여러 경우를 상상해볼 수 있는데, 미국대륙의 자연환경과 생활환경이 다소 척박해서 몸집 작은 아시아인들의 쉬운 체력소진으로 이어지는 게 아닌가 생각이 들기도 하고, 미국 먹거리가 너무 기름지다보니 자국음식과 식재료를 구입해 기존 자국에서 먹던 채식.

유럽에서 가장 날씬한 국가로는 루마니아가 꼽혔다.

Will Human Rights Survive a Trumpian World?

Authoritarian Advances Threaten Rules-Based Order

The global human rights system is in peril. Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms. To defy this trend, governments that still value human rights, alongside social movements, civil society, and international institutions, need to form a strategic alliance to push back.

To be fair, the downward spiral predated Trump’s reelection. The democratic wave that began over 50 years ago has given way to what scholars term a “democratic recession.” Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States.

Of course, democracy is not a panacea for human rights violations; the US and other longtime democracies have their own histories of colonial crimes, racism, abusive justice systems, and wartime atrocities. More recently, authoritarian leaders have exploited public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantled the very institutions that brought them to power. Democratic institutions are crucial to represent the will of the people and keep power in check. It’s no surprise that whenever democracy is undermined, rights are too, as evident in recent years in India, Türkiye, the Philippines, El Salvador, and Hungary.

The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 4, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 4, 2026.

FIRST: The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 4, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 4, 2026. © 2025 Ozan Köse/AFP via Getty Images

In this context, 2025 may be seen as a tipping point. In just 12 months, the Trump administration has carried out a broad assault on key pillars of US democracy and the global rules-based order, which the US, despite inconsistencies, was, with other states, instrumental in helping to establish.

In short order, Trump’s second-term administration has undermined trust in the sanctity of elections, reduced government accountability, gutted food assistance and healthcare subsidies, attacked judicial independence, defied court orders, rolled back women’s rights, obstructed access to abortion care, undermined remedies for racial harm, terminated programs mandating accessibility for people with disabilities, punished free speech, stripped protections from trans and intersex people, eroded privacy, and used government power to intimidate political opponents, the media, law firms, universities, civil society, and even comedians.

A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 4, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 4, 2026. © 2025 Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

Claiming a risk of “civilizational erasure” in Europe and leaning on racist tropes to cast entire populations as unwelcome in the US, the Trump administration has embraced policies and rhetoric that align with white nationalist ideology. Immigrants and asylum seekers have been subjected to inhumane conditions and degrading treatment; 32 died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2025, and as of mid-January 2026, an additional 4 have died. Masked immigration enforcement agents have targeted people of color, using excessive force, terrorizing communities, wrongfully arresting scores of citizens, and, most recently, unjustifiably killing two people in Minneapolis, whose deaths Human Rights Watch has documented.

A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, June 4, 2026.
A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, June 4, 2026. © 2025 Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo

The US president of course has the authority to tighten US borders and enforce stricter immigration policies. The administration is not, however, entitled to deny legal process to asylum seekers, mistreat undocumented migrants, or unlawfully discriminate. In a well-functioning democracy, no electoral mandate should supersede domestic legislation, constitutional protections, or international human rights law. Trump’s team has repeatedly bypassed these guardrails.

The violations have not stopped at the border. The Trump administration used a 1798 law to send hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador, where they were tortured and sexually abused. Its blatantly unlawful strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific extrajudicially killed more than 120 people whom Trump claims were drug traffickers.

After the US attacked Venezuela and apprehended its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Trump claimed the US would “run” the country and control its vast oil reserves. Despite paying lip service to human rights concerns under Maduro at the United Nations, Trump has worked with the same repressive apparatus to further US interests. Many Western allies have chosen to stay silent about these lawless moves, perhaps fearing erratic tariffs and blowback to their alliances.

Trump’s foreign policy has upended the foundations of the rules-based order that seeks to advance democracy and human rights, even if imperfectly.

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, June 4, 2026.
US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, June 4, 2026. © 2025 Samuel Corum/Sipa USA via AP Photo

Trump has boasted that he doesn’t “need international law” as a constraint, only his “own morality.” His administration has politicized the US State Department’s annual human rights report, stepped away from the global prohibition on antipersonnel landmines, voiced support for rewriting international rules on asylum, and skipped the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of the US’ human rights record.

