염보성 마이너 갤러리 차돈하고 섭이 차이점 알려줄게.

섭이는 자기 비제이로써 능력부족인걸 싸바싸바하고 굳은일하는거로 넘길려는.

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 3, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 3, 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 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.

A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 3, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.

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.

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 3, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 3, 2026.

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.

인호 차돈 어제 합방이였는데 인호가 좀 취해서 여러 멘트를 쳤음 yxl 더케이 포함차돈은 실수한거없고근데 차돈도 아니고 섭이가 뜬금없이 케이한테 사과함케이가 엑셀방송에서 섭이한테 사과받았다고 함뜬금없이 yxl이 잘못한게 되있음+ yxl 소속 여캠한테. 풍을 쏘게끔 몰입감을 주고 분위기를 read more. 251 ㄴㄴ섭이는 차돈이가 본인 잘대접해주면 먼저 차돈이 건들진 않을꺼임 근데 차돈이가 섭이 무능력한게 ㅈㄴ거슬리는거지 04. 꼬라지보니 조만간이다차돈은 멘탈이 안좋고영민이는 이제 슬슬 예전버릇 나와서 피해의식 좆되서 내부분열 분탕질하고.

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어제 차돈 입으로 이야기 했잖아 영민이랑 섭이한테는 사주 해주고 본인은 아무것도 안해준다.

갤러리 본문 영역 일반섭이 차돈 섭돈대전으로 여직원들이 득보는것도 있지 지갤러221. 그래서 염이 걍 만든다하고 뭣도 모르고 차섭한테 지분 10퍼씩 준다함 3 read more. 갤러리 본문 영역 일반섭이 차돈 섭돈대전으로 여직원들이 득보는것도 있지 지갤러221. 일반 광상도 차돈 섭이 들어오고나서부터 분위기 이상해짐 디시앱 설치 전체리스트 로그인 회사소개 광고안내 이용약관.
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아침까지 달건이가 소다데리고 방송 재밌게 잘함6시에 잠들고 섭이가 일정대로 9시에 깨우는데 달건이가 알겠다고 하고 바로 안일어나서 섭이가 요란떨면서 카메라 들이댐재수없게 왜 그러냐 찐텐 성질부림, 소장 swdbxjd 250430 122103 조회 7904 추천 +45. 오늘 같은 날 방송하는데 광우상사가서 지코,차돈,섭이가 염한테 선빵 갈기고 방송중에 염 채팅창 난리남 그래서 살짝 야마돈상태에서 마무리하고 방종 8. 차돈입장에서 생각하면 섭이잘때 13시간똥꼬쇼하고 3시간자다일어났는데 일어난다했는데 자꾸 욕먹는상황만들어져서.

갤러리 본문 영역 일반섭이 차돈 섭돈대전으로 여직원들이 득보는것도 있지 지갤러221.

느낌을 관찰하는 수념처가 갈애를 끊는 길이라고 부처님께서 일러 주셨다. 그리그 글보니까 차돈이 잘못했다고하는애들도 영상안본애들이 대부분이구만. 어제 차돈 입으로 이야기 했잖아 영민이랑 섭이한테는 사주 해주고 본인은 아무것도 안해준다, Com › board › view차돈 섭이 정리 인터넷방송 갤러리, 솔직히 섭이말고는 다 나가 떨어질듯차돈이랑 영민이 지금. 느낌을 관찰하는 수념처가 갈애를 끊는 길이라고 부처님께서 일러 주셨다. 염보성 마이너 갤러리 차돈하고 섭이 차이점 알려줄게. 인호 차돈 어제 합방이였는데 인호가 좀 취해서 여러 멘트를 쳤음 yxl 더케이 포함차돈은 실수한거없고근데 차돈도 아니고 섭이가 뜬금없이 케이한테 사과함케이가 엑셀방송에서 섭이한테 사과받았다고 함뜬금없이 yxl이 잘못한게 되있음+ yxl 소속 여캠한테, 섭이가 차돈이랑 맞짱까서 이겼다고함 커맨더지코 광우. 차돈은 갠방하면 100따리 영민섭이는 50따리 비제이들임. 꼬라지보니 조만간이다차돈은 멘탈이 안좋고영민이는 이제 슬슬 예전버릇 나와서 피해의식 좆되서 내부분열 분탕질하고, 차돈결국엔 yxl보다 지가 크는데 목적,관심 있음 섭이얜 지보다 일단 yxl이 흥하는데 목적을 둠.

섭이 이새끼 킥복싱꽤나오래배움차돈이 섭이한텐 장난도 안걸더라만만한 영민이만 괴롭힘 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ.

그리그 글보니까 차돈이 잘못했다고하는애들도 영상안본애들이 대부분이구만, 느낌을 보는 것이 마음을 관하는 것이 된다. 섭섭이 아직 지코 밑에서 욕받이 하고 있었노, Com › board › real_article차돈섭이 대충 요약해줌 인터넷방송 와이고수. 차돈섭이가 1억씩 투자했다는말을 못믿는게 염보성 마이너.

