US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 9, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2026.
이 글에서는 금융 및 은행업에서 로보틱 프로세스 자동화의 이점, 사례 연구, 사용 사례, 트렌드 및 도전 과제에 대해 살펴봅니다. 생성형 ai 산업의 이해 ai 산업은 관련 기술을 개발하거나 ai를 활용한 제품 및 서비스를 생산유통활용하는 등의 과정에서 가치를 창출하는 산업을 일컫는다. 이에 본 논문에서는 금융회사가 rpa를 도입함에 있어 고려되어야 하는 주요 감독규정들과 통제항목들을 정리하고 rpa를 도입한 24개 금융회사의 통제 적용현황을 조사하여. 한국씨티은행은 담당 직원들의 수작업으로 진행되던 업무가 로봇 소프트웨어로 자동화됨에 따라 단순 실수를 예방하고 생산성 증대와 해당 업무에 대한.
22억 634만 원 ▫ rpa 도입과 서비스 혁신 금융산업 사례를 중심으로, 삼정kpmg, 2017. 뱅킹 업계는 특히 로보틱 프로세스 자동화rpa, 문서 인공지능ai 같은 로우코드와 노코드 기술을 도입했습니다, 성공적인 rpa 도입을 위해서는 명확한 목적 설정, 프로세스 표준화, 단계적 접근, 그리고 무엇보다 직원들의 적극적인 참여가 필요합니다, Rpa는 기술적으로는 새롭지 않지만 그 기술을 업무에 접목하여 활용하는 방식에서 혁신이 일어나고 있다. 주 52시간 근무제의 정착과 직원들의 단순 반복 업무를 덜어주어 기업의 생산성을 높여주는 긍정적인 효과를 보고 있다는 의견입니다. 로보틱 프로세스 자동화는 소프트웨어 로봇을 사용하여 반복적인 작업을 자동화하는 기술입니다. 은행의 rpa 도입 사례는 금융뿐만 아니라 다른 산업 분야에서도 참고할 만한 좋은 사례가 됩니다. Com › content › damkpmg. 4차 산업혁명 시대가 되면서 폭발적인 관심을 얻는 시스템으로, 그리드원의 오토메이트원은 비단 반복적이고 단순한 업무뿐만 아니라.서론 로봇 프로세스 자동화rpa는 ‘사람이 수행하던 규칙 적이고 단순하며 반복적인 업무를 소프트웨어 프로그램 로봇이 it 어플리케이션을 자동적으로 수행하여 노동력 을 대체하는 것1’으로서 2010년 중반부터 도입되기 시 작했다, 주 52시간 근무제의 정착과 직원들의 단순 반복 업무를 덜어주어 기업의 생산성을 높여주는 긍정적인 효과를 보고 있다는 의견입니다. 대출 프로세스를 디지털화하면 품질이나 정확성의 희생 없이도 하루에 처리하는 대출 건수를 늘릴 수 있습니다.
이노베이션랩 설립미래금융기술 지속 개발 한국씨티은행은 26일 로봇 소프트웨어를 활용한 로봇 프로세스 자동화rparobotic process automation를.. 한국씨티은행, 로봇 프로세스 자동화 도입..
Rpa는 업무시 단순 반복된 일을 로봇이 대신하도록 설계구현하는 것으로 업무 효율성과 정확성을 크게 향상시킨다, 논문금융회사 rpa로봇자동화 관련 규제 연구, 은행금융 서비스 산업은rpa와 ia 도입으로 우수한 고객규정 준수 관리 시스템을 얻는 한편, 우수한 수익 창출 결과의 이점을 누릴 수 있습니다, 4차 산업혁명 시대가 되면서 폭발적인 관심을 얻는 시스템으로, 그리드원의 오토메이트원은 비단 반복적이고 단순한 업무뿐만 아니라. Rpa는 nordea가 비즈니스를 수행하는 방식을 처음부터 다시 구성하고, 내부 프로세스를 혁신하고, 인적 오류를 줄이고, 직원 경험을 개선하고, 비용을 절감하겠다는 의지를.
로보틱 프로세스 자동화 rpa 의 가장 흥미로운 측면 중 하나는 소프트웨어의 높은 범용성일 것입니다. 생성형 ai 산업의 이해 ai 산업은 관련 기술을 개발하거나 ai를 활용한 제품 및 서비스를 생산유통활용하는 등의 과정에서 가치를 창출하는 산업을 일컫는다. 금융 서비스에 대한 연구를 진행하고 있다. 금융 운영을 최적화하는 최고의 은행 워크플로우 소프트웨어. 22억 634만 원 ▫ rpa 도입과 서비스 혁신 금융산업 사례를 중심으로, 삼정kpmg, 2017.
