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.
지난 15일 유튜브 채널 ‘wired’는 제니의 인터뷰 영상을 공개했다. 제니는 14세 때 미국 유학을 포기하고 yg엔터테인먼트이하 yg에서 6년간 트레이닝을 받아 블랙핑크로 데뷔했다. 사진 속 제니는 자신이 추구하는 방향인 노출을 여한없이 한다. 여성의 속옷 착용은 개인의 선택일 뿐이라는 생각이 한국 사회에서 커지고 있다.
그룹 블랙핑크의 멤버 제니28가 패션에 대한 자신의 생각을 이야기했다, 지난 8일부터 9일까지 유튜브와 sns등 동영상 채널에 올라오고 있는 제니의 솔로 콘서트 팬 직캠 영상이 화제다. 19일 하퍼스 바자 us는 제니와 함께한 화보와 인터뷰를 공개했다, 성형 문의도 언제든지 환영⭐ dm, 댓글 남겨주세요‼️ 유튜브 채널 검색 fresh tv 구독과 좋아요는 댓글은 많은 힘이 됩니다, Zara 자라 제니 곰돌이 모자 일체형 목도리 양털 장갑. 스포츠조선 백지은 기자 그룹 블랙핑크 제니가 아낌없이 보여줬다. 블랙핑크 제니가 파격 노출 화보를 공개해 팬들도 놀라게 했다. 주요 부위 민망 제니 콘서트 노출의상에 갑론을박 스포츠경향. 쇼핑, 깐깐하게 보다, 나무처럼 예능, 나무처럼 984개의 글 목록열기. 19일 하퍼스 바자 us는 제니와 함께한 화보와 인터뷰를 공개했다, 제니는 7일 자신의 sns에 잡지와 함께한 속옷 화보를 공개했다.지금 할인중인 다른 머플러스카프숄 제품도.. 심한 속쓰림이나 통증으로 괴로운 역류성 식도염 제니센 터치..
속옷 하의를 손으로 들어 튕기는 듯 이것이 바로 무결점 몸매, 제니니까 용서되는 파격 노출이다. H30 일본인한국인들은 왜 편의점에서 파자마파티를 하므니카. 그룹 블랙핑크 제니가 아슬아슬 19금 속옷 화보로 흠잡을데 없는 완벽 몸매를 자랑했다. 원래 아랑전설 2에서 닌자 캐릭터가 기획되었지만 그녀가 아니라 가칭 인술 마스터 라고 통칭되던 남성 닌자였다.
미공개 사진이나 미공개 동영상은 서로이웃 공개를 하신 분만 보, 사진 속 제니는 금발의 헤어스타일에 가죽 옷을. 여성의 속옷 착용은 개인의 선택일 뿐이라는 생각이 한국 사회에서 커지고 있다. 의외로 패셔너블한 캐릭터 뿐만 아니라 가난하다는 설정의 캐릭터들도 이 속성을 갖춘 경우가 종종 있다, 제니는 14세 때 미국 유학을 포기하고 yg엔터테인먼트이하 yg에서 6년간 트레이닝을 받아 블랙핑크로 데뷔했다, 스포츠조선 백지은 기자 그룹 블랙핑크 제니가 아낌없이 보여줬다.
전중혈은 양측 유두를 이은 선의 중앙점으로 가슴 한가운데에 위치하고 있습니다.. 패션업계에 부는 ‘언더붑underboob’ 열풍에 대한 젊은 세대와 중장년층의 엇갈린 반응이다.. 8일과 9일 각 동영상 채널에 업로드 되고 있는 제니의 솔로 콘서트 팬 직캠 영상에서 제니가 착용한 파격적인 의상이 화제와 함께 논란이 되고 있다..
제니는 14세 때 미국 유학을 포기하고 yg엔터테인먼트이하 yg에서 6년간 트레이닝을 받아 블랙핑크로 데뷔했다. 속옷 하의를 손으로 들어 튕기는 듯 이것이 바로 무결점 몸매, 제니니까 용서되는 파격 노출이다. 제니29가 월드 아이돌 블랙핑크 제니, 인간 김제니로서 속마음을 허심탄회하게 터놓았다. Com › cinemart3 › 223871318626유두 노출마저도 두려워 하지 않는. 쿠팡은 한국에 빌빌 기어야 되는 회사인데 너무 자만하긴 함. 미공개 사진이나 미공개 동영상은 서로이웃 공개를 하신 분만 보.
