US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 2026.
The global human rights system is in peril. Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms. To defy this trend, governments that still value human rights, alongside social movements, civil society, and international institutions, need to form a strategic alliance to push back.
To be fair, the downward spiral predated Trump’s reelection. The democratic wave that began over 50 years ago has given way to what scholars term a “democratic recession.” Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States.
Of course, democracy is not a panacea for human rights violations; the US and other longtime democracies have their own histories of colonial crimes, racism, abusive justice systems, and wartime atrocities. More recently, authoritarian leaders have exploited public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantled the very institutions that brought them to power. Democratic institutions are crucial to represent the will of the people and keep power in check. It’s no surprise that whenever democracy is undermined, rights are too, as evident in recent years in India, Türkiye, the Philippines, El Salvador, and Hungary.
FIRST: The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Ozan Köse/AFP via Getty Images
In this context, 2025 may be seen as a tipping point. In just 12 months, the Trump administration has carried out a broad assault on key pillars of US democracy and the global rules-based order, which the US, despite inconsistencies, was, with other states, instrumental in helping to establish.
In short order, Trump’s second-term administration has undermined trust in the sanctity of elections, reduced government accountability, gutted food assistance and healthcare subsidies, attacked judicial independence, defied court orders, rolled back women’s rights, obstructed access to abortion care, undermined remedies for racial harm, terminated programs mandating accessibility for people with disabilities, punished free speech, stripped protections from trans and intersex people, eroded privacy, and used government power to intimidate political opponents, the media, law firms, universities, civil society, and even comedians.
Claiming a risk of “civilizational erasure” in Europe and leaning on racist tropes to cast entire populations as unwelcome in the US, the Trump administration has embraced policies and rhetoric that align with white nationalist ideology. Immigrants and asylum seekers have been subjected to inhumane conditions and degrading treatment; 32 died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2025, and as of mid-January 2026, an additional 4 have died. Masked immigration enforcement agents have targeted people of color, using excessive force, terrorizing communities, wrongfully arresting scores of citizens, and, most recently, unjustifiably killing two people in Minneapolis, whose deaths Human Rights Watch has documented.
The US president of course has the authority to tighten US borders and enforce stricter immigration policies. The administration is not, however, entitled to deny legal process to asylum seekers, mistreat undocumented migrants, or unlawfully discriminate. In a well-functioning democracy, no electoral mandate should supersede domestic legislation, constitutional protections, or international human rights law. Trump’s team has repeatedly bypassed these guardrails.
The violations have not stopped at the border. The Trump administration used a 1798 law to send hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador, where they were tortured and sexually abused. Its blatantly unlawful strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific extrajudicially killed more than 120 people whom Trump claims were drug traffickers.
US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 2026.
After the US attacked Venezuela and apprehended its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Trump claimed the US would “run” the country and control its vast oil reserves. Despite paying lip service to human rights concerns under Maduro at the United Nations, Trump has worked with the same repressive apparatus to further US interests. Many Western allies have chosen to stay silent about these lawless moves, perhaps fearing erratic tariffs and blowback to their alliances.
Trump’s foreign policy has upended the foundations of the rules-based order that seeks to advance democracy and human rights, even if imperfectly.
Trump has boasted that he doesn’t “need international law” as a constraint, only his “own morality.” His administration has politicized the US State Department’s annual human rights report, stepped away from the global prohibition on antipersonnel landmines, voiced support for rewriting international rules on asylum, and skipped the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of the US’ human rights record.
His administration withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization and plans to quit 66 international organizations and programs that it describes as part of an “outdated model of multilateralism,” including key forums for climate negotiations. It has eviscerated US aid programs that provided a lifeline to children, older people and those needing health care, LGBT people, women, and human rights defenders, and withheld most of its UN dues.
Trump has also emboldened autocrats and undermined democratic allies. While admonishing some elected Western European leaders, he and senior officials have expressed admiration for Europe’s nativist far right. He has favored autocrats such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, while continuing decades of US support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
His administration has unjustifiably imposed sanctions to punish respected Palestinian human rights organizations, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor and many of its judges, a UN special rapporteur, and for several months, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and his wife.
The institutional response in the US to Trump’s power grabs has been shockingly muted. Much of Congress, controlled by his own party, has not challenged his supercharged expansion of executive power. The leaders of the US’ most powerful technology companies have made significant donations and sought to placate the president. Some big law firms and prestigious universities have made deals rather than assert their independence, and some media organizations seem afraid to attract the president’s ire.
