일본은 1968년 주택보급률이 100%를 넘어섰다.

글로벌 경기침체로 일본 부동산 가격이 하락하고 있다.

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 3, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 3, 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 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.

A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 3, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.

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.

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 3, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 3, 2026.

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.

생활곤궁자자립지원제도 중 주거비 지원 사업으로 ‘주택확보급부금’이 있는데, 이 사업은 이직, 폐업으로부터 2년 이내이거나 휴업 등으로 수입이 감소하여 주거를 잃을 우려가 있는 사람을 대상으로 일정 기간 임대료를 지원한다 厚生労働省, n. 근데 ur임대주택은 위탁기관에서 직접 관리하는거라 수수료 안냄. 사진은 일본 지바현의 한 주택 밀집지역 전경. 일본의 공공임대주택은 크게 두 가지로 구분되는데 하나는 지방자치단체가 국고 보조로 공급하는 공영주택이고, 다른 하나는 구주택도시공단이 3대 대도시권에 공급하였던 공 단주택이 있음 ∙ 공영임대주택의 경우 1966년까지 ‘1종’과 ‘2종’으로 구분되어 1종은 하위소득 1833%의 가구를.

이번 글에서는 집의 구조, 난방 방식, 생활 습관, 임대 시스템 등의 차이를 비교하며 두 나라의 주거 문화를 살펴보겠습니다. 일본은 꾸준한 주택공급 확대 정책으로 1968년에 이미 주택보급률 100%를 달성하고 1998년에는 113%를 돌파했다, 일본의 주택 시장은 급격한 경제 변화, 인구 구조 변화, 그리고 자연 재해의 영향을 받아 많은 변화를 겪어왔습니다.

특히 일본은 주택관리공단 Ur이 중심이 되어, 민간 수준의 품질과 환경을 갖춘 장기 거주형 임대주택을 공급하는 데 집중하고 있습니다.

일본은 1968년 주택보급률이 100%를 넘어섰다.. 건축한 지 50년 넘는 오래된 민가를 개조해 만든 이곳의 월세는 6만 3천엔 약 60만 원으로 방은 별도로, 주방과 거실은 공유합니다.. 결론 한국과 일본의 주거 비용은 지역, 주거 형태, 생활비 등 여러 요소에 따라 다르게 나타납니다.. R은 room, k는 kitchen, d는 dining room, l은 living room을 말합니다..

일본의 공공임대주택은 크게 두 가지로 구분되는데 하나는 지방자치단체가 국고 보조로 공급하는 공영주택이고, 다른 하나는 구주택도시공단이 3대 대도시권에 공급하였던 공 단주택이 있음 ∙ 공영임대주택의 경우 1966년까지 ‘1종’과 ‘2종’으로 구분되어 1종은 하위소득 1833%의 가구를.

예를들어, 월세가 7만엔인 경우, 초기비용, 호주 역시 한국과 같은 전세 제도가 없다. 특히 주택 임대차 분야에서 법적, 제도적으로 일본의 영향은 컸으며 지정학적 이유로 향후 수많은 인적 교류가 불가피하다, 쓰레기 배출의 불편함 동네 쓰레기장까지 가서 배출해야 하며, 쓰레기장 청소도 주민들이 해야 함, 특히 한국과 일본은 지리적으로 가까운 국가이지만 주택 관리 제도와 방식에서는 상당한 차이를 보입니다.

일본은 우리나라보다 부동산에 크게 관심이 없고 일본의 Mz는 한국보다 주택 마련에 고민과 걱정이 적다.

한국과 일본의 주택 가격과 주거비 부담을 자세히 비교하여 아파트 평균가격, 전세가율, dti소득대비 대출비율를 실제 통계 데이터와 구체적인 사례로 분석해봅니다. 보증금 명목의 임대 계약금은 24주 임대료 정도로 한국에 비교하면 부담이 매우 낮다. 호주 역시 한국과 같은 전세 제도가 없다.
도쿄 평균 임대료의 60% 수준이라는 점에서 반값 임대라는 말이 과장은 아니다. 일본 ur 임대주택은 보증금갱신료 없이 외국인도 입주 가능한 공공 임대 시스템입니다. 제도와 정책의 차이 한국에는 세계적으로 드문 전세 제도가 있습니다.
제도와 정책의 차이 한국에는 세계적으로 드문 전세 제도가 있습니다. ※참고 셰어하우스 개인실은 주방, 거실 등 공용공간을 제외하고 침실. 오늘은 일본의 주거 환경을 소개하고 한국과의 차이점.
📍 일본은 헤이세이平成 부동산거품 붕괴. 일본에서 민간 임대주택을 빌릴 때에는 부동산 업자를 통해 계약하는 것이 일반적입니다. 일본은 1990년대 초 버블거품 붕괴로 급격한 집값 하락을 경험한 이후 주택에 대한 인식이 소유에서 거주로 빠르게.
21% 22% 57%
박유나 외2011는 일본의 주택임대관리 사례를 분석하면 서, 소형주택 거주자가 쾌적한 환경에서 양질의 주거 서비스를 받으며 살아갈 수 있는 적정한 관리 방안으 로 주택임대관리를 부각시켰다, 년공영주택법을제정했다초기에는일반저소득가구를, 1 2 대상으로 하되제 종과 제 종으로 구분하여 후자에는최. 일본 임대 법은 실제로 세입자에게 매우 유리해. Com › news › articleview기획특집 한일 부동산 패러다임 시프트 비교 比較 임대시장과. 한국은 빠른 경제 성장과 도시화로 인한 높은 임대수익률을 자랑하며, 일본은 안정성과 규제 완화로 외국인 투자자들에게 인기 있는. 한국과 일본의 주택 가격과 주거비 부담을 자세히 비교하여 아파트 평균가격, 전세가율, dti소득대비 대출비율를 실제 통계 데이터와 구체적인 사례로 분석해봅니다.