| 블랙핑크 제니가 파격 노출 화보를 공개해 팬들도 놀라게 했다. | 제니는 7일 자신의 sns에 잡지와 함께한 속옷 화보를 공개했다. | 유 유두 42031 유부녀 59245 유연한 3746 유혹 11540 윤 윤간 82414 음 음경 18021 음식 4249 의 의사 12085 이 이모 882 이스라엘 인 407 이집트 사람 1685 이탈리아 27641 이탈리아 엄마 416475 인 인도 64195 인도 가슴 332087 인도 구강 888901 인도 레즈비언 224061 인도 섹시한중년여성. |
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| 제니는 지난 28일 자신의 인스타그램에 신곡 만트라mantra 뮤직비디오 비하인드 사진을 여러 장 올렸다. | 쿠팡은 한국에 빌빌 기어야 되는 회사인데 너무 자만하긴 함. | Com › dearus7 › 222720517027style더 짧아진 배꼽티, 제니정호연도 입었다&mldr. |
| 패션업계에 부는 ‘언더붑underboob’ 열풍에 대한 젊은 세대와 중장년층의 엇갈린 반응이다. | 제니가 착용한 파격적인 의상 때문이다. | 8일과 9일 각 동영상 채널에 업로드 되고 있는 제니의 솔로 콘서트 팬 직캠 영상에서 제니가 착용한 파격적인 의상이 화제와 함께 논란이 되고 있다. |
| 그룹 블랙핑크 제니가 아슬아슬 19금 속옷 화보로 흠잡을데 없는 완벽 몸매를 자랑했다. | 쇼핑, 깐깐하게 보다, 나무처럼 예능, 나무처럼 984개의 글 목록열기. | 제니는 이번 공연에서 파격 노출을 감행했다. |
H28 한국 온 무슬림을 일탈하게 만드는 음식. 가슴 밑라인을 드러낸 상의가 유행하고 있다. 지금 할인중인 다른 머플러스카프숄 제품도, Com › cinemart3 › 223871318626유두 노출마저도 두려워 하지 않는, 여성 캐릭터들에게도 보이지만 남성 캐릭터들에게도 많이 보인다.
원래 아랑전설 2에서 닌자 캐릭터가 기획되었지만 그녀가 아니라 가칭 인술 마스터 라고 통칭되던 남성 닌자였다, 제니29가 월드 아이돌 블랙핑크 제니, 인간 김제니로서 속마음을 허심탄회하게 터놓았다, 꼭지만 가리는 시대가 오길빌며오늘도 레벨21 패드립장인 2022. 의외로 패셔너블한 캐릭터 뿐만 아니라 가난하다는 설정의 캐릭터들도 이 속성을 갖춘 경우가 종종 있다.
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툰 브로 같은 사이트 유 유두 42031 유부녀 59245 유연한 3746 유혹 11540 윤 윤간 82414 음 음경 18021 음식 4249 의 의사 12085 이 이모 882 이스라엘 인 407 이집트 사람 1685 이탈리아 27641 이탈리아 엄마 416475 인 인도 64195 인도 가슴 332087 인도 구강 888901 인도 레즈비언 224061 인도 섹시한중년여성. 패션업계에 부는 ‘언더붑underboob’ 열풍에 대한 젊은 세대와 중장년층의 엇갈린 반응이다. 지금 할인중인 다른 머플러스카프숄 제품도. 살짝후방 해외에서 유행중인 아랫가슴 노출의상 입은 블랙핑크 제니. 그룹 블랙핑크의 멤버 제니가 주연으로 출연한 미국 드라마 the idol이 조기 종영되었다는 소식이 전해져 논란이 일고 있다. 트위터 경련야동
태정 지은 근황 가슴 중요 부위만 소품으로 가리거나, 상의를 입지 않고 재킷만 걸쳐 시선을 끈다. Com › kokr › entertainment제니 노출 논란, 실제 사진 살펴보니 msn. 사진 속 제니는 자신이 추구하는 방향인 노출을 여한없이 한다. 제니29가 월드 아이돌 블랙핑크 제니, 인간 김제니로서 속마음을 허심탄회하게 터놓았다. 그룹 블랙핑크의 멤버 제니가 주연으로 출연한 미국 드라마 the idol이 조기 종영되었다는 소식이 전해져 논란이 일고 있다. 트 젠바 가격 디시
트위도다 제니가 착용한 파격적인 의상 때문이다. 가슴 밑라인을 드러낸 상의가 유행하고 있다. 결국 제니는 점프를 하는 안무 도중, 다급하게. 블랙핑크 제니, 도발적 섹시미 시크한 표정에 엉밑살 노출 그룹 블랙핑크의 제니가 섹시한 매력을 뽐냈다. Com › cinemart3 › 223871318626유두 노출마저도 두려워 하지 않는. 트럼프 이재명 디시
토하는 야동 8일과 9일 각 동영상 채널에 업로드 되고 있는 제니의 솔로 콘서트 팬 직캠 영상에서 제니가 착용한 파격적인 의상이 화제와 함께 논란이 되고 있다. 미공개 사진이나 미공개 동영상은 서로이웃 공개를 하신 분만 보. 지난 15일 유튜브 채널 ‘wired’는 제니의 인터뷰 영상을 공개했다. 원래 아랑전설 2에서 닌자 캐릭터가 기획되었지만 그녀가 아니라 가칭 인술 마스터 라고 통칭되던 남성 닌자였다. 그룹 블랙핑크의 멤버 제니가 주연으로 출연한 미국 드라마 the idol이 조기 종영되었다는 소식이 전해져 논란이 일고 있다.
탱주 사까시 여성의 속옷 착용은 개인의 선택일 뿐이라는 생각이 한국 사회에서 커지고 있다. 사진 속 제니는 금발의 헤어스타일에 가죽 옷을. 블랙핑크 제니가 파격 노출 화보를 공개해 팬들도 놀라게 했다. 원래 아랑전설 2에서 닌자 캐릭터가 기획되었지만 그녀가 아니라 가칭 인술 마스터 라고 통칭되던 남성 닌자였다. Com › kokr › entertainment제니 노출 논란, 실제 사진 살펴보니 msn.
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.
지난 8일부터 9일까지 유튜브와 sns등 동영상 채널에 올라오고 있는 제니의 솔로 콘서트 팬 직캠 영상이 화제다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.