이날 공개 된 출연자는 전설적인 권투선수인 매니 파퀴아오.

나라에서 불러서 돌아가야하는 파퀴아오.

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.

그러면서 한국의 문화와 역사, 아시아 문화를 찾아보는 것도 재미의 포인트가 될 거 같다고 했다. 넷플릭스가 준비한 피지컬 아시아는 이전 시즌과 달리 개인전이 아닌 국가 대항전으로 치러진다. 46세 복싱 전설의 투혼파퀴아오, 챔피언 바리오스와 무승부 radio. 몽골 바야르사이항, 필리핀 파퀴아오, 일본 오카미 유신, 호주 로버트 휘태커 등 피지컬 아시아 참가자들의 피지컬 전쟁 시간 공개일이 다가왔다.

피지컬아시아는 아시아 8개국이 국기를 걸고 펼치는 피지컬 전쟁으로 한국, 피지컬아시아는 아시아 8개국이 국기를 걸고 펼치는 피지컬 전쟁으로 한국. 피지컬아시아는 아시아 8개국이 국기를 걸고 펼치는 피지컬 전쟁으로 한국, 일본, 태국, 몽골, 튀르키예, 인도네시아, 호주, 필리핀 각각 6인, 총 48. 세 번째 퀘스트인 팀 대표전에서는 6개국이. 피지컬 100이 명성 높은게 뭐가 중요하냐 ㅋㅋ복싱밖에 못하는 새끼를 여기서 도데체 어따쓰노.
넷플릭스가 준비한 피지컬 아시아는 이전 시즌과 달리 개인전이 아닌 국가 대항전으로 치러진다.. Com › news › retrievenewsinfo피지컬 아시아 pd 파퀴아오 섭외, 직접 필리핀 본가 찾았다..

이날 장호기 Pd는 피지컬 아시아 출연진 캐스팅에 대해 아시아라고 정했지만 아시아를 향해서 확장해 나간다는 개념으로 봐주시면 좋을 것 같다.

매니 파퀴아오의 피지컬아시아 섭외 비하인드가 전해졌다. 탈락 대결은 태국 vs 필리핀, 일본 vs 인도네시아로 진행됐는데요, 결과적으로 태국과 인도네시아 팀이 탈락했습니다, 스테미나 회복이 느려서 피지컬 대결에서 매우 불리함. Com › view › 20251104n19761피지컬 아시아 파퀴아오 탈락 위기&mldr. 진행을 맡은 박경림은 매니 파퀴아오가 끝까지 살아남을지, 중간에 돌아갈지 궁금하다. Osen강남, 김채연 기자 매니 파퀴아오가 피지컬 아시아 출연 계기를 밝혔다, 나라에서 불러서 돌아가야하는 파퀴아오. Kr › news › view피지컬 아시아 파퀴아오 vs 한국몽골호주 참가자&mldr, Profile_image 롤랑이아몰랑 ip보기클릭183, Jpg 넷플릭스, 피지컬 아시아 8개국 선수 스틸컷 공개 파퀴아오. 넷플릭스, 피지컬 아시아 8개국 선수 스틸컷 공개 ㄸㄷㄷㄷ. 게다가 필리핀팀 대표로 나와서 주장 역할을 하고 있었다. 피지컬 아시아, 상금 10억의 국가 대항전 ‘피지컬 아시아’는 한국, 일본, 태국, 몽골, 튀르키예, 인도네시아, 호주, 필리핀 등 8개국 대표 선수 48명이 10억 원 상금을 두고 벌이는 초대형 피지컬 서바이벌이에요. 국가대항전에 예능인 참가시켜 분노한 인도네시아 시청자들. Com › news › retrievenewsinfo피지컬 아시아 pd 파퀴아오 섭외, 직접 필리핀 본가 찾았다, 재산도 몇 천억원 수준이라고 들었는데 피지컬 아시아에 나오다니 대단하긴 하다. 스테미나 회복이 느려서 피지컬 대결에서 매우 불리함. 한편 피지컬아시아는 오는 28일 첫 공개 된다. 게다가 필리핀팀 대표로 나와서 주장 역할을 하고 있었다, 파쿠르선수 기둥넘고 결국 토했다 ㄷㄷㄷ 이슈.

Jpg 넷플릭스, 피지컬 아시아 8개국 선수 스틸컷 공개 파퀴아오.

이번 시즌 피지컬아시아는 아시아 8개국이 각각 6인으로 팀을 구성해 치열한 국가 대항전을 펼치는 방식을 따른다, 한편 피지컬아시아는 오는 28일 첫 공개 된다, 4일 공개되는 피지컬 아시아 56회에서는 첫 탈락 국가가 결정되는 데스매, 세 번째 퀘스트인 팀 대표전에서는 6개국이, 많은 시청자와 방송 관계자들은 피지컬아시아 파퀴아오 하차진짜이유를 세 가지로 요약합니다, 안녕하세요 사이버친구들 피지컬아시아 재밌게 완결까지 보고 오늘 꿈에도 나온 쵱쥬니입니다 피지컬아시아.

그러면서 한국의 문화와 역사, 아시아 문화를 찾아보는 것도 재미의 포인트가 될 거 같다고 했다. 46세 복싱 전설의 투혼파퀴아오, 챔피언 바리오스와 무승부 radio, 46세 복싱 전설의 투혼파퀴아오, 챔피언 바리오스와 무승부 radio, 복싱 영웅 파퀴아오 한국 도착피지컬 100 참가자 됐다, 이번 시즌 피지컬아시아는 아시아 8개국이 각각 6인으로 팀을 구성해 치열한 국가 대항전을 펼치는 방식을 따른다.

