US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 11, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026.
또한 4세대 아이돌들에게는 트위터, 틱톡, 위버스 등 뉴미디어의 활용이 특징이며 팬덤이 더 액티브해지며 참여적인 성격이 강해짐 5세대 ‘23년. 한눈에 보는 오늘 방송가요 뉴스 사진세븐틴 _월드 뮤직비디오 캡처서울경제 정상을 열망하는 그룹 세븐틴seventeen이 자신들의 방향성을 찾았다. 또한 4세대 아이돌들에게는 트위터, 틱톡, 위버스 등 뉴미디어의 활용이 특징이며 팬덤이 더 액티브해지며 참여적인 성격이 강해짐 5세대 ‘23년. 비영리스타트업 쇼케이스 《비스5樂실 level up》 2023.
| 한눈에 보는 오늘 방송가요 뉴스 사진세븐틴 _월드 뮤직비디오 캡처서울경제 정상을 열망하는 그룹 세븐틴seventeen이 자신들의 방향성을 찾았다. | 남자 아이돌은 이제 상방 근처까지 다 왔다고 판단됩니다. |
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Kr › 292022년 5월호 비투비의 first 5, 시작합니다 뉴스레터.. 또한 그들의 인터뷰를 통해 kpop 산업이 어떻게 체계화되어가는지 짐작하기에 충분하다..이 책은 아이돌 그룹이 어떻게 만들어지는지 그 탄생의 현장을 속속 들여다볼 수 있다. 또한 정규 4집 리패키지 앨범 섹터 17로는 최초 리패키지 앨범 초동 밀리언셀러라는 기록을 세웠다, Com › centum_tiger › 223155746818엔터산업 분석 feat. 이외에도 지난해에만 빌보드 앨범 차트 빌보드 200 2연속 1위에 오른 스트레이 키즈도 4월 컴백을 목표로 준비 중이다, 월간임팩트 5월호비투비는 5월 팀빌딩을 하고, 늘어난 인원만큼 새로운 사무공간으로 이사했습니다. 앨범은 산업에서 상방을 뚫어주는 특별한 그룹들이 있어야 한다고 판단하는데, 3세대 아이돌 선배들로 인해 늘어난 유튜브 구독자수는 자연스럽게 4세대 아이돌들에게 관심을 가지게 함, 이외에도 지난해에만 빌보드 앨범 차트 빌보드 200 2연속 1위에 오른 스트레이 키즈도 4월 컴백을 목표로 준비 중이다, Kb자산운용이 오는 20일 일본 주식시장을 주도하는 섹터에 집중적으로 투자하는 상장지수펀드etf를 출시합니다.
목 15001700, 카페 히브루스 본점지난 2월 23일 15시, 카페 히브루스에서 비영리스타트업 성장지원사업 5개 지원팀의 활동을 소개하는 비영리스타트업 쇼케이스 《비스5樂실 level up》 행사가 개최되었습니다.. 데뷔 초부터 부각한 긍정 에너지를 기반으로 성장하고 도전하는 데 초점을 뒀다.. 목 15001700, 카페 히브루스 본점지난 2월 23일 15시, 카페 히브루스에서 비영리스타트업 성장지원사업 5개 지원팀의 활동을 소개하는 비영리스타트업 쇼케이스 《비스5樂실 level up》 행사가 개최되었습니다.. 팬랩연구소 팬이라면 알아야 할 아이돌 스케줄의 모든것 네이버 블로그 전체보기 222개의 글 목록열기..또한 4세대 아이돌들에게는 트위터, 틱톡, 위버스 등 뉴미디어의 활용이 특징이며 팬덤이 더 액티브해지며 참여적인 성격이 강해짐 5세대 ‘23년. 월간임팩트 5월호비투비는 5월 팀빌딩을 하고, 늘어난 인원만큼 새로운 사무공간으로 이사했습니다. 또한 그들의 인터뷰를 통해 kpop 산업이 어떻게 체계화되어가는지 짐작하기에 충분하다.
지난 14일 청와대 국민청원 게시판에는 ‘아이돌들의 목소, Org › wiki › 세븐틴_음악_그룹세븐틴 음악 그룹 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전, 그러다가 이번에 nexz의 유튜브 조회수 대박을 보게 되고, 빠르게 내년 엔터 일정을 알아보았다.
데뷔 초부터 부각한 긍정 에너지를 기반으로 성장하고 도전하는 데 초점을 뒀다. 3세대 아이돌 선배들로 인해 늘어난 유튜브 구독자수는 자연스럽게 4세대 아이돌들에게 관심을 가지게 함. 원더걸스, 걸스데이 와 더불어 성공적인 멤버 개편 사례로 자주 언급되는 그룹이기도 하다. 아이돌 이야기는 넘쳐나지만, 지금껏 ‘아이돌 메이커’의 이야기를 다룬 책은 없다. 비영리스타트업 쇼케이스 《비스5樂실 level up》 2023. 그러다가 이번에 nexz의 유튜브 조회수 대박을 보게 되고, 빠르게 내년 엔터 일정을 알아보았다.
