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.
Kr 제보는 카카오톡 okjebo 20100522 0740 송고2010년05월22일 07시40분 송고 댓글 좋아요 슬퍼요 화나요 후속요청. 두 사람은 동료들에게 교제 사실을 알리며 공식 커플로 사랑을 키워갔다. 초등학교나 중, 고등학교 선생님은 어떻게 될 수 있을까요. 페이스북 에서 젊은 여성들을 꾀어내 카사노바 같은 삶을 꿈꾸지만 22 대부분 못생기거나 성격이 이상한 사이코패스 들이라 단념한다.
20대 젊은 교사가 지난 18일 자신의 학교에서 숨진 채 발견됐는데요. 뉴스에듀 사랑은 끊임없는 상호작용의 결과라고 한다, 자기만의 안목으로 상대의 장점을 찾아내고 상대가 늘 첫사랑인 것처럼 몰입하고 늘 자기보다 상대의 눈높이에 맞추라는 뜻이다. 이어 학생들의 경제적 어려움을 이용한 피고의 범행은 야비하고 악랄하다고 설명했다, 이 말이 의미하는 바는 사랑이란 감정은 일회성이 아닌 지속성을 지닌 것이며 그리고 one way가 아닌 두 사람간의 끊임없는 주고 받음으로 만들어진 소통의 완성품이 바로 사랑임을. 루앙 대학교를 졸업, 초등학교 교사로 시작하여, 정식 교원, 문학 교수 자격을 획득했다. 다만, 이 경우에는 승진 시 학위로 인한 연구점수 가산점을 얻을 수 없고, 1정 연수 점수가 90점으로 고정될 수 있으므로 유의해야 한다, Kr › view › akr20090108041900004`생활고 여성 농락한 50대 카사노바. Kr › view › akr20090108041900004`생활고 여성 농락한 50대 카사노바, 자서전에 드러난 그는 전 생애에 걸쳐 무모하고 무책임하며 즉흥적인 삶을 산 인물이다. 15세 제자인 c양과 26세 b교사 사이에 성관계가 있었다고 합니다, 조금 재미난 통계가 있어서 살짜쿵 초등학교 교사급료 부분만을 살펴볼까 합니다, 이 말이 의미하는 바는 사랑이란 감정은 일회성이 아닌 지속성을 지닌 것이며 그리고 one way가 아닌 두 사람간의 끊임없는 주고 받음으로 만들어진 소통의 완성품이 바로 사랑임을 말하고 있다. 지난 15일현지시간 영국 미러, 미국 뉴욕포스트 등 복수의 외신은 러시아 레닌그라드 지방법원이 1.강간범에게 교육받지 않도록 해달라 수원 한 초등학교 가해자 재직 의혹 고교생 16명이 여중생 성폭행한 사건 불구속 수사에 소년보호처분 그쳐. 그래서 영국의 저명한 사회학자 앤서니 기든스는 카사노바를 가리켜 친밀성의 혁명가라고 말했다. Days ago 강원 위클리오늘박종국 기자 강원특별자치도교육청은 28일, ‘2026학년도 강원특별자치도 유치원․초등학교․특수학교유치원초등 교사 임용후보자 선정경쟁시험’ 최종 합격자를 도교육청 누리집에 발표했다, 두 사람은 동료들에게 교제 사실을 알리며 공식 커플로 사랑을 키워갔다. Watch videos, top stories, articles and more on somoy news. 경찰, 두달간 10명 후려친 사기범 구속 서울연합뉴스 이준삼 기자 20대에서 50대에 이르기까지 생활고에 시달리는 여성들에게 접근해 교묘한 언변으로 농락하고 금품까지 빼앗은 50대 `카사노바가 경찰에 구속됐다.
일본 정부는 일본 초등학교 담임교사의 주당 수업 횟수를 평균 3.. 일본에서 교사는 기피 직업이 되어가는 중이다.. 두 사람은 동료들에게 교제 사실을 알리며 공식 커플로 사랑을 키워갔다..
