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There is a growing global trend to confront the abuses of headline-grabbing autocrats, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today in launching its World Report 2019. Within the European Union, at the United Nations, and around the world, coalitions of states, often backed by civic groups and popular protests, are pushing back against anti-rights populists.