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.
주짓수 4년한 여자 분하고 스파링한 적 있는데 힘으로 짓눌러서 이겨버렸다 눈예 2025. 당연한 부분이니 너무 걱정하지 않으셔도 돼요. 우선 ep 주짓수 체육관의 코치들에게 지도를 받으면서, 승리보다는 학습과 연습에 집중하여, 기술의 숙련도를 향상시키는 것이 스파링의 목표입니다. 유도와 주짓수 모두 초반에 잡기 공방을 해야하는 만큼, 잡기 공방을 그만큼 더 연습할 수 있다.
노기 주짓수 스파링하다가 발기했어 3.. 좌우명은 믿음, 소망, 사랑 그중 제일은 사랑이다.. 발기가 아닌 상태에서는 상대적으로 손상 가능성이 낮지만, 강한 충격이 가해졌다면 손상이 발생할 수 있습니다..2년간 1천여 건의 질문을 받으면서, 살 빼는 과정에서 첫 번째로 중요한 1가지를 뽑아보라는 대화를 종종 하였습니다, 가드 guard 상대가 내 다리 안쪽에 있는 포지션. 딜런 대니스와의 훈련을 통해 이제 주짓수 공격을 활용할 수 있게 됐고, 자신감을 갖게 됐으며 주짓수 공격으로 하빕을 꺾을 거라 함.
| 노기 주짓수 스파링하다가 발기했어 3. | 따라서 현재 세상에는 3가지의 주짓수 즉, 브라질리언 주짓수 jiu jitsu와 오리지널인 일본의 주짓수 ju jutsu와 유러피언 주짓수 ju jitsu가 존재하고 있다는 것을 구분할 필요가 있는 것이다. |
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| 무산소 운동은 근력, 근지구력 등을 발달 시키는데 좋기 때문에, 현대 체육에서 무산소 운동 훈련이 필요 없는 종목은 거의 없다. | 무산소 운동은 근력, 근지구력 등을 발달 시키는데 좋기 때문에, 현대 체육에서 무산소 운동 훈련이 필요 없는 종목은 거의 없다. |
| @victor_academy 정진 형제 형님들과. | 주짓수 4년한 여자 분하고 스파링한 적 있는데 힘으로 짓눌러서 이겨버렸다 눈예 2025. |
Com › mgallery › board여자랑 스파링할때 발기 안하는법좀 주짓수 마이너 갤러리. 무산소 운동은 근력, 근지구력 등을 발달 시키는데 좋기 때문에, 현대 체육에서 무산소 운동 훈련이 필요 없는 종목은 거의 없다, 주짓수 기초 사이드탈출 새로운 개념영상, 기본 탈출과 서브미션까지 방어할 수 있는 사이드 탈출방법 a jiujitsu study route organized by dr, 23살 찐따인데, 주짓수 하고 싶은데 너무 꼴려서 좀 그래.
노기 주짓수 스파링하다가 발기했어 운동건강아싸, 주짓수라는걸 알게되고 주짓수 도장을 다니게됨. 지금 바로 클릭하여 주짓수 실력을 높이세요, 여자랑 하다가 발기됐을때 주짓수 마이너 갤러리.
근데 주짓수로 틱톡 컨텐츠라 상상도 안 갑니다 당시에는 주짓수 도장 찾는 거부터가 일이었습니다. Com › plp › ko주짓수 발기 초보자도 쉽게 배우는 방법. 여자랑 스파링하다 발기할뻔했다 주짓수 마이너 갤러리.
어떤 이유로 나는 전적으로 방어에 초점을 맞춰 지난 캠프에 들어갔다. 스마트폰은 갤럭시 z 플립3 크림을 사용하고 있다. 꿀팁 원치 않는 발기를 없애려면, 원하는 결과가 나올 때까지 허벅지허벅지를 꽉 조여봐. 따라서 현재 세상에는 3가지의 주짓수 즉, 브라질리언 주짓수 jiu jitsu와 오리지널인 일본의 주짓수 ju jutsu와 유러피언 주짓수 ju jitsu가 존재하고 있다는 것을 구분할 필요가 있는 것이다, 6개월 관광비자+1년 워크 퍼밋으로 총 1년 6개월 살면서 중국, 홍콩, 베트남, 멕시코, 캐내디언 프랑스계 백인이랑 해봄, 첫째로, 에리히 란 에 의해서 20세기 초반에 생긴 독일 주짓수가 있고, 둘째로는 1969년에 생긴 ddk deutsches dan kollegium 라는 정부 주도.
Kr › zboard › view뽐뿌ㅇㅎ 주짓수 남자와 여자 ㄷ, 근데 발기가 꼭 생각으로 인한 거라는 것도 100% 맞는 말은 아냐. H3 av에서 나온 주짓수 기술을 보고 감탄한 주짓수갤러 h4 미국 일본에 야광 여우를 풀어놓자 h5 korean 또 추위에 불만이 있어요, 고딩때 주짓수 배우다가 여자한테 키스당한썰 26. 당연한 부분이니 너무 걱정하지 않으셔도 돼요, 어이어이 내 발기자지 어떻게 할거냐고ww.
도장엔 여자 손만 잡아도 발기충천하지, Com › plp › ko주짓수 발기 초보자도 쉽게 배우는 방법. 주짓수 발기는 초보자에게 이상적인 시작입니다. 흔한 환상↓ 현실 대련 상대↓ 똑같은 환상 가지고 온 쿰척쿰척이랑 붙음 덜마른 걸레 냄새 풍기며 육수 줄줄 흐르는데 귀에 대고 허억허억거림 사실. 우선 ep 주짓수 체육관의 코치들에게 지도를 받으면서, 승리보다는 학습과 연습에 집중하여, 기술의 숙련도를 향상시키는 것이 스파링의 목표입니다.
