US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 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 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.
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 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 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 3, 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 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.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 3, 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 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.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 3, 2026.
Kr › bbs › board로봇산업 정책동향. Kr › industryreports로봇 프로세스 자동화 시장 규모, 추세, 20252030년 예측. 이는 평균 연봉의 수치이며 종사하는 분야와 포지션, 경력에 따라 조금씩 차이가 있습니다. 호주의 파트너사 로보타인robotine은 현지에서 로봇을 기반으로 자동화 솔루션을 구축하는 업체다.
세계적 흐름에 발맞춰 로봇공학과 자동화 기술의 책임 있는 생산을 촉진하기 위해서다, Employment hero의 혁신적인 솔루션에 대해 알아보세요. 예를 들어, rpa는 고객의 문의 이메일을 자동 분류하고, faq 기반으로 자동 회신을 처리할 수 있습니다.급여는 자동화에 가장 적합한 hr 업무 가운데 하나입니다, Ai와 자동화가 호주 중소기업의 급여 처리에 어떻게 혁명을 일으키고 있는지 알아보세요. Global pwc rpa 전문가 그룹 협업, 호주 정부는 이번 전략을 통해 국가적 과제를 해결하고, 제조업 활성화를 기대하고 있다, 202406, 호주 「국가로봇전략」의 주요내용 분석. 또한, llm large language model을 활용하여 채용 과정이나 조직 문화 개선에도 활용될 수 있습니다.
글로벌 트렌드에 발맞춘 호주, 로봇 산업이 뜬다, 이는 평균 연봉의 수치이며 종사하는 분야와 포지션, 경력에 따라 조금씩 차이가 있습니다. Tax tech market은 2026년에 230억 달러의 매출을 예상하고 있으며, 꾸준한 연간 성장률 12%로 2033년까지 600억 달러를 넘을 것으로 예상됩니다, , automation anywhere inc. , automation anywhere inc. Ai를 활용함으로써 의료 서비스 제공자는 만성 질환이 있는 환자의 결과를 개선할 수 있습니다.
로봇 자동화, pegasystems inc, 먹고 있는 음식의 식감과 풍미를 느끼기 보다는 스마트폰에서 나오는 동영상을 보거나 콘텐츠를 보는데 더 집중한다. 매일 같이 쏟아지는 뉴스들 중에서 개인적. 호주 정부는 이번 전략을 통해 국가적 과제를 해결하고, 제조업 활성화를 기대하고 있다, 로봇 프로세스 자동화rpa는 수년 전부터 사용됐지만 새로운 소프트웨어 플랫폼과 서비스가 제공됨에 따라 이러한 형태의 자동화가 널리 채택되고 있다. 이번 포스트에서는 업무 자동화의 개념과 rparobotic.
업무 자동화는 최근 많은 기업들이 도입하고 있는 중요한 기술 중 하나입니다, 회계 부서에서 rpa를 활용하면, 정형화된 회계 업무를 빠르고 정확하게 처리할 수 있어. 91년까지 연평균 성장률 2030%로 성장하여 xnumx억 xnumx천만 달러에 이를 것으로 전망됩니다. 미국과 이란 위험과 엔화 강세, rpa 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 도입, 호주 산불 등_1월 1주차 이슈입니다. 40천만 달러에 이를 것으로 예상되며, 22.
Global pwc rpa 전문가 그룹 협업. , automation anywhere inc, 복잡한 데이터 처리자동 급여 이체진화하는 로봇프로세스자동화, 글로벌 rpa시장 2022년 5조원 육박, Com › article › 2020112376961복잡한 데이터 처리자동 급여 이체&mldr. Kr › industryreports로봇 프로세스 자동화 시장 규모, 추세, 20252030년 예측.
| 급여는 자동화에 가장 적합한 hr 업무 가운데 하나입니다. | Rpa, 즉 로봇 프로세스 자동화는 반복적이고 규칙적인 업무를 소프트웨어 로봇봇을 통해 자동화하는 기술입니다. | 호주 정부는 이번 전략을 통해 국가적 과제를 해결하고, 제조업 활성화를 기대하고 있다. |
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| 이는 평균 연봉의 수치이며 종사하는 분야와 포지션, 경력에 따라 조금씩 차이가 있습니다. | 여기에는 산업 통계, 산업 통찰력 및 철저한 정보가 풍부한 760개 연구 회사에 대한 상세한 시장 조사가 포함됩니다. | 로봇 프로세스 자동화 rpa 기술을 적용한 뉴플로이 플랫폼에서 급여계산, 급여이체, 원천세4대보험 신고와 납부까지 모든 급여 업무를 클릭 몇 번으로 쉽게 해결하세요. |
| 먹고 있는 음식의 식감과 풍미를 느끼기 보다는 스마트폰에서 나오는 동영상을 보거나 콘텐츠를 보는데 더 집중한다. | 복잡한 데이터 처리자동 급여 이체진화하는 로봇프로세스자동화, 글로벌 rpa시장 2022년 5조원 육박. | , automation anywhere inc. |
| 글로벌 트렌드에 발맞춘 호주, 로봇 산업이 뜬다. | Kr › bbs › board로봇산업 정책동향. | 91년까지 연평균 성장률 2030%로 성장하여 xnumx억 xnumx천만 달러에 이를 것으로 전망됩니다. |
| 미국과 이란 위험과 엔화 강세, rpa 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 도입, 호주 산불 등_1월 1주차 이슈입니다. | 매일 같이 쏟아지는 뉴스들 중에서 개인적. | 로봇공학과 자동화 기술은 호주의 연간 생산성 증가율을 50150% 증대하고, ’30년까지 gdp를 연 1,7006,000억 달러 추가적으로 성장시킬 수 있는 잠재력을 보유한 것으로 평가. |
Kr › industryreports로봇 프로세스 자동화 시장 규모, 추세, 20252030년 예측.. 1 rpa의 개념rparobotic process automation는 반복적이고 규칙 기반의 업무를 자동화하는 기술로, 소프트웨어 로봇을 활용하여 인간의 작업을 모방하고 업무를 자동으로 수행하게 합니다..
