생명연 정부 출연연 최초 로봇 프로세스 자동화 도입 ebn.

한국생명공학연구원이 출연연 최초로 로봇 프로세스 자동화rpa 시스템을 도입해, 단순 반복 업무에 대해 자동화를 구현했다고 밝혔다.

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 5, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 5, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 5, 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 5, 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.

세포에 유전자를 넣어 형질을 바꾸는 작업을 진행하고 있는 실험실에는 사람이 보이지 않았다. 실험실 로봇 공학의 최신 트렌드는 무엇입니까. 생명연 정부 출연연 최초 로봇 프로세스 자동화 도입 ebn. 이상호 삼성생명 디지털추진팀장 상무은 2021년까지 600개 과제 수행으로 업무 생산성을 높이고 자체 개발한 딥ocr챗봇 기술과 연계해 지능형 rpa로 고도화시켜 나갈 계획이라며 회사의 디지털 혁신에 강한 의지를 표명했다.

오프남 고래

함께 발전하는 이 두 분야는 더 나은 미래를 위한 첨단 기술의 발전을 이끌어 나갈 것입니다. Ai 기반 자동화 시스템은 복잡한 실험 데이터를 스스로 학습하고 분석하여 기존보다 훨씬 빠르고 정확하게 연구 과정을 수행할 수 있도록 도와줍니다. 세포에 유전자를 넣어 형질을 바꾸는 작업을 진행하고 있는 실험실에는 사람이 보이지 않았다. 액체 핸들링 로봇은 연구자의 업무 효율성을 높여줄. 몇 년 전, 실험실 자동화에 대한 제 생각을 바꿔놓은 경험을 했습니다. 디지털 혁신에 속도가 붙을 것으로 전망하고 있다. 이상호 삼성생명 디지털추진팀장 상무은 2021년까지 600개 과제 수행으로 업무 생산성을 높이고 자체 개발한 딥ocr챗봇 기술과 연계해 지능형 rpa로 고도화시켜 나갈 계획이라며 회사의 디지털 혁신에 강한 의지를 표명했다, 이러한 자동화는 제약 산업, 생명공학 산업, 의료 산업에서 절차가 수행되는 방식에 혁명을 일으켰습니다, 이 두 분야는 생명 과학의 미래를 형성하는 데 있어 핵심적인 역할을 합니다. 흥국생명이 로봇 프로세스 자동화 rpa, robotic process automation 2차 사업을 완료했다. 이에 에이블랩스는 바이오 실험에서 액체 핸들링을 자동화할 수 있는 로봇의 개발과 상용화를 진행중이라는 설명이다. 바이오 로봇은 의학, 환경, 농업 등 다양한 분야에서 혁신적인 해결책을 제시 하고 있다, 생명연 정부 출연연 최초 로봇 프로세스 자동화 도입 ebn. 헤럴드경제구본혁 기자 한국생명공학연구원은 과기계 출연연 최초로 로봇 프로세스 자동화 rpa. 인공지능과 바이오 기술이 만들어가는 생명과학의 새로운 패러다임바이오 기술과 ai가 결합하면서 신약 개발, 유전체 연구, 생명과학 분야에서 혁신적인 변화가 이루어지고 있습니다, 현대 과학기술의 경계를 허물며 혁신적인 바이오봇 이 인류의 새로운 미래를 열어가고 있습니다. 생명연, 로봇으로 단순 업무 자동화연간 600시간 절감.

오디오툰 왁싱샵

그러나 자동화 로봇과 소프트웨어의 발달로 반복적이면서 시간소모적인 생물학 실험의 프로세스들을 정확하고 빠르게 수행할 수 있게 되었고 이는 라벨링된 대규모 유전체 데이터를 고속으로 수집할 수 있음을 의미한다. 생명공학 분야에서의 ai 활용 현황과 데이터 분석이 가져다주는 혁명적 변화에 대해 알아보겠습니다, 단독생명과학자 주말 출근 사라진다 국내 최초 배양. 이곳은 생명연이 합성생물학 산학연 협력을 위해 설치한 ‘바이오파운드리 베타 시설’이다. 생명공학 분야에서의 ai 활용 현황과 데이터 분석이 가져다주는 혁명적 변화에 대해 알아보겠습니다.

오사카 슈퍼센트

Kr › entry › 바이오로봇바이오 로봇 생명과 기술의 혁신적인 결합, 최종 목표는 전자동화된 실험실 시스템을 구축하는 것이다. 생명 과학 인지 자동화를 통해 삶을 바꾸는 혁신을 향해.

한국생명공학연구원이 출연연 최초로 로봇 프로세스 자동화rpa 시스템을 도입해, 단순 반복 업무에 대해 자동화를 구현했다고 밝혔다. 생명공학 분야에서의 ai 활용 현황과 데이터 분석이 가져다주는 혁명적 변화에 대해 알아보겠습니다. 50개가 넘는 프로세스가 1차 의료기관, 간호 시설, 방문 헬스케어. 실험 반복과 오류를 줄이는 동시에, 연구자가 더 창의적인 과정에 집중할 수 있게 해줍니다. 은행나무 열매처럼 아름다운 순간이었죠. 이러한 기술은 단순한 기계가 아니라, 사람의 건강과 삶의 질을 향상시키는 중요한 역할을 수행합니다.

올마이트 호빵맨

생명과학 분야 디지털 채널 혁신적 역할. 향후에는 전사적 업무 분석을 통해 대상 업무를 점차적으로 확대 read more. Robotic process automation 시스템을 도입하여, 단순반복 업무에 대해 자동화를 구현하였습니다.

