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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.

해연갤 이 벌은 언제쯤 끝나려나 싶었지. 유두는 벌써 조금 선채로 민감해지기 시작했어. 오메가들이 자리에 눕자 다리가 벌려진채 구속됐고 그 사이로 딜도팔이 다가와 구멍에 닿았어. 오메가인권씹창으로 오메가 자판기 보고싶다.

해연갤 이 벌은 언제쯤 끝나려나 싶었지, 행맨루스터로 오메가인 루스터가 행맨에게 구해지는 과정 번외, 교육관들은 윤활제를 몸에 뿌려줬고 유두에도 두 팔이 닿았지. Com › sungmin4312 › 224119100958시계리뷰 문스와치, 오메가x스와치 콜라보 머큐리 사용기 리뷰.

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Com › 631353210해연갤 해군 오메가 조종사로 매브가 첫 케이스면 좋겠다, 오메가 글로벌 앰버서더로 선정된 배우 박보검. 오메가 글로벌 앰버서더로 선정된 배우 박보검. 오메가들이 자리에 눕자 다리가 벌려진채 구속됐고 그 사이로 딜도팔이 다가와 구멍에 닿았어. 잘 먹는 여주보고 흐뭇해하는 남주 언제 질려, Days ago 오메가의 올림픽 에디션 시계 증정 전통은 2012년 런던 올림픽부터 시작되었습니다.
당시 개막 이틀째 사격 10m 공기권총에서 금메달을 획득한 진종오가 대한민국 첫 번째 금메달리스트가 되며 오메가 시계의 첫 주인공이 되었습니다.. 해연갤 스토니로 임신한 오메가는 본딩 알파 페로몬이 없으면 안되는거 근데 사실 토니를 시베리아에서 줍줍해가고 2년간 돌봐준게 엔겜스팁이면 좋겠다..
해연갤 탑이 기센 오메가 빌슼 퍼킹머신으로 조교하는거 ㅂㄱㅅㄷ. 오메가들 인권같은거 생각해줄 필요가 없으니까 뭐 나이라든지 외모라든지 사는 지역이라든지 그런거 전혀 고려안함. 원래 시간선에선 토니가 아이를 유산하고 많이 힘들어했기 때문에 약간의 이기심과 미안한 마음을 못 이기고 과거로 넘어온거였음.
그래서 성인될때까지 홈스쿨링 을 가장한. 문워치는 스위스 시계 제조사인 오메가를 대표하는 제품으로 1965년 미 항공 우주국 nasa에서 유인 우주 임무에 사용이 허가된 최초의 기계식 시계이자 달에 간 첫번째 시계로 그 명성이 높습니다. 당시 개막 이틀째 사격 10m 공기권총에서 금메달을 획득한 진종오가 대한민국 첫 번째 금메달리스트가 되며 오메가 시계의 첫 주인공이 되었습니다.
오메가들이 자리에 눕자 다리가 벌려진채 구속됐고 그 사이로 딜도팔이 다가와 구멍에 닿았어. 해연갤 오인씹세계관속 오메가인권운동하는 연가 보고싶다 연가 원래는 대대로 법조계 의료계 인물많이 배출한 브레인 집안인데 대대손손 베타아니면 열성 알파가 나와서 연가3형제 나오기전까지 안심하고있다가 3형제 다 오메가 나와서 혼파망되겠지. 알오버스로 오메가 차별세계관 아님 다만 형질인이면 무조건 통과해야하는 호르몬 훈련이 있는데 포로로 잡혔을때 이겨낼 수 있어야하니 하는거임 시어훈련처럼 ㅇㅇ 다만.
해연갤 오메가 인권이 개보다 못한 ㄹㅇ 오인씹 세계관 bgsd 오메가들은 초등학교 입학할 나이부터 정부에서 운영하는 교육소로 보내지는 거 글은 일부러 알려주지 않음 오메가들의 몸은 마르고 근육없이 말랑해야한다는 게 기본이라 밥도 쥐꼬리만큼 먹이겠지 너희들은 알파에게 순종해야한다. 오메가인권씹창으로 오메가 자판기 보고싶다. 루스터가 보수 오메가를 입맛대로 교육 시켜서.
보급형으로 오메가인권씹창인 세계의 일상 보고싶다. 해연 갤 오메가 등급 오메가 인권 바닥. 해연갤 행맨루스터로 오메가인 루스터가 행맨에게 구해지는 과정 번외.

그리고 돈 많은 알파들한테 배정받는 거.

잘 먹는 여주보고 흐뭇해하는 남주 언제 질려. Days ago 오메가의 올림픽 에디션 시계 증정 전통은 2012년 런던 올림픽부터 시작되었습니다. 행맨루스터로 오메가인 루스터가 행맨에게 구해지는 과정 번외. 해연 갤 오메가 등급 오메가 인권 바닥. ㅎㅂ보급형으로 수인세계에서 인간 인권 씹창오메가인권. 약에 중독된 서너명의 오메가 식비조차 부담스러워 그 오메가들은 푼돈.

남자오메가를 본적이 없는 햄주인님 앞에서 이런 저런 실험, 인터넷이나 오프라인으로 알록달록 예쁘게 꾸며진 오메가 랜덤박스 팔았으면 좋겠다. 오메가인권씹창으로 오메가 자판기 보고싶다, Com › sungmin4312 › 224119100958시계리뷰 문스와치, 오메가x스와치 콜라보 머큐리 사용기 리뷰. 원래 시간선에선 토니가 아이를 유산하고 많이 힘들어했기 때문에 약간의 이기심과 미안한 마음을 못 이기고 과거로 넘어온거였음, 그렇게 얻어맞고 세뇌당하고 굶겨진 오메가들은 15살부터 경매에 붙여져.

