드라마계의 신스틸러 배우 김선영 김선영을 국민 배우로 만든 작품은 바로 2015년 tvn 드라마 응답하라 1988이에요.

제29회 부산국제영화제 올해의 배우상 심사위원으로 선정된 배우 김선영은 드라마 『응답하라 1988』, 『동백꽃 필 무렵』, 『사랑의 불시착』과 영화,, 등에서 확실한 존재감과 뛰어난 연기력으로 대중과 평단의 큰.

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.

드라마계의 신스틸러 배우 김선영 김선영을 국민 배우로 만든 작품은 바로 2015년 tvn 드라마 응답하라 1988이에요. 연극이 끝난 후에 1995 안도라 아일랜드 행 소포 똥강리 미스터리 미래는 없다 2007 2009 안녕, 모스크바 2009 뷰티퀸 2010 더 스토리 오브 노틀담드파리 read more. 최근 영화 화려한 외출 측은 배우들의 과감한 노출이 담긴 포스터를. 그 얼굴들에 땀과 눈물을 입히고, 체온을 붙이고, 이름을 준다.

@m_kayoung @dolcegabbana_beauty Elle_d에디션 Beauty Editor 김선영 Photographer 목정욱 Hair Stylist 백흥권 Makeup Artist 이윤영 Stylist.

첨본 사람이다 연극만 했나보다 했는데, 익숙한 광고에 나왔던 배우. 영화 화려한 외출 스틸컷 공개에 배우 김선영의 파격 의상까지 화제가 되고 있다. 활동 1995년 연극 연극이 끝난 후에로 데뷔해 연기 잘하기로 정평이 난 배우이다, 이후 굵직굵직한 영화에 다수 출연하며 인상적인 연기를 선보이는 씬 스틸러 중 한 명으로 자리잡았다. 특히 남편 이승원 감독이 연출한 영화 에서는 큰언니 희숙 역할을 맡아 열연을 펼쳤어요. 그건 김선영이 연기하는 모든 인물에게 살아내야 할 이유를 만들어주기 때문이다. 배우 김선영은 2000년대 초반부터 꾸준히 활동해왔으나, 2010년대 중반 이후 대중적인 인지도를 급격히 높이며 전성기를 맞았습니다. 메인 예고편에는 남자 배우 변준석이 김선영의 나체를 그리는 장면이 담겨 있어 화제가 되고 있다, 이후 굵직굵직한 영화에 다수 출연하며 인상적인 연기를 선보이는 씬 스틸러 중 한 명으로 자리잡았다. 그건 김선영이 연기하는 모든 인물에게 살아내야 할 이유를 만들어주기 때문이다, Com 김선영 연극배우, 영화배우 출생 1976, 어디서 본 듯한 아줌마 같지만, 자꾸만 눈길이 가는 까닭.

Hei포토 김선영, 숨겨왔던 글래머 몸매전주국제영화제.

영화 세자매 강렬한 연기 변신 김선영 배우님은 영화에서도 빼놓을 수 없죠.

최근 영화 화려한 외출 측은 배우들의 과감한 노출이 담긴 포스터를. 신체 167cm 소속사 강엔터테인먼트 수상 2023년 제59회 대종상영화제 여우조연상 콘크리트 유토피아 2023년 제20회 아시안 필름 페스티벌 여우, 특히 남편 이승원 감독이 연출한 영화 에서는 큰언니 희숙 역할을 맡아 열연을 펼쳤어요. 제29회 부산국제영화제 올해의 배우상 심사위원으로 선정된 배우 김선영은 드라마 『응답하라 1988』, 『동백꽃 필 무렵』, 『사랑의 불시착』과 영화,, 등에서 확실한 존재감과 뛰어난 연기력으로 대중과 평단의 큰, 소속사 젤리피쉬엔터테인먼트는 29일 김선영이 대표를 맡고 있는 극단, Hei포토 김선영, 숨겨왔던 글래머 몸매전주국제영화제. 2005년 스크린에 처음 데뷔했으나 계속 연극 무대에 집중했다.

스타 김선영 뮤지컬배우 프로필 나이 키 킹더랜드 결혼 남편 김우형 자녀 아들 소속사 학력 데뷔 작품활동 필모그래피 혀니달려 2023. 2005년 스크린에 처음 데뷔했으나 계속 연극 무대에 집중했다. 영화 세자매 강렬한 연기 변신 김선영 배우님은 영화에서도 빼놓을 수 없죠. @m_kayoung @dolcegabbana_beauty elle_d에디션 beauty editor 김선영 photographer 목정욱 hair stylist 백흥권 makeup artist 이윤영 stylist, Com 김선영 연극배우, 영화배우 출생 1976. 최근 영화 화려한 외출 측은 배우들의 과감한 노출이 담긴.

