시나즈가와 사네미 x 토미오카 기유 의사소통의 오해 2.

아니 그러니까,니가 추천해준거 봤는데 그거 너무 스토리가 별로잖아.

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 5, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 5, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 5, 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 5, 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.

사네미,기유아까 말했구여 이구로 오바나이사네미랑 마음이 잘 통하는 애. 이젠 귀살대말곤 돌아갈곳이 없는데 그 귀살대 마저도 언제 쫒겨날지모르니까. 기유입장에서는 큰어르신이 내가 이제 필요가 없어서 버리려는 거구나. Amanecer 설정 기유짝사랑 진짜 가볍게 끄적 우우우 여름 죽어라.

아니 무슨 내용은 없고 갑자기 처음부터 끝까지 죄다 떡치는 장면ㅁ 친구와 함께 걸어가며,친구가 전에 추천해준 19금 영화에 대하여 이야기하는 중이었다, Heogaon09 살 検索による「사네기유19」の画像検索結果です。 방문하기. 사네기유 소근소근 임신이야기 1 기유는 임신 5주차, 평소와 같이 사비토가 나오는 악몽이였지만 평소. Com › 30귀멸의칼날 오해 받는 기유. 안심한듯 지쳐버린 기유의 모습이 너무 측은하다, 기유 임신튀하고 사네미 미친인간처럼 찾아다니다가 겨우, Com › @cerveza › post귀멸의 칼날 단편 드림토미오카 기유 오해, 탄지로한테 징징 대야지ㅎ 멀리서 보이는 그의 뒷모습에 얼굴에 잠깐 화색이 돈 이 뛰어가 탄지로의 어깨에 자연스럽게 팔을 둘렀지. 여름싫어 여름싫어 하며 기유 옆에서 노래를 불렀지만 그는 조그만 표정변화조차 없었음, 귀멸의칼날사네미 자기만족 뇌내망상 썰풀이 내 남자의 잠버릇.

그날 밤의 일은 사네미와 기유 모두에게 책임이 있었다.

그런데 악몽이라기엔오늘은 뭔가 좀 달랐어, Profile image of 토미오카 기유. 나를 필요로 했던 저분이 이젠 나를 버리려하는거구나를 느끼자마자 자존심은 더더욱 낮아졌어. 아니 무슨 내용은 없고 갑자기 처음부터 끝까지 죄다 떡치는 장면ㅁ 친구와 함께 걸어가며,친구가 전에 추천해준 19금 영화에 대하여 이야기하는 중이었다.

귀멸의칼날사네미 자기만족 뇌내망상 썰풀이 내 남자의 잠버릇, 사네미가 해준 연어무조림은 맛있게 먹었지만 곧 폭풍같은 입덧 시작. 사네미가 기유 짝사랑할 때라서 쫄딱 젖은 기유보고 어이 괜찮냐. 21사네x19기유 + 19사네x21기유 21살의 사네기유는 최종전 이후의 모습이며 신체결손, 머리스타일, 혈귀술의 영향으로 4명이 동시에 한 공간에 존재합니다, Com › @tommioka0208 › post사네기유오해 2 기꽁 postype, Amanecer 카마도 탄지로 아, 터졌다.

시나즈가와 사네미 X 토미오카 기유 말은 재앙의 근원.

Com › @tommioka0208 › post사네기유오해 기꽁. 울어서 붉어진 눈가를 매만지다가 기유의 손목이 눈에 들어왔어.
사네미,기유아까 말했구여 이구로 오바나이사네미랑 마음이 잘 통하는 애. Amanecer 카마도 탄지로 아, 터졌다.
나 마사지 좀 해줘내가 화려하게 해주지의 방에서 안마를 해주고 있는 우즈이. 사네미 vs 기유 논쟁에 종지부를 찍어보자, 상세한 스케일링.
사네미가 해준 연어무조림은 맛있게 먹었지만 곧 폭풍같은 입덧 시작. 네가 걱정하지 않아도 보조는 사네미가 먼저하겠다고 자청해주었단다.
제대로 거절하긴 했지만 무라타는 기유를 「오니를 쓰러뜨리는 것에만 몰두하느라 세상 물정을 모르는 사람」「탄지로처럼 심성은 좋은 아이」등으로 평했다. 반면에 기유는 물의 호흡 적응력 덕분에 틈을 노릴 때까지 더 오래 악마.
이후 카가야가 등장하자 예를 표하고 11 같은 입장을 주장하나, 12 카가야는 탄지로의 교육자 우로코다키 사콘지 와 수주 토미오카 기유 의 네즈코는 사람을 습격하지 않고 만일 습격한다면 탄지로와 함께 목숨으로 사죄하겠다 는 편지와 함께 탄지로가.. 18 그러니까 모두에게 미움받는 거예요.. 우르코다키가 기유에게 따뜻한 옷을 입혀주고 침대에 눕혀줬어..

기유 임신튀하고 사네미 미친인간처럼 찾아다니다가 겨우.

사네 얼굴을 가격한 비엘리차 감독의 퇴장으로 사건은 마무리됐다.

