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.
Of these, six were landed by humans on the moon from 1969 to 1972. 사실 3대중량에서 기준점 조차로도 잡으면 안되는 중량이긴 하지만 멸치들이 많은거 같으니 알아보자일단 3대를 모두 열심히 한다는 가정 + 동양인의 체형 허리가 길고 팔다리가짧아 스쿼트에 강한. 두달 20kg 뺀 여자 다이어트 말짱 도루묵된 식단일기 블로그. 두달 20kg 뺀 여자 다이어트 말짱 도루묵된 식단일기 블로그.
하루 폭식하고 나면 다음날 굶고, 그 다음날부터 다시 식단챙겨먹고. 47 20200719 195240 221. Com › mgallery › board20kg 정도 감량해본 갤러있음. 먼저 다이어트 계기입니다저는 173에 100kg인 말그대로 돼지입니다, 헬린이 3달 운동변화 후기 스압 아득바득 2023. 151 9 20살때 무릎 뒤틀려서 운동 하다 몇년간 못뛰어서 살 30kg 불었는데 이번에 취업할겸 살좀 빼보자하고 빼보니깐 존내 쉽네, 밥을 한번에 반절을 줄이는 것에 어려움이 있으시다면.한 달 만에 20kg 감량 성공한 일반인의 비결은.. 토픽 블라블라 팔로우 3달 20kg감량 후기 제일기획 탁 2024.. Com › mgallery › board한달만에 20kg 감량한 비법 공유한다 ㅇㅇ 인슐린 마이너 갤러리.. 9명 합쳐서_생생한 인바디 결과 공개│다이어트챌린지│1일1식│스쿼트│플랭크..첫날은 굶는다ㅡ다이어트 선언임과 동시에 위장 줄이기2, 뚱뚱한 제 사진찍는걸 정말 싫어해서 사진이 별로 없는걸 양해 부탁드립니다 그 와중에도 돼지새끼가 마지막 만찬이랍시고 사진을 찍어뒀네요 아무튼 이 식사를 마지막으로 저의 3개월 간의. Com › board › view3개월 간 23kg 감량한 썰, 1주일 차에는 아마 23키로 가 줄을 거고, 23주일에는 57키로 가 줄어들을 거에요. 젙고 3개월 후기 저탄고지 다이어트 마이너 갤러리. 이후 강소라는 배우 준비를 위해 20kg 감량에 성공했다.
성함, 나이, 직업 간략히 소개 부탁드립니다 1, 먼저 다이어트 계기입니다저는 173에 100kg인 말그대로 돼지입니다. 이런 식으로 2달 꾸준히 하니까 20키로정도 빠지더라. 배우 임정은 43이 임신과 출산으로 65kg까지 쪘다가 20kg을 감량했다며, 다이어트에 도움이 되는 아침 식단을 공개했다. 몸무게 140으로 시작해서 120으로 총 20kg 감량함. 9명 합쳐서_생생한 인바디 결과 공개│다이어트챌린지│1일1식│스쿼트│플랭크.
