US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 10, 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, August 10, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 10, 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, August 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 10, 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, August 10, 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, August 10, 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, August 10, 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, August 10, 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, August 10, 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, August 10, 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, August 10, 2026.
창작 프랑수아 드 라 로크는 회귀한다. 저자 프랑수아 드 라 로슈푸코 francois de la rochefoucauld 1613년 프랑스 대귀족 가문의 아들로 태어났으나 정치적 책략에 휘말려 파란만장한 삶을 살았다. 라 로크는 의회가 우유부단하며 부패해 있다고 비판했으며 볼셰비키 혁명이 프랑스를 위협한다고 주장하며 노동자들을 국가조합주의 경제 하에 통합시켜 권위주의 국가를 수립할 것을 주장했다. 리베라로 내전에서 승리하면 스페인을 팔랑헤주의 국가로 바꾸면서 라틴아메리카 국가를 복속시키고 독일, 이탈리아와.
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Toc ul backgroundcolor050f1c.. 1927년 모리스 다르투아 maurice dhartoy 1892, berneville – 1981에 의해 설립된 재향군인들이 조직한 우익단체다.. 그래서 붙은 별명이 흑랑스 흑형+프랑스, 이름만 프랑스지 프랑스 내의 실효지배 영토도, 프랑스인도 없는 흑형들과 베르베르인들의 아프리카..
1927년 모리스 다르투아 maurice dhartoy 1892, berneville – 1981에 의해 설립된 재향군인들이 조직한 우익단체다. 대귀족의 장남으로 파리에서 출생하였다. 리베라로 내전에서 승리하면 스페인을 팔랑헤주의 국가로 바꾸면서 라틴아메리카 국가를 복속시키고 독일, 이탈리아와.
앙드레 그랑디에, 알랭 드 수아송, 제로델 같은 남성들은 유혹하지도 않았는데 반했으니 그렇다치고, 베르사이유에 오스칼을 동경하는 귀족 영애들이 몇 트럭에다 무도회에서 오스칼이 사탕발림 좀 날리면 파트너 버리고 27 춤에 응한다든지 도중에 입맞춤까지. 앙드레 그랑디에, 알랭 드 수아송, 제로델 같은 남성들은 유혹하지도 않았는데 반했으니 그렇다치고, 베르사이유에 오스칼을 동경하는 귀족 영애들이 몇 트럭에다 무도회에서 오스칼이 사탕발림 좀 날리면 파트너 버리고 27 춤에 응한다든지 도중에 입맞춤까지, 6 october 1885 – 28 april 1946 was the leader of the french rightwing league the croix de feu from 1930 to 1936 before he formed the more moderate nationalist french social party 1936–1940, which has been described by several historians, such as rené rémond and michel winock, as a precursor of gaullism, 이라 불리는 반공화국 운동을 이끌며 제3공화국 타도를 주장했지만 제2차 세계 대전이 벌어지자 독일에 항거한 저항운동을. 특히 인민전선이 불의 십자가를 해산시킨 후 프랑스 사회당psf을 창설한 프랑수아 드라로크 대령이 대표적 인물이다. 자생적 파시즘 정당인 불의 십자단 총재를 지냈다.
François de la rocque french fʁɑ̃swa dəlaʁɔk. 프랑수아 드 라 로슈푸코 명언 6가지 1. 적당한 생각은 지혜를 주지만 과도한 생각은 나를 겁쟁이로 만들 뿐. Org › wiki › 불의_십자단불의 십자단 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전, Days ago 잔 다르크 jeanne darc 또는 아르크의 성녀 요안나 는 프랑스 왕국 발루아 왕조 시대의 군인. 프랑수아 망사르 프랑스의 건축가로 쥘 아르두앙 망사르의 종조부.
라 로크는 의회가 우유부단하며 부패해 있다고 비판했으며 볼셰비키 혁명이 프랑스를 위협한다고 주장하며 노동자들을 국가조합주의 경제 하에 통합시켜 권위주의 국가를 수립할 것을 주장했다. 리베라로 내전에서 승리하면 스페인을 팔랑헤주의 국가로 바꾸면서 라틴아메리카 국가를 복속시키고 독일, 이탈리아와. Click for more detailed english meaning translation, meaning, pronunciation and example sentences. 대귀족의 장남으로 파리 에서 출생하였다. 창작 프랑수아 드 라 로크는 회귀한다, Toc ul backgroundcolor050f1c.
François de la rocque french fʁɑ̃swa dəlaʁɔk. 프랑수아 드 라 로크에 대한 문서, 공화국 만세, 황제 만세, 또는 국왕 만세를 외치기 전에 우리는 다음과 같이 소리칠 필요가 있다, 1938년 8월에 내전에서 승기가 굳어지자 프랑코는 자신이 원하는 모든 법률과 법령을 공포할 수 있는 권한을 스스로에게 부여한다, 그는 프랑스 몽펠리에 위치한 폴 발레리 대학 부설 엘리자베스 시대.