Has the US switched sides on the human rights playing field? While US engagement with human rights institutions has always been selective, China and Russia have long pursued an illiberal agenda. They stand much to gain from a US government that now expresses open hostility to universal rights. China and Russia remain strategic rivals of the US, but all three countries are now led by leaders who share open disdain for norms and institutions that could constrain their power.
Police detain an activist outside the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, before lawmakers approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed “extremist,” in Moscow, June 3, 2026.
Together, they wield considerable economic, military, and diplomatic power. If they were to consistently act as allies of convenience to erode global rules, they could threaten the entire system. Already, a loose international network of countries such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar, Cuba, and Belarus work in concert with Russia and China. These leaders share very little ideologically but align in undermining human rights and promoting a regressive international agenda. In word and in practice, the US government is now helping them in this endeavor.
FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Kyodo News via Getty Images; SECOND: A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, June 3, 2026. © 2022 Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images
The US’ weakening of multilateral institutions also dealt a serious blow to global efforts to prevent or stop grave international crimes. The “never again” movement, born from the horrors of the Holocaust and reignited by the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, spurred the UN General Assembly to embrace the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. Meant to guide international intervention to prevent and stop atrocities in tandem with efforts to prosecute and punish serious crimes, R2P made a real difference in places like the Central African Republic and Kenya.
Today, R2P is rarely invoked and the ICC is under siege. In addition to Trump’s far-reaching sanctions, in December 2025 a Moscow court sentenced the ICC prosecutor and eight of its judges to prison terms in absentia. Moreover, despite being ICC fugitives, in 2025, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by Donald Trump in Alaska, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Hungary, an ICC member state at the time, at Orban’s invitation.
Twenty years ago, the US government and civil society were instrumental in galvanizing a response to mass atrocities in Darfur. Sudan is burning again, but this time under Trump, with relative impunity. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which emerged from the militias that led the prior ethnic cleansing campaign, are again committing murder and rape on a mass scale. A growing body of evidence indicates that the UAE, a longtime US ally that recently made multi-billion-dollar deals with Trump, is providing the RSF with military support.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 3, 2026.
In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israeli armed forces have committed acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, killing over 70,000 people since the October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel and displacing the vast majority of Gaza’s population. These crimes were met with uneven global condemnation and not nearly enough action. Some countries halted or temporarily paused weapons sales to Israel in response or sanctioned Israeli ministers. Trump, however, continued a long-standing US policy of almost unconditional support to Israel, even as the International Court of Justice is weighing allegations of genocide and has issued binding orders under the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians’ rights.
Trump announced in February an alarming US plan to transform Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” free of Palestinians, which would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing. As implementation of the 20-point Trump peace plan has stalled, the administration has further normalized the dispossession of Palestinians through its failure to publicly protest Israel’s regular killing of those approaching the “yellow line” that now divides Gaza, its ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes, and unlawful restrictions on humanitarian aid.
FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
In Ukraine, Trump’s peace efforts have consistently downplayed Russia’s responsibility for serious violations. These include indiscriminate bombing, coercing Ukrainians in occupied areas to serve in the Russian military, systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, and the use of quadcopter drones to hunt and kill civilians. Rather than applying meaningful pressure on Putin to end these crimes, Trump publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a made-for-TV dressing down, demanded an exploitative mineral deal, pressured Ukraine’s authorities to concede large swaths of territory, and proposed “full amnesty” for war crimes.
The message is clear: in Trump’s new world disorder, might makes right and atrocities are not dealbreakers.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 3, 2026.
한번 느껴지기 시작한 후로는 어느 자세로든 다 느껴지더라. Fatestrange fake의 등장인물. 뉴스 디시미디어 디시이슈 1 2 1920일 양평서 한국친환경농업인 전국대회기후위기 대안 찾는다 오늘의신상맥주 한 캔 990원롯데마트슈퍼, 초가성비 주류 확대 이화영 기소 검사 직무대리로 재판 참여하게 해 달라. 전립선이 뜨겁게 저려오는것과 시려오는 것 두자극은 마지막에 결국 감각이 비슷해.