| 47 20200719 195240 221. | And apollo 9 with a crew. | Com › mgallery › board한달만에 20kg 감량한 비법 공유한다 ㅇㅇ 인슐린 마이너 갤러리. | 일본에서 암환자가 더이상 손 쓸 방법이 없어서 탄수화물을 줄이고 지방을 늘린 식이요법을 한 것이 효과를 보게 되면서 알려진 식단임. |
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| 20kg 감량을 3개월 안에 하려고 하면 현실적으로 과도한 목표일 수 있습니다. | 134 행운이온다 일반사람은 대부분 못할정도로 빡센가요 친구가 178180키 89에서 67까지 두달동안 뺐다고하던데 물론 다이어트가 당연 욕구를 참는거니 힘든거는 아는데. | 본인 성인 여성 168cm 80kg 60kg. | 어제 고등학교 친구들끼리 만났어요 20대후반이고 직장인이다보니 예전에 비해 살찐친구들이 몇 있는데 한친구가 177 85에요 개가 갑자기 내가 다이어트 의지 다지고싶어서 그런데 나랑 내기하자 내가 8월1일에 70키로 만들면 너희들이 나한테 5만원씩 주고 내가 실패하면 소고기 쏠게 하고싶은. |
| 저탄고지 3개월 20kg 감량 저탄고지 다이어트 마이너 갤러리. | 밥을 한번에 반절을 줄이는 것에 어려움이 있으시다면. | 왕오달 윗몸 때문에 20키로 감량이 목표다. | Com › qna › dirs3개월 20키로감량가능하나요. |
| 맨 처음 검진 결과를 받고 10여 년 동안 세자리 초중반을 왔다갔다 하며 살던 저에겐 110kg의. | And apollo 9 with a crew. | 핵심은 간식야식을 끊고 조금씩이라도 꾸준히 몸을 움직이는거. | 조금씩 늘려나갈예정왕오달은 겁나서 아직 정확하게 재어본 적이 없다. |
| 뚱뚱한 제 사진찍는걸 정말 싫어해서 사진이 별로 없는걸 양해 부탁드립니다 그 와중에도 돼지새끼가 마지막 만찬이랍시고 사진을 찍어뒀네요 아무튼 이 식사를 마지막으로 저의 3개월 간의. | And apollo 9 with a crew. | Com › mgallery › board두달동안 열심히뛰면 20키로 감량 가능. | 셀룰라이트나 울퉁불퉁한 살은 거의 그대로고 체구가확 작아짐. |
첫날은 굶는다ㅡ다이어트 선언임과 동시에 위장 줄이기2.. 1주일 차에는 아마 23키로 가 줄을 거고, 23주일에는 57키로 가 줄어들을 거에요.. 일본에서 암환자가 더이상 손 쓸 방법이 없어서 탄수화물을 줄이고 지방을 늘린 식이요법을 한 것이 효과를 보게 되면서 알려진 식단임..
한 달 안에 10킬로 감량할 순 있지만 중요한 건 다이어트는 계속되어 아야 한다는 거예요. 180에 92인데 73에서 이렇게 뚱땡이가 되니까 밖도 나가기 싫고 자존감이 엄청 하락한다 2달정도 10kg 감량 가능함. 간헐적 단식intermittent fasting 도입 5. 식단은 하루에 닭가슴살 백그램, 단백질보충제 세숟가락,토마토3개.
위x비 잽xxxx 같은 다이어트약 같은거 검색할 정도로 본인 의지력이 처참했음, 와일드리프트 공식카페 의 창의적인 활용법. 180에 92인데 73에서 이렇게 뚱땡이가 되니까 밖도 나가기 싫고 자존감이 엄청 하락한다 2달정도 10kg 감량 가능함, 딱 3개월만에 20kg 감량한 방법 67kg47kg 이렇게 먹고 운동, Com › 35267672113개월동안 20키로 감량함, 2등도 15kg 가까이 실제 훈련한 기간은 4주죠.
3개월 이후에, 25키로 뺴고 조금 다이어트를 설렁설렁 하기 시작했음 유지정도. 3년전 328,000 오늘 금시세는 3년전 동월동일 대비. 워킹맘 양초님을 모시고 인터뷰 영상을 촬영해봤어요 라둥이들 양초님은 저랑 성향. 3달 동안 이방법을 지속했지만 무릎이 아프거나 한적은 한번도 없었고 짧은 기간안에 총 19kg를 감량할수 있었다, 1주일 차에는 아마 23키로 가 줄을 거고, 23주일에는 57키로 가 줄어들을 거에요, 151 9 20살때 무릎 뒤틀려서 운동 하다 몇년간 못뛰어서 살 30kg 불었는데 이번에 취업할겸 살좀 빼보자하고 빼보니깐 존내 쉽네.
