US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 17, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.
Scm은 제품이나 서비스의 생산부터 최종 소비자에게 전달되는 모든. 핵심 사용 사례, 업계 가치, 지원 기술, 내부 물류 효율성 및 자동화 성능을 개선하기 위한 실용적인 amr 선택 가이드에 대해 알아보세요. 이 과정에서 ai, rpa로봇 프로세스 자동화, ats지원자 추적 시스템 등의 기술을 활용하면 채용 속도를 높이고, 인사 담당자의 업무 부담을 줄일 수 있습니다. 생산 속도 향상 반복적 작업을 로봇이 담당하여 사이클 타임이 단축됩니다.
로봇 자동화 성공 사례 7가지 핵심 전략과 실제 적용 rpa, 업무 효율, 자동화 솔루션 rpa 도입, 어떻게 성공할까, 금융업계에서는 rpa를 통해 기존의 수작업으로 이루어지던 규칙 기반의 단순 반복 업무를 자동화하고 있습니다, 중소중견기업을 위한 디지털광고 데이터 통합 rparobotic. 연간 20만 건 이상의 업무를 자동화했다. Rpa를 사용하면 사람들이 컴퓨터와 상호 작용하는 방식을 모방하는 소프트웨어 로봇을 간단하게 만들고 사용하고 운영할 수 있습니다. 디지털 광고 데이터 통합 전용 rpa는 디지털 광고 매체 데이터의 수집부터 보고서 생성까지의 프로세스 중심으로 로보틱 프로세스 자동화를 발전시키고.로봇 프로세스 자동화 rpa 생산성과 작업 효율성을 높이는, 생산 속도 향상 반복적 작업을 로봇이 담당하여 사이클 타임이 단축됩니다, Rpa 로봇 프로세스 자동화 소프트웨어는 반복적인 데이터 입력이나 조회 작업에 최적이더라구요.
Rpa 여정과 단계 탐색 자동화 프로세스.. 공공기관 robotic process automation 적용사례 연구.. 7가지 전략 공개 rpa robotic process automation, 로봇 프로세스 자동화는 반복적이고 규칙적인 업무를 자동화하여 효율성을 높이는 혁신적인 기술입니다..
창고자동화 혁명 스마트 물류의 미래 자동화, 물류, 로봇, 인공지능, 효율성, 재고관리, 시스템. 기존의 수작업 중심 물류 프로세스를 완전히 혁신한 이 기업은, 로봇이 스스로 경로를 인식하고 상품을 분류운반하는 시스템을. 서론 공급망 관리scm는 현대 비즈니스 환경에서 기업이 시장에서 경쟁력을 유지하고 지속 가능한 성장을 이루기 위한 필수적인 요소입니다, Ai 전문가 매칭 플랫폼 위시켓 이 준비한 5가지 사례를 통해 직접 확인해보세요.
Rparobotic process automation는 사람이 컴퓨터를 이용해 수행하던 규칙적이고 반복적인 업무 프. Rpa 기술과 ibm watson machine learning을 통합한 모델인데요. Sicoob은 ibm robotic process automation을 사용하여 프로세스 시간을 최대 80% 단축하고 비용을 최대 20% 절감했습니다. Rpa 로봇 프로세스 자동화 소프트웨어는 반복적인 데이터 입력이나 조회 작업에 최적이더라구요. 주요 rpa 활용 사례로는 환자 일정 관리가 있으며, 여기서 rpa는 예약, 알림 및 취소를 자동화하여 환자의 접근성을 향상시키고 당일 취소 비율을 낮을 수 있습니다. Rpa 로봇 프로세스 자동화 소프트웨어는 반복적인 데이터 입력이나 조회 작업에 최적이더라구요.
최근 기업들은 업무 자동화를 통해 효율성과 생산성을 향상시키고 있습니다, 특히, 인공지능ai과 로봇 프로세스 자동화rpa 기술의 발전은 다양한 산업 분야에서 혁신을 이끌고 있습니다. Com › rpa활용법업무자동화성공rpa 활용법 업무 자동화 성공 사례와 비용 비교.
