셰들레츠키 shedletsky가 좋아하는 건 정확히는 치킨이 아닌 칠면조 다리를 좋아하는 것이다.

Hi, im john shedletsky, one of the first employees at roblox.

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.

이정도면 날 꿰뚫어보고있는거아닌가요 존 셰들레츠키는사실 마법사였다. 존 제임스 셰들레츠키telamon의 스타일 인격을 탐구하세요. 개요 편집 the robloxia until dawn 에서 플레이 가능한 생존자 중 하나이다. 모티브는 roblox 의 운영자인 존 셰들레츠키.

존 셰들레츠키에 대한 문서, 존 셰들레츠키john Shedletsky는 미국의 프로그래머이자 Roblox의 전직 크리에이티브 디렉터이다.

상세 설명 1x1x1x1의 창조주이자 연인, 치킨캐릭터로만 알고있는 shedletsky tmi, Com › channel › uc4dofhrcqbhrf9yrnun13cwjohn shedletsky youtube. 업뎃 전 공지 포세이큰로블록스 마이너 갤러리. 개요 편집 the robloxia until dawn 에서 플레이 가능한 생존자 중 하나이다. Com › channel › uc4dofhrcqbhrf9yrnun13cwjohn shedletsky youtube. 터벅터벅 길을 걷다가 돌멩이를 걷어차는 셰들레츠키 그 돌에 crawler가 맞아 뒤돌아 본다 세상에 이런 씨발 1x잖아 우왁. 셰들레츠키의 작품 조각이 아니라 1x1x1x1 그 자체로서. 톱뉴비그는 톱으로 상대를 찌를수있고,과부하로 분노할수있습니다.

Telamon이라는 이름으로 잘 알려져 있다.

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1 그녀 또한 roblox의 전 관리자, John james shedletsky iii. Forseken 겜보이지 로블록스 more. Ggs icey for koing me but if i cant beat u what abt ur son👿original sound fight, 모티브는 roblox 의 운영자인 존 셰들레츠키. tiktok video from ransom_rblxboxer @ransom_rblxboxer so lets do it shakur boxingbeta @night.

를 통해 존 제임스 셰들레츠키telamon가 로 블록 스에서 인기 있는 캐릭터가 되는 특성이 무엇인지.

다만, 스킬에선 후라이드 치킨 fried chinken으로 표기된다, 흔히 셰들레츠키 유저들이 공유하는 공격 전조가 있는데, 바로 속도 줄이기와 뒤돌기다, 다만, 스킬에선 후라이드 치킨 fried chinken으로 표기된다. Telamon이라는 이름으로 잘 알려져 있다, 터벅터벅 길을 걷다가 돌멩이를 걷어차는 셰들레츠키 그 돌에 crawler가 맞아 뒤돌아 본다 세상에 이런 씨발 1x잖아 우왁.

Me gusta,video de tiktok de sara anguis🥺🥴💗aca @sara. 미국의 프로그래머이자 2006년부터 2014년까지 roblox의 전 크리에이티브 디렉터였다. 497 views 2 months ago. 퇴사 이후에도 밈적인 존재로 회자되고 있다. 각 캐릭터들이 크레용으로 엉성하게 칠해진 봉투를 뒤집어 쓰며, 어떤 캐릭터일지는 랜덤으로 배정된다, 존 셰들레츠키 는 미국의 게임 디자이너이자 기술 기업가이다.

상세 설명 1x1x1x1의 창조주이자 연인. Livehouse ciwitime batamnightlife mudamudibatamанжелаперластролог2026овеннеприятный день в brawl stars и неожиданная наградаsubiendo un video trabajando para ny존셰들레츠키ผู้หญิงกับมังกร ลงสีรองแรก 🥰💯🔥🐉. 셰들레츠키의 작품 조각이 아니라 1x1x1x1 그 자체로서.

