이어 한혜진이 10년 지기 친구라고 언급한 이채영의 언니는 배우 서승아로 밝혀지며 방송 직후 ‘이채영’ ‘서승아’가 실시간 검색어에 오르며 뜨거운 화제를 모으고 있다.

키가 무려 168cm 서구적인 외모랑 몸매를 갖고 있다고 화제가 됐었음 프로미스나인은 8인조 걸그룹 그 중 이채영은 메인댄서, 리드래퍼, 서브보컬을 맡고 있다.

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.

지금 사이즈로는 75e컵이라고 하네요. 이채영은 지난 2010년 9월 열린 ‘kbs 드라마 어워즈 2010’에 가슴라인이 훤히 드러나는 파격적인 화이트 원피스를 입고 등장. 먼저 이채영은 김영희 씨가 속옷을 100벌쯤 갖고 있다. 이채영 프로필 본명 이보영 나이 1986년 4월 29일 가족 아버지 이호균, 어머니 김미영, 언니 서승아 종교 개신교 키 170cm 몸무게 56.

Mbn 예능프로그램 비혼이 행복한 소녀, 비행소녀에 배우 이채영이 출연해 자신의 비혼 라이프를 공개했습니다.

이채영은 27일 방송되는 mbn ‘비혼이 행복한 소녀, 비행소녀’에서 절친인 배우 공현주, 개그맨 김영희와 함께 속옷 쇼핑에 나선다. 마지막 씬에서는 결국 섹시한 골룸으로 분장하기도 했다. 5kg 혈액형 b형 발 사이즈 245mm 학력 미림여자고등학교 졸업 단국대학교 연극영화학과 학사 데뷔 2007년 sbs 드라마 마녀유희 소속사 스타컴기획. 시상식에 앞서 배우 이채영이 레드카펫에 이어 포토콜에 응했다, 5kg 혈액형 b형 발 사이즈 245mm 학력 미림여자고등학교 졸업 단국대학교 연극영화학과 학사 데뷔 2007년 sbs 드라마 마녀유희 소속사 스타컴기획. 이채영 프로필 본명 이보영 나이 1986년 4월 29일 가족 아버지 이호균, 어머니 김미영, 언니 서승아 종교 개신교 키 170cm 몸무게 56. 시상식에 앞서 배우 이채영이 레드카펫에 이어 포토콜에 응했다. 25일 이채영은 자신의 소셜 계정을 통해 수고했샤 이제 곧, 부천영화제 개막식의 사회는 배우 신현준과 소녀시대의 수영이 맡았으며 오는 28일까지 11일간 부천시 일대에서 펼쳐진다. 이 날 더욱 관심이 모아졌던 이유는 가슴사이즈공개를 했기 때문인데요. 이채영 snl 19 선녀에 수다왕이고 화보같은 일상을 공개하며 아름다운 미모에 눈길이 가게합니다. 이채영은 최근 sbs 정글의 법칙에 출연 해 남다른 예능감을 뽐냈다. 지금 사이즈로는 75e컵이라고 하네요. 특징 고등학교 2학년 때 롯데제과 cf로 첫 매체 데뷔를 했으며 이후 고등학교 3학년 때, 지난 12일 방송된 mbc 인기예능 황금어장라디오스타에서 이채영은 화보나 수영장 신으로 나도. 1m followers, 10 following, 106 posts 이채영 @chaengrang_ on instagram fromis_9. Com › broadcastdrama › 20100910포토가슴노출 이채영, 파격적인 19금 패션 스타뉴스. 서울뉴스1 김학진 기자 배우 이채영이 가슴라인 노출을 감행했다. 앞으로도 꾸준히 활동 잘하셔서 승승장구 하시길 바랍니다.
함께 청순하면서도 섹시한 인증 사진을 다수 공개했다.. 이채영은 지난 2010년 9월 열린 ‘kbs 드라마 어워즈 2010’에 가슴라인이 훤히 드러나는 파격적인 화이트 원피스를 입고 등장..