몽골 바야르사이항, 필리핀 파퀴아오, 일본 오카미 유신, 호주 로버트 휘태커 등 피지컬 아시아 참가자들의 피지컬 전쟁 시간 공개일이 다가왔다. 넷플릭스 netflix 예능 피지컬 아시아가 오는 10월 28일 국기를 건 전쟁을 시작한다. 443k views 2 months ago, 26 likes, tiktok video from サムちゃんsamu 중개인 @samuchan77 매니 파퀴아오의 강력한 매치업을 체험하세요. 피지컬 100 아시아 팀 필리핀 rphilippines.

몽골 바야르사이항, 필리핀 파퀴아오, 일본 오카미 유신, 호주 로버트 휘태커 등 피지컬 아시아 참가자들의 피지컬 전쟁 시간 공개일이 다가왔다. Osen강남, 김채연 기자 매니 파퀴아오가 피지컬 아시아 출연 계기를 밝혔다, 솔직히 말하자면 피지컬 아시아를 보신 분들은 알지만 별다른 활약은 없었다, 4일 공개되는 피지컬 아시아 56회에서는 첫 탈락 국가가 결정되는 데스매.

24일 서울 강남구 삼성동 웨스틴 서울 파르나스 하모니볼룸에서는 넷플릭스 새 예능. 바로 계약설, 체력설, 그리고 이미지 관리설입니다.
안녕하세요 사이버친구들 피지컬아시아 재밌게 완결까지 보고 오늘 꿈에도 나온 쵱쥬니입니다 피지컬아시아. 국가대항전에 예능인 참가시켜 분노한 인도네시아 시청자들 feat.
이날 장호기 pd는 피지컬 아시아 출연진 캐스팅에 대해 아시아라고 정했지만 아시아를 향해서 확장해 나간다는 개념으로 봐주시면 좋을 것 같다. 넷플릭스 예능 가 중반부에 접어들면서 처음으로 탈락팀이 등장했습니다.

복싱 영웅 파퀴아오 한국 도착피지컬 100 참가자 됐다.

나라에서 불러서 돌아가야하는 파퀴아오, 너무 체중이 많이나가고 지방이 많아서, 26 likes, tiktok video from サムちゃんsamu 중개인 @samuchan77 매니 파퀴아오의 강력한 매치업을 체험하세요, 우승 상금을 본 선수들 반응 피지컬 아시아 갤러리, 파퀴아오 ㅈㄴ 쓸모없는데 피지컬 아시아 갤러리, 솔직히 말하자면 피지컬 아시아를 보신 분들은 알지만 별다른 활약은 없었다.

qoqsik sex Jpg 넷플릭스, 피지컬 아시아 8개국 선수 스틸컷 공개 파퀴아오. 국가대항전에 예능인 참가시켜 분노한 인도네시아 시청자들 feat. 넷플릭스 netflix 예능 피지컬 아시아가 오는 10월 28일 국기를 건 전쟁을 시작한다. 복싱 영웅 파퀴아오 한국 도착피지컬 100 참가자 됐다. 행사에는 장호기 pd와 윤성빈, 김민재, 아모띠, 장은실, 최승연이 참석했다. povkr-148

pikpak bondage 몽골 바야르사이항, 필리핀 파퀴아오, 일본 오카미 유신, 호주 로버트 휘태커 등 피지컬 아시아 참가자들의 피지컬 전쟁 시간 공개일이 다가왔다. 탈락 대결은 태국 vs 필리핀, 일본 vs 인도네시아로 진행됐는데요, 결과적으로 태국과 인도네시아 팀이 탈락했습니다. 탈락 대결은 태국 vs 필리핀, 일본 vs 인도네시아로 진행됐는데요, 결과적으로 태국과 인도네시아 팀이 탈락했습니다. 세 번째 퀘스트인 팀 대표전에서는 6개국이. 피지컬아시아는 아시아 8개국이 국기를 걸고 펼치는 피지컬 전쟁으로 한국. realdeepfakes.xom

pixeldrain 우회 Com › view › 20251104n19761피지컬 아시아 파퀴아오 탈락 위기&mldr. 게다가 필리핀팀 대표로 나와서 주장 역할을 하고 있었다. 이날 공개 된 출연자는 전설적인 권투선수인 매니 파퀴아오. 넷플릭스가 준비한 피지컬 아시아는 이전 시즌과 달리 개인전이 아닌 국가 대항전으로 치러진다. 게다가 필리핀팀 대표로 나와서 주장 역할을 하고 있었다. pikpak 乱交

pixiv 야동 그러면서 한국의 문화와 역사, 아시아 문화를 찾아보는 것도 재미의 포인트가 될 거 같다고 했다. Profile_image 롤랑이아몰랑 ip보기클릭183. 파퀴아오도 복싱 역사상 최고 고트급이고 오타니도 야구 역사상 최고 고트임. 넷플릭스 netflix 예능 피지컬 아시아가 오는 10월 28일 국기를 건 전쟁을 시작한다. 이날 장호기 pd는 피지컬 아시아 출연진 캐스팅에 대해 아시아라고 정했지만 아시아를 향해서 확장해 나간다는 개념으로 봐주시면 좋을 것 같다.

prydwen 명조 24일 서울 강남구 삼성동 웨스틴 서울 파르나스 하모니볼룸에서는 넷플릭스 새 예능. Jpg 넷플릭스, 피지컬 아시아 8개국 선수 스틸컷 공개 파퀴아오. Kr › news › view피지컬 아시아 파퀴아오 vs 한국몽골호주 참가자&mldr. Com › article › 202510240401h피지컬아시아 pd, 필리핀 전설 파퀴아오 섭외 이유는&mldr. 피지컬 100 아시아 팀 필리핀 rphilippines.

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.

Header captions
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

이날 공개 된 출연자는 전설적인 권투선수인 매니 파퀴아오., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

Download