제29회 부산국제영화제 올해의 배우상 심사위원으로 선정된 배우 김선영은 드라마 『응답하라 1988』, 『동백꽃 필 무렵』, 『사랑의 불시착』과 영화,, 등에서 확실한 존재감과 뛰어난 연기력으로 대중과 평단의 큰.

유미지와 이호수는 서로 응원하고 격려하는 따뜻한 인물로 나온다, 좋아요 1805개, 댓글 16개가 있습니다, 가족 관계를 보면 2012년 김선영 결혼한 배우자가 있으며 김선영 자녀는 아들 하나가 슬하에 있습니다, 인생 캐릭터를 만든 드라마 출연작 김선영을 대중에게 확실히 각인시킨 작품은 단연 2015년 tvn 드라마 《응답하라 1988》입니다, 배우 김선영은 2000년대 초반부터 꾸준히 활동해왔으나, 2010년대 중반 이후 대중적인 인지도를 급격히 높이며 전성기를 맞았습니다.

Hei포토 김선영, 숨겨왔던 글래머 몸매전주국제영화제.. 스타 김선영 뮤지컬배우 프로필 나이 키 킹더랜드 결혼 남편 김우형 자녀 아들 소속사 학력 데뷔 작품활동 필모그래피 혀니달려 2023.. 예리훈 네이버쇼핑 스마트스토어 예리한 시선으로 좋은 물건을 훈훈한 가격에 판매하겠습니다.. 특히 그녀가 부르는 a new life는 전율이 일 정도이며, 김선영 특유의 가창력과 감성이 빛을 발하는 곡이기도 하다..

드라마계의 신스틸러 배우 김선영 김선영을 국민 배우로 만든 작품은 바로 2015년 tvn 드라마 응답하라 1988이에요, 4세상이 무심하게 지나친 얼굴들을, 그녀는 외면하지 않는다. 영화 화려한 외출 스틸컷 공개에 배우 김선영의 파격 의상까지 화제가 되고 있다, May be an image of one or more, 사극 팬들에게는 역사 속 인물을 가장 잘 소화하는 배우로 회자되었으며, 20대 시절의 청초한 미모부터 중년의 강인한 연기까지 다채로운 모습을 보여. 중년 준조연급 여배우에선 라미란과 쌍두마차 아닐까 개인적인 생각 ㅋ이쁜배우 빼고.

Com 김선영 연극배우, 영화배우 출생 1976.

영화 화려한 외출의 예고편을 본 누리꾼들은 화려한. 누구보다 성실하게, 그리고 자신만의 색깔로 연기 인생을 쌓아온 배우 김선영은 지금도 여전히 가장 현실적이고 뜨거운 연기를 보여주는 배우로 사랑받고 있습니다. 인생 캐릭터를 만든 드라마 출연작 김선영을 대중에게 확실히 각인시킨 작품은 단연 2015년 tvn 드라마 《응답하라 1988》입니다, 김선영 1980년 4월 17일 은 대한민국의 배우 이며 모델이다. 특히 그녀가 부르는 a new life는 전율이 일 정도이며, 김선영 특유의 가창력과 감성이 빛을 발하는 곡이기도 하다, 또한 김선영 남편 김우형은 1981년생으로 김선영보다 7살 연하이며 김우형 또한 뮤지컬 배우로 활동하고 있습니다.

또한 김선영 남편 김우형은 1981년생으로 김선영보다 7살 연하이며 김우형 또한 뮤지컬 배우로 활동하고 있습니다, 사극 팬들에게는 역사 속 인물을 가장 잘 소화하는 배우로 회자되었으며, 20대 시절의 청초한 미모부터 중년의 강인한 연기까지 다채로운 모습을 보여. 첨본 사람이다 연극만 했나보다 했는데, 익숙한 광고에 나왔던 배우. 연극이 끝난 후에 1995 안도라 아일랜드 행 소포 똥강리 미스터리 미래는 없다 2007 2009 안녕, 모스크바 2009 뷰티퀸 2010 더 스토리 오브 노틀담드파리 read more.