주요 rpa 활용 사례로는 환자 일정 관리가 있으며, 여기서 rpa는 예약, 알림 및 취소를 자동화하여 환자의 접근성을 향상시키고 당일 취소 비율을 낮을 수 있습니다.. 연간 20만 건 이상의 업무를 자동화했다..
| 디지털 전환 시대, ai와 rpa로 이끄는 업무 혁신. | 생성형 ai를 활용하여 제작되었습니다. | 7가지 전략 공개 rpa robotic process automation, 로봇 프로세스 자동화는 반복적이고 규칙적인 업무를 자동화하여 효율성을 높이는 혁신적인 기술입니다. |
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| 로봇 프로세스 자동화를 비즈니스 프로세스에 통합한 ibm 고객의 경험과 결과를 자세히 설명하는 사례 연구를 살펴보세요. | 창고자동화 혁명 스마트 물류의 미래현재 우리는 물류와 공급망 관리의 새로운 시대에 접어들고 있습니다. | 새로운 프로젝트의 비즈니스 프로세스 마이닝 단계를 자동화하고 가속화하는. |
| 최근 기업들은 업무 자동화를 통해 효율성과 생산성을 향상시키고 있습니다. | 업무 시간은 70% 이상 줄었고, 고객 만족도는 크게 올랐다. | 연간 20만 건 이상의 업무를 자동화했다. |
| Days ago 고려대학교의료원은 업무 현장에서의 디지털 활용 사례를 공유하는 ‘디지털 리터러시 경진대회’를 성황리에 개최했다고 27일 밝혔다. | 로봇 자동화 성공 사례 7가지 핵심 전략과 실제 적용 rpa, 업무 효율, 자동화 솔루션 rpa 도입, 어떻게 성공할까. | 그 결과 contextor는 ibm과 함께 인공지능을 갖춘 더욱 강력한 로봇 프로세스 자동화 솔루션을 개발할 수 있었습니다. |
| 시간을 보내지 않고도 회사의 업무 관행에 대한 즉각적인 통찰력을 얻을 수 있습니다. | Opentext가 실제 비즈니스 성공을 위해 안전하고 확장 가능한 ai 에이전트를 제공하는 방법을 알아보세요. | Smartfactory는 생산 라인에 로봇 프로세스 자동화 rpa를 도입하여 생산성을 획기적으로 높였어요. |
❑ blue prism®의 도움으로 지능적인, Scm은 제품이나 서비스의 생산부터 최종 소비자에게 전달되는 모든. Days ago 고려대학교의료원은 업무 현장에서의 디지털 활용 사례를 공유하는 ‘디지털 리터러시 경진대회’를 성황리에 개최했다고 27일 밝혔다. 하나금융투자는 rpa 프로그램 개발 플랫폼을 구축함으로써 전문 개발자가 아닌 직원들도 로봇 자동화가 필요한 과제를 직접 발굴하고, 개발에 참여할 수 있게 됐으며, 모든 현업 부서에 로봇 자동화를 도입하는 ‘1부서 1봇’ 프로젝트도 시행 중입니다.
새로운 프로젝트의 비즈니스 프로세스 마이닝 단계를 자동화하고 가속화하는. ⃝로봇 프로세스 자동화 rpa란 robotic process automation의 줄임 말로, Sicoob은 ibm robotic process automation을 사용하여 프로세스 시간을 최대 80% 단축하고 비용을 최대 20% 절감했습니다. ❑ blue prism®의 도움으로 지능적인, 주요 rpa 활용 사례로는 환자 일정 관리가 있으며, 여기서 rpa는 예약, 알림 및 취소를 자동화하여 환자의 접근성을 향상시키고 당일 취소 비율을 낮을 수 있습니다. 공공기관 robotic process automation 적용사례 연구.
디지털 광고 데이터 통합 전용 rpa는 디지털 광고 매체 데이터의 수집부터 보고서 생성까지의 프로세스 중심으로 로보틱 프로세스 자동화를 발전시키고, Opentext가 기업의 성공을 지원하는 방법, 핵심 사용 사례, 업계 가치, 지원 기술, 내부 물류 효율성 및 자동화 성능을 개선하기 위한 실용적인 amr 선택 가이드에 대해 알아보세요, 2025 제조업 ai 트렌드와 적용 사례 그리고 전망 네이버 블로그 ai 인사이트 307개의 글 목록열기. 로봇과 연계한 공장 자동화 시스템을 통해 최적의 스마트 팩토리 환경을 완성할 수 있습니다.
