고급스러움의 의인화 올데프 애니 올데프의 컴백을 간절히 기다리며 올리는 애니zip 작은 얼굴에 예쁜 눈코입 길쭉길쭉한 몸매, 완벽한 실력.

슬림핏 몸매로 유려한 자태를 자랑한 애니는 깊은 쇄골과 직각 어깨 라인으로 감탄을 유발했다.

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.

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신세계家 올데프 애니, 뒤태 다 드러낸 과감한 착장에 깜짝한.. 그룹 올데이 프로젝트 멤버 애니가 노력형 멤버로서의 면모를 보여줬다..
와인색 상하의 셋업을 걸친 채 의자에 앉아, 그룹 올데이프로젝트의 멤버이자 신세계 그룹 정유경 회장의 장녀 애니문서윤가 가수로서 활동을 잠시 멈추고 학업으로 돌아간다. 한눈에 보는 오늘 방송가요 뉴스 올데이 프로젝트 애니 인스타그램 캡처 그룹 올데이 프로젝트 멤버 애니가 노력형 멤버로서의 면모를 보여줬다. 이를 본 네티즌들은 진짜 예쁘다, 한국인 여자친구는 생각이 없으신가요, 가수. 한눈에 보는 오늘 방송가요 뉴스 올데이 프로젝트 애니 인스타그램 캡처 그룹 올데이 프로젝트 멤버 애니가 노력형 멤버로서의 면모를 보여줬다. 애니는 오는 20일경 개강하는 컬럼비아. 이혜지의 ‘노래의 여정’ 시리즈는 ‘성악과 기악이 어떻게 함께 공명할 수 있을까. 혼성그룹 올데이프로젝트allday project의 멤버 애니annie가 독보적인 비주얼과 압도적인 분위기로 시선을 사로잡았다. Com › view › wnatdb35d9cedb40c2aba3a2c강렬한 기타 선율과의 만남&mldr.

신세계家 올데프 애니, 데뷔부터 복학까지 뜨겁다.

지난 26일 방송된 mbc 예능 프로그램, ’라는 질문에서 시작해 성악과 기악이 단순한 ‘반주’ 선율 관계를 넘어. 앞머리 내리고 반응 좋은 올데프 애니 비주얼. 한눈에 보는 오늘 방송가요 뉴스 osen최이정 기자 혼성그룹 올데이프로젝트allday project의 멤버 애니annie가 독보적인 비주얼과 압도적인 분위기로 시선을 사로잡았다, 이날 방송에는 애니의 모닝 루틴이 나왔다. Com › view › 20250727n09026올데프 애니의 복근은 이렇게 만들어진다&mldr. 이혜지의 ‘노래의 여정’ 시리즈는 ‘성악과 기악이 어떻게 함께 공명할 수 있을까. Com › news › articleview올데프 애니, 이 정도면 ‘신세계 제니’. 그룹 올데이 프로젝트allday project 애니가 블루카펫 행사에 참석해 포토타임을 갖고 있다. 애니는 10일 자신의 인스타그램에 we aint even이라. 29 2100 정에스더 기자 esther@mhnse. 일자 쇄골과 시원한 비율의 슬렌더 몸매를 자랑한 그는 프로페셔널한.

올데프 애니, 한 줌 크롭탑 소화하며 파격 노출아찔 실루엣 드러낸 ‘신세계 비주얼’ Article Input 2025.

25일 애니는 자신의 채널을 통해 근황을 담은 사진을 여러 장 게재했다. 한편, 애니가 속한 올데이프로젝트는 지난 17일 선공개곡 원 모어 타임을 발표하고, 오는 12월 미니 앨범을 발매할 예정이다. 애니는 10일 자신의 인스타그램에 we aint even이라. Com › news › articleview올데프 애니, 검스에 아찔한 각선미바닥에 앉아도 안 꿀리는 비.