인호 차돈 어제 합방이였는데 인호가 좀 취해서 여러 멘트를 쳤음 Yxl 더케이 포함차돈은 실수한거없고근데 차돈도 아니고 섭이가 뜬금없이 케이한테 사과함케이가 엑셀방송에서 섭이한테 사과받았다고 함뜬금없이 Yxl이 잘못한게 되있음+ Yxl 소속 여캠한테.

Com › mgallery › board이동간에 거짓없는 섭이차돈 찐텐 타임라인 정리 지코광우상사 마, 지코 차돈 섭이 받은게 내인생의 최대실수다 &광우상사, 차돈섭이를 비제이라고 생각하지 않음 섭이그 와꾸로 저정도밖에 못뜨는걸 한심하게 생각함 04.

지코 차돈 섭이 받은게 내인생의 최대실수다 &광우상사.

섭이가 차돈이랑 맞짱까서 이겼다고함 커맨더지코 광우.. 차돈섭이를 비제이라고 생각하지 않음 섭이그 와꾸로 저정도밖에 못뜨는걸 한심하게 생각함 04.. 차돈은 갠방하면 100따리 영민섭이는 50따리 비제이들임..

예전에 이슬이가 영입직후에 비방으로 염보랑 나눈썰 풀었는데 5억대출받고 2억은 염보 자기돈 현금으로 투자한다고 설명해줬다고했음 그래서 총 7억 read more, 솔직히 존나 큰사건인지 모르겠는데 걍 욕한번 처먹으면 끝날일아님. 섭이는 자기 비제이로써 능력부족인걸 싸바싸바하고 굳은일하는거로 넘길려는. 광우 영민 차돈 섭이는 나한테 몇년을 붙어있는데도 안된다.

섹밍 야동 차돈결국엔 yxl보다 지가 크는데 목적,관심 있음 섭이얜 지보다 일단 yxl이 흥하는데 목적을 둠. 갤러리 본문 영역 일반섭이 차돈 섭돈대전으로 여직원들이 득보는것도 있지 지갤러221. 느낌을 관찰하는 수념처가 갈애를 끊는 길이라고 부처님께서 일러 주셨다. 인호 차돈 어제 합방이였는데 인호가 좀 취해서 여러 멘트를 쳤음 yxl 더케이 포함차돈은 실수한거없고근데 차돈도 아니고 섭이가 뜬금없이 케이한테 사과함케이가 엑셀방송에서 섭이한테 사과받았다고 함뜬금없이 yxl이 잘못한게 되있음+ yxl 소속 여캠한테. 지코 차돈 섭이 받은게 내인생의 최대실수다 &광우상사. 순대트럭 창업 디시

섹밍 팬트리 광상도 차돈 섭이 들어오고나서부터 분위기 이상해짐 &광우. 차돈결국엔 yxl보다 지가 크는데 목적,관심 있음 섭이얜 지보다 일단 yxl이 흥하는데 목적을 둠. 그 후 염 솔방켜서 이 때까지 타임라인 말해주면서 손절선언 끝. 차돈입장에서 생각하면 섭이잘때 13시간똥꼬쇼하고 3시간자다일어났는데 일어난다했는데 자꾸 욕먹는상황만들어져서. 235 0520 106 8 96979 일반 슬플단 쟌플단은 다갈리겠다 5 지갤러106. 소년이 어른이 되는 여름 4

송예빈 남친 그리그 글보니까 차돈이 잘못했다고하는애들도 영상안본애들이 대부분이구만. 느낌을 관찰하는 수념처가 갈애를 끊는 길이라고 부처님께서 일러 주셨다. 그리그 글보니까 차돈이 잘못했다고하는애들도 영상안본애들이 대부분이구만. 아침까지 달건이가 소다데리고 방송 재밌게 잘함6시에 잠들고 섭이가 일정대로 9시에 깨우는데 달건이가 알겠다고 하고 바로 안일어나서 섭이가 요란떨면서 카메라 들이댐재수없게 왜 그러냐 찐텐 성질부림. Com › 7985407316염보vs섭이,차돈 스타크래프트 에펨코리아. 수탉 여자친구

소방관형 twitter 소장 swdbxjd 250430 122103 조회 7904 추천 +45. 광우 영민 차돈 섭이는 나한테 몇년을 붙어있는데도 안된다. 지코 차돈 섭이 받은게 내인생의 최대실수다 &광우상사. 차돈 왜 자꾸 깨웠냐고 섭이한테 따지는 장면. 차돈결국엔 yxl보다 지가 크는데 목적,관심 있음 섭이얜 지보다 일단 yxl이 흥하는데 목적을 둠.

수집형 대 마법사 in 서울 디시 251 ㄴㄴ섭이는 차돈이가 본인 잘대접해주면 먼저 차돈이 건들진 않을꺼임 근데 차돈이가 섭이 무능력한게 ㅈㄴ거슬리는거지 04. 솔직히 존나 큰사건인지 모르겠는데 걍 욕한번 처먹으면 끝날일아님. 일반 차돈 아까 공지가 웃기네 돈써가며 너를 왜 마이너스하냐 지갤러211. Com › 7985407316염보vs섭이,차돈 스타크래프트 에펨코리아. 풍을 쏘게끔 몰입감을 주고 분위기를 read more.

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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

염보성 마이너 갤러리 차돈하고 섭이 차이점 알려줄게., 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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