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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 17, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 17, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 17, 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 17, 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.

많은 분들이 나는 단지 영화를 받았을 뿐인데 왜 처벌받느냐고 억울해하시지만, 토렌트의 구조상 다운로드와 동시에 업로드가 함께 이뤄지는 시스템이기 때문에 문제는 복잡해집니다. 웹하드에서 아동청소년 성착취물을 다운로드 받은 경우. 복잡한 디지털 성범죄 사건, 전문가와 심리적 지원까지 꼭 함께하세요 성적 촬영물 소비죄에 관련한 처벌 기준은 법령과 판례로 어느 정도 정리되어 있지만, 실제 사건에 적용할 때는 상황에 따라 결과가 달라질 수 있습니다. 많은 분들이 나는 단지 영화를 받았을 뿐인데 왜 처벌받느냐고 억울해하시지만, 토렌트의 구조상 다운로드와 동시에 업로드가 함께 이뤄지는 시스템이기 때문에 문제는 복잡해집니다.

다만 실제 수사가 진행될지 여부는 누군가의 고소나 고발이 없다면 현재로선 미지수입니다, 불법업로더와 다운로더 전부 처벌하고 싶습니다. 하지만 오는 16일 개정 전기통신사업법 관련 법령이 시행되면 어떤 행위가 형사처벌 대상이 되는지를 두고 누리꾼 사이에서는 혼란이. 웹 서핑 또는 페이스북, 인스타그램, 트위터 하는 사람이 태반.

만약, 현재 야동 다운로드 처벌과 관련하여 어려움 및 궁금한 사항이 있으시다면 언제든지 전화상담을 요청하실 수 있습니다.

동영상 공유 및 판매, 실시간 인터넷 방송을 주목적으로 하는 것처럼 행세하나 실상은 성인물 판매가 주목적으로, 일본 내 형사처벌을 피해 해외에 소재지를 둔 것이다, 그러나, 창작자의 허락을 구하지 않고 무단으로 그 창작물, 콘텐츠를 이용했다면 불법다운로드 저작권법 위반 에 해당될 수 있습니다. 실제 수사가 진행된다면 양형에 집중해야 합니다. 인터넷 이용자가 유명 p2p개인간 파일공유 서비스인 토렌트를 이용해 성인 동영상을 다운로드 받으면 처벌받게 될까, 단순 다운로드 만으로는 이를 범죄로 규정한 법률은 없습니다. Com › 97음란물 시청만 해도 처벌될까. Pc에서 다운로드한 영상은 어떤 형식으로 저장되나요, 다만 실제 수사가 진행될지 여부는 누군가의 고소나 고발이 없다면 현재로선 미지수입니다, Com › qna › dirsfc2 사이트는 어떤 사이트인가요. 만약, 현재 야동 다운로드 처벌과 관련하여 어려움 및 궁금한 사항이 있으시다면 언제든지 전화상담을 요청하실 수 있습니다. 다운로드 안하고 시청만 했어요 목소리 만으로는 처벌되지 않는다 보셔도 아청법처벌 아청법스트리밍 아청법기준 아청법 blcd 답변 1 2021.

단순 시청, 다운로드, 아청물 소지 처.

다운로드 안하고 시청만 했어요 목소리 만으로는 처벌되지 않는다 보셔도 아청법처벌 아청법스트리밍 아청법기준 아청법 blcd 답변 1 2021. 4 emule 과 토렌트 등 p2p 로 다운로드한 경우. 고의적인 행위도 아니며 과실에 의한 행위이고 또한 특별한 사정이 없다면 단순 다운로드로는 범죄가 성립하지도 않습니다. 하지만 이런 케이스의 경우 반성하는 태도를 보이고 피해자와 합의를 시도하는 등 선처를 구하는 방법을 고려해 볼 수 있는데요.
윤드로저 유서ㅣ인생변호사 네이버 블로그 법률상식 94개의 글 목록열기. 단순히 다운로드 하는 것은 범죄가 아닙니다.
아청법 관련 불법 촬영물 소지는 처벌 대상. 21%
불법 영상물 다운로드 및 시청은 어떤 처벌을 받게 될까요. 20%
동영상 공유 및 판매, 실시간 인터넷 방송을 주목적으로 하는 것처럼 행세하나 실상은 성인물 판매가 주목적으로, 일본 내 형사처벌을 피해 해외에 소재지를 둔 것이다. 19%
네이버 블로그 법률 정보 138개의 글 목록열기. 40%
요즘 불법 다운로드 처벌 규정에 대해 궁금해하시는 분들이 많더라고요.. Pc에서 다운로드한 영상은 어떤 형식으로 저장되나요..

인터넷 이용자가 유명 P2p개인간 파일공유 서비스인 토렌트를 이용해 성인 동영상을 다운로드 받으면 처벌받게 될까.

불법촬영물 단순시청 처벌 사례가 있나요. 오늘은 단순 시청부터 소지, 다운로드까지 경우의 수별 처벌 수위를 팩트 체크해 드립니다, Pc에서 다운로드한 영상은 어떤 형식으로 저장되나요, ❌ fc2 이용 약관에 따르면 다운로드는 명시적으로 금지되어 있음.

어떠한 불법 영상인지에 따라 달라질 수 있겠습니다만, 불법 영상을 보거나 다운로드 받으면 처벌 대상이 될 수 있습니다, 불법사이트인지 아닌지 구별이 안가서 질문드립니다, Legal › 62429성적 촬영물 링크, 어디까지 처벌될까. 아청법 제11조 제5항에 따라 아동청소년 성착취물은 소지도 처벌 하기 때문에 일반 음란물과 달리 아동청소년 성착취물은 다운로드만 받아도 처벌된다. 많은 분들이 나는 단지 영화를 받았을 뿐인데 왜 처벌받느냐고 억울해하시지만, 토렌트의 구조상 다운로드와 동시에 업로드가 함께 이뤄지는 시스템이기 때문에 문제는 복잡해집니다. 불법촬영물 단순시청 처벌 사례가 있나요.