Com › centum_tiger › 223155746818엔터산업 분석 feat, 오랫동안 둥지를 틀었던 사무실인 헤이그라운드를 떠나, 근처 서울숲길에 위치한 새로운 사무실 공간으로 이사한 날, 쏘카를 빌려 짐을 옮기고, 3개월 넘게 비어있던 사무실 책상 먼지를 닦아내고, 앨범은 산업에서 상방을 뚫어주는 특별한 그룹들이 있어야 한다고 판단하는데, Kb자산운용이 오는 20일 일본 주식시장을 주도하는 섹터에 집중적으로 투자하는 상장지수펀드etf를 출시합니다. 18일 오후 6시 세븐틴에스쿱스, 정한, Kr › 292022년 5월호 비투비의 first 5, 시작합니다 뉴스레터.
또한 정규 4집 리패키지 앨범 섹터 17로는 최초 리패키지 앨범 초동 밀리언셀러라는 기록을 세웠다, 이 책은 아이돌 그룹이 어떻게 만들어지는지 그 탄생의 현장을 속속 들여다볼 수 있다. 18일 오후 6시 세븐틴에스쿱스, 정한, 엔터 섹터를 원래도 긍정적으로 보고 있었으나, 업사이드가 더 큰 종목들을 찾다보니 2023년 하반기에는 엔터를 공부하지 않았다, 최신 아이돌 섹터뷰 영상을 통해 트렌드를 확인하세요.
진성네코 또한 4세대 아이돌들에게는 트위터, 틱톡, 위버스 등 뉴미디어의 활용이 특징이며 팬덤이 더 액티브해지며 참여적인 성격이 강해짐 5세대 ‘23년. 월간임팩트 5월호비투비는 5월 팀빌딩을 하고, 늘어난 인원만큼 새로운 사무공간으로 이사했습니다. Kb자산운용이 오는 20일 일본 주식시장을 주도하는 섹터에 집중적으로 투자하는 상장지수펀드etf를 출시합니다. 그러다가 이번에 nexz의 유튜브 조회수 대박을 보게 되고, 빠르게 내년 엔터 일정을 알아보았다. Com › hhhhnk › 223309963633엔터 1q24는 대박덩어리다 네이버 블로그. 줄리아 avdbs
진리캠퍼니 Com › centum_tiger › 223155746818엔터산업 분석 feat. Com › view › 20220718n31354신곡 톺아보기 세븐틴의 최고를 향한 열망, _월드에서 실현된다. 목 15001700, 카페 히브루스 본점지난 2월 23일 15시, 카페 히브루스에서 비영리스타트업 성장지원사업 5개 지원팀의 활동을 소개하는 비영리스타트업 쇼케이스 《비스5樂실 level up》 행사가 개최되었습니다. Kr › 292022년 5월호 비투비의 first 5, 시작합니다 뉴스레터. 아이돌 이야기는 넘쳐나지만, 지금껏 ‘아이돌 메이커’의 이야기를 다룬 책은 없다. 쭈루리 야동
지메 지오드 삭제 엔터 섹터를 원래도 긍정적으로 보고 있었으나, 업사이드가 더 큰 종목들을 찾다보니 2023년 하반기에는 엔터를 공부하지 않았다. 남자 아이돌은 이제 상방 근처까지 다 왔다고 판단됩니다. 18일 오후 6시 세븐틴에스쿱스, 정한. 목 15001700, 카페 히브루스 본점지난 2월 23일 15시, 카페 히브루스에서 비영리스타트업 성장지원사업 5개 지원팀의 활동을 소개하는 비영리스타트업 쇼케이스 《비스5樂실 level up》 행사가 개최되었습니다. 또한 4세대 아이돌들에게는 트위터, 틱톡, 위버스 등 뉴미디어의 활용이 특징이며 팬덤이 더 액티브해지며 참여적인 성격이 강해짐 5세대 ‘23년. 진자림 비키니
종아리 체벌 사극 팬랩연구소 팬이라면 알아야 할 아이돌 스케줄의 모든것 네이버 블로그 전체보기 222개의 글 목록열기. 팬랩연구소 팬이라면 알아야 할 아이돌 스케줄의 모든것 네이버 블로그 전체보기 222개의 글 목록열기. 최신 아이돌 섹터뷰 영상을 통해 트렌드를 확인하세요. 또한 정규 4집 리패키지 앨범 섹터 17로는 최초 리패키지 앨범 초동 밀리언셀러라는 기록을 세웠다. 엔터 섹터를 원래도 긍정적으로 보고 있었으나, 업사이드가 더 큰 종목들을 찾다보니 2023년 하반기에는 엔터를 공부하지 않았다.
지붕위소희 남친 디시 오랫동안 둥지를 틀었던 사무실인 헤이그라운드를 떠나, 근처 서울숲길에 위치한 새로운 사무실 공간으로 이사한 날, 쏘카를 빌려 짐을 옮기고, 3개월 넘게 비어있던 사무실 책상 먼지를 닦아내고. 팬랩연구소 팬이라면 알아야 할 아이돌 스케줄의 모든것 네이버 블로그 전체보기 222개의 글 목록열기. 비영리스타트업 쇼케이스 《비스5樂실 level up》 2023. 데뷔 초부터 부각한 긍정 에너지를 기반으로 성장하고 도전하는 데 초점을 뒀다. Com › centum_tiger › 223155746818엔터산업 분석 feat.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 11, 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.
아이돌 이야기는 넘쳐나지만, 지금껏 ‘아이돌 메이커’의 이야기를 다룬 책은 없다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.