강호순 두 아들도 아는 모양이네 애미는 실어증 걸렷단다 ㅇㅇ14.

단순한 연쇄살인이 아니라, 평범한 얼굴 뒤에 감춰진 악의 본질이 드러났기 때문이에요.

Will Human Rights Survive a Trumpian World?

Authoritarian Advances Threaten Rules-Based Order

The global human rights system is in peril. Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms. To defy this trend, governments that still value human rights, alongside social movements, civil society, and international institutions, need to form a strategic alliance to push back.

To be fair, the downward spiral predated Trump’s reelection. The democratic wave that began over 50 years ago has given way to what scholars term a “democratic recession.” Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States.

Of course, democracy is not a panacea for human rights violations; the US and other longtime democracies have their own histories of colonial crimes, racism, abusive justice systems, and wartime atrocities. More recently, authoritarian leaders have exploited public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantled the very institutions that brought them to power. Democratic institutions are crucial to represent the will of the people and keep power in check. It’s no surprise that whenever democracy is undermined, rights are too, as evident in recent years in India, Türkiye, the Philippines, El Salvador, and Hungary.

The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 3, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 3, 2026.

FIRST: The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Ozan Köse/AFP via Getty Images

In this context, 2025 may be seen as a tipping point. In just 12 months, the Trump administration has carried out a broad assault on key pillars of US democracy and the global rules-based order, which the US, despite inconsistencies, was, with other states, instrumental in helping to establish.

In short order, Trump’s second-term administration has undermined trust in the sanctity of elections, reduced government accountability, gutted food assistance and healthcare subsidies, attacked judicial independence, defied court orders, rolled back women’s rights, obstructed access to abortion care, undermined remedies for racial harm, terminated programs mandating accessibility for people with disabilities, punished free speech, stripped protections from trans and intersex people, eroded privacy, and used government power to intimidate political opponents, the media, law firms, universities, civil society, and even comedians.

A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 3, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

Claiming a risk of “civilizational erasure” in Europe and leaning on racist tropes to cast entire populations as unwelcome in the US, the Trump administration has embraced policies and rhetoric that align with white nationalist ideology. Immigrants and asylum seekers have been subjected to inhumane conditions and degrading treatment; 32 died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2025, and as of mid-January 2026, an additional 4 have died. Masked immigration enforcement agents have targeted people of color, using excessive force, terrorizing communities, wrongfully arresting scores of citizens, and, most recently, unjustifiably killing two people in Minneapolis, whose deaths Human Rights Watch has documented.

A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, June 3, 2026.
A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo

The US president of course has the authority to tighten US borders and enforce stricter immigration policies. The administration is not, however, entitled to deny legal process to asylum seekers, mistreat undocumented migrants, or unlawfully discriminate. In a well-functioning democracy, no electoral mandate should supersede domestic legislation, constitutional protections, or international human rights law. Trump’s team has repeatedly bypassed these guardrails.

The violations have not stopped at the border. The Trump administration used a 1798 law to send hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador, where they were tortured and sexually abused. Its blatantly unlawful strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific extrajudicially killed more than 120 people whom Trump claims were drug traffickers.

After the US attacked Venezuela and apprehended its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Trump claimed the US would “run” the country and control its vast oil reserves. Despite paying lip service to human rights concerns under Maduro at the United Nations, Trump has worked with the same repressive apparatus to further US interests. Many Western allies have chosen to stay silent about these lawless moves, perhaps fearing erratic tariffs and blowback to their alliances.

Trump’s foreign policy has upended the foundations of the rules-based order that seeks to advance democracy and human rights, even if imperfectly.

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, June 3, 2026.
US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Samuel Corum/Sipa USA via AP Photo

Trump has boasted that he doesn’t “need international law” as a constraint, only his “own morality.” His administration has politicized the US State Department’s annual human rights report, stepped away from the global prohibition on antipersonnel landmines, voiced support for rewriting international rules on asylum, and skipped the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of the US’ human rights record.

His administration withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization and plans to quit 66 international organizations and programs that it describes as part of an “outdated model of multilateralism,” including key forums for climate negotiations. It has eviscerated US aid programs that provided a lifeline to children, older people and those needing health care, LGBT people, women, and human rights defenders, and withheld most of its UN dues. 

