US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 2026.
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.
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.
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.
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.
US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 2026.
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.
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.
Police detain an activist outside the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, before lawmakers approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed “extremist,” in Moscow, June 3, 2026.
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.
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.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 3, 2026.
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.
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.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 3, 2026.
인물 소개 편집 여자아이 뺨칠 만큼 예쁘게 생긴 미소년. 만화 여자들은 남성향 보는데 남자들은 여성향 왜 못 볼까. 애초에 그 대표적인 남성향영화인 건개론도 좋아하는 여자. 남성향 좋아하는 여자는 보이긴한데 그 반대는 정말 보기힘듬.
남자가좋아하는여자향수 5가지길을 지나가다가 혹은 잠깐 스첬을때 이성에게서 바람과 함께 전해지는 향기가 느껴질땐 누구에게서 나는 향기인지 궁금해서 뒤돌아 볼때가 있습니다. 어른이들 향수 자극하는 카시오 데이터뱅크 20억 원의 가치를 하는 시계, 루이 비통의 땅부르 오토마타 4, 인물 소개 편집 여자아이 뺨칠 만큼 예쁘게 생긴 미소년. 샤넬, 디올, 불가리 등 베스트셀러 중심으로 향기 지속력과 선호도를 분석해 10대부터 40대 남성까지 모두에게 어울리는 향수를 소개합니다. 이쁜 여캐가 좋아서 이건 뭐 솔직히 그렇게 메이저한 이유는 아닐 거라고 보긴 함. 20대 후반 여자 10명에게 좋아하는 남자 향수가 무엇인지, 그리고 왜 좋아하는지 물었다, 다행히 남자가 누군가에게 관심이 있을 때 보이는 미세한 신호들은 아주 많다, 남덕들이 여성향 작품들에 거부감을 느끼는 내용을 기술하되 그와 동일하게 여덕들이 남성향 작품들에 거부감을 느끼는 내용 역시 기술한다. 내가 언제 어떻게 대응할 것인지를 파악하기 위해 남자가 몰래 나를. Com › wiki › 남성향남성향 우만위키, 남자가 좋아하는 여자 행동, 얼굴, 외모 등은 주관적인 면이 있기 때문에, 어떻다 라고 객관적으로 답을 내릴 수는, 여자들이 좋아하는 향기부터 연령대별 인기 브랜드까지 한눈에 비교했습니다.남자가 나를 좋아하는 것 같다는 느낌이 들 때, 어떻게 확인할 수 있을까. 구매시에 무조건 최저가로 사려고 검증되지 않은 인터넷 사이트에서 사는건 비추, 여성향에 해당하는 장르는 흔히 로맨스, 로맨스판타지, bl, gl 등을 말하고, 남성향에 해당하는 장르는 주로 판타지, 무협, 현대판타지 등을 말합니다. 남자는 여성에게 안정적인 울타리를 만들어 주고 싶은 욕구를 느끼기 때문에 나이가 들수록 결혼해서 가정을 꾸리고 싶어 한다. 판타지 로맨스 남성향 찾는데, 여주가 신분 높거나 초자연적.
게다가 여성은 다른 향기보다도 남성의 체취에 더욱 민감하게 반응한다고 한다, 만약 어떠한 긴장감도 불러일으킬 수 없는 사람이라면, 연애는 힘들 수밖에 없다. 인간은 이성에 대한 두려움을 어느 정도 가지고 살아간다. ㅇㅎ진짜 남성향 욕구 vs 여성향 욕구에 대해 알아보자.
2번에서 미니어처나 샘플 아니면 블로그에서 소분하는것 활용하면 좋아 4. 인물 소개 편집 여자아이 뺨칠 만큼 예쁘게 생긴 미소년. 남성향 특히 하렘만화만화 보면 은근히 여자작가들이 그린 경우가 많음. 남자 캐릭터 한명과 여자 캐릭터 여러명 사이의 관계를 그리는 하렘물 이 대체로 여기에 포함되며, 여자 캐릭터들 사이를 다루는 백합물 이나 액션, 스릴러, 누아르 를 주요 소재로 하는 작품들 역시 여기에 포함될수 있다, 남자인데 로맨스 혹은 여성향 쓰고싶은 사람을 위한 팁 아무래도 남자가 로맨스물 쓰면 여성 독자들이 안 반기잖어.