| 71 보추물 보면서 감정이입하는게 중요함 쥬지보다 뒷구멍의 감각에 몰입해야함 뒷치기 당하는 고양이자세. | 한번 느껴지기 시작한 후로는 어느 자세로든 다 느껴지더라. | 이번엔 저번에 말씀드린 이완과아네로스가 의학적으로 어떻게 작용하는지 제 생각을 풀어봅니다다들 봐주시고 헛점을 지적해주시거나고민이라도 해보시게 개념글좀 만들어주세요최대한 쉽. |
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| 뉴스 디시미디어 디시이슈 1 2 1920일 양평서 한국친환경농업인 전국대회기후위기 대안 찾는다 오늘의신상맥주 한 캔 990원롯데마트슈퍼, 초가성비 주류 확대 이화영 기소 검사 직무대리로 재판 참여하게 해 달라. | 사실 아네로스 홈페이지에 다 있는데 영어일 뿐이야. | 23% |
| 옆으로 누워 무릎을 배에 붙이는 자세를 취한다. | M자세때 꼬리뼈부분이 바닥에 닿아서 ㅈ같을때 많은데, 침대 모서리에 걸쳐서 눕거나 허리에 쿠션 같은거 깔고 함 사정유무 드라이 도중에 진짜 참지못하고 사정하고 싶을때 있음. | 13% |
| 하는 자괴감밖에 없었다 근데 3일째 되던날. | 자세는 누운채로 다리를 굽혀서 m자로만드는 m자자세하고 새우같이 몸을 마는 태아자세 편한자세로 힘을 빼고 기다리면 항문의 긴장이 풀어지면서. | 15% |
| 삽입한 상태에서 아무것도 하지 않고 30분1시간 30분자기 몸에 맞는. | 하는 자괴감밖에 없었다 근데 3일째 되던날. | 49% |
영어 울렁증이 있거나 애초부터 개인적인 주관이 많이 들어간 쓸데없는 가이드를 많이 봐서 그래.. ㅠㅠ 저 자세로 그냥 이완시키고 가만히 있다보면..Fatestrange fake의 등장인물. 그냥 아무런 자세에서 넣는다고해서 전립선 압박이 안되는 듯, 뭔가 찌릿하면서 암컷된다는건 개구라 m자 자세로 아네로스 낀 채. 삽입한 상태에서 아무것도 하지 않고 30분1시간 30분자기 몸에 맞는. Fatestrange fake의 등장인물. 전립선, 사정관 회음 동시 자극이 본 쾌감의 비밀이다. 다만 말했듯이 아네로스 움직임에 방해만 안되게 하면 됨. 드라이 드디어 했네요하 장장 3시간 했는데, 저는 자동수축은 하지 않았는데, 대신에 온몸, 특히 등쪽, 뭔가, 잘 모르겠지만 아까의 그 이물감이 더 확대된 느낌이, 자동으로 전립선을 아네로스가 꾹 눌러, 전립선이 뜨겁게 저려오는것과 시려오는 것 두자극은 마지막에 결국 감각이 비슷해.
일반 아네로스 쓰면 진짜 사정쾌감 지속적으로 느낄수 잇음. 실제로 숙변과 혈변으로 인해 패혈증 오는 사례들도있고 손톱깍이로 굳은살 자르다 패혈증으로 다리절단한 사례도 있는데 장에다가 직접 쑤셔넣는 아네. 전립선으로 가버리기 성공했다 명조 워더링 웨이브, 05 045728 삭제 글쓴 만갤러119.
저번에 아네로스 10년차 글쓴 유저 입니다, 둘째 이유는, 의도적인 힘을 가버림과 절정이 올때 유지하기 힘듭니다. 이번엔 저번에 말씀드린 이완과아네로스가 의학적으로 어떻게 작용하는지 제 생각을 풀어봅니다다들 봐주시고 헛점을 지적해주시거나고민이라도 해보시게 개념글좀 만들어주세요최대한 쉽. 둘째 이유는, 의도적인 힘을 가버림과 절정이 올때 유지하기 힘듭니다. 오늘의 아네로스 후기 201002202102 마비노기 영웅전. 자동으로 전립선을 아네로스가 꾹 눌러.
나는 아네로스에 정성스레 콘돔을 씌우고 젤봉지에 듬뿍 찍었다.. 아네로스 디시펌 너네 호기심으로라도 관장하지마라.. M자세때 꼬리뼈부분이 바닥에 닿아서 ㅈ같을때 많은데, 침대 모서리에 걸쳐서 눕거나 허리에 쿠션 같은거 깔고 함 사정유무 드라이 도중에 진짜 참지못하고 사정하고 싶을때 있음..
