흔히 손오공 이야기로 기억되는 서유기의 원작자는 명나라 시대의 작가 오승은 吳承恩입니다.

흔히 손오공 이야기로 기억되는 서유기의 원작자는 명나라 시대의 작가 오승은 吳承恩입니다.

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.

이라며 해당 사진이 2d 캐릭터인 손오공의 모습을 실제 사람의 얼굴로 구현했음을 밝혔다. 손오공 이외엔 버독도 맡았었는데 이쪽도 호평일색. 서유기의 주인공, 원숭이 수인 손오공. 초사이어인 블루 손오공 신같은 사이어인 초사이어인 블루 또는 초사이어인 갓 초사이어인은 초사이어인 갓과 초사이어인의 조합으로 손오공이 신기를 사용하는 동시에 초사이어인으로 변신합니다.

172 80ted 손오공 얼굴이 많이 달라졌군요ㄷㄷ.

주요 인물인 삼장법사, 저팔계, 사오정은 손오공과 어떤 관계가 있을까, 드래곤볼 z 의 극장판 부활의 퓨전편에서 쟈넨바를 쓰러트리기 위해 첫등장을 하고, 드래곤볼 gt에서는 초일성장군을 쓰러트리기위해 나오고, 드래곤볼 슈퍼 브로리 에서는 브로리를 막기위해 등장했다, 또한 전과 비교하면 얼굴선이 많이 남성다워지고 굵어졌다. 그게 잘못됐다는 건 아닌데, 손오공 머리카락이 현실적으로 보이는 그림은 여태껏 본 적이 없어. 돌에서 태어나서 돌원숭이라고 불리다가 화과산에서 수렴동을 찾아낸 공으로 원숭이들의 우두머리 노릇을 하게 되며 스스로를 미후왕美猴王2이라 칭했다가, read more. Com › wiki › 손오공드래곤볼손오공 드래곤볼 우만위키. Com › sonoban1101 › 221869188751타고난 천재 만화가의 드래곤볼 그림체 변화과정 feat. Org › wiki › 손오공손오공 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 손오공 캐릭터 이미지 freepik에서 무료 다운로드. 손오공을 카카로트라는 이름으로 부르는 것은 몇몇 사이어인들 뿐이다.

드래곤볼 초사이언 손오공 16 30cm 얼굴교체 피규어 스태츄 레진 액션 무천도사 크리링 브로리 저승.

서유기의 주인공, 원숭이 수인 손오공. 최근 공개된 티저 영상에는 손오공 역을 맡은 이승기의 모습이 담겨있다, 손오공 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 손오공 과 베지터 가 퓨전 이라는 기술로 합체한 인물. 초사이어인 블루 손오공 신같은 사이어인 초사이어인 블루 또는 초사이어인 갓 초사이어인은 초사이어인 갓과 초사이어인의 조합으로 손오공이 신기를 사용하는 동시에 초사이어인으로 변신합니다.
중국어 발음은 sūnwùkōng 쑨우쿵 10.. 수많은 강적들로부터 지구를 지킨, 지구에서 자란 지구인이자 전투민족 사이어인.. 손오공 블랙과 손오공은 왜 다른 얼굴을 가지고 있나요.. 이들은 모두 주인공의 내면에 있는 잠재의식을 상징한다고 볼 수 있다..

손오공 孫悟空은 중국의 4대 기서 가운데 하나인 《서유기》의 주인공인 원숭이로, 오공, 제천대성 齊天大聖, 하늘의 제왕, 위대한 성인, 혹은 미후왕 美猴王, 잘생긴 원숭이 왕이라고도 불린다.

생태공원의 손오공 엽흔 칡 작성자 홍흥숙 등록일 20201216 조회수 321, 긴 시간 동안 연재된 만큼 외형에 큰 변화가 있는 캐릭터지만, 저러한 특징은 유지되어서 어느 시점에서든 이게 오공이다하고 알아볼 수 있다. 애니메이션 모두 제 1화원작의 표기는 기지1부터 등장한다, 서유기 의 손오공 으로부터 딴 이름이다. 손오공은 당나라 삼장법사인 현장의 첫째 제자가 되어.

드래곤볼에서 손오공과 똑같은 얼굴을 가진 캐릭터들은 모두. 잠재의식 3요소 서유기의 주인공은 손오공이다. 인조인간 셀 마인부우 편 32살의 손오공 9294년 그림체 우리에게 가장 익숙한 듬직한 손오공의 모습 고된 훈련과 전투를 통해 얻어낸 선명한 근육과 다부진 몸을 갖고있다. 이름은 드래곤볼 의 주인공 손오공 의 둘째 아들인 손오천 에서 따왔다. 페이스캠4k 세븐틴 정한 손오공 seventeen jeonghan.

먼저 이안 제임스 콜렛 이 최초의 영미 손오공 성우를 맡았다.

일본어 발음은 そんごくう 손고쿠로, 영문 표기는 작품을 만든 나라를 따라 원작인 《서유기》 의 손오공은 sun wukong, 만화 《드래곤볼》의 손오공 은 son goku로, 대한민국 완구업체 손오공 은 sonokong 11 으로 표기한다. Org › wiki › 드래곤볼의_등장드래곤볼의 등장인물 목록 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전.
이 형태에서 goku는 금발 대신 분홍색 머리를 가지고 있습니다. 손오공 블랙과 손오공은 왜 다른 얼굴을 가지고 있나요.
손오공은 당나라 삼장법사인 현장의 첫째 제자가 되어. 이름은 드래곤볼 의 주인공 손오공 의 둘째 아들인 손오천 에서 따왔다.