His administration withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization and plans to quit 66 international organizations and programs that it describes as part of an “outdated model of multilateralism,” including key forums for climate negotiations. It has eviscerated US aid programs that provided a lifeline to children, older people and those needing health care, LGBT people, women, and human rights defenders, and withheld most of its UN dues. 

Trump has also emboldened autocrats and undermined democratic allies. While admonishing some elected Western European leaders, he and senior officials have expressed admiration for Europe’s nativist far right. He has favored autocrats such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, while continuing decades of US support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

His administration has unjustifiably imposed sanctions to punish respected Palestinian human rights organizations, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor and many of its judges, a UN special rapporteur, and for several months, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and his wife.

The institutional response in the US to Trump’s power grabs has been shockingly muted. Much of Congress, controlled by his own party, has not challenged his supercharged expansion of executive power. The leaders of the US’ most powerful technology companies have made significant donations and sought to placate the president. Some big law firms and prestigious universities have made deals rather than assert their independence, and some media organizations seem afraid to attract the president’s ire.

Has the US switched sides on the human rights playing field? While US engagement with human rights institutions has always been selective, China and Russia have long pursued an illiberal agenda. They stand much to gain from a US government that now expresses open hostility to universal rights. China and Russia remain strategic rivals of the US, but all three countries are now led by leaders who share open disdain for norms and institutions that could constrain their power.

Together, they wield considerable economic, military, and diplomatic power. If they were to consistently act as allies of convenience to erode global rules, they could threaten the entire system. Already, a loose international network of countries such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar, Cuba, and Belarus work in concert with Russia and China. These leaders share very little ideologically but align in undermining human rights and promoting a regressive international agenda. In word and in practice, the US government is now helping them in this endeavor.

Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 4, 2026. 
A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, June 4, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 4, 2026. © 2025 Kyodo News via Getty Images; SECOND: A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, June 4, 2026. © 2022 Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images

The US’ weakening of multilateral institutions also dealt a serious blow to global efforts to prevent or stop grave international crimes. The “never again” movement, born from the horrors of the Holocaust and reignited by the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, spurred the UN General Assembly to embrace the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. Meant to guide international intervention to prevent and stop atrocities in tandem with efforts to prosecute and punish serious crimes, R2P made a real difference in places like the Central African Republic and Kenya.

Today, R2P is rarely invoked and the ICC is under siege. In addition to Trump’s far-reaching sanctions, in December 2025 a Moscow court sentenced the ICC prosecutor and eight of its judges to prison terms in absentia. Moreover, despite being ICC fugitives, in 2025, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by Donald Trump in Alaska, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Hungary, an ICC member state at the time, at Orban’s invitation.

Twenty years ago, the US government and civil society were instrumental in galvanizing a response to mass atrocities in Darfur. Sudan is burning again, but this time under Trump, with relative impunity. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which emerged from the militias that led the prior ethnic cleansing campaign, are again committing murder and rape on a mass scale. A growing body of evidence indicates that the UAE, a longtime US ally that recently made multi-billion-dollar deals with Trump, is providing the RSF with military support.

In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israeli armed forces have committed acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, killing over 70,000 people since the October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel and displacing the vast majority of Gaza’s population. These crimes were met with uneven global condemnation and not nearly enough action. Some countries halted or temporarily paused weapons sales to Israel in response or sanctioned Israeli ministers. Trump, however, continued a long-standing US policy of almost unconditional support to Israel, even as the International Court of Justice is weighing allegations of genocide and has issued binding orders under the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians’ rights.

Trump announced in February an alarming US plan to transform Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” free of Palestinians, which would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing. As implementation of the 20-point Trump peace plan has stalled, the administration has further normalized the dispossession of Palestinians through its failure to publicly protest Israel’s regular killing of those approaching the “yellow line” that now divides Gaza, its ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes, and unlawful restrictions on humanitarian aid.

A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 4, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 4, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 4, 2026. © 2025 Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 4, 2026. © 2025 Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

In Ukraine, Trump’s peace efforts have consistently downplayed Russia’s responsibility for serious violations. These include indiscriminate bombing, coercing Ukrainians in occupied areas to serve in the Russian military, systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, and the use of quadcopter drones to hunt and kill civilians. Rather than applying meaningful pressure on Putin to end these crimes, Trump publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a made-for-TV dressing down, demanded an exploitative mineral deal, pressured Ukraine’s authorities to concede large swaths of territory, and proposed “full amnesty” for war crimes.