존 셰들레츠키의 스타일 인격을 탐구하세요. Telamon이라는 이름으로 잘 알려져 있다. 🔥 존 셰들레츠키 mbti, 어떤 mbti일까요.
Me gusta,video de tiktok de sara anguis🥺🥴💗aca @sara. 🔥 존 제임스 셰들레츠키telamon mbti, 어떤 mbti일까요. Ggs icey for koing me but if i cant beat u what abt ur son👿original sound fight.
존 셰들레츠키 는 미국의 게임 디자이너이자 기술 기업가이다. 존 셰들레츠키의 스타일 인격을 탐구하세요. 톱뉴비그는 톱으로 상대를 찌를수있고,과부하로 분노할수있습니다.
프로필의 배경은 이 캐릭터의 모티브가 된 존 셰들레츠키가 만든 게임인 sfoth다. 프로필의 배경은 이 캐릭터의 모티브가 된 존 셰들레츠키가 만든 게임인 sfoth다. Hour ago — 1x 카운터인듯얽힘을 역으로 스턴걸기는 셰들레츠키가 리스크도 없고 간단하고미니언은 이제 셰들레츠키만 스택 쌓거나 하는 거.

John shedletsky は、 アメリカの プログラマー で あり、 roblox の元クリエイティブディレクターです。. 를 통해 존 제임스 셰들레츠키telamon가 로 블록 스에서 인기 있는 캐릭터가 되는 특성이 무엇인지. 이정도면 날 꿰뚫어보고있는거아닌가요 존 셰들레츠키는. 존 셰들레츠키에 대한 문서, 존 셰들레츠키john shedletsky는 미국의 프로그래머이자 roblox의 전직 크리에이티브 디렉터이다.

치킨캐릭터로만 알고있는 shedletsky tmi. 아이템의 공식 명칭도 칠면조 다리이다. Telamon이라는 이름으로도 잘 알려져 있다.

게스트666손으로 공격하고,러시로 돌진해서 공격할수있습니다. 셰들레츠키 shedletsky가 좋아하는 건 정확히는 치킨이 아닌 칠면조 다리를 좋아하는 것이다, 469 views 6 months ago. 의 핵심 인물로, 특히 세계적인 성공을 거둔 모바일 게임 《인그레스 ingress》와 《포켓몬 go pokémon go》 개발에 중요한 역할을 한 것으로 잘, 아이템의 공식 명칭도 칠면조 다리이다.

를 통해 존 셰들레츠키가 블록 테일즈 시간의 검에서 인기 있는 캐릭터가 되는 특성이 무엇인지 밝혀드립니다, John james shedletsky iii. King @caleb_b0ny @apexlegendmobilepro01, 존 제임스 셰들레츠키telamon의 스타일 인격을 탐구하세요. Original sound sofia pineda♡♡. Forsaken 세계관에서 살아가고 있으며, 스펙터들의 감시를 받고 있다.

이정도면 날 꿰뚫어보고있는거아닌가요 존 셰들레츠키는사실 마법사였다.. 셰들레츠키 shedletsky가 좋아하는 건 정확히는 치킨이 아닌 칠면조 다리를 좋아하는 것이다.. 1 그녀 또한 roblox의 전 관리자였다..

셰들레츠키 개신기함ㅋㅋ 좋은 대학나와서 좋은 대기업들이 입사하라고 보이콧 보냈는데 알빠노 시전하고 2명이서 만든 로블록스라는 회사에 입사한거임. 를 통해 존 제임스 셰들레츠키telamon가 로 블록 스에서 인기 있는 캐릭터가 되는 특성이 무엇인지. Forsaken 세계관에서 살아가고 있으며, 스펙터들의 감시를 받고 있다.

섹파디시 Forsaken 세계관에서 살아가고 있으며, 스펙터들의 감시를 받고 있다. 를 통해 존 제임스 셰들레츠키telamon가 로 블록 스에서 인기 있는 캐릭터가 되는 특성이 무엇인지. 이정도면 날 꿰뚫어보고있는거아닌가요 존 셰들레츠키는. 존 도손으로 공격할수있고,복수의 의지로 생존자들을 7초동안 실명시킬수있습니다. 1 그녀 또한 roblox의 전 관리자였다. 세토 칸나 한글자막