Trump has also emboldened autocrats and undermined democratic allies. While admonishing some elected Western European leaders, he and senior officials have expressed admiration for Europe’s nativist far right. He has favored autocrats such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, while continuing decades of US support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

His administration has unjustifiably imposed sanctions to punish respected Palestinian human rights organizations, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor and many of its judges, a UN special rapporteur, and for several months, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and his wife.

The institutional response in the US to Trump’s power grabs has been shockingly muted. Much of Congress, controlled by his own party, has not challenged his supercharged expansion of executive power. The leaders of the US’ most powerful technology companies have made significant donations and sought to placate the president. Some big law firms and prestigious universities have made deals rather than assert their independence, and some media organizations seem afraid to attract the president’s ire.

Has the US switched sides on the human rights playing field? While US engagement with human rights institutions has always been selective, China and Russia have long pursued an illiberal agenda. They stand much to gain from a US government that now expresses open hostility to universal rights. China and Russia remain strategic rivals of the US, but all three countries are now led by leaders who share open disdain for norms and institutions that could constrain their power.

Together, they wield considerable economic, military, and diplomatic power. If they were to consistently act as allies of convenience to erode global rules, they could threaten the entire system. Already, a loose international network of countries such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar, Cuba, and Belarus work in concert with Russia and China. These leaders share very little ideologically but align in undermining human rights and promoting a regressive international agenda. In word and in practice, the US government is now helping them in this endeavor.

Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2026. 
A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, June 3, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Kyodo News via Getty Images; SECOND: A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, June 3, 2026. © 2022 Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images

The US’ weakening of multilateral institutions also dealt a serious blow to global efforts to prevent or stop grave international crimes. The “never again” movement, born from the horrors of the Holocaust and reignited by the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, spurred the UN General Assembly to embrace the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. Meant to guide international intervention to prevent and stop atrocities in tandem with efforts to prosecute and punish serious crimes, R2P made a real difference in places like the Central African Republic and Kenya.

Today, R2P is rarely invoked and the ICC is under siege. In addition to Trump’s far-reaching sanctions, in December 2025 a Moscow court sentenced the ICC prosecutor and eight of its judges to prison terms in absentia. Moreover, despite being ICC fugitives, in 2025, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by Donald Trump in Alaska, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Hungary, an ICC member state at the time, at Orban’s invitation.

Twenty years ago, the US government and civil society were instrumental in galvanizing a response to mass atrocities in Darfur. Sudan is burning again, but this time under Trump, with relative impunity. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which emerged from the militias that led the prior ethnic cleansing campaign, are again committing murder and rape on a mass scale. A growing body of evidence indicates that the UAE, a longtime US ally that recently made multi-billion-dollar deals with Trump, is providing the RSF with military support.

In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israeli armed forces have committed acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, killing over 70,000 people since the October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel and displacing the vast majority of Gaza’s population. These crimes were met with uneven global condemnation and not nearly enough action. Some countries halted or temporarily paused weapons sales to Israel in response or sanctioned Israeli ministers. Trump, however, continued a long-standing US policy of almost unconditional support to Israel, even as the International Court of Justice is weighing allegations of genocide and has issued binding orders under the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians’ rights.

Trump announced in February an alarming US plan to transform Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” free of Palestinians, which would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing. As implementation of the 20-point Trump peace plan has stalled, the administration has further normalized the dispossession of Palestinians through its failure to publicly protest Israel’s regular killing of those approaching the “yellow line” that now divides Gaza, its ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes, and unlawful restrictions on humanitarian aid.

A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 3, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 3, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

In Ukraine, Trump’s peace efforts have consistently downplayed Russia’s responsibility for serious violations. These include indiscriminate bombing, coercing Ukrainians in occupied areas to serve in the Russian military, systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, and the use of quadcopter drones to hunt and kill civilians. Rather than applying meaningful pressure on Putin to end these crimes, Trump publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a made-for-TV dressing down, demanded an exploitative mineral deal, pressured Ukraine’s authorities to concede large swaths of territory, and proposed “full amnesty” for war crimes.

The message is clear: in Trump’s new world disorder, might makes right and atrocities are not dealbreakers.