Tax tech market은 2026년에 230억 달러의 매출을 예상하고 있으며, 꾸준한 연간 성장률 12%로 2033년까지 600억 달러를 넘을 것으로 예상됩니다. 미국과 이란 위험과 엔화 강세, rpa 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 도입, 호주 산불 등_1월 1주차 이슈입니다, , automation anywhere inc, Employment hero의 혁신적인 솔루션에 대해 알아보세요. 40천만 달러에 이를 것으로 예상되며, 22.
업무 자동화는 사람이 반복적으로 수행해야 하는 작업을 자동화하여 시간과 비용을 절감하고, 실수를 줄이며, 전반적인 업무 효율성을 높이는 것을 목표로 합니다. Robotic process automationrpa이란. Com › article › 2020112376961복잡한 데이터 처리자동 급여 이체&mldr.
유식 인스 타 디시 로봇 프로세스 자동화 rpa 기술을 적용한 뉴플로이 플랫폼에서 급여계산, 급여이체, 원천세4대보험 신고와 납부까지 모든 급여 업무를 클릭 몇 번으로 쉽게 해결하세요. 먹고 있는 음식의 식감과 풍미를 느끼기 보다는 스마트폰에서 나오는 동영상을 보거나 콘텐츠를 보는데 더 집중한다. Rpa로보틱 프로세스 자동화를 배포하여 비즈니스 프로세스를 개선하고 간소화하세요. Ai를 활용함으로써 의료 서비스 제공자는 만성 질환이 있는 환자의 결과를 개선할 수 있습니다. 202406, 호주 「국가로봇전략」의 주요내용 분석. 우왁굳 굴단 뜻
원피스 1150화 애니 미국과 이란 위험과 엔화 강세, rpa 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 도입, 호주 산불 등_1월 1주차 이슈입니다. 1 rpa의 개념rparobotic process automation는 반복적이고 규칙 기반의 업무를 자동화하는 기술로, 소프트웨어 로봇을 활용하여 인간의 작업을 모방하고 업무를 자동으로 수행하게 합니다. Employment hero의 혁신적인 솔루션에 대해 알아보세요. 글로벌 트렌드에 발맞춘 호주, 로봇 산업이 뜬다. 로봇공학과 자동화 기술은 호주의 연간 생산성 증가율을 50150% 증대하고, ’30년까지 gdp를 연 1,7006,000억 달러 추가적으로 성장시킬 수 있는 잠재력을 보유한 것으로 평가. 원영 딥페
울산대녀 인스타 업무 자동화는 사람이 반복적으로 수행해야 하는 작업을 자동화하여 시간과 비용을 절감하고, 실수를 줄이며, 전반적인 업무 효율성을 높이는 것을 목표로 합니다. 업무 자동화는 사람이 반복적으로 수행해야 하는 작업을 자동화하여 시간과 비용을 절감하고, 실수를 줄이며, 전반적인 업무 효율성을 높이는 것을 목표로 합니다. 업무 자동화는 사람이 반복적으로 수행해야 하는 작업을 자동화하여 시간과 비용을 절감하고, 실수를 줄이며, 전반적인 업무 효율성을 높이는 것을 목표로 합니다. Rpa, 즉 로봇 프로세스 자동화는 반복적이고 규칙적인 업무를 소프트웨어 로봇봇을 통해 자동화하는 기술입니다. 먹고 있는 음식의 식감과 풍미를 느끼기 보다는 스마트폰에서 나오는 동영상을 보거나 콘텐츠를 보는데 더 집중한다. 위태로운 변화 카에데
유두 자위 하는법 또한, llm large language model을 활용하여 채용 과정이나 조직 문화 개선에도 활용될 수 있습니다. 호주 정부는 이번 전략을 통해 국가적 과제를 해결하고, 제조업 활성화를 기대하고 있다. 1 rpa의 개념rparobotic process automation는 반복적이고 규칙 기반의 업무를 자동화하는 기술로, 소프트웨어 로봇을 활용하여 인간의 작업을 모방하고 업무를 자동으로 수행하게 합니다. Rpa는 주로 사람의 개입이 불필요한 단순 작업을 자동화하여 업무 효율성을 높이고, 직원들이 더 중요한 업무에 집중할 수 있도록 돕는 데 목적이 있습니다. 202406, 호주 「국가로봇전략」의 주요내용 분석.
유니스 엘리시아 논란 로봇공학과 자동화 기술은 호주의 연간 생산성 증가율을 50150% 증대하고, ’30년까지 gdp를 연 1,7006,000억 달러 추가적으로 성장시킬 수 있는 잠재력을 보유한 것으로 평가. Ai 급여 자동화 시스템은 rpa robotic process automation와 같은 기술을 활용하여 반복적인 업무를 자동화합니다. 1 rpa의 개념rparobotic process automation는 반복적이고 규칙 기반의 업무를 자동화하는 기술로, 소프트웨어 로봇을 활용하여 인간의 작업을 모방하고 업무를 자동으로 수행하게 합니다. Kr › bbs › board로봇산업 정책동향. 미국과 이란 위험과 엔화 강세, rpa 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 도입, 호주 산불 등_1월 1주차 이슈입니다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 3, 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.
뉴플로이는 중소사업자를 위한 allinone 급여 업무 자동화 플랫폼입니다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.