먼저 이안 제임스 콜렛 이 최초의 영미 손오공 성우를 맡았다, 하지만 비루스에게 고전을 면치 못했으며, 비루스에게는 한참 여유가 있었다. 이들은 모두 주인공의 내면에 있는 잠재의식을 상징한다고 볼 수 있다. 참고로 이 성우는 피콜로, 베지터도 맡아봤다. 생애 편집 1964년 1월 10일, 서울특별시 에서 출생한 그는 초등학교 6학년 때 급우가 우연히 가져온 글러브를 통해 체육시간에 복싱을 하게 되었는데 그때부터 복싱을 하겠다고 결심하였다.

손오공 과 베지터 가 퓨전 이라는 기술로 합체한 인물.

초사이어인 블루 손오공 신같은 사이어인 초사이어인 블루 또는 초사이어인 갓 초사이어인은 초사이어인 갓과 초사이어인의 조합으로 손오공이 신기를 사용하는 동시에 초사이어인으로 변신합니다. 최근 공개된 티저 영상에는 손오공 역을 맡은 이승기의 모습이 담겨있다. 손오공 손오공孫悟空, sun wukong은 중국의 4대 기서 가운데 하나인 《서유기》의 주인공인 원숭이로, 오공, 제천대성齊天大聖, 하늘제왕과 같이 높은 성자신선, 하늘나라 옥황상제와 동등한 위대한 신선을 이름, 혹은 미후왕美猴王, 잘생긴 원숭이 왕, 투전승불鬪戰勝佛, 싸움의 부처이라고도. 손오공,goku의 얼굴,검은 주황색 기모노,손 십자가,fuzzy.

10살 장난감 테일즈런너의 16번째 런너 캐릭터로 베라에게 반해 동화나라에 남게 된 서유기의 주인공. 인조인간 셀 마인부우 편 32살의 손오공 9294년 그림체 우리에게 가장 익숙한 듬직한 손오공의 모습 고된 훈련과 전투를 통해 얻어낸 선명한 근육과 다부진 몸을 갖고있다. 잠재의식 3요소 서유기의 주인공은 손오공이다. ↑ 현재 한국판 손오공 성우 중에서 이전 성우인 백순철과 맞먹는 많은 인지도와 높은 평가를 받고 있다. 셀 전에서 셀 의 자폭을 막고 죽은 오공이 저승 에서 훈련하여 습득했다. 4694056tktube

20대 남자 배우 리스트 비디오판 시절의 올드팬들은 김환진 다음으로 백순철 성우의 연기 또한 고평가한다. 초사이어인 블루 손오공 신같은 사이어인 초사이어인 블루 또는 초사이어인 갓 초사이어인은 초사이어인 갓과 초사이어인의 조합으로 손오공이 신기를 사용하는 동시에 초사이어인으로 변신합니다. 손오공은 당나라 삼장법사인 현장의 첫째 제자가 되어. 손오공 손오공孫悟空, sun wukong은 중국의 4대 기서 가운데 하나인 《서유기》의 주인공인 원숭이로, 오공, 제천대성齊天大聖, 하늘제왕과 같이 높은 성자신선, 하늘나라 옥황상제와 동등한 위대한 신선을 이름, 혹은 미후왕美猴王, 잘생긴 원숭이 왕, 투전승불鬪戰勝佛, 싸움의 부처이라고도. 참고로 이 성우는 피콜로, 베지터도 맡아봤다. 3195923

3363283 エロ 오공의 전투력이 통상의 150배 초사이어인의 3배의 힘을 얻는다. 서유기의 손오공과 그 배경 이야기 역사 속의 상상과 현실 서유기의 손오공 이야기는 단순히 서사적 재미 를 넘어, 그 당시의 사회적, 문화적 배경 과도 밀접하게 연결되어 있습니다. Com › 드래곤볼손오공의드래곤볼 손오공의 모든 형태는 순서대로 무엇입니까. 발로란트 플레이 시, 조준선의 경우 때와 장소를 가리지 않고 수시로 바뀐다. 화유기 이승기 tvn 새 주말드라마 화유기가 베일을 벗었다. 1998_11_04 유출

275cn xxx 이름은 드래곤볼 의 주인공 손오공 의 둘째 아들인 손오천 에서 따왔다. Com › sinchangism › 221578594436드래곤볼 손오공에 대해 알아보자. 20230606 165617 수정일 20230606 165635 175. 손오공 孫悟空은 중국의 4대 기서 가운데 하나인 《서유기》의 주인공인 원숭이로, 오공, 제천대성 齊天大聖, 하늘의 제왕, 위대한 성인, 혹은 미후왕 美猴王, 잘생긴 원숭이 왕이라고도 불린다. 손오공 『서유기』의 등장인물들 가운데서는 다른 누구보다 손오공의 존재가 특별하면서 두드러진다.

06년생 배우 잎자루 떨어진 자리에 손오공 얼굴이 있어요. 초사이어인 블루 손오공 신같은 사이어인 초사이어인 블루 또는 초사이어인 갓 초사이어인은 초사이어인 갓과 초사이어인의 조합으로 손오공이 신기를 사용하는 동시에 초사이어인으로 변신합니다. Com › wiki › 손오공드래곤볼손오공 드래곤볼 우만위키. 오공의 전투력이 통상의 150배 초사이어인의 3배의 힘을 얻는다. 우여곡절 끝에 오공은 피콜로 대마왕을 물리치는데 성공하고 또다시 3년의 시간이 흐릅니다.

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

흔히 손오공 이야기로 기억되는 서유기의 원작자는 명나라 시대의 작가 오승은 吳承恩입니다., 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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