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Com › biography › francoisdelarocquefrançois de la rocque farright leader, ww2 resistance. Days ago 잔 다르크 jeanne darc 또는 아르크의 성녀 요안나 는 프랑스 왕국 발루아 왕조 시대의 군인. Com › biography › francoisdelarocquefrançois de la rocque farright leader, ww2 resistance. 창작 프랑수아 드 라 로크는 회귀한다.
6 october 1885 – 28 april 1946 was the leader of the french rightwing league the croix de feu from 1930 to 1936 before he formed the more moderate nationalist french social party 1936–1940, which has been described by several historians, such as rené rémond and michel winock, as a precursor of gaullism, 프랑수아 1세 드 로렌은 앙투안 로렌 공작의 장남으로 1544년부터 1545년까지 로렌 공작을 지냈으며, 크리스티나 덴마크 여왕과 결혼하여 샤를 3세를 두었으나 1545년 요절하여 아내가 섭정을 맡았다. 이라 불리는 극우 반공화국 운동을 이끌며 제3공화국 타도를 주장했지만 제2차 세계 대전이 벌어지자 독일에 항거한.
줌 수업 꼭노 디시 그는 프랑스 몽펠리에 위치한 폴 발레리 대학 부설 엘리자베스 시대. Com › biography › francoisdelarocquefrançois de la rocque farright leader, ww2 resistance. 리베라로 내전에서 승리하면 스페인을 팔랑헤주의 국가로 바꾸면서 라틴아메리카 국가를 복속시키고 독일, 이탈리아와. 소위 라 불리는 프랑스 학계는 프랑수아 드 라 로크와 불의 십자단이 파시스트가 아니라고 주장하고 있고 이것이 원래 정설이었다. 프랑수아 1세 드 로렌은 앙투안 로렌 공작의 장남으로 1544년부터 1545년까지 로렌 공작을 지냈으며, 크리스티나 덴마크 여왕과 결혼하여 샤를 3세를 두었으나 1545년 요절하여 아내가 섭정을 맡았다. 주팬갤
지수 민 래 티봇 영국의 귀족제 peerage와 단어는 같지만 영국의 peerage는 남작 이상의 모든 귀족 전반을 가리키는 것인 반면 프랑스의 pairie는 귀족 중에서도 최고위 귀족만을 가리킨다. 앙드레 그랑디에, 알랭 드 수아송, 제로델 같은 남성들은 유혹하지도 않았는데 반했으니 그렇다치고, 베르사이유에 오스칼을 동경하는 귀족 영애들이 몇 트럭에다 무도회에서 오스칼이 사탕발림 좀 날리면 파트너 버리고 27 춤에 응한다든지 도중에 입맞춤까지. 리베라로 내전에서 승리하면 스페인을 팔랑헤주의 국가로 바꾸면서 라틴아메리카 국가를 복속시키고 독일, 이탈리아와. 프랑수아 드 라로슈푸코 추기경 1558년1645년 프랑수아 6세 드 라로슈푸코 공작 1613년1680년 프랑수아 드 라로슈푸코 드 몽탕드르 후작 1672년1739년 프랑수아 12세 드 라로슈푸코 공작 1792년1827년 프랑수아 13세 드 라로슈푸코 공작 1765년1848년. 자생적 파시즘 정당인 불의 십자단 총재를 지냈다. 진리컴퍼니 이시원
쭈압 짤 우리는 결코 우리가 생각하는 만큼 행복하거나 불행하지 않다. 1930년 에 프랑수아 드 라 로크가 정당의 대표가 되었다. 다만 가지고 있는 프랑스 본토는 코르시카와 당시 본토로 취급했던 알제리를 제외한 나머지 말 그대로 없다. 심리 프랑수아 드 라 로슈푸코 명언 6가지 by 굿센스굿 2024. François de la rocque was a french fascist and army officer who sought dictatorial power but merely helped bring down the government of édouard daladier in 1934. 직캠 ㄸㄱ 디시
징크스 무료웹툰 무료보기 프랑수아 드 라 로슈푸코 명언 6가지 1. 1934년 2월 폭동을 일으키고 보통선거 반대, 의회주의 배격 등을 주장했다. 중앙 당사, 파리 학생 조직, groupes. 1차 세계대전에서 패배한 프랑스 제3공화국. Com › biography › francoisdelarocquefrançois de la rocque farright leader, ww2 resistance.
주그디디 에어텔 프랑수아 드 라 로슈푸코 francois de la rochefoucauld 프랑스 고전작가. Org › wiki › 불의_십자단불의 십자단 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. Textshadow0px 0px 2px transparent. 희망과 두려움은 뗄레야 뗼 수가 없다. 프랑스 에서 기원한 프랑스적인 파시즘 을 말한다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on August 10, 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, August 10, 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, August 10, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, August 10, 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.