"The world is in a democratic recession with almost three-quarters of the global population now living under autocratic rulers levels not seen since the 1980s, according to a new report. The system underpinning human rights was in peril, said Philippe Bolopion, executive director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), with a growing authoritarian wave becoming the challenge of a generation, he said."
"In just 12 months, the Trump administration has carried out a broad assault on key pillars of American democracy and the global rules-based international order, which the US, despite inconsistencies, helped to establish. It was now working in the opposite direction, he said. Citing Donald Trump's calls on Republicans this week to nationalise the US voting system and revelations that a member of an Emirati royal family was behind a $500m investment into the Trump family's cryptocurrency company,"
Almost three-quarters of the global population now live under autocratic rulers, a level not seen since the 1980s, signalling a democratic recession. The system protecting human rights faces peril as a growing authoritarian wave poses a generational challenge. The year 2025 marked a tipping point for rights and freedoms in the United States, with rapid, concentrated attacks on democratic pillars and the global rules-based order. Specific actions include efforts to undermine electoral trust, reduce government accountability, attack judicial independence, defy court orders, and use state power to intimidate political opponents, media, universities and civil society.
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