6cm, 51kg, a형 가족 부모님 부모 친부 아버지 작고 어머니 장무식 계부 새아빠 나기수 여동생 심경아, 니키타.

한국 주민등록상 본명은 김니키타인데 혼혈 이 아니라 본인이 밝힌 바로는 귀화 당시 성씨를 단순히 김씨로 정한 것이다.

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 4, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 4, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 4, 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 4, 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.

어려서부터 싹수가 보였던 맥데이비드를 위해 부모님은 맥데이비드의 나이를 속여 동네 형들과 경기를 시켰으며, 여섯살이 되자 리그 참가를 위해 고향팀인 뉴마켓에 들어간다. 통계학자 니키타 지보토프스키는 gpt5가 논문 문장을 다듬고 수학적 오타나 버그를 잡는 데 도움이 되며 논문 요약에도 유용하다고 전했습니다. 더나은인생을위해 니키타는 디렉터고 개발사인 배틀스테이트는 원래 인디개발사였는데 지금은 직원이 100명 넘음. 프라임경제 가수 미나의 친동생 니키타심성미.

Никита буяновnikita buyanov. 이어 미나는 요즘 의료사고로 말이 많은데 제 막내동생도 비슷한 일을 당했다며. 비슷한 연배의 김완선 과 비교해보면 3년 늦게 태어나서 16년 늦게 데뷔했다. 고향은 경기도 의정부시이며 키 164cm, 몸무게 52kg, 혈액형 a형입니다.

니키타 부야노브 Nikita Buyanov 의 비하인드, 비화 등을 알아봅시다.

더나은인생을위해 니키타는 디렉터고 개발사인 배틀스테이트는 원래 인디개발사였는데 지금은 직원이 100명 넘음.. Не к тому что у меня есть.. 03 2119 나이는 30대초 중반 이던가 그렁걸..
Dmitry dodonov, tung nguyen 119, jaeho lee 45, daron anderson, mikhail doroshenko, alun cennyth stokes 120, mobeen mahmood 30, oleksandr pokutnyi. 드물게 프랑스, 북유럽 에서 여성 이름으로 쓰이기도 한다. 어려서부터 싹수가 보였던 맥데이비드를 위해 부모님은 맥데이비드의 나이를 속여 동네 형들과 경기를 시켰으며, 여섯살이 되자 리그 참가를 위해 고향팀인 뉴마켓에 들어간다. 木家大舞台 original sound, 시민들이 지하철에서 무거운 가방을 든 여자에게 자리를 양보하지 않는 점을 언급한 외국인 유튜버가 악플에 시달리고 있다. Nikita dragun에 대한 순자산, 나이, 흥미로운 사실, 실명 및 논란. 미나 친동생 니키타, 가수 데뷔늦은 나이에 도전, 모험. 토머스 페트루 나이 23세 @petroutv, 《 소녀전선2 망명 》에 등장하는 서포트 전술인형. 또한 1997년 과 2010년 에 텔레비전 시리즈로도 만들어졌다. 러시아 출신의 前 포뮬러 1 드라이버, 공식적으로 사망처리된 니키타는 요원으로서의 새 삶을 시작한다. 미나는 26일 자신의 sns에 니키타의 의료사고 인터뷰 기사를 게재했다, 음반 딥키스 2011 늙은여우 2014 뛰어라 대한민국 with 미나 2014 세상에. Но это как бы очень тонькая грань между тем кто ты и что ты.
러시아의 갑부 드미트리 마제핀 러시아의 화학공업 회사 우랄켐 의 회.. 더나은인생을위해 니키타는 디렉터고 개발사인 배틀스테이트는 원래 인디개발사였는데 지금은 직원이 100명 넘음.. 프라임경제 가수 미나의 친동생 니키타심성미.. 비슷한 연배의 김완선 과 비교해보면 3년 늦게 태어나서 16년 늦게 데뷔했다..

서기 4세기 고트족 출신 기독교 순교자인 성 니키타 Nicetas The Goth가 슬라브 정교회에서 널리 공경받으면서 이름으로 사용되기 시작했다.

Watch the latest videos about original sound on tiktok. 이 게임은 fps인 동시에 rpg이다 타르코프를 구매하는 플레이어들이 간과하다가 크게 고생하는 부분, 의료사고로 인해 많이 힘들었다고 해요. 「니키타」는 1990년에 만들어진 뤽 베송 감독의 대표작이며 불량소녀 니키타가 정부기관에 의해 비밀 요원으로 길러진다는 이야기이다. 시민들이 지하철에서 무거운 가방을 든 여자에게 자리를 양보하지 않는 점을 언급한 외국인 유튜버가 악플에 시달리고 있다.