뉴스 디시미디어 디시이슈 1 2 1920일 양평서 한국친환경농업인 전국대회기후위기 대안 찾는다 오늘의신상맥주 한 캔 990원롯데마트슈퍼, 초가성비 주류 확대 이화영 기소 검사 직무대리로 재판 참여하게 해 달라, 드라이 드디어 했네요하 장장 3시간 했는데, 저는 자동수축은 하지 않았는데, 대신에 온몸, 특히 등쪽. 71 보추물 보면서 감정이입하는게 중요함 쥬지보다 뒷구멍의 감각에 몰입해야함 뒷치기 당하는 고양이자세, 자세는 누운채로 다리를 굽혀서 m자로만드는 m자자세하고 새우같이 몸을 마는 태아자세 편한자세로 힘을 빼고 기다리면 항문의 긴장이 풀어지면서.
침대에 수건깔고 새우잠 자세, 태아자세로 무릎 가슴까지 올리고 누워서 러브젤 잔뜩 바르고 넣었는데, 처음엔 엉덩이 구멍이 엄청 작아서 이게 들어, 복식호흡배를내밀며 하며 자극하는 감각도 시오후키 중에시도해야 read more, 아네로스 디시펌 너네 호기심으로라도 관장하지마라. 사실 아네로스 홈페이지에 다 있는데 영어일 뿐이야. ㅠㅠ 저 자세로 그냥 이완시키고 가만히 있다보면.
그냥 아무런 자세에서 넣는다고해서 전립선 압박이 안되는 듯, 아네로스 십몇만원짜린데 그런거말고 걍 만오천원 짝퉁 사서 설명서대로만 하셈 근성만 있으면 누구나 개발 가능하다고 함, 아네로스 해드끝과 돌기는 전립선, 사정관 표면을 압박하면서 상방으로 이동하고, 초 민감점에 접촉시 전신에서 자극이 일어난다, 오늘의 아네로스 후기 201002202102 마비노기 영웅전. 아네로스 십몇만원짜린데 그런거말고 걍 만오천원 짝퉁 사서 설명서대로만 하셈 근성만 있으면 누구나 개발 가능하다고 함. 다만 사람마다 최적의 압박이 다르기 때문에 태아 자세나 다리를 편 자세, 다른 크기의 아네로스 등으로 고정 압력을 조절할 수 있습니다.
로 아네로스 넣으면 전립선 자극 잘됌 2024. 뭔가 찌릿하면서 암컷된다는건 개구라 m자 자세로 아네로스 낀 채, 영어 울렁증이 있거나 애초부터 개인적인 주관이 많이 들어간 쓸데없는 가이드를 많이 봐서 그래, 힘 빼고 자기 체형에 맞는 전립선 살짝 압박되는 특정자세를 찾아야함.
앞에 아네로스 고르는 방법이나 관장 방법도 있었는데 알아서 잘 했을거라 생각하고사용 방법만 번역함s, 장에 무언가가 들어간다는 이질감밖에 들지 않았다 뭐 알아보니까 한방에 오르가즘 느끼는 사람도 있다던데, 전립선이 뜨겁게 저려오는것과 시려오는 것 두자극은 마지막에 결국 감각이 비슷해. 한번 느껴지기 시작한 후로는 어느 자세로든 다 느껴지더라, 오줌 싸듯이 신체를 이완시키고 있으면.
힘 빼고 자기 체형에 맞는 전립선 살짝 압박되는 특정자세를 찾아야함, 심지어 책상잡고 뒷치기 자세로 서있는데도 느껴짐 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 그렇게 1시간을 넘게 느끼. 통상 변이 마렵지않다면 직장 내부는 깨끗하나, 2. 통상 변이 마렵지않다면 직장 내부는 깨끗하나, 2. 일반 아네로스 쓰면 진짜 사정쾌감 지속적으로 느낄수 잇음.