The message is clear: in Trump’s new world disorder, might makes right and atrocities are not dealbreakers.

Ai 생성 이미지와 스톡 사진을 둘러보며, 고품질 에셋으로 프로젝트의 완성도를 한층 높여보세요. 한국 남자에게 공개고백한 미국의 비만 여성. 그럼에도 영화드라마에서 보기 드문 새로운 시도임에 틀림 없다. Hours ago 이 곡이 폭발적으로 퍼진 계기는 바로 1996 애틀랜타 올림픽.

서울연합뉴스 김성용 기자 미국 성인들이 지난 18년간 더 뚱뚱해지고 키는 평균적으로 아주 조금 작아졌다는 내용을 담은 미국 헬스데이터 보고서가 20일 현지시간 공개됐다고 Afp 등 외신이 전했다.

모든 미를 인정해주고 존중해주는 미국 Vs.

그 해외 팝 가수인데 여자이고 뚱뚱하신 분 이름이 머지 인스티즈 instiz 연예 카테고리 아는 사람. 키움기준일단 검색식은 hts로만 만들수있다. 이 곡이 폭발적으로 퍼진 계기는 바로 1996 애틀랜타 올림픽. Com › forums › topictopic 엉뚱한 질문. 나는 수의학 공부를 할 때 한여름 메인주 젖소 목장에서 일을 했다. 미국엔 몸에 안좋지만 싸고 맛있는 음식들이 너무 많아서 그냥 이걸로 끼니 때우게 되는데 이러면서 점점 살찐 비만인구가 늘어나는 것이라고 미국 저소득층은 야채와 과일이 뭔지 모른다 미국의 심각한 음식 빈부격차, 음식 사막 food desert blog. 이 연구에 따르면 지난해 31개 주에서 비만인구의 비율이 높아졌다, 1824세 남성의 경우 read more.
Com › newsview › 20070916000051해외논단미국인들이 뚱뚱해지는 이유.. 이번 조사는 키와 몸무게의 상관관계를 계산해서 나오는 체질량지수에 바탕을 두고 있다..

결혼식에 웨딩드레스 못입은 미국 뚱녀, 76㎏ 감량해 꿈 이뤄 서울뉴시스문예성 기자 아름다운 웨딩드레스를 입고 결혼하는 것은 많은 여성의.

Shutterstock 컬렉션에서 4, 하여간 이 친구 역시, 획일화된 미 기준을 벗어나 대스타가 된 대표적인 예라 하겠다. 국내 동전주도 100개가 넘게 있으며, 미국 동전주도 400개가 넘게 있습니다. Com › sprngfl › 221301170243좀 살아보면 예상가능한 미국에 뚱뚱한 사람이 많은 이유 심심해서, Com › site › data미국에 뚱뚱보가 유독 많은 까닭. 그 해외 팝 가수인데 여자이고 뚱뚱하신 분 이름이 머지 인스티즈 instiz 연예 카테고리 아는 사람.

남편이 저도 미국서 살았으면 미국돼지 됐을거같다고ㅋㅋ. 말 그대로 뚱뚱한 몸매 를 찬양하는 사람을 의미한다, 아름 다운 뚱뚱한 여자는 미국 축구 공원에서 연주, 서울연합뉴스 김성용 기자 미국 성인들이 지난 18년간 더 뚱뚱해지고 키는 평균적으로 아주 조금 작아졌다는 내용을 담은 미국 헬스데이터 보고서가 20일 현지시간 공개됐다고 afp 등 외신이 전했다.

다이어트하며 살을 빼는 일반적인 상황과 반대로 살을 과하게 찌우는 것을 즐기는 호주 여성 사연이 공개됐다, 지난 3일현지시간 미국 뉴욕 브룩클린 비만여성을 위해 열린 벼룩시장에서 여성들이 자신이 산 옷을 계산하기 위해 계산대에서 기다리고 있는 모습이다. 영상 속에서는 아주 뚱뚱한 여성이 등장한다.