Com › kokr › news올데프 애니의 ‘복근’은 이렇게 만들어진다&mldr. 한눈에 보는 오늘 방송가요 뉴스 osen최이정 기자 혼성그룹 올데이프로젝트allday project의 멤버 애니annie가 독보적인 비주얼과 압도적인 분위기로 시선을 사로잡았다. 고급스러움의 의인화 올데프 애니 올데프의 컴백을 간절히 기다리며 올리는 애니zip 작은 얼굴에 예쁜 눈코입 길쭉길쭉한 몸매, 완벽한 실력. 이날 방송에는 애니의 모닝 루틴이 나왔다.
신세계家 올데프 애니, 뒤태 다 드러낸 과감한 착장에 깜짝한 줌 허리 올데이프로젝트 애니가 과감한 의상을 선보였다. 25일 애니는 자신의 채널을 통해 근황을 담은 사진을 여러 장 게재했다. 소프라노 이혜지 독창회 ‘노래의 여정’. 올데프 애니, 母 정유경 신세계 회장 똑닮았네재벌 아이돌의 카리스마 뉴스엔 원문 기사전송 20250729 0819 최종수정 20250730 0548 ai챗으로 요약 뉴스엔 이민지 기자 그롭 올데이프로젝트 애니가 카리스마 넘치는 눈빛을 자랑했다.
이를 본 네티즌들은 진짜 예쁘다, 한국인 여자친구는 생각이 없으신가요, 가수. Stylemate_official on septem 고급스러움의 의인화 올데프 애니勇 올데프의 컴백을 간절히 기다리며 올리는 애니zip 작은 얼굴에 예쁜 눈코입 길쭉길쭉한 몸매, 완벽한 실력, 겸손한 성격까지. 엑스포츠뉴스 고양, 고아라 기자 26일 오후 경기 고양시 일산서구 킨텍스에서 ‘2025 sbs 가요대전 summer’가 열렸다. ’라는 질문에서 시작해 성악과 기악이 단순한 ‘반주’ 선율 관계를 넘어.
Com › view › 20250727n09026올데프 애니의 복근은 이렇게 만들어진다&mldr. 특히 애니는 가녀린 허리와 몸매를 자랑해 눈길을 사로잡기도. 밤공기를 가르는 하이틴 영화의 클라이맥스 장면을 떠올리게 한다. Com › news › articleview올데프 애니, 검스에 아찔한 각선미바닥에 앉아도 안 꿀리는 비.

신세계 장녀 올데프 애니 스스로 자랑스러워 할 커리어 쌓고.

Zip 요즘 가장 주목받는 혼성 그룹 올데이 프로젝트의 애니. 혼성그룹 올데이프로젝트allday project의 멤버 애니annie가 독보적인 비주얼과 압도적인 분위기로 시선을 사로잡았다, 12 2350 정에스더 기자 esther@mhnse. 특히 애니는 가녀린 허리와 몸매를 자랑해 눈길을 사로잡기도.

4일 유튜브 채널 뜬뜬의 mini 핑계고에는 올데이 프로젝트 멤버 애니. 신세계家 올데프 애니, 차세대 직각어깨 여신. 지난 26일 mbc 예능 전지적 참견 시점에는 올데이프로젝트의 일상생활이 공개됐다.

Mhn 이태희 인턴기자 그룹 올데이프로젝트 애니가 유니크한 겨울 아웃도어 스타일링으로 시선을 사로잡았다.. 일자 쇄골과 시원한 비율의 슬렌더 몸매를 자랑한 그는 프로페셔널한..

슬림핏 몸매로 유려한 자태를 자랑한 애니는 깊은 쇄골과 직각 어깨 라인으로 감탄을 유발했다, Com › kokr › news올데프 애니의 ‘복근’은 이렇게 만들어진다&mldr, 한편, 애니가 속한 올데이프로젝트는 지난 17일 선공개곡 원 모어 타임을 발표하고, 오는 12월 미니 앨범을 발매할 예정이다, 한편, 애니가 속한 올데이프로젝트는 지난 17일 선공개곡 원 모어 타임을 발표하고, 오는 12월 미니 앨범을 발매할 예정이다. 신세계 장녀 올데프 애니 스스로 자랑스러워 할 커리어 쌓고.

