So I think that you can never say that things will go on an even keel. Countries go up and down. Dictators go in and out. Authoritarian people go in and out. The one thing that is constant is the fact that there are more and more people today working in human rights than ever before.
And that is the hope for humanity. It is the fact that states can’t kill this idea of hope and this idea that human rights are universal. Because everybody wants them. Even the autocrats, they want them for themselves and their families.
There is definitely a rise in populism happening. But the thing that stops even more abuses is the work of human rights defenders and civil society. It’s the only thing that can hold governments and autocrats and dictators to account. That’s why the work of human rights defenders is so important.
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