으로 데뷔했고 현재 레진코믹스에서 자살 소년을, 카카오페이지에서 슬레이브 b의 그림작가9로 연재 중인 대한민국의 웹툰 작가.

개인 티스토리 블로그에서 만화를 연재하던 중 레진코믹스에서 정식연재가 시작되면서 블로그에서는 예전처럼 본편이 나오기보단 심의문제 등으로 레진에 read more.

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.

으로 데뷔하였고 현재 레진코믹스에서 자살 소년을 연재 중인 대한민국의 만화가이다. 동성은 성추행 성립 안되는줄 알고본인은 법의 사각지대를 파고 들었다 생각하고자신을 천재라 생각했을거지만 뭐 진실은. 으로 데뷔했고 현재 레진코믹스에서 자살 소년을, 카카오페이지에서 슬레이브 b의 그림작가9로 연재 중인 대한민국의 웹툰 작가. 사진레바 트위터웹툰 작가 레바가 경북 지진과 관련해 글을 게재했다가 네티즌들의 뭇매를 맞고 사과문을 게재했다.

웹툰 문서에서 볼 수 있다시피 웹툰 시장이 커지면서 작품성 논란도 커졌다. 34 레바런 레바가 최근에 언급하기론 곧 서비스 종료 예정이라고 하며 19년 말에 섭종되었다, 아크썬콜 3분 극딜도 가능한 선택지인 이유, 개인 티스토리 블로그에서 만화를 연재하던 중 레진코믹스에서 정식연재가 시작되면서 블로그에서는 예전처럼 본편이 나오기보단 심의문제 등으로 레진에 read more.
이후 경찰을 부른 뒤 방송은 급하게 종료 되었고, 레바에게 어떻게 된 일인지 시청자들은 자세히 묻자 레바는 해당 여성이 자신의 시청자라며 자신과 개인 메시지를 나눴다고 주장했지만 전혀 근거가 없다고 전혀 일면식이 없는 여성이라 말했다.. 게임 편집 레바의 모험 레바 본인이 만든 건 아니고 33, 카카오 기프트 게임즈가 만든 팬 메이드 게임이다 사실 던파의 팬게임이라더라.. 3분팟에서 전분딜 별로 안 꿇리고 오히려 높을 때도 있음2.. 패턴 ㅈㄹ맞은 보스일수록 언스 압박이..

레바 관련 도네영상 유사성행위 논란3.

2016년 레진코믹스 별의 아이, 센츄리온, 대한민국의 웹툰 작가, 트위치 스트리머, 유튜버, 세트 영원한 우정으로 12 세트 전2권. 으로 데뷔했고 현재 레진코믹스에서 자살 소년을, 카카오페이지에서 슬레이브 b의 그림작가9로 연재 중인 대한민국의 웹툰 작가, 으로 데뷔했고 현재 레진코믹스에서 자살 소년을, 카카오페이지에서 슬레이브 b의 그림작가9로 연재 중인 대한민국의 웹툰 작가. 스토리 글쓰던 사람 이직했음카마인 스토리보다 이게 더 재밌는듯ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ이번엔 시즌1부터 로아를 했다면 절대 잊지 못하는 중나중고나라 아님ㅋㅋ를. 34 레바런 레바가 최근에 언급하기론 곧 서비스 종료 예정이라고 하며 19년 말에 섭종되었다. 레바 관련 도네영상 유사성행위 논란3, Kr › board › webzine웹진 인벤 레바 논란에 대해 아라보자 오픈이슈갤러리.
진짜 정신병 없다고 생각하는 애들도 정신과 의사한테 히토미 목록, 야동 목록 read more. 레바 관련 도네영상 유사성행위 논란3. 패턴 ㅈㄹ맞은 보스일수록 언스 압박이.
며칠전에 가까운 지인이 사망함 장례까지 치르고 직후에는 크게 힘들진않았는데 최근에 나는 가까운 지인이 죽었는데도 남들 웃기려는 웃기는 만화만. 탑골공원, 그땐 그랬지 시즌1 중나, 주레티켓, 망원경, 시즌2. 세트 영원한 우정으로 12 세트 전2권.
진짜 정신병 없다고 생각하는 애들도 정신과 의사한테 히토미 목록, 야동 목록 read more. 으로 데뷔하였고 현재 레진코믹스에서 자살 소년을 연재 중인 대한민국의 만화가이다. 며칠전에 가까운 지인이 사망함 장례까지 치르고 직후에는 크게 힘들진않았는데 최근에 나는 가까운 지인이 죽었는데도 남들 웃기려는 웃기는 만화만.
고래밥 사먹는 만화 실시간 베스트 갤러리. 레바 연말 파티에는 신청한 사람들 외에도 트위치 스트리머들이 초대받아 참여했는데, 이중 여성 스트리머들이 참석 스트리머중 마루에몽을 왕따시켰다는 허위사실이. 2016년 레진코믹스 별의 아이, 센츄리온.
탑골공원, 그땐 그랬지 시즌1 중나, 주레티켓, 망원경, 시즌2. 네이버 블로그 등에서 개인 활동할 당시의 정식 명칭은 레스트 바티칸a이며 인지도가 오르면서 레스트 바티칸을 줄인 레바라는 닉네임을 주로 쓰기 시작했다. 동성은 성추행 성립 안되는줄 알고본인은 법의 사각지대를 파고 들었다 생각하고자신을 천재라 생각했을거지만 뭐 진실은.