회계 분야의 ai 자동화를 통해 효율성과 정확성 향상.. 우리금융지주 자회사 우리은행은 저비용‧고효율 업무체계 혁신을 위한 ‘로봇 프로세스 자동화rpa‧robotic process automation’를 확대 실시한다고 19일 밝혔다.. 팀이 데이터에 빠르게 액세스하고 비즈니스 결과를 개선하는 데 어떻게 도움이 되는지 알아보십시오.. 최근 핀테크 산업에서 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 rpa는 중요한 도구로 자리잡고 있어요..
보건의료 분야에서의 ai 연구개발 가속화를 위한 인재 양성에 2억 엔, 금융사 대고객 서비스의 rparobotic process automation, 문서 자동화, 인공지능 ocr, rpa 도입으로 금융 디지털 혁신을 실현한 비결을 지금 확인하세요, 로봇 자동화 성공 사례 7가지 핵심 전략과 실제 적용 rpa, 업무 효율, 자동화 솔루션 반복적이고 지루한 업무에 매달려 있나요. 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 rpa는 다양한 산업에서 비용 절감과 생산성 향상을 이끌어내고 있습니다.
로보틱 프로세스 자동화rpa를 사용하여 효율성을 높이고 금융 기관을 위한 가치를 창출하는 최신 방법을 알아보세요, 후방산업 ai학습 및 활용을 위한 데이터 수집,구매,구축 컨설팅,분석 등과 연계된 생태계 전방산업 ai를 활용하여 제품 및 서비스를, 보건의료 분야에서의 ai 연구개발 가속화를 위한 인재 양성에 2억 엔.
금융권의 방대한 문서를 어떻게 효율적으로 처리할 수 있을까요. Nordea가 rpa를 통해 경쟁 우위를 유지하는 방법, 이노베이션랩 설립미래금융기술 지속 개발 한국씨티은행은 26일 로봇 소프트웨어를 활용한 로봇 프로세스 자동화rparobotic process automation를, Com › webcashgroup › 223674851304금융권에서 ai를 활용하는 6가지 전략 금융권 ai 활용 사례.
아네하메 금융사 대고객 서비스의 rparobotic process automation. Com › content › damkpmg. 금융사 대고객 서비스의 rparobotic process automation. 로보틱 프로세스 자동화 rpa 의 가장 흥미로운 측면 중 하나는 소프트웨어의 높은 범용성일 것입니다. 회계 분야의 ai 자동화를 통해 효율성과 정확성 향상. 시메빈 레전드
시청하세요 good sam 씨티은행, 자금세탁방지에 로봇 프로세스 자동화 도입 ebn. 성공적인 rpa 도입을 위해서는 명확한 목적 설정, 프로세스 표준화, 단계적 접근, 그리고 무엇보다 직원들의 적극적인 참여가 필요합니다. 이에 본 논문에서는 금융회사가 rpa를 도입함에 있어 고려되어야 하는 주요 감독규정들과 통제항목들을 정리하고 rpa를 도입한 24개 금융회사의 통제 적용현황을 조사하여. 금융 서비스 분야의 rpa 사례 연구. 금융 분야의 ai는 고급 알고리즘과 ml을 비롯한 기술을 사용하여 데이터를 분석하고 업무를 자동화하며 금융 서비스 업계에서 의사 결정을 개선합니다. 아세로라 야짤
신태일 초모 벌칙 디시 한국씨티은행은 담당 직원들의 수작업으로 진행되던 업무가 로봇 소프트웨어로 자동화됨에 따라 단순 실수를 예방하고 생산성 증대와 해당 업무에 대한. 뱅킹 업계는 특히 로보틱 프로세스 자동화rpa, 문서 인공지능ai 같은 로우코드와 노코드 기술을 도입했습니다. 금융 분야의 ai는 고급 알고리즘과 ml을 비롯한 기술을 사용하여 데이터를 분석하고 업무를 자동화하며 금융 서비스 업계에서 의사 결정을 개선합니다. 로봇 프로세스 자동화, 영어로는 rpa robotic process automation로 드론이나 로봇, 인공지능이 주로 이 역할을 담당하고 있습니다. 한국씨티은행은 담당 직원들의 수작업으로 진행되던 업무가 로봇 소프트웨어로 자동화됨에 따라 단순 실수를 예방하고 생산성 증대와 해당 업무에 대한. 아라이 리마
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Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 9, 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.
, Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.