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.
여자친구가 넌 키179cm임에 비해 자지가 너무 길다고. 국내 최대 커뮤니티 포털 디시인사이드. 화면 크기를 입력하려면 여기를 클릭하세요. 대왕자지다 커서너무좋아 라던가 입에 넣어보고싶다 빨고싶다는 반응도 꽤 read more.
06 230022 프로필펼치기 막말로 두개 준비하고 가운데 줄 달아서 쌍절곤마냥 휘둘러 때려도 기절하겠다 스크랩 공유. 기존 16cm 미니, 20cm 사이즈를 사랑해 주신 덕에 넉넉한. 절대적이고도 상대적인 음경 크기에 대한 모든 궁금증을 한데 모았다. 이기준대로 가장 선호하는 국가 여성은 미국인 여성이다, 즉 16cm이상의 발기상태 음경은 95번째 백분위수에 해당하며 이는 100명의 남자들 중 5명만이 16cm보다 긴 음경을 가진다는 의미입니다. 개드립에 두손 어쩌고 하길래 찾아봤다 ㅇㅇ 직접 찰흙으로 만들어 보라니깐 12cm 22cm 다양하게 나옴 다만 하나같이 ㅈㄴ굵음 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ.| 16cm 고추 색스시 현실 여자반응과 자지크기의 중요성. | 내 ㄱㅊ가 대한민국 평균이거든 길이 14에 둘레 13이야. | 5였거든 걔 전남친 백인 19cm 전전남친 한국인 11cm 예전 만났던사람에 대해 다 얘기했던적 있는데 세명이 채워지는 느낌자체가 다르다고 했음 19짜리는 조금만 움직여도 엄청 자극적인 느낌이라고 실토함 11은 확실히 아쉽고 동양인도 마찬가지임 1516정도 되면. |
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| 이중 길이 16cm, 둘레 13cm 를 대물의 기준으로 한다. | Kr › article › 2026012913453511148매출생산 올랐다&mldr. | 정확한 길이 구하는 방법으로, 자를 음경시작하는 부분하고, 뱃살을 직각으로해서자를 눌러 길이재는방법. |
| 직접 눌러서 내용을 확인해 주세요 보통 30센티가 돼야한다고 여자들이 말해서 저러는건가요. | 자지16cm 체감 보디빌딩 마이너 갤러리. | 국내 최대 커뮤니티 포털 디시인사이드. |
| Ppi 설정에 따라, 화면 크기 대각선는 다음과 같아야 합니다. | 제 개인적으로 가장 이상적으로 생각하는 남자사이즈 크기는요. | 5cm 정도였을거임지금은 젤크,스트레칭, 익스텐더 도 했고 관계도 많이하고 발기도 하도 자주하다보니까 15. |
| 2m 16cm 키 체감 엽기사진실 이종격투기. | 개드립에 두손 어쩌고 하길래 찾아봤다 ㅇㅇ 직접 찰흙으로 만들어 보라니깐 12cm 22cm 다양하게 나옴 다만 하나같이 ㅈㄴ굵음 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ. | 평균적인 길이인게 맞고 거기서 23cm 더 긴 1516cm 되면 고작 23cm 차이라고 해도 시각적으로 체감되는 길이 차이가 상당하게 되니까요. |
네, 17 monitor 을 를 사용하고 있습니다. 난 내가 12cm인줄 알았음당시 말랐으니까 치골 적당히 누르는 기준으로 재면 13. 16cm 고추 색스시 현실 여자반응과 자지크기의 중요성.
Com › discover › 손크기16cm체감tiktok, 국내 최대 커뮤니티 포털 디시인사이드. 한국의 몬스터 캔의 길이가 17cm물론 거시기가 저 정도 둘레일리는 없겠지만그걸 감안해도 저 정도 길이를 쑤시는데 아무것도, 지금여친이랑 아슬아슬하게 끝에 닿는정도인데 처음엔 깊다고 뭐라했는데 요즘엔 끝에닿으면 read more. 26 2338 나 원래는 그냥 들어갔는데 확장기로 키우고나서 안들어감 작은사람들 해보라고 강추함 길이,굵기 둘다 많이커짐 커질때마다 여자들 반응부터가 확달라지더라 1.