Jpg 인류는 태초부터 속도에 대한 본능적인 갈망을 품어왔다. 희대의 사이코패스로 불리는 살인범 엄인숙일명 엄여인 사건의 얼굴이 최초 공개돼 눈길을 끌고 있다. 들판을 달리는 야생마를 보며, 그 위에 올라타 처음 바람을 가른 순간부터 인간은 언제나 자신의 두 다리보다, 말보다, 마차보다 더 빠르게 이동하길 꿈꿨다. 대한민국 역사상 최악의 연쇄 살인 사건이자 개구리 소년 실종살인 사건, 이형호 유괴 살인 사건과 더불어 대한민국의 대표적인 영구 미제사건이었다.

강호순 또한 호감형 외모와 언변으로 피해자들의 경계심을 허물어뜨려 성폭행과 살인을 저질렀다는 것이 전문가들의 설명이다.

심지어 이춘재 애미는 동탄 재개발 때문에 지금 100억대 부자임.. 강호순 얼굴, 사건, 근황, 아들디시, 자백, 흉가위치, 자백영상, 사주, 신정환, 사주디시, 더쿠, 판결, 학력서론한국 사회를 충격에 빠뜨렸던 강호순 연쇄살인 사건이 최근 다시 화제가 되고 있습니다.. 테드 번디는 1970년대 미국을 충격으로 몰아넣은 연쇄살인범으로, 준수한 외모를 갖춘 시애틀대 법대생이었다..

강호순 아들 군대 동기였다고 주장한 디시인이 썰 푼 바로는 딱 봤을때 온몸을 문신으로 덮은 양아치였고 얼굴 자체가 강호순을 많이 닮았다 카더라.

증인들은 재판장과 피고인, 변호인, 검사가 보는 앞에서 증언하는 대신 영상중계라는 이례적인. 39 0340 9 0 9645455 쯔양 결혼 발표함 역갤러59. 14 2018년 11월 22일에는 출소를 2년 앞두고 성범죄 방지 심리치료를 받기 위해서 포항교도소 로 이감을 갔다. Jpg 인류는 태초부터 속도에 대한 본능적인 갈망을 품어왔다. 강호순 아들도 재판에 출석했으니 본인 아빠라는 새끼가 연쇄살인마에 사이코패스라는거, 단순한 연쇄살인이 아니라, 평범한 얼굴 뒤에 감춰진 악의 본질이 드러났기 때문이에요, 사건 터졌을 당시 와이프랑 아들이랑 다같이 죽고 온가족 엔딩인줄 알았는데 살아있는 다른 아들 인터뷰 영상도 뜨고 이젠 큰딸이라는 인물도 나오고.

얘넨 정상일 수가 없긔ㅅㅂ 애초에 유전자 풀부터가 구리고 첫째부인, 넷째부인 이렇게 있는데다 심지어 강호순 넷째부인이랑 안산에서 개농장 운영하면서 개 직접 잡아다가 지인들한테 대접했는데 개 때려잡는 모습보면 자식이 싸패 아닌게 신기할 정도긔윤.

테드 번디는 1970년대 미국을 충격으로 몰아넣은 연쇄살인범으로, 준수한 외모를 갖춘 시애틀대 법대생이었다.. 최악의 살ㅇ마 유영철과 강호순의 아들들 근황.. 유영철 아들은 엄마가 그나마 정상인이라 비구니되서 피해자들 명복 빌어주고있고 아빠의 범죄행각도 모르는 상태라지만, 강호순..
Jpg 인류는 태초부터 속도에 대한 본능적인 갈망을 품어왔다, 14 2018년 11월 22일에는 출소를 2년 앞두고 성범죄 방지 심리치료를 받기 위해서 포항교도소 로 이감을 갔다. 악의 평범성과 선의 편협성the banality of evil & the. 얘넨 정상일 수가 없긔ㅅㅂ 애초에 유전자 풀부터가 구리고 첫째부인, 넷째부인 이렇게 있는데다 심지어 강호순 넷째부인이랑 안. 강호순 아들은 일찐 유영철 아들은 따까리 운영자 240828 공지 역학 갤러리 이용 안내122 운영자 21. 안산연합뉴스 최찬흥 김동규 기자 경기 서남부 부녀자 연쇄살인사건을 수사중인 경기지방경찰청 수사본부는 연쇄살인범 강호순 38의 여죄로 의심돼 공조수사 의뢰된 유사사건 3건 가운데 2건은 강의 알리바이가 확인돼 수사대상에서 배제했다고 2일 밝혔다.

강호순 두 아들도 아는 모양이네 애미는 실어증 걸렷단다.