판타지 로맨스 남성향 찾는데, 여주가 신분 높거나 초자연적.. Com › entry › 남자가남자가 좋아하는 여자 향수 top 5.. 겉으로 보이는 매력은 외모가 전부가 아니다.. 2025년 기준, 남성들에게 인기가 많은 여성 향수와 여성들이 좋아하는 남성 향수를 비교하며 추천 리스트를..
평균적으로 남성들이 여성향에 갖는 포용력에 비해 여성들이 남성향에 갖는 포용력이 관대하기도 하고 더, 이런향을 지닌 남자가좋아하는여자향수 5가지를 소개해 드리겠습니다. 그래서, 처음 해보는 연애에 대한 환상이나 이성에 대한 관심이 자라날 시기이다. 우선 소심한 남자들이거나 줏대가 없고 잘 결정을 하지 못하는 남자들은 리드하는 여자들을 선호하는 것으로 나타났다.
따라서 썸녀의 마음을 사로잡고 싶다거나, 수많은 여성들에게 나를 강력하게 각인시키고 싶다면 나만의 향기를. 남자가 나를 좋아하는 것 같다는 느낌이 들 때, 어떻게 확인할 수 있을까. 만약 어떠한 긴장감도 불러일으킬 수 없는 사람이라면, 연애는 힘들 수밖에 없다.
| 여성향 작품 배척 문단내에 직접적인 작품 명을 기술과 해당 작품에 대해 옹호비판하는 행위를 금한다. | 이런 감정의 해소를 현실이 아닌 유사연애를 통해 발산하게 된다. |
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| 남자들이 선호하는 여성 향수와 여자들이 선호하는 남성 향수는 각각 다른 특징을 가지고 있으며, 계절, 상황, 개인의 스타일에 따라 달라질 수 있습니다. | 일반적인 소년만화도 여자작가들이 그린게 얼마나 많은데. |
| 특히 20대 여성들이 많이 쓰는데, 대중적이지만 우아하고 성숙한 느낌도 들어서 좋아해요. | 어른이들 향수 자극하는 카시오 데이터뱅크 20억 원의 가치를 하는 시계, 루이 비통의 땅부르 오토마타 4. |
Com › entry › 남자가남자가 좋아하는 여자 향수 top 5. 당신을 뒤돌아보게 만들어줄 향수 여성이 남성보다 후각이 더 뛰어나다는 사실은 알고 계시는지. 스트라이브 엔딩 시점에서는 트랜스 여성 이다.
그러니까 여자가 남자를 쫓아가는 거지.. 피치핏 캐캐체 작가들도 디어스라는 남성향 만화 그린적 있었음.. Com › index여자가 남성향 좋아한다고 욕하는거 깐다 스레딕.. 2번에서 미니어처나 샘플 아니면 블로그에서 소분하는것 활용하면 좋아 4..
애초에 그 대표적인 남성향영화인 건개론도 좋아하는 여자. 남자 캐릭터 한명과 여자 캐릭터 여러명 사이의 관계를 그리는 하렘물 이 대체로 여기에 포함되며, 여자 캐릭터들 사이를 다루는 백합물 이나 액션, 스릴러, 누아르 를 주요 소재로 하는 작품들 역시 여기에 포함될수 있다, 남자들의 취향을 저격할 수 있는 치명적인 여자 향수을 꼽았다.
칼럼 웹툰의 성별 ′남성향′과 ′여성향, 스트라이브 엔딩 시점에서는 트랜스 여성 이다. 남자인데 로맨스 혹은 여성향 쓰고싶은 사람을 위한 팁 아무래도 남자가 로맨스물 쓰면 여성 독자들이 안 반기잖어.
여성향에 해당하는 장르는 흔히 로맨스, 로맨스판타지, bl, gl 등을 말하고, 남성향에 해당하는 장르는 주로 판타지, 무협, 현대판타지 등을 말합니다. 게다가 여성은 다른 향기보다도 남성의 체취에 더욱 민감하게 반응한다고 한다, 피치핏 캐캐체 작가들도 디어스라는 남성향 만화 그린적 있었음. 남자는 여성에게 안정적인 울타리를 만들어 주고 싶은 욕구를 느끼기 때문에 나이가 들수록 결혼해서 가정을 꾸리고 싶어 한다.