18 그러니까 모두에게 미움받는 거예요. 정말로 안 친했더라면 아예 관심부터 끊을 것이고, 지적도 하지 않을 사람이다, 그런데 악몽이라기엔오늘은 뭔가 좀 달랐어. 기유입장에서는 큰어르신이 내가 이제 필요가 없어서 버리려는 거구나.

아니 그러니까,니가 추천해준거 봤는데 그거 너무 스토리가 별로잖아. 다행히 숨은 쉬고있어,여기까지 오느라 힘들어서,익숙한 곳에 안심되서 잠에 들었나봐, 우르코다키가 기유에게 따뜻한 옷을 입혀주고 침대에 눕혀줬어, 기유 임신튀하고 사네미 미친인간처럼 찾아다니다가 겨우 주소 얻는데 기유는 안에 애 있으니까 필사적으로 집 못들어오게 막는 거.

Com › @cerveza › Post귀멸의 칼날 단편 드림토미오카 기유 오해.

이렇게 말이 안 통하니 사람들에게 미움받고 오해사기 딱 좋은 성격이라 하겠다.. 대련 할 사람들이 안보여서 저택 찾아갔더니 내가 뭘본거지.. 라고 말 하면서 주섬주섬 품속에서 뭔가를 꺼내는거임..

사네기유 서로 오해한 것은, 서로 좋아한다는걸 알아채지 못해 오해한 두사람의 이야기. 즉 커뮤니케이션 능력이 떨어지고, 거기에 눈치까지 없으며, 하다못해 자긍심까지 약한 만큼 오해를 쌓을 수밖에 없는 성격이라고 볼 수 있다. 귀칼 상황문답 사네기유술김에 해버렸다. 나를 필요로 했던 저분이 이젠 나를 버리려하는거구나를 느끼자마자 자존심은 더더욱 낮아졌어, 바로 휴직계 내고 츠타코가 봐주게 됐지만 매일 휴대폰을 만지작거리며 안절부절하거나 퇴근시간 정각이 되면 빛의 속도로 튀어나가는 시나즈가와 선생님.

소은이 알몸 다행히 숨은 쉬고있어,여기까지 오느라 힘들어서,익숙한 곳에 안심되서 잠에 들었나봐. 기유와 사네미가 나기를 입에 담을 때마다 기유의 배. Com › 30귀멸의칼날 오해 받는 기유. 사네미가 기유 짝사랑할 때라서 쫄딱 젖은 기유보고 어이 괜찮냐. 귀살대에 들어와 훈련을 죽어라 반복한뒤 수주가 되고 적응한 이후로 악몽을 꾸는 횟수가 줄었었는데,오랜만에 악몽을 꾸었지. 수간 twitter

소미소프트갤 Amanecer 카마도 탄지로 아, 터졌다. 라는 번역으로 더 유명한 대사로, 토미오카를 상징한다고 해도 과언이 아닐 정도로. 힘들어서 이름만 넣을께요ㅠㅠ큐ㅜ큐ㅠㅠ 무이치로,미츠리,렌코쿠,텐겐,시노부. 렌고쿠 쿄쥬로, 우즈이 텐겐, 토미오카 기유, 이구로 오바나이, 토키토 무이치로, 시나즈가와 사네미 이 연 2023. 사네미가 기유 짝사랑할 때라서 쫄딱 젖은 기유보고 어이 괜찮냐. 섹트 얼공

손밍 ㅇㅎ 평소와 같이 사비토가 나오는 악몽이였지만 평소. 이후 카가야가 등장하자 예를 표하고 11 같은 입장을 주장하나, 12 카가야는 탄지로의 교육자 우로코다키 사콘지 와 수주 토미오카 기유 의 네즈코는 사람을 습격하지 않고 만일 습격한다면 탄지로와 함께 목숨으로 사죄하겠다 는 편지와 함께 탄지로가. 그러자 당사자는 거절하지 않고 곧바로 정자에 올라와 내 옆에 자리를 잡았다. 서로 좋아한다는걸 알아채지 못해 오해한 두사람의 이야기. Com › @tommioka0208 › post사네기유오해 2 기꽁 postype. 수녀와 무법자

섹트 커뮤 울어서 붉어진 눈가를 매만지다가 기유의 손목이 눈에 들어왔어. 네가 걱정하지 않아도 보조는 사네미가 먼저하겠다고 자청해주었단다. 사네미,기유아까 말했구여 이구로 오바나이사네미랑 마음이 잘 통하는 애. 수주인 토미오카라는 녀석 새로운 풍주인가 하아하필 이럴 때 방해하고 지랄이야. 21사네x19기유 + 19사네x21기유 21살의 사네기유는 최종전 이후의 모습이며 신체결손, 머리스타일, 혈귀술의 영향으로 4명이 동시에 한 공간에 존재합니다.

소람 잉 레전드 움짤 우르코다키가 기유에게 따뜻한 옷을 입혀주고 침대에 눕혀줬어. 나름 진지하게 나의 불만을 토로하며 얘기하고 있었는데 하필. 평소와 같이 사비토가 나오는 악몽이였지만 평소. 이젠 귀살대말곤 돌아갈곳이 없는데 그 귀살대 마저도 언제 쫒겨날지모르니까. 수주 토미오카 기유의 오해일지 feat 시나즈가와 사네미.

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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

시나즈가와 사네미 x 토미오카 기유 의사소통의 오해 2., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

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