체감상으로는 도시 재난 단계에 진입했다고 봐도 무방한 수준입니다, 이기준대로 가장 선호하는 국가 여성은 미국인 여성이다. 야동이랑도 거리 멀게 살아오고 그러다가 첫 남자친구 사귀고 관계할 상황이 됐는데 남친 그게 생각보다 너무 큰거야 처음엔 무서워서 계속 피하다가 남친 설득. 구글에선 대물 정의가 길이 17cm 굵기 16cm 이상이 대물이라고 하던데 ㅋㅋㅋ 새벽물산 2023.
지금여친이랑 아슬아슬하게 끝에 닿는정도인데 처음엔 깊다고 뭐라했는데 요즘엔 끝에닿으면 read more. 06 230022 프로필펼치기 막말로 두개 준비하고 가운데 줄 달아서 쌍절곤마냥 휘둘러 때려도 기절하겠다 스크랩 공유. 이들은 16cm는 아기, 18cm는 청년, 22cm는 되어야 아프리칸이며, 이것이 일반적이며 아프리칸 대물 설이 맞다고 하였다.
여자친구가 넌 키179cm임에 비해 자지가 너무 길다고. 누구누구피셜 종합 이런 카더라 본인피셜로 내말이 맞아요 이런거 존나 안좋은 습관임ㅋ. 길이 풀발 치골 기준910cm 미안1011cm 솥추1113cm 평균1314cm 평균에서 상위권1415cm 길이때문에 바람날일 없음1516cm 평균 김치들 만족도 높은 사이즈16cm 가정파, Com › 4578776812쥬지 음경의 길이와 둘레에대한 여러가지 정보 연애상담 에펨코.
내 ㄱㅊ가 대한민국 평균이거든 길이 14에 둘레 13이야. 제가 직접 계산하고 설정해 드릴 수 있습니다. Com › 4578776812쥬지 음경의 길이와 둘레에대한 여러가지 정보 연애상담 에펨코, Day ago 광주전남 지역 기업들의 체감경기가 한동안 상승될 것으로 전망됐다. 기존 16cm 미니, 20cm 사이즈를 사랑해 주신 덕에 넉넉한 사이즈인 23cm 멀티 스티머가 출시됐습니다. 정확한 길이 구하는 방법으로, 자를 음경시작하는 부분하고, 뱃살을 직각으로해서자를 눌러 길이재는방법.
Com › 1630눈 적설량 16cm 17cm 18cm 19cm 20cm 체감 차이. 즉 16cm이상의 발기상태 음경은 95번째 백분위수에 해당하며 이는 100명의 남자들 중 5명만이 16cm보다 긴 음경을 가진다는 의미입니다. 이중 길이 16cm, 둘레 13cm 를 대물의 기준으로 한다, 3단계 15cm 차이나는 키차이 4단계 20cm 차이나는 키차이 5단계 2325cm 차이나는 키차이 6단계 거의 30cm 차이나는 키차이 7단계 30cm 이상 나는 키차이 대충 느낌 알겠지. 16cm, 동향면 15cm, 상전면15cm, 부귀면 15cm, 마령면 13cm, 안천면 12cm 체감온도는 더 낮을 것으로 보입니다.
액정의 크기 측정방법과 체감 크기디스플레이 화면비율 169, 43차이 네이버 블로그 이 블로그 전체 카테고리 글.. 제 개인적으로 가장 이상적으로 생각하는 남자사이즈 크기는요.. 많은 연구 결과와 관련 기사들에서 ‘성적 만족감에는 크기보다 테크닉이나 애무, 발기 지속력이.. 길이 분포는 한국남성이 1116cm 이며, 미국은 0..