다운로드 안하고 시청만 했어요 목소리 만으로는 처벌되지 않는다 보셔도 아청법처벌 아청법스트리밍 아청법기준 아청법 Blcd 답변 1 2021.

4 emule 과 토렌트 등 p2p 로 다운로드한 경우. 많은 분들이 나는 단지 영화를 받았을 뿐인데 왜 처벌받느냐고 억울해하시지만, 토렌트의 구조상 다운로드와 동시에 업로드가 함께 이뤄지는 시스템이기 때문에 문제는 복잡해집니다. 단순히 다운로드 하는 것은 범죄가 아닙니다.

유료로 판매하는 저작물을 불법으로 유포하고 다운로드한 인원 전체에게 민형사 고소를 하려고 합니다. 명시적인 용도는 장병들의 사회와의 정보단절 해소와 자기 계발을 위한 학습 등이다, 토렌트 불법 다운로드, 왜 문제가 되나요, 단순 가입 자체나 일시적인 게시물 열람만으로 바로 처벌이 이루어지지는 않습니다.

제가 한때 blcd를 들었었는데 고등학생이 나오는 19금 이였어요.. 명시적인 용도는 장병들의 사회와의 정보단절 해소와 자기 계발을 위한 학습 등이다..

윤드로저 유서ㅣ인생변호사 네이버 블로그 법률상식 94개의 글 목록열기, 윤드로저 유서ㅣ인생변호사 네이버 블로그 법률상식 94개의 글 목록열기. 웹하드에서 아동청소년 성착취물을 다운로드 받은 경우, 하지만 이런 케이스의 경우 반성하는 태도를 보이고 피해자와 합의를 시도하는 등 선처를 구하는 방법을 고려해 볼 수 있는데요.

틍ㅟ터닷넷 Fc2라는 사이트를 동영상x 웹호스팅,블로그 o 접속했다는 이유만으로도 처벌이 되는건가요. 만약, 현재 야동 다운로드 처벌과 관련하여 어려움 및 궁금한 사항이 있으시다면 언제든지 전화상담을 요청하실 수 있습니다. 국내에서 아청법 관련 영상 스트리밍 or 다운로드에 비해 업로드가 주로 처벌 대상. 그리고 미성년자가 불법촬영물을 단순 시청한 경우에는 어떻게 되는 건가요. Com › 2242025 최신 fc2 video 룰 완전정리 시청, 업로드, 법적 이슈까지. 티원글로벌 정품 디시

트위터 속박플 단순 가입 자체나 일시적인 게시물 열람만으로 바로 처벌이 이루어지지는 않습니다. 오늘은 단순 시청부터 소지, 다운로드까지 경우의 수별 처벌 수위를 팩트 체크해 드립니다. 단순 시청, 다운로드, 아청물 소지 처. Fc2는 소유주와 소재지가 전부 미국에 위치하는데 일본 지역 위주로 서비스 하는 사이버 망명 형태를 취하고 있다. 외국의 대형 야동 사이트의 있는 한국야동은 모두 불법촬영물인가요. 트위터 비디오툴 야노

트위터 야한 영상 아동ㆍ청소년이용음란물을 제작ㆍ배포ㆍ소지한 자는 「아동ㆍ청소년의 성보호에 관한 법률」 제11조에 따라 형사처벌을 받을 수 있습니다. Legal › 62429성적 촬영물 링크, 어디까지 처벌될까. 복잡한 디지털 성범죄 사건, 전문가와 심리적 지원까지 꼭 함께하세요 성적 촬영물 소비죄에 관련한 처벌 기준은 법령과 판례로 어느 정도 정리되어 있지만, 실제 사건에 적용할 때는 상황에 따라 결과가 달라질 수 있습니다. 오늘만 산다는 각오로, 다들 모가지 내놓고 토렌트 쓰시는. 사이버 지식 정보 방이란 이 목적을 수행하고자 각급 부대에 설치된 인터넷 pc방이다. 파타야 솔플 디시

트위터 저장하기 실제 수사가 진행된다면 양형에 집중해야 합니다. 이런 저작권물 콘텐츠를 불법으로 판매한 경우, 최대 5년 이하의 징역 또는 5000만 원 이하의 벌금에 처해질 수 있습니다. 토렌트 불법 다운로드, 왜 문제가 되나요. 누구든지 정보통신망을 이용하여 음란한 부호문언음향화상 또는 영상을 배포 판매 임대하거나 공공연하게 전시하는 내용의 정보를 유통하여서는 아니 된다. 인터넷 이용자가 유명 p2p개인간 파일공유 서비스인 토렌트를 이용해 성인 동영상을 다운로드 받으면 처벌받게 될까.

판다티비 가슴 영상 다운로드 후 억울한 처벌 가능성에 대한 불안감. 명시적인 용도는 장병들의 사회와의 정보단절 해소와 자기 계발을 위한 학습 등이다. 인터넷 커뮤니티에는 수많은 추측이 난무하지만, 법적인 기준은 명확합니다. 오늘만 산다는 각오로, 다들 모가지 내놓고 토렌트 쓰시는. 윤드로저 유서ㅣ인생변호사 네이버 블로그 법률상식 94개의 글 목록열기.

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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

영상 다운로드 후 억울한 처벌 가능성에 대한 불안감., 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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