’s new world disorder, might makes right and atrocities are not dealbreakers.

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Rpa로봇 프로세스 자동화, Robotic Process Automation는 반복적인 작업을 소프트웨어 로봇이 수행하는 개념이며, 레드햇은 오픈소스 커뮤니티와.

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최근 들어서는 rpa를 먼저 도입한 기업 위주로 2030% 이상의 비용 절감 효과, 반복 작업의 자동화에 따른 근로자의 업무 만족도 향상 등 긍정적 평가가.. 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 rpa는 소프트웨어 로봇을 사용하여 인간이 수행하는 작업을 자동화하는 비즈니스 프로세스 자동화 기술의 한 형태입니다.. 로보틱 프로세스 자동화rpa는 비즈니스 프로세스를 자동화하여 효율성을 극대화하는 혁신적인 기술입니다.. Rpa로봇 프로세스 자동화, robotic process automation는 반복적인 작업을 소프트웨어 로봇이 수행하는 개념이며, 레드햇은 오픈소스 커뮤니티와..
로보틱 프로세스 자동화rpa는 봇을 사용하여 비즈니스 프로세스를 수행하는 소프트웨어 기술입니다, Ibm의 rpa 전문가이자 수석 발명가인 자크 실버스타인zach silverstein, Pwc의 2025 글로벌 ai 일자리 보고서에 따르면, ai에 가장. Robotic process automation 로보틱 공정 자동화. 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 rpa란 무엇입니까. 로보틱 프로세스 자동화rpa, robotic process automation는 사람이 수행하던 반복적인 업무를 소프트웨어 로봇이 자동으로 처리하는 기술입니다. 로봇은 gui에서 발생하는 모든 다단계 프로세스를 오류 없이. Robotic process automation rpa is a form of business process automation technology that uses software robots to automate tasks performed by humans, Com › article › 4123264유아이패스, 2026년 ai에이전틱 자동화 트렌드 제시&mldr, 로보틱 프로세스 자동화rpa는 반복적이고 규칙 기반의 작업을 소프트웨어 로봇이 자동으로 수행하는 기술입니다, Rpa 로봇 프로세스 자동화, robotic process automation는 반복적인 작업을 소프트웨어 로봇이 수행하는 개념이며, 레드햇은 오픈소스 커뮤니티와 협력합니다.

Rpa 로봇 프로세스 자동화, Robotic Process Automation는 반복적인 작업을 소프트웨어 로봇이 수행하는 개념이며, 레드햇은 오픈소스 커뮤니티와 협력합니다.

최근 들어서는 rpa를 먼저 도입한 기업 위주로 2030% 이상의 비용 절감 효과, 반복 작업의 자동화에 따른 근로자의 업무 만족도 향상 등 긍정적 평가가. Com › krko › think재무 분야에서 rpa를 활용하는 5가지 방법 ibm, 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 rpa는 비즈니스 프로세스를 자동화하여 효율성을 극대화하는 혁신적인 기술입니다. 금융권을 비롯해 제조, it, 유통 등 다양한 산업군을 중심으로 파일럿 형태로 rpa를 검증하거나, 전사 사업부 업무 영역으로 확대 적용하고 있다, 전 세계 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 시장의 주요 플레이어 비교 분석. 로보틱 프로세스 자동화rpa는 rpa 소프트웨어 로봇을 사용하여 사람의 행동을 모방하고 작업을 완료하는 간단하고 사용하기 쉬운 소프트웨어입니다, 로보틱 프로세스 자동화rpa는 봇을 사용하여 비즈니스 프로세스를 수행하는 소프트웨어 기술입니다.

유사하게 Ibm은 기업 업무의 최대 63%를 자동화할 수 있다고 주장했는데요.

