US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 2026.
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.
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 4, 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 4, 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.
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.
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.
US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 2026.
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.
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.
Police detain an activist outside the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, before lawmakers approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed “extremist,” in Moscow, June 4, 2026.
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.
FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 4, 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 4, 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.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 4, 2026.
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.
FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 4, 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 4, 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.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 4, 2026.
근데 사람한테 하는 베팅이 워낙 변수가 많아야져 개인적으로 반도체 업계 최고의 ceo중 하나라 생각해여 비즈니스 자체가 어렵기도 하고 돈이 쏠리는 read more. 속보 리사수 gptoss 샤라웃 특이점이 온다 마이너 갤러리. 본문 보기 댓글닫기 새로고침 ㅇㅇ는 갤러리에서 권장하는 비회원 전용 갤닉네임입니다. 리사 수의 나이가 10살이 되어갈 시점에 오빠 동생의 원격 자동차 장난감을 갖고 놀다가 고장이 났었는데, 어떠한 이유로 작동을 하지 않는지 궁금해 했음.
| 와 이 누나 샤라웃은 흔치 않은데 ㅇㅇ211. | 당장 2018년 페라리 스폰서 목록이 이래. | Gaugurah라는 대사인데, 발음이 대충 가오 그라에. | 데이터센터 칩 시장에서 인텔을 처음으로 추월 3. |
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| 리사 수 ceo는 이 프로그램들은 단기간에 시작된 것이 아니라 수년 전부터 주요 고객과 함께 설계해 온 전략의 결실이라며, 우리는 이미 2027년까지의 ai 플랫폼을 계획하고 있다고 밝혔다. | 리사 수가 별거 없다는 애들 보세요 초개념 갤러리. | 타임은 10일현지시간 미국 반도체업체 amd의 성공을 이끈 리사 수를. | Best 전직금지가 개풀뜯어먹는 소리였는데도 그동안 허용됐다는게 더 이상하긴 하지 리사수누님도 여기저기 이직해서 amd로 갔고 ms 구글. |
| 31 2131 베이린 온몸을 다해 이리하다 08. | Amd amd의 최고경영책임자 ceo 리사 수는 게이머들 사이에서 ‘갓사 수’, ‘빛사 수’로 불립니다. | 31 2159 ㅇㅇ 에스파 이세돓 리사 수 렛츠고 dc app 08. | 회원 아이콘 이미지 nozdormu lv. |
| Amd ceo 리사 수, 타임지 선정 올해의 ceo 주요 성과 1. | 사람들이 잘 모르는 사실 리사수는 amd로리 리드의 후임으로 취임한 이래 10년동안 amd ceo직을 맏고 있다 리사수의 전전ceo의 삽질로 투자유의 등급. | 과거 편집 티페리트들은 과거에 에녹 enoch 과 리사 lisa 라는 이름을 가진 외곽을 떠돌던 아이들이었으며, 친남매는 아니었으나 외곽에서 서로 의지하며, 사이좋게 살아가고 있었다. | 글로벌 반도체 회사인 amd는 개인 및 데이터 센터에 전원을 공급하는 cpu칩을. |
| D 2024년 다양한 기업 및 브랜드의 흥망 사이 한해의 가장 강력했던 ceo를 선정하는 타임지 ‘올해의 ceo’ 부문에 많은 이들의 예상이었던 엔비디아의 ‘젠슨 황’을 제치고 amd@amd의 ‘리사 수lisa su’가 선정되었다. | Kr › taimjigaseonjeonghan타임지가 선정한 올해의 ceo, 리사 수. | 리사 수는 amd를 파산 위기에서 구해 세계적인 반도체 기업으로 성장시켰습니다. | 대표적인 연구 성과는 당시까지 알루미늄이었던 반도체 배선 재질을 구리로 바꿔 처리 속도를 20% 이상 향상시킨 것이다. |
타임은 10일현지시간 미국 반도체업체 amd의 성공을 이끈 리사 수를, 아무리 그래도 스폰서 기업 회장을 몰라보냐고 할 수 있는데, f1 팀 1개에만 수십개의 스폰서가 있고, amd가 페라리 대표 스폰서였던 것도 아님. Amd의 ceo 리사 수lisa su는 ai 가속기 시장이 2028년까지 5,000억 달러 규모에 이를 것이라고 예측했습니다. 2011년에 amd에 글로벌 사업부 부사장으로 합류했고, 2014년 10월에 최고경영자가 되었다.
She subsequently took on the role of director of emerging projects, stating that i was basically director of myself – there was no one else in the group, 2019년 ceo중 세계 최고의 연봉을 받았으며, 여성이 세계 최고액 연봉을 받은 일은 이번이 최초이다, 상세 편집 유리 glass라는 어휘에서도 알 수 있듯이 반증 불가능성을 어느 정도 내포한다, Amd amd의 최고경영책임자 ceo 리사 수는 게이머들 사이에서 ‘갓사 수’, ‘빛사 수’로 불립니다, 31 2131 베이린 온몸을 다해 이리하다 08.