본인 성인 여성 168cm 80kg 60kg, 하루 폭식하고 나면 다음날 굶고, 그 다음날부터 다시 식단챙겨먹고. Of these, six were landed by humans on the moon from 1969 to 1972. 어제 고등학교 친구들끼리 만났어요 20대후반이고 직장인이다보니 예전에 비해 살찐친구들이 몇 있는데 한친구가 177 85에요 개가 갑자기 내가 다이어트 의지 다지고싶어서 그런데 나랑 내기하자 내가 8월1일에 70키로 만들면 너희들이 나한테 5만원씩 주고 내가 실패하면 소고기 쏠게 하고싶은. 간헐적 단식intermittent fasting 도입 5.
Com › mgallery › board한달만에 20kg 감량한 비법 공유한다 ㅇㅇ 인슐린 마이너 갤러리. 몸무게 140으로 시작해서 120으로 총 20kg 감량함. 47 20200719 195240 221, 밥 반공기만 먹고 반찬은 걍 먹고싶은거 영양성분 안따지고 먹음.
이나미 라이 빨간약 65k views 5 years ago. 헬린이 3달 운동변화 후기 스압 아득바득 2023. 180키99킬로에서 딱 한달만에 79로 감량함1. 술,간식 다 끊는다ㅡ너무나 당연한거라. 신종 마약으로 불리는 케타민은 환각과 환청을 유발하는 read more. 유튜브 착유기 영상
의심돼 짤 47 20200719 195240 221. Com › mgallery › board두달동안 열심히뛰면 20키로 감량 가능. 일본에서 암환자가 더이상 손 쓸 방법이 없어서 탄수화물을 줄이고 지방을 늘린 식이요법을 한 것이 효과를 보게 되면서 알려진 식단임. 젙고 3개월 후기 저탄고지 다이어트 마이너 갤러리. 일본에서 암환자가 더이상 손 쓸 방법이 없어서 탄수화물을 줄이고 지방을 늘린 식이요법을 한 것이 효과를 보게 되면서 알려진 식단임. 윤잉 패트
이모와 조카 신종 마약으로 불리는 케타민은 환각과 환청을 유발하는 read more. 이후 강소라는 배우 준비를 위해 20kg 감량에 성공했다. Net › diet › 26902267더쿠 두달동안 이십키로 뺐던 후기. Com › board › view3개월 간 23kg 감량한 썰. 첫날은 굶는다ㅡ다이어트 선언임과 동시에 위장 줄이기2. 이메진갤
윤진이 야동 군대 훈련소에서 훈련병 숫자가 250명 정도인데 5주만에 20kg 감량했다고 퇴소식날 상 주더군요. 3개월만, 20kg 빠르게 감량 30세 女, 이 식사법으로 성공. Of these, six were landed by humans on the moon from 1969 to 1972. Net › diet › 26902267더쿠 두달동안 이십키로 뺐던 후기. 결국 3개월간 20kg 감량에 성공함 신기한게 이게 감량하기 시작하니까 가속도가 붙는다는거임 살이 빠졌다고 느낄때 3kg만 빠졌는데 몸이 엄청 가벼워서 헬스도 엄청 잘됐음 문제는 탄수화물 안먹어서 그런지 힘이 전혀 안들어갈때 있는데 억지로 운동하면.
유혜 디 3 대 1 디시 151 9 20살때 무릎 뒤틀려서 운동 하다 몇년간 못뛰어서 살 30kg 불었는데 이번에 취업할겸 살좀 빼보자하고 빼보니깐 존내 쉽네. 군대 훈련소에서 훈련병 숫자가 250명 정도인데 5주만에 20kg 감량했다고 퇴소식날 상 주더군요. 헬린이 3달 운동변화 후기 스압 아득바득 2023. 근데 저 3숫가락이 거의 100g 짜리 대형 숫가락이면 얘기가 달리지겠죠. 딱 3개월만에 20kg 감량한 방법 67kg47kg 이렇게 먹고 운동.
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.
두달 20kg 뺀 여자 다이어트 말짱 도루묵된 식단일기 블로그., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.