The world is going to pot and the human rights movement is largely to blame. That bizarre critique, popular with dictators and criminals, has taken hold even among some rights supporters who are stunned the assault on liberal values that defines our age. rise of populism is a dangerous threat to democracy and human rights. Of asylum-seekers, immigrant communities, and Muslims in Europe. Building on public anxieties around migration, far-right populist parties a forum that gathered black European politicians, civil society groups She is vice-chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights in the European Parliament. The reasons? The chaos caused Brexit may be one, Farida Deif, Canadian director for Human Rights Watch, discusses the rise of populism and demagogy in the West, and the repercussions it has on human rights around the world. Divide and Obstruct: Populist Parties and EU Foreign Policy trade, and human rights both have been undermined defections, contradictory The past decade gave rise to serious criticism of the ECtHR. This article analyzes the position of the ECtHR with regard to a more recent Populism and human rights in sharp focus at CEC conference. Issues related to populism and human rights were explored in depth at a conference in Spain forming a common understanding. Confronting hostile governments is nothing new for international human rights courts, treaty bodies, and other monitoring mechanisms. Yet there is a growing sense that the recent turn to populism poses a new type of threat that international human rights What will the rise of the illiberal Right in the European institutions mean for An increased share of populist seats in the European Parliament would they are clearly committed to the rule of law and universal human rights. Nils Mui