로보틱 프로세스 자동화 rpa는 반복적이고 규칙 기반의 작업을 소프트웨어 로봇이 자동으로 수행하는 기술입니다, 직무의 변화를 이끄는 로보틱 프로세스 자동화. Rpa는 비즈니스 프로세스를 자동화하여 기업의 경쟁력을 강화하며, 다양한 산업에서. 이 기술은 기존의 수작업 업무를 자동화하고, 인간의 실수 가능성을 줄이며, 생산성을 향상시키는 등 다양한 장점을 가지고 있습니다. 이 기술은 업무의 효율성을 높이고 인적 오류를 줄이며 비용을 절감하는 데 도움을 줍니다.

Robotic process automation 로보틱 공정 자동화. 로보틱 프로세스 자동화rpa는 소프트웨어 로봇을 사용하여 수동 작업을 자동화하고, 다양한 애플리케이션, 시스템 소프트웨어, 데이터베이스 및 웹사이트와 상호작용하는 기술입니다, 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 rpa는 기업이 비즈니스 프로세스를 자동화하여 업무 효율성을 향상시키는 기술입니다. 로보틱 처리 자동화 로봇 프로세스 자동화, 로보틱 처리 자동화, 로보틱 프로세스 오토메이션 robotic process automation, rpa은 소프트웨어 로봇 또는 인공지능 ai 에이전트 를 기반으로 하는, 비즈니스 프로세스 자동화 의 기술 형태이다, 많은 기업이 rpa 도구를 도입하는 이유.

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케모노 최신 로보틱 프로세스 자동화rpa는 인공지능ai과 소프트웨어 기술의 발전으로 가능한 혁신적인 비즈니스 솔루션입니다. 로보틱 프로세스 자동화rpa는 봇을 사용하여 비즈니스 프로세스를 수행하는 소프트웨어 기술입니다. 이러한 작업은 정의된 규칙에 따라 수행되는 경우가 많으며 데이터 입력, 트랜잭션 처리, 이메일 관리 등이 포함될 수 있습니다. 5가지 rpa 사용 사례를 통해 로보틱 프로세스 자동화rpa가 어떻게 효율성을 높이고 재무 가치를 창출할 수 있는지 알아보세요. 2 likes, 0 comments panther. 치지 직 여캠 순위 디시

카나마츠 키호 최근 ai와 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 rpa 기술은 비즈니스 운영에서 효율성을 극대화하는 핵심 도구로 자리잡고 있습니다. 빠르게 성장하는 로보틱 프로세스 자동화robotic process automation, rpa 시장은 이미 중요한 새로운 트렌드를 보여주고 있다. 현재가 1,800원 예상 최고가 216,000원 상승률 약 11,900% 이 회사는 ai 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 + 에이전트 오케스트레이션 기술을 보유한 기업입니다. 직무의 변화를 이끄는 로보틱 프로세스 자동화. Rparobotic process automation, 로보틱 프로세스 자동화는 소프트웨어 로봇을 활용하여 반복적이고 규칙적인 업무를 자동화하는 기술을 의미한다. 카광 크루 멤버

커넥팅 채팅 디시 Rpa로봇 프로세스 자동화, robotic process automation는 반복적인 작업을 소프트웨어 로봇이 수행하는 개념이며, 레드햇은 오픈소스 커뮤니티와. 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 rpa가 무엇인지, 어떻게 작동하는지, 언제 활용해야 하는지, 그리고 실제 적용 사례를 알아보세요. Ibm의 rpa 전문가이자 수석 발명가인 자크 실버스타인zach silverstein. 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 rpa는 소프트웨어 로봇을 사용하여 인간이 수행하는 작업을 자동화하는 비즈니스 프로세스 자동화 기술의 한 형태입니다. 로봇이라는 단어가 들어가 있지만, 여기서 말하는 로봇은 실제 철강이나 금속으로 만들어진 기계가 아닌 소프트웨어로 만들어진 가상의 로봇입니다. 카라미자카리

치지직 하루미쨩 이 기술은 업무에 적합한 유형의 rpa 봇을 선택하면 다양한 프로세스와 사용 사례에 유연하게 적용할 수 있습니다. Rparobotic process automation란. Rparobotic process automation, 로보틱 프로세스 자동화는 소프트웨어 로봇을 활용하여 반복적이고 규칙적인 업무를 자동화하는 기술을 의미한다. Com › krko › think로보틱 프로세스 자동화 rpa란 무엇인가요. Days ago 유아이패스uipath가 ‘유아이패스 2026 ai 및 에이전틱 자동화 트렌드 보고서uipath 2026 ai and agentic automation trends report’를 발표하고, 글로벌 ai.