꼴리게 말 잘하네 느낌좀 온다 106. 또, 유도식 누르기들은 그 자체로도 아예 주짓수에서 대놓고 복사붙여넣기해서 쓰는 만큼 그만큼 진입 장벽을 훨씬 낮춰준다. 6개월 관광비자+1년 워크 퍼밋으로 총 1년 6개월 살면서 중국, 홍콩, 베트남, 멕시코, 캐내디언 프랑스계 백인이랑 해봄. Likes, 0 comments laon_bjj on j 화요일 발차기,원렉테이크타운 시도,마운트까지 열심히 하는 모습 화요일발기턴발자기원랙테이크다운마운트열심히주짓수목감주짓수목감라온주짓수비앤지주짓수키즈주짓수청소년주짓수신입회원모집중. 29 2145 저거도 체급 맞아야 여자 붙여주지 가기 전에 땀많은데 여자랑할까봐 걱정했는데 별 시발 나보다 땀많은 185 빡빡이 남고딩 붙여줘서 개같이 쳐맞음 쥬지떼로 2025. 주짓수 파트너랑 불편한 상황 rmartialarts.
어나더레드 키우미집 유도와 주짓수 모두 초반에 잡기 공방을 해야하는 만큼, 잡기 공방을 그만큼 더 연습할 수 있다. 경기장 주변과 복도 곳곳에 설치된 매트에서 선수들은 스프롤태클 방어 기술과 관절 스트레칭 등 기본 동작을 반복하며 몸을 데웠다. 아는형이랑 주짓수 스파링하다 발기한 썰 이터널 리턴 채널. 브라질리언 주짓수 브라질리언 주짓수 포르투갈어 jiujitsu brasileiro 지우지트수 브라질레이루, 영어 brazilian jiujitsu 브라질리언 주짓수, bjj는 관절 꺾기나 조르기 등을 이용하여 상대방을 제압하는 무술 이다. 좌우명은 믿음, 소망, 사랑 그중 제일은 사랑이다. 얀 덱스 사용법
야한솜이 최솜이 강도관 유술이 마에다 미츠요에 의해 브라질로 전파된 후 굳히기에 특화된 형태로 자생한 무술. 23살 찐따인데, 주짓수 하고 싶은데 너무 꼴려서 좀 그래. 유도와 주짓수 모두 초반에 잡기 공방을 해야하는 만큼, 잡기 공방을 그만큼 더 연습할 수 있다. 6개월 관광비자+1년 워크 퍼밋으로 총 1년 6개월 살면서 중국, 홍콩, 베트남, 멕시코, 캐내디언 프랑스계 백인이랑 해봄. 브라질리언 주짓수 브라질리언 주짓수 포르투갈어 jiujitsu brasileiro 지우지트수 브라질레이루, 영어 brazilian jiujitsu 브라질리언 주짓수, bjj는 관절 꺾기나 조르기 등을 이용하여 상대방을 제압하는 무술 이다. 야코 쉬멜
양아지 제로투 움짤 노기 주짓수 스파링하다가 발기했어 3. 따라서 현재 세상에는 3가지의 주짓수 즉, 브라질리언 주짓수 jiu jitsu와 오리지널인 일본의 주짓수 ju jutsu와 유러피언 주짓수 ju jitsu가 존재하고 있다는 것을 구분할 필요가 있는 것이다. 어떤 이유로 나는 전적으로 방어에 초점을 맞춰 지난 캠프에 들어갔다. 근데 주짓수로 틱톡 컨텐츠라 상상도 안 갑니다 당시에는 주짓수 도장 찾는 거부터가 일이었습니다. 여자랑 스파링하다 발기할뻔했다 주짓수 마이너 갤러리. 여고생 딸감
야짤 갤 초보자 입장에서 한 번쯤 정리해두면 큰 도움이 될 것이다. 먹히는 일진녀 생각하면서 읽으니까 개 꼴린다. 5번ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ스파링 끝나고 자기위안하러 가면 대박 시발ㅋㅋㅋㅋ꼴림으로 급딸타임 가지라는 거냨ㅋㅋ 외글와글39. 2년간 1천여 건의 질문을 받으면서, 살 빼는 과정에서 첫 번째로 중요한 1가지를 뽑아보라는 대화를 종종 하였습니다. 근데 주짓수로 틱톡 컨텐츠라 상상도 안 갑니다 당시에는 주짓수 도장 찾는 거부터가 일이었습니다.
여고생 아헤가오 브라질식 유술이라는 의미에서 브라질리언 주짓수 bjj라 불린다. 29 2145 저거도 체급 맞아야 여자 붙여주지 가기 전에 땀많은데 여자랑할까봐 걱정했는데 별 시발 나보다 땀많은 185 빡빡이 남고딩 붙여줘서 개같이 쳐맞음 쥬지떼로 2025. 주짓수 발기는 초보자에게 이상적인 시작입니다. 근데 주짓수로 틱톡 컨텐츠라 상상도 안 갑니다 당시에는 주짓수 도장 찾는 거부터가 일이었습니다. 당연한 부분이니 너무 걱정하지 않으셔도 돼요.
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.
Com › board › humor고딩때 주짓수 배우다가 여자한테 키스당한썰., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.