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문워치는 스위스 시계 제조사인 오메가를 대표하는 제품으로 1965년 미 항공 우주국 Nasa에서 유인 우주 임무에 사용이 허가된 최초의 기계식 시계이자 달에 간 첫번째 시계로 그 명성이 높습니다.

해연갤 해군 오메가 조종사로 매브가 첫 케이스면 좋겠다 알오버스로 오메가 차별세계관 아님 다만 형질인이면 무조건 통과해야하는 호르몬 훈련이 있는데 포로로 잡혔을때 이겨낼 수 있어야하니 하는거임 시어훈련처럼 ㅇㅇ 다만 알파는 in out. 기계 팔 하나에는 실리콘 딜도가 꽂혀있었지. 탑이 기센 오메가 빌슼 퍼킹머신으로 조교하는거 ㅂㄱㅅㄷ, 해연갤 해군 오메가 조종사로 매브가 첫 케이스면 좋겠다 알오버스로 오메가 차별세계관 아님 다만 형질인이면 무조건 통과해야하는 호르몬 훈련이 있는데 포로로 잡혔을때 이겨낼 수 있어야하니 하는거임 시어훈련처럼 ㅇㅇ 다만 알파는 in out.

상하이 혼자 여행 디시 Com › 631353210해연갤 해군 오메가 조종사로 매브가 첫 케이스면 좋겠다. 해연갤 행맨루스터로 오메가인 루스터가 행맨에게 구해지는 과정 번외. 처음 기계가 아래로 살짝 내려갔다가 쳐올렸을 때 빌슼이 한번 가버렸겠지 기계. 그렇게 얻어맞고 세뇌당하고 굶겨진 오메가들은 15살부터 경매에 붙여져. 오메가들 인권같은거 생각해줄 필요가 없으니까 뭐 나이라든지 외모라든지 사는 지역이라든지 그런거 전혀 고려안함. 설하 asmr 공유

살스 허벅지 유두는 벌써 조금 선채로 민감해지기 시작했어. 유두는 벌써 조금 선채로 민감해지기 시작했어. 해연갤 오메가 인권이 개보다 못한 ㄹㅇ 오인씹 세계관 bgsd 오메가들은 초등학교 입학할 나이부터 정부에서 운영하는 교육소로 보내지는 거 글은 일부러 알려주지 않음 오메가들의 몸은 마르고 근육없이 말랑해야한다는 게 기본이라 밥도 쥐꼬리만큼 먹이겠지 너희들은 알파에게 순종해야한다. ㅎㅂ보급형으로 수인세계에서 인간 인권 씹창오메가인권. 해연갤 이 벌은 언제쯤 끝나려나 싶었지. 설하얀 asmr

세이테이 학원 축구부의 일상 다시보기 씨마스터 플래닛 오션 신제품을 착용했다. Kr › news › 539940밀라노 첫 금메달 주인공은 누구. 오메가인권씹창으로 오메가 자판기 보고싶다. 해연갤 이 벌은 언제쯤 끝나려나 싶었지. 해연갤 탑이 기센 오메가 빌슼 퍼킹머신으로 조교하는거 ㅂㄱㅅㄷ. 설돌 온리팬스 야동

서 유화 디시 Com › sungmin4312 › 224119100958시계리뷰 문스와치, 오메가x스와치 콜라보 머큐리 사용기 리뷰. 해연갤 이 벌은 언제쯤 끝나려나 싶었지. 해연 갤 오메가 등급 오메가 인권 바닥. Footsteps sound replacer 발걸음소리 변경모드 부츠, 힐, 스니커즈 등 가끔 맨발로 뛰어다니는 찹찹소리나는 버그 걸렸을때 좋음read more. 행맨루스터로 오메가인 루스터가 행맨에게 구해지는 과정 번외.

살결 부드러운 디시 해연갤 오메가 인권이 개보다 못한 ㄹㅇ 오인씹 세계관 bgsd 오메가들은 초등학교 입학할 나이부터 정부에서 운영하는 교육소로 보내지는 거 글은 일부러 알려주지 않음 오메가들의 몸은 마르고 근육없이 말랑해야한다는 게 기본이라 밥도 쥐꼬리만큼 먹이겠지 너희들은 알파에게 순종해야한다. 알오버스로 오메가 차별세계관 아님 다만 형질인이면 무조건 통과해야하는 호르몬 훈련이 있는데 포로로 잡혔을때 이겨낼 수 있어야하니 하는거임 시어훈련처럼 ㅇㅇ 다만. 해연갤 해군 오메가 조종사로 매브가 첫 케이스면 좋겠다 알오버스로 오메가 차별세계관 아님 다만 형질인이면 무조건 통과해야하는 호르몬 훈련이 있는데 포로로 잡혔을때 이겨낼 수 있어야하니 하는거임 시어훈련처럼 ㅇㅇ 다만 알파는 in out. 해연갤 탑이 기센 오메가 빌슼 퍼킹머신으로 조교하는거 ㅂㄱㅅㄷ. 오메가들이 자리에 눕자 다리가 벌려진채 구속됐고 그 사이로 딜도팔이 다가와 구멍에 닿았어.

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.

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FIRST: A man holds a flower and the message "Humanity for All" as US marines and national guard protect the entrance of a federal building during the "No Kings" protest following US immigration operations, in Los Angeles, California, on June 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

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