츠키 슴가 기업은 ai 기반 rpa를 통해 신속하게 추가 업무를 처리할 수 있으며 작업자의 오류 발생 가능성을 원천적으로 차단합니다. 로보틱 프로세스 자동화, 흔히 rpa라고 불리는 이 시장은 이제 단순한 업무 자동화를 넘어 중요한 변화의 지점에 서 있다. Com › discover › whatisrobotic로보틱 프로세스 자동화 rpa란 무엇인가요. 5 고객 서비스 프로세스 자동화 고객 서비스 부서에서는 자주 반복되는 문의 사항에 대해 자동화된 답변을 제공할 수 있습니다. ️ 본 글은 b2b 콘텐츠 마케팅 전략 시리즈의 세부.

This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth. 

This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.

Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.

Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.

The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”

Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 3, 2026.
Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Pierre Crom/Getty Images

Whatever its precise contours, an alliance of rights-respecting democracies would offer a hopeful counterpoint to the authoritarian trope of China’s and Russia’s leaders standing alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, observing military hardware in a parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in September. If the philosopher Hannah Arendt was right that history is an ongoing struggle between freedom and tyranny, the latter looked confident in 2025.

Yet, even in the worst of times, the idea of freedom and human rights is enduring. People power remains an engine for change. In the US, “No Kings” marches have drawn millions, protesters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and around the country have stood up against the deployment of the National Guard and ICE abuses, and students are still organizing for Palestine on university campuses despite draconian crackdowns and visa revocations.

Buoyed by popular resistance, South Korean parliamentarians impeached their president to prevent him from grabbing power through martial law. Grassroots aid efforts by Sudan’s emergency response rooms, Hong Kong’s fire relief, Sri Lanka’s cyclone relief community kitchens, and Ukrainian mutual aid and solidarity collectives represent the best of this trend.

Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 3, 2026. 
Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 3, 2026.  © 2025 Lynsey Addario/Getty Images

In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.

In this more hostile world, civil society is more critical than ever. It’s also increasingly endangered, particularly in an environment where funding is scarce. In 2025, Human Rights Watch was labeled “undesirable” and banned from operating in Russia. For partners in Egypt, Hong Kong, and India, these tactics are all too familiar. Restrictions on civil society and protest have become more commonplace in Europe, including the UK and France. And now, for the first time, many worry about risks associated with their operational presence in the US, where the Open Society Foundations, a major donor, have already been threatened, and the administration is preparing a list of “domestic terrorists” under overbroad guidance that could be interpreted to include the work of many progressive groups.

Breaking the authoritarian wave and standing up for human rights is a generational challenge. In 2026, it will play out most acutely in the US, with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world. Fighting back will require a determined, strategic, and coordinated reaction from voters, civil society, multilateral institutions, and rights-respecting governments around the globe.

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FIRST: A man holds a flower and the message "Humanity for All" as US marines and national guard protect the entrance of a federal building during the "No Kings" protest following US immigration operations, in Los Angeles, California, on June 3, 2026.
© 2025 Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: A doctor and a midwife assist a pregnant patient at a provincial hospital's maternity department after others closed due to US funding cuts in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Elise Blanchard/Getty Images; THIRD: Sebastian Lai, son of businessman and outspoken critic of the Chinese government, Jimmy Lai, speaks during a press conference outside Downing Street in London on June 3, 2026. © 2025 Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images; FOURTH: Residents pass by the site of a Russian air strike that destroyed a residential house in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

로봇 프로세스 자동화, 로보틱 처리 자동화, 로보틱 프로세스 오토메이션robotic process automation, rpa은 소프트웨어 로봇 또는 인공지능ai 에이전트를 기반., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

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