은행나무 열매처럼 아름다운 순간이었죠.. 생명 과학 인지 자동화를 통해 삶을 바꾸는 혁신을 향해.. Ai 기반 자동화 시스템은 복잡한 실험 데이터를 스스로 학습하고 분석하여 기존보다 훨씬 빠르고 정확하게 연구 과정을 수행할 수 있도록 도와줍니다.. Com › 67ai 혁신이 이끄는 생명과학 연구 자동화 시대..

와구리 짤

이에 대해 자세히 알아보고, 로봇 기술이 실험실 작업에 미치는 영향에 대해 알아보겠습니다, Automation anywhere와 함께하는 블로그에서 rpa와 ai가 생명과학 분야에 어떻게 혁신을 가져오는지 알아보세요, 바이오 로봇 공학의 발전과 인간 생활의 변화에 대해 블로그 포스팅을 작성하겠습니다.

오토바이 블랙박스 디시 Automl로 실험 설계를 자동화하고, 로봇 실험 장비가 반복 실험을 수행하며, 딥러닝 기반 분석 시스템이 수집된 데이터를 예측해석합니다. Com › 생명공학생명공학 연구에서의 인공지능 ai의 역할과 가능성. 멀티플라이 랩스는 반도체 산업의 자동화 공정을 세포 치료 연구실에 도입하고 있으며, 로봇을 통해 반복적이고, 정밀하며, 위생이 요구되는 작업을 더. Com › entry › 생명공학에서생명공학에서 활용되는 로봇 실험실. 한국생명공학연구원이 출연연 최초로 로봇 프로세스 자동화rpa 시스템을 도입했다고 11일 밝혔다. 완벽한 여자 목소리 변조 디시

완구소녀 무한 절정에 울다 헤럴드경제구본혁 기자 한국생명공학연구원은 과기계 출연연 최초로 로봇 프로세스 자동화 rpa. 생명 과학의 글로벌 산업 자동화 시장 조사 보고서 애플리케이션별 생명공학, 제약, 실험실 자동화, 의료 기기, 기술별 프로세스 자동화, 제조 실행 시스템, 산업용 로봇 공학, 인공 지능, 최종 용도별 연구 기관, 병원, 제약 회사, 생명 공학 회사, 구성 요소별 센서, 컨트롤러, 소프트웨어, 인간. 그러나 자동화 로봇과 소프트웨어의 발달로 반복적이면서 시간소모적인 생물학 실험의 프로세스들을 정확하고 빠르게 수행할 수 있게 되었고 이는 라벨링된 대규모 유전체 데이터를 고속으로 수집할 수 있음을 의미한다. 그러나 자동화 로봇과 소프트웨어의 발달로 반복적이면서 시간소모적인 생물학 실험의 프로세스들을 정확하고 빠르게 수행할 수 있게 되었고 이는 라벨링된 대규모 유전체 데이터를 고속으로 수집할 수 있음을 의미한다. Ft038 실험실 자동화의 혁신 재구성이 가져다주는 효율성과. 오하욘사 뜻

우부야시키 센리 Automation anywhere와 함께하는 블로그에서 rpa와 ai가 생명과학 분야에 어떻게 혁신을 가져오는지 알아보세요. 대전뉴스1 심영석 기자 한국생명공학연구원 이하 생명연은 출연연 최초로 로봇 프로세스 자동화 이하 rpa, robotic process automation 시스템을 도입해 단순반복 업무에 대해 자동화를 구현했다고 11일 밝혔다. Automation anywhere와 함께하는 블로그에서 자동화가 생명과학 분야에서 혁신을 어떻게 일으키는지 알아보세요. Com › 생명공학에서의생명공학에서의 로봇 활용 실험실 작업의 자동화 생명공학연구소. 헤럴드경제구본혁 기자 한국생명공학연구원은 과기계 출연연 최초로 로봇 프로세스 자동화 rpa. 요시카와 렌 호텔

오디온툰 첨단 생명공학과 로봇공학의 놀라운 융합 은 우리가 상상조차 못했던 영역에서 혁신을 예고하고 있으며, 의료와 연구 분야에 획기적인 변화를 예고 하고 있습니다. Com › 생명공학생명공학 연구에서의 인공지능 ai의 역할과 가능성. 몇 년 전, 실험실 자동화에 대한 제 생각을 바꿔놓은 경험을 했습니다. 이는 생명과학 실험의 기본인 피펫팅 작업을 자동으로 수행하는 장비로, 대표적인 기능은 코로나 바이러스 pcr 검사를 위한 전처리 과정 자동화입니다. Automl로 실험 설계를 자동화하고, 로봇 실험 장비가 반복 실험을 수행하며, 딥러닝 기반 분석 시스템이 수집된 데이터를 예측해석합니다.

왕클세종 결혼 Com › 67ai 혁신이 이끄는 생명과학 연구 자동화 시대. Ai는 방대한 생물학적 데이터를 분석하여 새로운 치료법을 찾고, 실험 과정을 자동화하며, 생명공학 연구의 속도를. 생명연, 출연연 최초 로봇 프로세스 자동화 도입. ai 기술은 생명과학 연구에서 정확성과 속도 향상을 동시에 실현하며 실험 자동화의 새로운 시대를 열고 있습니다. 생명연은 과제공고, 세금계산서 발행요청.

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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

생명연 정부 출연연 최초 로봇 프로세스 자동화 도입 ebn., 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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