제 개인적으로 가장 이상적으로 생각하는 남자사이즈 크기는요. 내 ㄱㅊ가 대한민국 평균이거든 길이 14에 둘레 13이야. 여자친구가 넌 키179cm임에 비해 자지가 너무 길다고. 해당 여성은 자신과 주변인들의 의견도 종합하면 정상위 기준 1316cm 크기의 음경이 가장 만족을 준다고 말한다.
시노부 배경화면 16cm 고추 색스시 현실 여자반응과 자지크기의 중요성. 정확한 길이 구하는 방법으로, 자를 음경시작하는 부분하고, 뱃살을 직각으로해서자를 눌러 길이재는방법. 26 2338 나 원래는 그냥 들어갔는데 확장기로 키우고나서 안들어감 작은사람들 해보라고 강추함 길이,굵기 둘다 많이커짐 커질때마다 여자들 반응부터가 확달라지더라 1. 해당 여성은 자신과 주변인들의 의견도 종합하면 정상위 기준 1316cm 크기의 음경이 가장 만족을 준다고 말한다. 이중 길이 16cm, 둘레 13cm를 대물의 기준으로 한다. 시노부 방귀 디시
스무살민지 디시 내 ㄱㅊ가 대한민국 평균이거든 길이 14에 둘레 13이야. 이중 길이 16cm, 둘레 13cm를 대물의 기준으로 한다. 제 개인적으로 가장 이상적으로 생각하는 남자사이즈 크기는요. Com › 1630눈 적설량 16cm 17cm 18cm 19cm 20cm 체감 차이. 직접 눌러서 내용을 확인해 주세요 보통 30센티가 돼야한다고 여자들이 말해서 저러는건가요. 시노부 동생
슬랜더 섹스 트위터 Day ago 광주전남 지역 기업들의 체감경기가 한동안 상승될 것으로 전망됐다. Ppi 설정에 따라, 화면 크기 대각선는 다음과 같아야 합니다. 야동보고 세우고 줄자로 재면서 현타와서 수축하고 다시 야동보고 세우고 줄자로 재고 반복하다가 길이 재고 한발빼고왔다. 2m 16cm 키 체감 엽기사진실 이종격투기. 제가 직접 계산하고 설정해 드릴 수 있습니다. 스팽 벌매
시드니 스위니 시스루 2019년 10월, 9gag 에 11,000명의 백인 여성들을 대상으로, 길이와 둘레를 xy축으로 한 여성들의 선호 크기 도표가 올라왔다. 유머 싱글벙글 2m 16cm 키 체감. Com › mgallery › board자지16cm 체감 보디빌딩 마이너 갤러리. 3단계 15cm 차이나는 키차이 4단계 20cm 차이나는 키차이 5단계 2325cm 차이나는 키차이 6단계 거의 30cm 차이나는 키차이 7단계 30cm 이상 나는 키차이 대충 느낌 알겠지. 난 내가 12cm인줄 알았음당시 말랐으니까 치골 적당히 누르는 기준으로 재면 13.
스카톨로지 탈분 적설량 눈 폭설 15cm 16cm 체감은. 내용은 정확히 이해안되지만 짤이 너무 웃기네요ㅋㅋ 표정과 대사가 웃김ㅋ 1년 전. 22 013634 조회 190533 추천 155 댓글 3. 해당 여성은 자신과 주변인들의 의견도 종합하면 정상위 기준 1316cm 크기의 음경이 가장 만족을 준다고 말한다. 야동보고 세우고 줄자로 재면서 현타와서 수축하고 다시 야동보고 세우고 줄자로 재고 반복하다가 길이 재고 한발빼고왔다.
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 › 1630눈 적설량 16cm 17cm 18cm 19cm 20cm 체감 차이., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.