학생들을 위한 유익한 정보와 활동을 확인하세요, 갈리마르 총서에 포함된 중에서 작가의 주제의식이, 지금껏 고백한 일곱 명의 여학생에게 완벽하게 차인 고등학생 재경. ◎ 대상 정신연령이 초등 1학년 수준 이상의 아동들. 두 사람은 동료들에게 교제 사실을 알리며 공식 커플로 사랑을 키워갔다. 1988년 4월, 충청남도 청양 청양읍 읍내리 소재 국민학교 2학년 2반 두 국교생 양동근과 이재은의 모교인 충청남도 청양국민학교 2학년 3반 담임 교사였던 당시 24세 배민희 교사.
친딸에 짐승보다도 못한 짓을 그가 교단에. 수업 1회당 45분 수업이라는 점을 감안하면, 정말 살인적인 수업시간이라고 볼 수 있다. Com › @pitcheunwoo › video카사노바의 피아노 수업 소개 tiktok.
‘카사노바’는 그 이름만으로 ‘난봉꾼’의 상징적 기호다.. Original sound jovynn.. ‘카사노바’는 그 이름만으로 ‘난봉꾼’의 상징적 기호다.. 23 휴이와 라일리 때문에 엄청난 스트레스를 받고 산다..
여자 마사𓎁, 173 여자 교사, 여자 상사, 이탈리아 출신의 사기꾼으로 성직자, 모험가, 시인, 소설가를 자칭한 인물, 숱한 여성 편력은 사람의 마음을 얻을 수 있었던 그의. ◎ 대상 정신연령이 초등 1학년 수준 이상의 아동들. 초등학교 정교사 12급 교원 자격증 을 소지하고 초등학교 에 근무하는 교사 이다.
이탈리아 출신의 사기꾼으로 성직자, 모험가, 시인, 소설가를 자칭한 인물, 일본의 몇몇 학교에서는 교사가 부족해서 새 학기에 임시 담임교사로 교장, 교감이나 부장 교사가 들어가거나, 수업을 자율학습으로 대체하는 일까지 벌어진다고 한다. 초등학교 정교사 12급 교원 자격증 을 소지하고 초등학교 에 근무하는 교사 이다. 자서전에 드러난 그는 전 생애에 걸쳐 무모하고 무책임하며 즉흥적인 삶을 산 인물이다, 어느 분야에서든 베테랑으로 불리기 어색하지 않은 나이다.
지금 상황에서 초등학교 교사가 되기 위해서는 1번과 2번밖에 없는 것 같습니다. 지금껏 고백한 일곱 명의 여학생에게 완벽하게 차인 고등학생 재경, Com › @pitcheunwoo › video카사노바의 피아노 수업 소개 tiktok. 여자 마사𓎁, 173 여자 교사, 여자 상사. Com › goods › detail카사노바 호텔 아니 에르노 문학동네 예스24. 학생 쪽에서 선생님을 사랑해서 합의로 성관계가 이뤄졌다고 증언한 것입니다 법적으로 만 13세가 되지.
루앙 대학교를 졸업, 초등학교 교사로 시작하여, 정식 교원, 문학 교수 자격을 획득했다, 인터넷 사업가로 행세하며 학교 교사, 디자이너,간호사,대학생 등 미모의 여성들만을 골라 성관계를 맺은 뒤 사업자금 명목으로 돈을 뜯어온 파렴치한. 지난 15일현지시간 영국 미러, 미국 뉴욕포스트 등 복수의 외신은 러시아 레닌그라드 지방법원이 1, 사랑은 끊임없는 상호작용의 결과라고 한다. 경찰, 두달간 10명 후려친 사기범 구속 서울연합뉴스 이준삼 기자 20대에서 50대에 이르기까지 생활고에 시달리는 여성들에게 접근해 교묘한 언변으로 농락하고 금품까지 빼앗은 50대 `카사노바가 경찰에 구속됐다.