게임 편집 레바의 모험 레바 본인이 만든 건 아니고 33, 카카오 기프트 게임즈가 만든 팬 메이드 게임이다 사실 던파의 팬게임이라더라.

검마까지 2분 3분팟 폭넓게 다녀봤는데 느낀 점1, 네이버 블로그 등에서 개인 활동할 당시의 정식 명칭은 레스트 바티칸a이며 인지도가 오르면서 레스트 바티칸을 줄인 레바라는 닉네임을 주로 쓰기 시작했다, Kr › board › webzine웹진 인벤 레바 논란에 대해 아라보자 오픈이슈갤러리. 사진레바 트위터웹툰 작가 레바가 경북 지진과 관련해 글을 게재했다가 네티즌들의 뭇매를 맞고 사과문을 게재했다. 사람들이 전부 감추고 살아서 그런거지 까면 정신병 없는 사람이 어딨겠냐, 사람들이 전부 감추고 살아서 그런거지 까면 정신병 없는 사람이 어딨겠냐.

Kr › Board › Webzine웹진 인벤 레바 논란에 대해 아라보자 오픈이슈갤러리.

개인 티스토리 블로그에서 만화를 연재하던 중 레진코믹스에서 정식연재가 시작되면서 블로그에서는 예전처럼 본편이 나오기보단 심의문제 등으로 레진에 read more. 고래밥 사먹는 만화 실시간 베스트 갤러리. 검마까지 2분 3분팟 폭넓게 다녀봤는데 느낀 점1, 일단 집으로 들어오려는 것을 막아선 다음 대화를. 대한민국의 웹툰 작가, 트위치 스트리머, 유튜버. 3분팟에서 전분딜 별로 안 꿇리고 오히려 높을 때도 있음2.

으로 데뷔하였고 현재 레진코믹스에서 자살 소년을 연재 중인 대한민국의 만화가이다.

사진레바 트위터웹툰 작가 레바가 경북 지진과 관련해 글을 게재했다가 네티즌들의 뭇매를 맞고 사과문을 게재했다.. 아크썬콜 3분 극딜도 가능한 선택지인 이유.. 웹툰 문서에서 볼 수 있다시피 웹툰 시장이 커지면서 작품성 논란도 커졌다.. 레바 연말 파티에는 신청한 사람들 외에도 트위치 스트리머들이 초대받아 참여했는데, 이중 여성 스트리머들이 참석 스트리머중 마루에몽을 왕따시켰다는 허위사실이..

일단 집으로 들어오려는 것을 막아선 다음 대화를, 게임 편집 레바의 모험 레바 본인이 만든 건 아니고 33, 카카오 기프트 게임즈가 만든 팬 메이드 게임이다 사실 던파의 팬게임이라더라, 트위치에서는 갱생레바라는 닉네임으로 활동 중이다. 으로 데뷔하였고 현재 레진코믹스에서 자살 소년을 연재 중인 대한민국의 만화가이다. 동성은 성추행 성립 안되는줄 알고본인은 법의 사각지대를 파고 들었다 생각하고자신을 천재라 생각했을거지만 뭐 진실은.

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99일 스크립트 동성은 성추행 성립 안되는줄 알고본인은 법의 사각지대를 파고 들었다 생각하고자신을 천재라 생각했을거지만 뭐 진실은. 며칠전에 가까운 지인이 사망함 장례까지 치르고 직후에는 크게 힘들진않았는데 최근에 나는 가까운 지인이 죽었는데도 남들 웃기려는 웃기는 만화만. 34 레바런 레바가 최근에 언급하기론 곧 서비스 종료 예정이라고 하며 19년 말에 섭종되었다. 스토리 글쓰던 사람 이직했음카마인 스토리보다 이게 더 재밌는듯ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ이번엔 시즌1부터 로아를 했다면 절대 잊지 못하는 중나중고나라 아님ㅋㅋ를. 2016년 레진코믹스 별의 아이, 센츄리온. 98년생 암캐여친 초대남

@doobucouple 며칠전에 가까운 지인이 사망함 장례까지 치르고 직후에는 크게 힘들진않았는데 최근에 나는 가까운 지인이 죽었는데도 남들 웃기려는 웃기는 만화만. 네이버 블로그 등에서 개인 활동할 당시의 정식 명칭은 레스트 바티칸a이며 인지도가 오르면서 레스트 바티칸을 줄인 레바라는 닉네임을 주로 쓰기 시작했다. 웹툰 문서에서 볼 수 있다시피 웹툰 시장이 커지면서 작품성 논란도 커졌다. 사람들이 전부 감추고 살아서 그런거지 까면 정신병 없는 사람이 어딨겠냐. 진짜 정신병 없다고 생각하는 애들도 정신과 의사한테 히토미 목록, 야동 목록 read more. @soeunsoeu

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5등분의신부 히토미 사진레바 트위터웹툰 작가 레바가 경북 지진과 관련해 글을 게재했다가 네티즌들의 뭇매를 맞고 사과문을 게재했다. 고래밥 사먹는 만화 실시간 베스트 갤러리. 레바 관련 도네영상 유사성행위 논란3. 아크썬콜 3분 극딜도 가능한 선택지인 이유. 대한민국의 웹툰 작가, 트위치 스트리머, 유튜버.

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

으로 데뷔했고 현재 레진코믹스에서 자살 소년을, 카카오페이지에서 슬레이브 b의 그림작가9로 연재 중인 대한민국의 웹툰 작가., 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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