물론 그것은 영화적 허용으로 넘어갈 수 있는 부분이긴 합니다. Com › koreanikita0528심성미 nikita @koreanikita0528 instagram photos and videos. 2016년 4월 강남의 모 병원에서 시술을 받던 중 의료사고로 인해 왼쪽 심재성 2도 오른쪽 뺨 3도.

디렉터는 3d 그래픽 아티스트 및 개발사의 cco인 니키타 부야노프. 초짜인 래쉬 레전드 가 니키타 라이온스에게 경고메시지를 보내며 대립이 형성된다. Dmitry dodonov, tung nguyen 119, jaeho lee 45, daron anderson, mikhail doroshenko, alun cennyth stokes 120, mobeen mahmood 30, oleksandr pokutnyi, 국제올림픽위원회ioc는 28일 홈페이지를 통해 개인중립선수ain 자격으로 밀라노 올림픽에 출전하는 러시아, 벨라루스 선수 명단을 발표했다, 당시 17살 나이 차이의 연상연하 커플로 많은 화제를 모았다.

한때 뒷골목의 불량소녀였던 니키타 약물에 찌들어 경찰을 살해한 그녀는 종신형을 선고받고 수감되지만 그녀의 잠재능력을 알아본 비밀요원 밥은 그녀를 빼내서 정부기관으로 데려온다, 블라드와 니키타 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 2016년 4월 강남의 모 병원에서 시술을 받던 중 의료사고로 인해 왼쪽 심재성 2도 오른쪽 뺨 3도, 니키타 시르미테프 nikita sirmitev никита сырмытев. 이곳엔 방문객이 거의 없고, 가끔 멀리서 빙 돌아가는 캐러밴이 다다.

2월 1일에 새로운 모습으로 등장하는 프로모가 나오면서 콜걸 같은 모습을 하며 22일부터 Nxt 본무대에 등장한다고 말하면서 카일라 인레이 를 상대로 승리를 거둔다.

제 비하인드 영상들은 공표된 기사, 인터뷰, 서적, 방송 등을 참고하여 제작, 음반 딥키스 2011 늙은여우 2014 뛰어라 대한민국 with 미나 2014 세상에, Org › wiki › 니키타_영화니키타 영화 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전, 당시 17살 나이 차이의 연상연하 커플로 많은 화제를 모았다.

니키타 예진은 저에게 관심을 보였어요, 1993년에 미국 리메이크 영화 《니나》가 개봉하였다. Watch the latest videos about original sound on tiktok, 러시아의 갑부 드미트리 마제핀 러시아의 화학공업 회사 우랄켐 의 회. 5 2011년에 한국으로 귀화하였으며, 귀화한 이유는 많지만 결정적인 이유는 어머니의 건강을 위해서라고 한다.

유부녀의 입술은 캔 츄하이의 맛이 나서 디시 교육 사업은 성공적이었고, 아버지의 유산까지 물려받아 생활이 안정되자, 그는 양. 블라드와 니키타러시아어 влад и никита 는 블라디슬라프 바슈케토브владисла́в вашкетов, 2013년 2월 26일 와 니키타 바슈케토브никита вашкетов, 2015년 6월. 니키타 시르미테프 nikita sirmitev никита сырмытев. 제 비하인드 영상들은 공표된 기사, 인터뷰, 서적, 방송 등을 참고하여 제작. Но это как бы очень тонькая грань между тем кто ты и что ты. 유식 옷 정보

원피스 애니 1100화 Nikita dragun에 대한 순자산, 나이, 흥미로운 사실, 실명 및 논란. 러시아의 갑부 드미트리 마제핀 러시아의 화학공업 회사 우랄켐 의 회. 6cm, 51kg, a형 가족 부모님 부모 친부 아버지 작고 어머니 장무식 계부 새아빠 나기수 여동생 심경아, 니키타. 물론 그것은 영화적 허용으로 넘어갈 수 있는 부분이긴 합니다. А к тому то кем я являюсь. 유진쌤 라이키 디시

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유니 빨간약 모음 이 게임은 fps인 동시에 rpg이다 타르코프를 구매하는 플레이어들이 간과하다가 크게 고생하는 부분. 니키타 부야노브 nikita buyanov 당신이 모르는 숨겨진 비밀. 「니키타」는 1990년에 만들어진 뤽 베송 감독의 대표작이며 불량소녀 니키타가 정부기관에 의해 비밀 요원으로 길러진다는 이야기이다. Но это как бы очень тонькая грань между тем кто ты и что ты. 니키타 부야노브 nikita buyanov 당신이 모르는 숨겨진 비밀.

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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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

6cm, 51kg, a형 가족 부모님 부모 친부 아버지 작고 어머니 장무식 계부 새아빠 나기수 여동생 심경아, 니키타., 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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