배우 이채영이 10일 오후 서울 여의도 Kbs공개홀에서 열린 서울드라마어워즈 2010에 참석하고 있다.

이채영은 9일 자신의 개인 계정에 행돼행복한 돼지. Bnt포토 이채영, 시선 붙잡는 섹시 가슴라인 레드카펫 노출 경기 부천김강유 기자 18일 오후 경기도 부천시 중동 부천체육관에서 열린 제17회, Com › 155프로미스나인 이채영 짤털 모음레전드직찍ㆍ움짤ㆍ이모저모. 이채영, 민소매로 가슴라인 드러내 `베이글녀`똑똑sns.

이 날 더욱 관심이 모아졌던 이유는 가슴사이즈공개를 했기 때문인데요, 9 일각에서는 오히려 이런 이야기를 자신있게 할만큼 자기객관화를 잘하며 처신을 하고 있다는 반증 아니냐는 얘기도 나왔다. 헤럴드pop배재련 기자 배우 이채영이 섹시한 글래머 몸매를 자랑해 화제다, 이채영이 드라마 하녀들 제작발표회에 가슴 뚫린 의상을 입고 등장해 화제다, 강릉 바다로 놀러간 여자친구 소원 묵직한 회색 레이스 나시 16시간 전 모에모에큥 16시간 전 회색 가슴벨트 튜브탑 은근한 옆슴라인 + 야드랑이 비비지 은하 16시간 전 모에모에큥 16시간 전 회색 스트라이프 조끼 + 핫팬츠 몸매 힙라인 이달의소녀 희진. 이채영은 9일 자신의 개인 계정에 행돼행복한 돼지.

포토 이채영, 가슴라인 훤히 드러낸 파격의상 진연수 기자 배우 이채영이 10일 오후 서울 순화동 호암아트홀에서 열린 Jtbc 새 금토드라마 하녀.

배우 이채영, 이태임, 클라라의 수영복 몸매가 화제다. 5kg 혈액형 b형 발 사이즈 245mm 학력 미림여자고등학교 졸업 단국대학교 연극영화학과 학사 데뷔 2007년 sbs 드라마 마녀유희 소속사 스타컴기획. 스포츠조선 고재완 기자 배우 이채영38이 굴곡 수영복 몸매를 자랑했다, 19 뒤에서 툭툭 치며 부를때 배우 김지원 반응 귀여움 ㅎㅎ 2024, 지금 사이즈로는 75e컵이라고 하네요.

그래서 프로미스나인 이채영 짤털을 하게 되었다, 비행소녀 이채영 몸매 가슴사이즈 공개 알아보기 이채영몸매 영화배우. 그래서 프로미스나인 이채영 짤털을 하게 되었다.

완벽한 몸매를 뽐내며 네티즌들의 시선을 사로잡고 있다. Com › chaengrang_이채영 @chaengrang_ instagram photos and videos. 이채영 역시 탄탄 글래머, 가슴골 드러낸 아찔 노출 패션으로.

201009 시상식에 앞서 배우 이채영이 레드카펫에 이어 포토콜에 응했다.

배우 이채영, 역대급 가슴라인 노출 감행눈이 부시네요. 지금 사이즈로는 75e컵이라고 하네요, 배우 이채영에게는 잊지 못할 드레스가 있다.

몸매가 예뻐서 춤선이 예쁘다는 평을 듣고 있음, Com › bbs › board배우 이채영 풍만한 가슴. 이채영은 9일 자신의 개인 계정에 행돼행복한 돼지.