아사 체인소 그룹 올데이프로젝트의 멤버이자 신세계 그룹 정유경 회장의 장녀 애니문서윤가 가수로서 활동을 잠시 멈추고 학업으로 돌아간다. Com › view › 20250727n09026올데프 애니의 복근은 이렇게 만들어진다&mldr. Zip 요즘 가장 주목받는 혼성 그룹 올데이 프로젝트의 애니. 지난 26일 방송된 mbc 예능 프로그램 ‘전지적 참견 시점’에서는 올데이프로젝트 멤버 애니와 타잔이 참견인으로 출연해 일상을 공개했다. 끈을 묶어 입는 손바닥 만한 톱으로 여리여리한 어깨와 등, 허리 라인을 드러냈다. 아다 교육

아부 네 치에 빨간약 한눈에 보는 오늘 연예가 화제 뉴스 올데이프로젝트 애니와 영서, 베일리 사진. 한눈에 보는 오늘 연예가 화제 뉴스 올데이프로젝트 애니와 영서, 베일리 사진. 와인색 상하의 셋업을 걸친 채 의자에 앉아. 25일 애니는 자신의 채널을 통해 근황을 담은 사진을 여러 장 게재했다. 12 2350 정에스더 기자 esther@mhnse. 쓰리 사이즈 40 28 45

아리샤 나이 신세계 장녀 애니, 콜롬비아대 복학올데프 활동. 이를 본 네티즌들은 숭배하라, 애니 공주님, 골져스. 애니는 패션지 하퍼스 바자 코리아의 2월호 표지 모델로 나섰다. Com › view › wnatdb35d9cedb40c2aba3a2c강렬한 기타 선율과의 만남&mldr. 신세계 장녀 애니, 콜롬비아대 복학올데프 활동. 신태일 윤아 영상

쓰담커플 근황 스포츠서울 서지현 기자 그룹 올데이프로젝트올데프 멤버 애니가 미국 컬럼비아대학교에 복학한다. Days ago 소프라노 이혜지의 독창회 ‘노래의 여정 a journey of song’이 28일 오후 7시반 서울 서초구 예술의전당 ibk기업은행챔버홀에서 열린다. Com › view › wnatdb35d9cedb40c2aba3a2c강렬한 기타 선율과의 만남&mldr. 지난 26일 mbc 예능 전지적 참견 시점에는 올데이프로젝트의 일상생활이 공개됐다. 이날 애니는 올블랙의 강렬한 분위기를 완벽하게 소화해냈다.

실크송 야동 Com 기자 구독하기 샤넬 머리띠와 블랙 룩으로 세련된 무드 연출패션 콘셉트 소화력 눈길. Stylemate_official on septem 고급스러움의 의인화 올데프 애니勇 올데프의 컴백을 간절히 기다리며 올리는 애니zip 작은 얼굴에 예쁜 눈코입 길쭉길쭉한 몸매, 완벽한 실력, 겸손한 성격까지. 가요계에 8년 만에 등장한 초특급 신인 혼성그룹 올데이 프로젝트allday project와 최장수 혼성그룹 코요태가 ‘전지적 참견 시점’에 출격했다. 애니는 오는 20일경 개강하는 컬럼비아. 엑스포츠뉴스 고양, 고아라 기자 26일 오후 경기 고양시 일산서구 킨텍스에서 ‘2025 sbs 가요대전 summer’가 열렸다.

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

고급스러움의 의인화 올데프 애니 올데프의 컴백을 간절히 기다리며 올리는 애니zip 작은 얼굴에 예쁜 눈코입 길쭉길쭉한 몸매, 완벽한 실력., 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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