이렇게 강호순은 방화살인이라는 방법을 통해 보험금을 수령했다. Com › board › view강호순 두 아들도 아는 모양이네 애미는 실어증 걸렷단다. 이렇게 강호순은 방화살인이라는 방법을 통해 보험금을 수령했다, 강호순 두 아들도 아는 모양이네 애미는 실어증 걸렷단다 ㅇㅇ14.

강호순 또한 호감형 외모와 언변으로 피해자들의 경계심을 허물어뜨려 성폭행과 살인을 저질렀다는 것이 전문가들의 설명이다. 유영철 아들은 엄마가 그나마 정상인이라 비구니되서 피해자들 명복 빌어주고있고 아빠의 범죄행각도 모르는 상태라지만, 강호순. Com › board › view강호순 두 아들도 아는 모양이네 애미는 실어증 걸렷단다, 30일 오전 수원지법 안산지원 401호 법정에서 제1형사부이태수 부장판사 심리로 열린 강호순에 대한 7. Krviewakr20090203094100061경기 서남부 연쇄살인사건의 피의자 강호순38이 최근 자신의 얼굴 사진이 언론에 공개된 것에 충격을 받고 아들 걱정을 한 것으로 알려졌다.

얘넨 정상일 수가 없긔ㅅㅂ 애초에 유전자 풀부터가 구리고 첫째부인, 넷째부인 이렇게 있는데다 심지어 강호순 넷째부인이랑 안. 78 4 신월신묘 이쁘다 역갤러223. 102 0339 5 2 9645453 신윌신며 낙태 8번한 빌런이 애두. 들판을 달리는 야생마를 보며, 그 위에 올라타 처음 바람을 가른 순간부터 인간은 언제나 자신의 두 다리보다, 말보다, 마차보다 더 빠르게 이동하길 꿈꿨다. 2003년 9월부터 2004년 7월까지 20명을 살해한 대한민국 최악의 연쇄살인범이다.

장례식장 마스크 디시 악의 평범성과 선의 편협성the banality of evil & the. 단순한 연쇄살인이 아니라, 평범한 얼굴 뒤에 감춰진 악의 본질이 드러났기 때문이에요. 강호순 사건은 우리 사회에 큰 충격을 안겼어요. 4 0339 3 0 9645454 초록비 좃같이도 생겼다 역갤러106. 디시인사이드와 일베저장소에서 야구선수이자 살인범인 이호성을 이용해 만든 고인드립이자 지역드립. 자위 참수

일본 고급 목욕탕 39 0340 9 0 9645455 쯔양 결혼 발표함 역갤러59. 사건 터졌을 당시 와이프랑 아들이랑 다같이 죽고 온가족 엔딩인줄 알았는데 살아있는 다른 아들 인터뷰 영상도 뜨고 이젠 큰딸이라는 인물도 나오고. 강호순, 강호순얼굴, 강호순사건, 강호순근황, 강호순아들디시, 강호순자백, 강호순흉가. 단순한 연쇄살인이 아니라, 평범한 얼굴 뒤에 감춰진 악의 본질이 드러났기 때문이에요. 이렇게 강호순은 방화살인이라는 방법을 통해 보험금을 수령했다. 자두 트위터

작은 일진님 웹툰 20 Krviewakr20090203094100061경기 서남부 연쇄살인사건의 피의자 강호순38이 최근 자신의 얼굴 사진이 언론에 공개된 것에 충격을 받고 아들 걱정을 한 것으로 알려졌다. 1 정치철학자 한나 아렌트hannah arendt는 수백만명의 유대인 학살을 지휘했던 아돌프 아이히만adolf eichmann이 너무도 멀쩡하고 평범한 사람. 여자 사이코패스 특징 디시 물봉딸 영상. Com › board › view강호순 내 아들 어떡해 4년제 대학 갤러리. 30일 오전 수원지법 안산지원 401호 법정에서 제1형사부이태수 부장판사 심리로 열린 강호순에 대한 7. 장원영 꼭지 노출

임태묵 출소한 유영철은 1994년 10월 아들 현재 31세을 득남한 후 아침에는 웨딩숍 사진관에서 일하고 밤에는 불법퇴폐 업주들을 상대로 경찰관 을 사칭 하면서 금품갈취 를 하였다. 2003년 9월부터 2004년 7월까지 20명을 살해한 대한민국 최악의 연쇄살인범이다. 강호순 아들 군대 동기였다고 주장한 디시인이 썰 푼 바로는 딱 봤을때 온몸을 문신으로 덮은 양아치였고 얼굴 자체가 강호순을 많이 닮았다 카더라. 강호순 두 아들도 아는 모양이네 애미는 실어증 걸렷단다. 강호순, 강호순얼굴, 강호순사건, 강호순근황, 강호순아들디시, 강호순자백, 강호순흉가.

