Today, resistance in many countries has left the future of these populists less certain. - @KenRoth #Rights2018
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In Central Europe, large public protests & the threat of EU legal action challenged Poland’s efforts to undermine judicial independence & rule of law. -
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They also impeded Hungary’s plans to close CEU, a bastion of independent thought that opposed the “illiberal democracy” championed by PM Orbán. -
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In Venezuela, protesters also took to the streets in large numbers as President Nicolás Maduro’s incompetent autocracy destroyed the economy of this potentially oil-rich nation. -
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Many Latin American governments joined in, shedding their traditional reluctance to criticize a neighbor’s repression. -
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In Africa, several abusive leaders, some with blood on their hands and fearing prosecution, invoked African nationalism to plot a mass exodus of their countries from the International Criminal Court (ICC). -
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But that became a mass fizzle when an outpouring of popular support for the ICC by civic groups across Africa helped persuade most African governments to continue standing behind the court. -
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Sometimes, if more powerful states were obstructive or unhelpful, smaller states led the global defense of rights.-
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Some small countries are playing a big role in human rights. -
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The UN Human Rights Council opened an investigation of abuses by all sides in Yemen thanks to leadership of the Netherlands. -
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The UN General Assembly circumvented Russia’s Security Council veto and named a prosecutor for war crimes in Syria because of leadership from Liechtenstein.-
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Iceland led an effort at the Human Rights Council to challenge Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign of summary executions for drug suspects. -
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None of this resistance is guaranteed success. Autocrats in office have the advantage of being able to harness state power. But the resistance shows that a real struggle is underway. -
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By contrast, where domestic resistance is suppressed and international concern lacking, populists and other anti-rights forces prosper. -
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