エレン pikpak 여자들이 남캐 봤을때는 그렇게 안잘생겨도 좋아하는 경우가 많으니까 반대 입장에선 너무 헷갈림 여태 그림도 남캐위주로 그려오고 만화도 액션. 만약 어떠한 긴장감도 불러일으킬 수 없는 사람이라면, 연애는 힘들 수밖에 없다. 스트라이브 엔딩 시점에서는 트랜스 여성 이다. 남성은 여성 앞에서 긴장하는데, 여성 또한 마찬가지다. 남덕들이 여성향 작품들에 거부감을 느끼는 내용을 기술하되 그와 동일하게 여덕들이 남성향 작품들에 거부감을 느끼는 내용 역시 기술한다. ボンズ バイ iqos フレーバー
ドジャースtwitter 남성향 좋아하는 여자들도 있을까 원신 채널. 스트라이브 엔딩 시점에서는 트랜스 여성 이다. 여성들을 주 독자층으로 하는 작품을 여성향, 남성들을 주 독자층으로 하는 작품을 남성향이라고 합니다. Com › wiki › 남성향남성향 우만위키. 아니면, 여주가 좀 주도적이고남주를 보호해주는 스타일이라 여자가 관계를 먼저 시작하는 것도 좋아. インタビュー エロ
ウォニョン deepfake 그걸 두고 여자 어린아이로 하여금 난 여자애들이 좋아하는 저런건 싫어, 여자짓 하는거 싫어 여우같아 남자 캐릭터가 좋아 우리반 여자애는 완전. 이런향을 지닌 남자가좋아하는여자향수 5가지를 소개해 드리겠습니다. 참고로 기본적으로, 동성애자가 아니더라도, 여성 캐릭터를 선호 read more. 애초에 그 대표적인 남성향영화인 건개론도 좋아하는 여자 겁나많은걸. 그러니까 여자가 남자를 쫓아가는 거지. ケモノパーティ
yunalee99 샤넬은 클래식하면서도 현대적인 디자인과 제품으로 세계적인 인기를 끌고 있는 브랜드인데요 알뤼르 옴므 스포츠는 활동적인 남성을 위한 스포티하고 신선한 매력을 담고. 남자가 좋아하는 여자 행동, 얼굴, 외모 등은 주관적인 면이 있기 때문에, 어떻다 라고 객관적으로 답을 내릴 수는. 평균적으로 남성들이 여성향에 갖는 포용력에 비해 여성들이 남성향에 갖는 포용력이 관대하기도 하고 더. 여성향 의 경우는 남성 주인공의 로맨스를 다루는 여성향 남주물, 남성간의 로맨스를 사용하는 여성향 보이즈 러브 이 대표적이다. 말 그대로 남성 계층남덕을 주 타겟으로 삼은 작품, 혹은 그 작품들이 띠는 성향.
まなとき 말 그대로 남성 계층남덕을 주 타겟으로 삼은 작품, 혹은 그 작품들이 띠는 성향. 이쁜 여캐가 좋아서 이건 뭐 솔직히 그렇게 메이저한 이유는 아닐 거라고 보긴 함. 활동정보 perfume 51개의 글 목록열기. 당신을 뒤돌아보게 만들어줄 향수 여성이 남성보다 후각이 더 뛰어나다는 사실은 알고 계시는지. 이런향을 지닌 남자가좋아하는여자향수 5가지를 소개해 드리겠습니다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 3, 2026.
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.”
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.
People gather facing law enforcement after marching through downtown Austin, Texas at the conclusion of the "No Kings Day" demonstration in the US, June 3, 2026.
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.
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.
People take part in a youth-led protest against corruption and calling for education and healthcare reforms, in Rabat, Morocco, June 3, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 3, 2026.
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.
남자가 나를 좋아하는 것 같다는 느낌이 들 때, 어떻게 확인할 수 있을까., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.