김선영사진고아라 기자비즈엔터db배우 김선영이 아닌 제작자 김선영이다, 예리훈 네이버쇼핑 스마트스토어 예리한 시선으로 좋은 물건을 훈훈한 가격에 판매하겠습니다. 드라마계의 신스틸러 배우 김선영 김선영을 국민 배우로 만든 작품은 바로 2015년 tvn 드라마 응답하라 1988이에요. 영화 화려한 외출의 예고편을 본 누리꾼들은 화려한.

그 얼굴들에 땀과 눈물을 입히고, 체온을 붙이고, 이름을 준다. 중년 준조연급 여배우에선 라미란과 쌍두마차 아닐까 개인적인 생각 ㅋ이쁜배우 빼고. 누구보다 성실하게, 그리고 자신만의 색깔로 연기 인생을 쌓아온 배우 김선영은 지금도 여전히 가장 현실적이고 뜨거운 연기를 보여주는 배우로 사랑받고 있습니다. 최근 영화 화려한 외출 측은 배우들의 과감한 노출이 담긴, 우리가 보통 선우 엄마라고 부르는 분. 활동 1995년 연극 연극이 끝난 후에로 데뷔해 연기 잘하기로 정평이 난 배우이다.

hitomi 일진 그건 김선영이 연기하는 모든 인물에게 살아내야 할 이유를 만들어주기 때문이다. 활동 1995년 연극 연극이 끝난 후에로 데뷔해 연기 잘하기로 정평이 난 배우이다. 김선영 1980년 4월 17일 은 대한민국의 배우 이며 모델이다. Hei포토 김선영, 숨겨왔던 글래머 몸매전주국제영화제. 메인 예고편에는 남자 배우 변준석이 김선영의 나체를 그리는 장면이 담겨 있어 화제가 되고 있다. hitomila hinata

hitomi paofan 김선영사진고아라 기자비즈엔터db배우 김선영이 아닌 제작자 김선영이다. 메인 예고편에는 남자 배우 변준석이 김선영의 나체를 그리는 장면이 담겨 있어 화제가 되고 있다. 2005년 스크린에 처음 데뷔했으나 계속 연극 무대에 집중했다. Hei포토 김선영, 숨겨왔던 글래머 몸매전주국제영화제. @m_kayoung @dolcegabbana_beauty elle_d에디션 beauty editor 김선영 photographer 목정욱 hair stylist 백흥권 makeup artist 이윤영 stylist. hitomimoa

hitomi si man 유미지와 이호수는 서로 응원하고 격려하는 따뜻한 인물로 나온다. 사극 팬들에게는 역사 속 인물을 가장 잘 소화하는 배우로 회자되었으며, 20대 시절의 청초한 미모부터 중년의 강인한 연기까지 다채로운 모습을 보여. 영화 화려한 외출 스틸컷 공개에 배우 김선영의 파격 의상까지 화제가 되고 있다. 우리가 보통 선우 엄마라고 부르는 분. 활동 1995년 연극 연극이 끝난 후에로 데뷔해 연기 잘하기로 정평이 난 배우이다. hitomi artistcg japanese

hitomi 3618221 특히 그녀가 부르는 a new life는 전율이 일 정도이며, 김선영 특유의 가창력과 감성이 빛을 발하는 곡이기도 하다. 영화 화려한 외출 스틸컷 공개에 배우 김선영의 파격 의상까지 화제가 되고 있다. 2005년 스크린에 처음 데뷔했으나 계속 연극 무대에 집중했다. 친애하는 독자 여러분, 빠져들 준비 되셨지요. 최근 영화 화려한 외출 측은 배우들의 과감한 노출이 담긴.

humiliation 디시 영화 세자매 강렬한 연기 변신 김선영 배우님은 영화에서도 빼놓을 수 없죠. 영화 화려한 외출의 예고편을 본 누리꾼들은 화려한. 영화 화려한 외출 스틸컷 공개에 배우 김선영의 파격 의상까지 화제가 되고 있다. 가족 관계를 보면 2012년 김선영 결혼한 배우자가 있으며 김선영 자녀는 아들 하나가 슬하에 있습니다. 최근 영화 화려한 외출 측은 배우들의 과감한 노출이 담긴 포스터를.

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

드라마계의 신스틸러 배우 김선영 김선영을 국민 배우로 만든 작품은 바로 2015년 tvn 드라마 응답하라 1988이에요., 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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