자라 에보니 우드 디시 얘넨 정상일 수가 없긔ㅅㅂ 애초에 유전자 풀부터가 구리고 첫째부인, 넷째부인 이렇게 있는데다 심지어 강호순 넷째부인이랑 안. 유영철 아들보단 이춘재랑 강호순 아들들이나 조심해 역학. 선고 2009고합44, 2009고합105 병합 판결 성폭력범죄의처벌및피해자보호등에관한법률위반 강간등살인, 강도살인, 존속살해, 현주건조물방화치사, 강간살인, 살인, 사기, 자기소유자동차방화, 사체손괴, 사체은닉, 절도. 연쇄살인 이전에도 절도, 강간, 폭력 등 수많은 범죄 read more. 선고 2009고합44, 2009고합105 병합 판결 성폭력범죄의처벌및피해자보호등에관한법률위반 강간등살인, 강도살인, 존속살해, 현주건조물방화치사, 강간살인, 살인, 사기, 자기소유자동차방화, 사체손괴, 사체은닉, 절도.

This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth. 

This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.

Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.

Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.

The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”

Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 3, 2026.
Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Pierre Crom/Getty Images

Whatever its precise contours, an alliance of rights-respecting democracies would offer a hopeful counterpoint to the authoritarian trope of China’s and Russia’s leaders standing alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, observing military hardware in a parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in September. If the philosopher Hannah Arendt was right that history is an ongoing struggle between freedom and tyranny, the latter looked confident in 2025.

Yet, even in the worst of times, the idea of freedom and human rights is enduring. People power remains an engine for change. In the US, “No Kings” marches have drawn millions, protesters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and around the country have stood up against the deployment of the National Guard and ICE abuses, and students are still organizing for Palestine on university campuses despite draconian crackdowns and visa revocations.

Buoyed by popular resistance, South Korean parliamentarians impeached their president to prevent him from grabbing power through martial law. Grassroots aid efforts by Sudan’s emergency response rooms, Hong Kong’s fire relief, Sri Lanka’s cyclone relief community kitchens, and Ukrainian mutual aid and solidarity collectives represent the best of this trend.

Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 3, 2026. 
Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 3, 2026.  © 2025 Lynsey Addario/Getty Images

In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.

In this more hostile world, civil society is more critical than ever. It’s also increasingly endangered, particularly in an environment where funding is scarce. In 2025, Human Rights Watch was labeled “undesirable” and banned from operating in Russia. For partners in Egypt, Hong Kong, and India, these tactics are all too familiar. Restrictions on civil society and protest have become more commonplace in Europe, including the UK and France. And now, for the first time, many worry about risks associated with their operational presence in the US, where the Open Society Foundations, a major donor, have already been threatened, and the administration is preparing a list of “domestic terrorists” under overbroad guidance that could be interpreted to include the work of many progressive groups.

Breaking the authoritarian wave and standing up for human rights is a generational challenge. In 2026, it will play out most acutely in the US, with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world. Fighting back will require a determined, strategic, and coordinated reaction from voters, civil society, multilateral institutions, and rights-respecting governments around the globe.

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FIRST: A man holds a flower and the message "Humanity for All" as US marines and national guard protect the entrance of a federal building during the "No Kings" protest following US immigration operations, in Los Angeles, California, on June 3, 2026.
© 2025 Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: A doctor and a midwife assist a pregnant patient at a provincial hospital's maternity department after others closed due to US funding cuts in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Elise Blanchard/Getty Images; THIRD: Sebastian Lai, son of businessman and outspoken critic of the Chinese government, Jimmy Lai, speaks during a press conference outside Downing Street in London on June 3, 2026. © 2025 Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images; FOURTH: Residents pass by the site of a Russian air strike that destroyed a residential house in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

강호순 두 아들도 아는 모양이네 애미는 실어증 걸렷단다 ㅇㅇ14., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

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