입주 심사 완화, 중개수수료 없음 등 장점이 많아 유학생과 워홀러에게 인기. 도쿄에서 집세가 왜 이렇게 비싼 걸까요. 오늘은 일본의 주거 환경을 소개하고 한국과의 차이점. 일본은 1968년 주택보급률이 100%를 넘어섰다.

결론 한국과 일본의 주거 비용은 지역, 주거 형태, 생활비 등 여러 요소에 따라 다르게 나타납니다.

입주 심사 완화, 중개수수료 없음 등 장점이 많아 유학생과 워홀러에게 인기. 박유나 외2011는 일본의 주택임대관리 사례를 분석하면 서, 소형주택 거주자가 쾌적한 환경에서 양질의 주거 서비스를 받으며 살아갈 수 있는 적정한 관리 방안으 로 주택임대관리를 부각시켰다, Com › postview우리와 다른 일본의 주거 임대차 문화 네이버 블로그.

일본 월세에 대한 흉흉한 소문이 많다. 일본은 우리나라보다 부동산에 크게 관심이 없고 일본의 mz는 한국보다 주택 마련에 고민과 걱정이 적다, 내부 특징 상당히 좁았던 면적 1980년대까지 일본의 주거 면적은 oecd 내. 주택건설계획은 시기에 따라 그 모습을 달리했다. This study aims to present the.

fc2ppv2953018 △하우스 쉐어링은 독신남녀를 대상으로 1인 1실을 제공합니다. 우리 기준 원룸은 일본에서 1r, 1k 등으로 부르고 우리 기준 투룸은 1dk 1ldk 등으로 부르는데요. 1980년대 이후에 정부가 나서서 공동 주택을 공급. 한국은 빠른 경제 성장과 도시화로 인한 높은 임대수익률을 자랑하며, 일본은 안정성과 규제 완화로 외국인 투자자들에게 인기 있는. 근데 ur임대주택은 위탁기관에서 직접 관리하는거라 수수료 안냄. fc2 허누나

fan no hitori ehen △하우스 쉐어링은 독신남녀를 대상으로 1인 1실을 제공합니다. 특히 한국과 일본은 지리적으로 가까운 국가이지만 주택 관리 제도와 방식에서는 상당한 차이를 보입니다. 1545 일본은 외국인에게도 자국민과 동일한 부동산 소유권을 보장하며, 다양한 투자 기회를 제공하는 매력적인 시장입니다. This study aims to present the. 도쿄에서 집세가 왜 이렇게 비싼 걸까요. fc2-ppv-3102900

fc2 1616189 자막 예를들어, 월세가 7만엔인 경우, 초기비용. 쉐어하우스는, 통상 임대 아파트에 비하여 초기비용・월세. 우리나라2009년보다 30년 이상 앞섰다. 특히 한국과 일본은 지리적으로 가까운 국가이지만 주택 관리 제도와 방식에서는 상당한 차이를 보입니다. △하우스 쉐어링은 독신남녀를 대상으로 1인 1실을 제공합니다. fc2 sotwe

fc2-ppv-4800340 女優名 제도와 정책의 차이 한국에는 세계적으로 드문 전세 제도가 있습니다. 프랑스 최단 임대기간 3년보증금은 월임대료 3배, 임대료 지급 능력이 중요. 1980년대 이후에 정부가 나서서 공동 주택을 공급. 이번 글에서는 집의 구조, 난방 방식, 생활 습관, 임대 시스템 등의 차이를 비교하며 두 나라의 주거 문화를 살펴보겠습니다. 정작 기업의 일꾼으로 봉사한 시민들의 삶을 개선하는 투자는 제대로 이루어지지 않은 것이다.

fc2424646 연대보증인, 보증금, 사례금 등 일본의 독특한 거래 습관이 존재합니다. 갱신료 없음 일본은 계약이 갱신되면 갱신료를 냄. 오늘은 일본의 주거 환경을 소개하고 한국과의 차이점. 일본의 주택 시장은 급격한 경제 변화, 인구 구조 변화, 그리고 자연 재해의 영향을 받아 많은 변화를 겪어왔습니다. 박유나 외2011는 일본의 주택임대관리 사례를 분석하면 서, 소형주택 거주자가 쾌적한 환경에서 양질의 주거 서비스를 받으며 살아갈 수 있는 적정한 관리 방안으 로 주택임대관리를 부각시켰다.

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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

일본은 1968년 주택보급률이 100%를 넘어섰다., 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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