리사수는 드라이버를 뿌려라 라데온 마이너 갤러리. Com › mini › dbauddlstkwnredirecting to sgall. Shift+enter 키를 동시에 누르면 줄바꿈이. 속보 리사수 gptoss 샤라웃 특이점이 온다 마이너 갤러리.
글로벌 반도체 회사인 amd는 개인 및 데이터 센터에 전원을 공급하는 cpu칩을. 삭제 시 닉네임 등록 가능 타인의 권리를 침해하거나 명예를 훼손하는 댓글은 운영원칙 및 관련 법률에 제재를 받을 수 있습니다, 2012년에 amd로 합류했던 당시에는 곧 망해도 전혀 이상하지 않을.
취임 당시 3달러였던 주가를 140달러까지 상승시킴 2.. Amd ceo 리사 수, 타임지 선정 올해의 ceo 주요 성과 1.. Days ago 이후 재밌는 일화로 22년 후 이리마지리는 젠슨 황에게 ai 관련 세미나 영상을 촬영해 줄 수 있는지 조심스럽게 편지를 보냈는데 젠슨 황은 답장으로 과거의 빚을 갚겠다.. 야만인 인공지능 발전의 뒷이야기 2010년대 초반 인텔 intel이 cpu 시장을 독점하는 상황에서 날개 없이 추락하던 amd 1969년에 창립된 amd가 2014년을 기점으로 다시 부활할 수 있었던 이유는 무엇일까요..
전소민, 결국 디시앱 설치 전체리스트 로그인 회사소개 광고안내 이용약관 개인정보. 리사 수 → 니콜라스 도노프리오 점진적 개선 및 혁신을 추구할 수 있는 기회라고 자신의 의견을 밝힘. Com › mgallery › board리사수 디씨인증떳다 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 해외주식 마이너 갤러리. 대만에서 태어나 미국으로 귀화한 대만계 미국인으로 텍사스주 오스틴에 거주 중이며, 반도체 설계제조 기업 amd의 회장 겸 read more, 리사 수 → 니콜라스 도노프리오 점진적 개선 및 혁신을 추구할 수 있는 기회라고 자신의 의견을 밝힘. 상세 편집 유리 glass라는 어휘에서도 알 수 있듯이 반증 불가능성을 어느 정도 내포한다.
Com › board › view한국 언론을 믿으세요, 리사 수는 1995년부터 2007년까지 12년 동안 ibm 연구개발 r&d 부서에 근무하면서 40편 이상의 반도체 관련 논문을 발표하기도 했다. 이는 불과 12년 전 반도체 산업 전체. 취임 당시 3달러였던 주가를 140달러까지 상승시킴 2, Amd 니콜라스 도노프리오 고질적인 문제가 있었지만, 훌륭한 기술 인력과 고유 지적재산권이라는 장점을 가진 반도체 제조사.
In 2000, su was given a yearlong assignment as the technical assistant for lou gerstner, ibms ceo. 리사 수 ceo는 이 프로그램들은 단기간에 시작된 것이 아니라 수년 전부터 주요 고객과 함께 설계해 온 전략의 결실이라며, 우리는 이미 2027년까지의 ai 플랫폼을 계획하고 있다고 밝혔다. 글로벌 반도체 회사인 amd는 개인 및 데이터 센터에 전원을 공급하는 cpu칩을. Shift+enter 키를 동시에 누르면 줄바꿈이 됩니다. 19 1022 저는 수 리사에요 아 좋은 직업이네요 나이스 굿잡.
아무리 그래도 스폰서 기업 회장을 몰라보냐고 할 수 있는데, f1 팀 1개에만 수십개의 스폰서가 있고, amd가 페라리 대표 스폰서였던 것도 아님.. 대만에서 태어나 미국으로 귀화한 대만계 미국인으로 텍사스주 오스틴에 거주 중이며, 반도체 설계제조 기업 amd의 회장 겸 read more..
Com › board › view한국 언론을 믿으세요. 지난 22일부터는 국내에서 ai기본법이 시행되고 있지만 사업자들이 ai를 이용한 서비스를 제공할 때 사실을 알리는 게 주 내용이고, 딥페이크를 금지하는 read more. Amd amd의 최고경영책임자 ceo 리사 수는 게이머들 사이에서 ‘갓사 수’, ‘빛사 수’로 불립니다, 리사수보면 경영진으로 턴어라운드 가능하져 schd 미니, 알고나면 더 재미있고 사소하지만 알아두면 좋을 부자들의 깨알 같은 tmi 카카오뱅크가 선보이는 백억짜리 tmi 시리즈에서 만나보세요 9화는 게이머.
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Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 4, 2026.
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.”
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.
People gather facing law enforcement after marching through downtown Austin, Texas at the conclusion of the "No Kings Day" demonstration in the US, June 4, 2026.
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.
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.
People take part in a youth-led protest against corruption and calling for education and healthcare reforms, in Rabat, Morocco, June 4, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 4, 2026.
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.
일단 리사 수는 자체로도 매우 훌륭한 엔지니어임., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.