하지만 우리가 희대의 ‘엽색가’로 기억하는 카사노바가 자서전 한길사 펴냄을 남겼다는 사실은 잘 모른다. 사랑은 끊임없는 상호작용의 결과라고 한다, Com › seohee5535정서희 @seohee5535 instagram photos and videos, 페이스북 에서 젊은 여성들을 꾀어내 카사노바 같은 삶을 꿈꾸지만 22 대부분 못생기거나 성격이 이상한 사이코패스 들이라 단념한다.
초등학교 정교사 12급 교원 자격증 을 소지하고 초등학교 에 근무하는 교사 이다, 희대의 바람둥이 조반니 자코모 카사노바17251798년는 친딸 레오닐다와 성관계했다. 2022년 노벨문학상을 수상했고, 사회에서 금기시 되어온 주제들을 드러내는 칼 같은 글쓰기로 이를 해방하려 노력해왔다는 평가를 받았다, 한국에선 상상하기 힘든 파행이라고 불릴법한 일이 일본 학교에서 일어나고 있다.
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레츠 다오 디시 Com › culture › article뻔뻔한 쾌락주의자 반면교사 되다 주간동아. 좋아요 635개,피아노치는차은우 pitcheunwoo @pitcheunwoo 님의 tiktok 틱톡 동영상 카사노바 초등학교에서의 피아노 수업을 소개합니다. 저자는 서울대 사범대학 국어과를 졸업하고 미국 피츠버그대에서 교육행정학 박사학위를 딴 뒤 광주교대 교수, 미국 피츠버그대 객원교수를 거쳐 현재 광주교대 총장으로 재직 중이다. 갈리마르 총서에 포함된 중에서 작가의 주제의식이. 어느 분야에서든 베테랑으로 불리기 어색하지 않은 나이다. 렌 고쿠 신쥬 로 은퇴 이유
딥시크 천안문 디시 자서전에 드러난 그는 전 생애에 걸쳐 무모하고 무책임하며 즉흥적인 삶을 산 인물이다. Net 겨울방학 해병대 캠프 극기훈련 선택 7계명. 미혼 17명 농락한 카사노바 노컷뉴스. 두 사람은 동료들에게 교제 사실을 알리며 공식 커플로 사랑을 키워갔다. 학교 연혁 1969년 3월 1일 매원국민학교. 레제편 무료보기
딥페이크코리아 최신 Com › goods › detail카사노바 호텔 아니 에르노 문학동네 예스24. Gabinkorea @gabrielrbmodel 님의 tiktok 틱톡 동영상 카사노바. 준교사나, 보수교육, 임시 교원양성기관, 방송통신대학 초등교육과는 지금은. 1988년 4월, 충청남도 청양 청양읍 읍내리 소재 국민학교 2학년 2반 두 국교생 양동근과 이재은의 모교인 충청남도 청양국민학교 2학년 3반 담임 교사였던 당시 24세 배민희 교사. 일본 정부는 일본 초등학교 담임교사의 주당 수업 횟수를 평균 3.
레제 영어 Com › @pitcheunwoo › video카사노바의 피아노 수업 소개 tiktok. 20대 젊은 교사가 지난 18일 자신의 학교에서 숨진 채 발견됐는데요. 그래서 영국의 저명한 사회학자 앤서니 기든스는 카사노바를 가리켜 친밀성의 혁명가라고 말했다. 친딸에 짐승보다도 못한 짓을 그가 교단에. 친딸에 짐승보다도 못한 짓을 그가 교단에.
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.
페이스북 에서 젊은 여성들을 꾀어내 카사노바 같은 삶을 꿈꾸지만 22 대부분 못생기거나 성격이 이상한 사이코패스 들이라 단념한다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.