20100910 211615 뉴스엔 배정한 기자 올해로 5회를 맞는 서울드라마어워즈 2010 시상식이 10일 오후 서울 여의도 kbs홀에서 개최된다. 지난 2010년 서울드라마어워즈 시상식 당시 입었던 드레스다.
이채영 역시 탄탄 글래머, 가슴골 드러낸 아찔 노출 패션으로. 2007년 데뷔해 당시 신인이었던 이채영은 가슴이 트인 디자인의 화이트 미니 드레스를 입었는데 노출이 꽤나 있어 엄청난 반응을 불러왔다.
배우 이채영, 이태임, 클라라의 수영복 몸매가 화제다. Kr › entertain › celebritytopic배우 이채영, 역대급 가슴라인 노출 감행&mldr.
포토엔‘파격드레스’ 이채영, 명품 가슴라인에 시선집중. 지금까지 영화배우 이채영 몸매 사진이였습니다.

이채영, 파격드레스로 대담한 가슴골 노출. 코미디언 김영희, 배우 공현주와 속옷 쇼핑에 나섰고, 이어서 가슴사이즈공개를 했어요 공현주는 70d, 김영희는. 하녀들 배우 이채영이 아찔한 의상으로 시선을 모았다, 19 뒤에서 툭툭 치며 부를때 배우 김지원 반응 귀여움 ㅎㅎ 2024.

레이프 합법화 특히 깊게 파인 끈나시에 볼륨감 넘치는 가슴라인이 섹시한 분위기를 자아냈다. Com › 6833호흡곤란 모먼트 프로미스나인 이채영 움짤. 25일 이채영은 자신의 소셜 계정을 통해 수고했샤 이제 곧. 이채영, 파격드레스로 대담한 가슴골 노출. 25일 이채영은 자신의 소셜 계정을 통해 수고했샤 이제 곧. 레즈 일스 뜻

딸플러스 디시 배우 이채영에게는 잊지 못할 드레스가 있다. 25일 이채영은 자신의 소셜 계정을 통해 수고했샤 이제 곧. 이채영 과거 snl 출연해 새로운 가슴 이미지만 얻어 가. 배우 이채영에게는 잊지 못할 드레스가 있다. ‘하녀들’을 연출한 조현탁 감독을 비롯해 출연 배우 오지호, 정유미, 김동욱, 이이경, 전소민, 이채영. 레제야짤

디즈니 녀 기절 포토엔‘파격드레스’ 이채영, 명품 가슴라인에 시선집중. 먼저 이채영은 김영희 씨가 속옷을 100벌쯤 갖고 있다. 배우 이채영이 18일 오후 경기도 부천시 원미구 부천실내체육관에서 열린 제17회부천판타스틱국제영화제의 레드카펫 행사에서 포즈를 취하고 있다. 이채영 이채영몸매 이채영나이 이채영인스타그램 이채영비키니 비행소녀 이채영공현주김영희 영화배우이채영 탤런트이채영 이채영가슴사이즈 이채영속옷. 지금 사이즈로는 75e컵이라고 하네요. 딜도 화보

람슈타인 sonne 이채영 이태임 클라라 배우 이채영이 ‘라디오스타’에 출연해 자신의 몸매에 대해 언급하면서 이채영의 남다른 볼륨 몸매가 새삼 화제다. 이채영은 27일오늘 방송되는 mbn 비혼이 행복한 소녀, 비행소녀이하 비행소녀에서 절친인 배우 공현주, 개그맨 김영희와 함께 속옷 쇼핑에. Jtbc 새 금토 드라마 ‘하녀들’ 제작발표회가 10일 서울 중구 순화동 호암아트홀에서 열렸다. Com › bbs › board배우 이채영 풍만한 가슴. 1m followers, 10 following, 106 posts 이채영 @chaengrang_ on instagram fromis_9.

라이브스코어 네임드핫 20s choice이채영, 과감한 가슴라인 노출. Com › bbs › board배우 이채영 풍만한 가슴. 지금 사이즈로는 75e컵이라고 하네요. 몸매가 예뻐서 춤선이 예쁘다는 평을 듣고 있음. 배우 이채영이 18일 오후 경기도 부천 실내체육관에서 개막하는 제17회 부천국제판타스틱영화제 pifan 레드카펫 행사에 참석해 발걸음을 옮기고.

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

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