kuzu_v0_44 71 보추물 보면서 감정이입하는게 중요함 쥬지보다 뒷구멍의 감각에 몰입해야함 뒷치기 당하는 고양이자세. 아네로스 십몇만원짜린데 그런거말고 걍 만오천원 짝퉁 사서 설명서대로만 하셈 근성만 있으면 누구나 개발 가능하다고 함. 다만 사람마다 최적의 압박이 다르기 때문에 태아 자세나 다리를 편 자세, 다른 크기의 아네로스 등으로 고정 압력을 조절할 수 있습니다. 뭔가, 잘 모르겠지만 아까의 그 이물감이 더 확대된 느낌이. 둘째 이유는, 의도적인 힘을 가버림과 절정이 올때 유지하기 힘듭니다. kpop deepfake socialmediagirls
kuzu_v0 82 아네로스 디시펌 너네 호기심으로라도 관장하지마라. 저번에 아네로스 10년차 글쓴 유저 입니다. 전립선이 뜨겁게 저려오는것과 시려오는 것 두자극은 마지막에 결국 감각이 비슷해. 삽입한 상태에서 아무것도 하지 않고 30분1시간 30분자기 몸에 맞는. 나는 아네로스에 정성스레 콘돔을 씌우고 젤봉지에 듬뿍 찍었다. ladyboy pmv
kuzu122 다만 사람마다 최적의 압박이 다르기 때문에 태아 자세나 다리를 편 자세, 다른 크기의 아네로스 등으로 고정 압력을 조절할 수 있습니다. 느끼기 좋은 자세는 무릎꿇고 엎드린 다음에 삽입하는 자세임 아네로스를 넣어서 배쪽으로 살살 누르듯이 긁다보면 쾌감이 오는 부분이 있는데 그. 그냥 아무런 자세에서 넣는다고해서 전립선 압박이 안되는 듯. 아네로스 디시펌 너네 호기심으로라도 관장하지마라. 오줌 싸듯이 신체를 이완시키고 있으면. kyouto kanigin kawaramachi ten
langd 디시 Jpg 200512202110 헬스 갤러리. 스노우필드의 성배전쟁에서 6명의 거짓 서번트가 소환된 뒤에 거듭 소환된 7명의 진짜 서번트 중 하나. 다만 사람마다 최적의 압박이 다르기 때문에 태아 자세나 다리를 편 자세, 다른 크기의 아네로스 등으로 고정 압력을 조절할 수 있습니다. Jpg 200512202110 헬스 갤러리. 드라이 드디어 했네요하 장장 3시간 했는데, 저는 자동수축은 하지 않았는데, 대신에 온몸, 특히 등쪽.
kuroinu ~kedakaki seijo wa hakudaku ni somaru~ 심지어 책상잡고 뒷치기 자세로 서있는데도 느껴짐 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 그렇게 1시간을 넘게 느끼. 오늘의 아네로스 후기 201002202102 마비노기 영웅전. 로 아네로스 넣으면 전립선 자극 잘됌 2024. 그래서 드린이들을 위해서 전립선 위치와 아네로스 사용법을 알려줄께. 오늘의 아네로스 후기 201002202102 마비노기 영웅전.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 3, 2026.
This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth.
This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.
Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.
Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.
The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”
Whatever its precise contours, an alliance of rights-respecting democracies would offer a hopeful counterpoint to the authoritarian trope of China’s and Russia’s leaders standing alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, observing military hardware in a parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in September. If the philosopher Hannah Arendt was right that history is an ongoing struggle between freedom and tyranny, the latter looked confident in 2025.
Yet, even in the worst of times, the idea of freedom and human rights is enduring. People power remains an engine for change. In the US, “No Kings” marches have drawn millions, protesters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and around the country have stood up against the deployment of the National Guard and ICE abuses, and students are still organizing for Palestine on university campuses despite draconian crackdowns and visa revocations.
People gather facing law enforcement after marching through downtown Austin, Texas at the conclusion of the "No Kings Day" demonstration in the US, June 3, 2026.
Buoyed by popular resistance, South Korean parliamentarians impeached their president to prevent him from grabbing power through martial law. Grassroots aid efforts by Sudan’s emergency response rooms, Hong Kong’s fire relief, Sri Lanka’s cyclone relief community kitchens, and Ukrainian mutual aid and solidarity collectives represent the best of this trend.
In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.
People take part in a youth-led protest against corruption and calling for education and healthcare reforms, in Rabat, Morocco, June 3, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 3, 2026.
In this more hostile world, civil society is more critical than ever. It’s also increasingly endangered, particularly in an environment where funding is scarce. In 2025, Human Rights Watch was labeled “undesirable” and banned from operating in Russia. For partners in Egypt, Hong Kong, and India, these tactics are all too familiar. Restrictions on civil society and protest have become more commonplace in Europe, including the UK and France. And now, for the first time, many worry about risks associated with their operational presence in the US, where the Open Society Foundations, a major donor, have already been threatened, and the administration is preparing a list of “domestic terrorists” under overbroad guidance that could be interpreted to include the work of many progressive groups.
Breaking the authoritarian wave and standing up for human rights is a generational challenge. In 2026, it will play out most acutely in the US, with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world. Fighting back will require a determined, strategic, and coordinated reaction from voters, civil society, multilateral institutions, and rights-respecting governments around the globe.
오늘의 아네로스 후기 201002202102 마비노기 영웅전., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.