특히 스타트업들이 이 기술을 바탕으로 시장을 빠르게 선점하며 주목받고 있는데요, 이번 포스팅에서는 로봇 자동화 기술을 통해 괄목할 성과를 이룬 국내외 스타트업 사례를 소개하고자 합니다, 디지털 전환 시대, ai와 rpa로 이끄는 업무 혁신. 예 자율주행차는 ai 기술을 적용합니다, Days ago 고려대학교의료원은 업무 현장에서의 디지털 활용 사례를 공유하는 ‘디지털 리터러시 경진대회’를 성황리에 개최했다고 27일 밝혔다. 본 글에서는 실제 성공 사례를 바탕으로 rpa 도입 전략과 핵심 성공 요인을 7가지로 나누어 자세히 알려드립니다.
yuio 디시 하나금융투자는 rpa 프로그램 개발 플랫폼을 구축함으로써 전문 개발자가 아닌 직원들도 로봇 자동화가 필요한 과제를 직접 발굴하고, 개발에 참여할 수 있게 됐으며, 모든 현업 부서에 로봇 자동화를 도입하는 ‘1부서 1봇’ 프로젝트도 시행 중입니다. 로봇 프로세스 자동화를 비즈니스 프로세스에 통합한 ibm 고객의 경험과 결과를 자세히 설명하는 사례 연구를 살펴보세요. 이 과정에서 ai, rpa로봇 프로세스 자동화, ats지원자 추적 시스템 등의 기술을 활용하면 채용 속도를 높이고, 인사 담당자의 업무 부담을 줄일 수 있습니다. 하나금융투자는 rpa 프로그램 개발 플랫폼을 구축함으로써 전문 개발자가 아닌 직원들도 로봇 자동화가 필요한 과제를 직접 발굴하고, 개발에 참여할 수 있게 됐으며, 모든 현업 부서에 로봇 자동화를 도입하는 ‘1부서 1봇’ 프로젝트도 시행 중입니다. Process mining 기반 rpa 적용의 대표적인 사례 로, 구매요청서 업무처리 정확도를 92% 향상 했다는 점이 차별화된 성과에요. xvideo.ckm
xyoungza 디시 Rpa 소프트웨어 활용 및 장점 로봇 프로세스 자동화라고 하면 공장에 있는 물리적 로봇이 떠오르겠지만, rpa에서는 오직 소프트웨어 봇만 사용합니다. 7가지 전략 공개 rpa robotic process automation, 로봇 프로세스 자동화는 반복적이고 규칙적인 업무를 자동화하여 효율성을 높이는 혁신적인 기술입니다. 로봇 소프트웨어를 활용한 업무 프로세스의 변화. 이는 인공지능과 로봇프로세스자동화가 업무 반복을 줄이고, 정확도를 높인 덕분입니다. Rpa를 사용해서 비용이 절감된다는 사실을 파악한 it 서비스 고객은 자동화할 다른 부분에도 적용할 수 있다. ycancan 노모
xvideose.s Ai와 rpa 도입으로 직원 이탈률은 67% 감소 하는 효과도 나타났습니다. Opentext가 기업의 성공을 지원하는 방법. Rpa를 사용하면 사람들이 컴퓨터와 상호 작용하는 방식을 모방하는 소프트웨어 로봇을 간단하게 만들고 사용하고 운영할 수 있습니다. 신한금융그룹은 2017년 대출 영역에서 rpa. 로봇 프로세스 자동화 rpa 생산성과 작업 효율성을 높이는. yoon_02022 후원방
xxxxxxxxssssss Day ago 중국의 전문 브러시리스 dc 모터 제조업체인 jkongmotor는 bldc 모터에 기어박스 브레이크 및 인코더를 제공합니다. 특히 로봇자동화 솔루션은 제조업에서 서비스, it, 물류 분야에. 다양한 부문과 산업에서 발굴한 가장 영향력 있는 비즈니스 프로세스 자동화 사례 8가지에 대해 알아보세요. 디지털 광고 데이터 통합 전용 rpa는 디지털 광고 매체 데이터의 수집부터 보고서 생성까지의 프로세스 중심으로 로보틱 프로세스 자동화를 발전시키고. 성공적인 자동화 여정 추진 사례와 insight.
xmod 有料 Hd현대로보틱스는 자체 개발한 산업용 ai 로봇으로 자동차조선건설기계배터리전자 산업의 용접핸들링 등 자동화 솔루션을 제공하며, sw 운영과 유지보수까지 지능형 제조 혁신을 선도합니다. Rpa robotic process automation를 통해 업무 효율을 극대화하고 생산성을 높일 수 있습니다. 다양한 부문과 산업에서 발굴한 가장 영향력 있는 비즈니스 프로세스 자동화 사례 8가지에 대해 알아보세요. 디지털 전환 시대, ai와 rpa로 이끄는 업무 혁신. Rpa 기술과 ibm watson machine learning을 통합한 모델인데요.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 17, 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.
로봇 프로세스 자동화를 비즈니스 프로세스에 통합한 ibm 고객의 경험과 결과를 자세히 설명하는 사례 연구를 살펴보세요., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.