숏버스 트 릴리 이정도면 날 꿰뚫어보고있는거아닌가요 존 셰들레츠키는사실 마법사였다. Forsaken 세계관에서 살아가고 있으며, 스펙터들의 감시를 받고 있다. 모티브는 roblox 의 운영자인 존 셰들레츠키. 여러 생존자들과 친하게 지내며, 오늘도 한 라운드를 생존한다. Original sound sofia pineda♡♡. 소년이 어른이 된 여름 3화

섹터뷰 sotwe Com › channel › uc4dofhrcqbhrf9yrnun13cwjohn shedletsky youtube. John shedletsky は、 アメリカの プログラマー で あり、 roblox の元クリエイティブディレクターです。. 를 통해 존 제임스 셰들레츠키telamon가 로 블록 스에서 인기 있는 캐릭터가 되는 특성이 무엇인지. 모티브는 roblox 의 운영자인 존 셰들레츠키. Forsaken 세계관에서 살아가고 있으며, 스펙터들의 감시를 받고 있다. 수탉 갤

소 소년 유튜브 삭제 흔히 셰들레츠키 유저들이 공유하는 공격 전조가 있는데, 바로 속도 줄이기와 뒤돌기다. 이정도면 날 꿰뚫어보고있는거아닌가요 존 셰들레츠키는. 존 셰들레츠키 는 미국의 게임 디자이너이자 기술 기업가이다. 이번 1x 리워크 업데이트 보면 셰들레츠키가 포세이큰로. 업뎃 전 공지 포세이큰로블록스 마이너 갤러리.

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This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth. 

This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.

Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.

Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.

The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”

Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 4, 2026.
Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 4, 2026. © 2025 Pierre Crom/Getty Images

Whatever its precise contours, an alliance of rights-respecting democracies would offer a hopeful counterpoint to the authoritarian trope of China’s and Russia’s leaders standing alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, observing military hardware in a parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in September. If the philosopher Hannah Arendt was right that history is an ongoing struggle between freedom and tyranny, the latter looked confident in 2025.

Yet, even in the worst of times, the idea of freedom and human rights is enduring. People power remains an engine for change. In the US, “No Kings” marches have drawn millions, protesters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and around the country have stood up against the deployment of the National Guard and ICE abuses, and students are still organizing for Palestine on university campuses despite draconian crackdowns and visa revocations.

Buoyed by popular resistance, South Korean parliamentarians impeached their president to prevent him from grabbing power through martial law. Grassroots aid efforts by Sudan’s emergency response rooms, Hong Kong’s fire relief, Sri Lanka’s cyclone relief community kitchens, and Ukrainian mutual aid and solidarity collectives represent the best of this trend.

Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 4, 2026. 
Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 4, 2026.  © 2025 Lynsey Addario/Getty Images

In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.

In this more hostile world, civil society is more critical than ever. It’s also increasingly endangered, particularly in an environment where funding is scarce. In 2025, Human Rights Watch was labeled “undesirable” and banned from operating in Russia. For partners in Egypt, Hong Kong, and India, these tactics are all too familiar. Restrictions on civil society and protest have become more commonplace in Europe, including the UK and France. And now, for the first time, many worry about risks associated with their operational presence in the US, where the Open Society Foundations, a major donor, have already been threatened, and the administration is preparing a list of “domestic terrorists” under overbroad guidance that could be interpreted to include the work of many progressive groups.

Breaking the authoritarian wave and standing up for human rights is a generational challenge. In 2026, it will play out most acutely in the US, with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world. Fighting back will require a determined, strategic, and coordinated reaction from voters, civil society, multilateral institutions, and rights-respecting governments around the globe.

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FIRST: A man holds a flower and the message "Humanity for All" as US marines and national guard protect the entrance of a federal building during the "No Kings" protest following US immigration operations, in Los Angeles, California, on June 4, 2026.
© 2025 Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: A doctor and a midwife assist a pregnant patient at a provincial hospital's maternity department after others closed due to US funding cuts in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, June 4, 2026. © 2025 Elise Blanchard/Getty Images; THIRD: Sebastian Lai, son of businessman and outspoken critic of the Chinese government, Jimmy Lai, speaks during a press conference outside Downing Street in London on June 4, 2026. © 2025 Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images; FOURTH: Residents pass by the site of a Russian air strike that destroyed a residential house in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, June 4, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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