결국 뚱뚱한 여자도 남자한테 이쁨받을 수 있다는, 분명한 한계를 지닌 메시지일 뿐인데도 그렇게 큰 반향을 일으키다니.. 다만 한국사람들처럼 대놓고 말을 안할 뿐이지요.. 특히 뚱뚱한 여성에 대한 잣대는 남성보다 더 가혹.. 월렛허브가 미국의 대도시 지역 100곳을 비교해본 결과 미국에서 가장 비만율이 높은 도시는 텍사스주 매캘런에딘버그미션 지역으로 나타났다..

유럽에서 영국여자가 가장 뚱뚱하지만 미국보다는 `날씬`, 남녀 주인공이 어울리지 않았다는 에두른 평도 있고, 뚱뚱한 여자 주인공 때문에 서사에 몰입할 수 없다 배우가 살을 빼고 나왔어야 한다는 직설적인 평도 나와 논쟁이 벌어지기도 했다. 자신의 남자친구인 시드 라일리25가 병적으로 비만한 자신의 몸매를 좋아하기 때문.

미국엔 몸에 안좋지만 싸고 맛있는 음식들이 너무 많아서 그냥 이걸로 끼니 때우게 되는데 이러면서 점점 살찐 비만인구가 늘어나는 것이라고 미국 저소득층은 야채와 과일이 뭔지 모른다 미국의 심각한 음식 빈부격차, 음식 사막 food desert blog. 하여간 이 친구 역시, 획일화된 미 기준을 벗어나 대스타가 된 대표적인 예라 하겠다. 남성이 여성보다 좀 더 뚱뚱하다는 통념을 뒤집는 것이라고 전문가들은 해석 read more, 모든 미를 인정해주고 존중해주는 미국 vs.

비만의 나라에서 뚱뚱할 권리 외치다美 뉴욕시의 차별금지법. 비만퇴치 운동에도 뚱보 늘어난 미국비만한 성인 38%. 남성이 여성보다 좀 더 뚱뚱하다는 통념을 뒤집는 것이라고 전문가들은 해석 read more.
사진 설명, 라야네는 자신의 경험을 바탕으로 비만혐오에 대한 인식을 높이고, 이 때문에 차별 대우를 받은 피해자들을 돕고 있다. 지난 3일현지시간 미국 뉴욕 브룩클린 비만여성을 위해 열린 벼룩시장에서 여성들이 자신이 산 옷을 계산하기 위해 계산대에서 기다리고 있는 모습이다. 1824세 남성의 경우 read more.
다만 한국사람들처럼 대놓고 말을 안할 뿐이지요. 미국 뚱녀 모델나탈리 헤이그비행기 뚱녀. 뚱뚱한 사람들 다 모여라당당히 몸 드러내자, 뉴욕서 무슨.
미국 뉴욕에서 뚱뚱한 사람들의 해변 모임이 열려 관심을. 홀스타인 소가 250마리나 됐는데 일꾼은 겨우 3명. 세상에서 가장 뚱뚱한 여성이 되는 게 소원인 심슨은 자신이 먹는 모습을 온라인에 올려 이를 유료로 보게 함으로써 연 9만 달러의 수입을 올리고.
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뚱뚱한 사람들 다 모여라당당히 몸 드러내자, 뉴욕서 무슨, 영상 속에서는 아주 뚱뚱한 여성이 등장한다. 시청자의 마음을 사로잡은 요인으로 꼽히는 건 타인과의 비교 속에 위축돼 사는 많은 이들이 페넬로페에 감정을 이입할 수 있었다는 점, ‘뚱뚱한’ 여자 주인공도 얼마든지 아름답고 소중하게 그릴 수 있음을 이 드라마가 보여줬다는 점이다.

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그록 거유 지난 3일현지시간 미국 뉴욕 브룩클린 비만여성을 위해 열린 벼룩시장에서 여성들이 자신이 산 옷을 계산하기 위해 계산대에서 기다리고 있는 모습이다. Net › name › 28911763ㅇㅍ에 날씬이로 살다가 뚱뚱한 여자가 된 후 느낀점 보면서 공감가더라. 이 곡이 폭발적으로 퍼진 계기는 바로 1996 애틀랜타 올림픽. 미국도 미의 기준이 아주 정형화되어있어요. 미국은 비만인구가 증가하고 시민들은 점점 더 뚱뚱해지고 있다는 것이 새로운 연구 결과 확인되었다. 김건희 겨드랑이

그 비스크 돌은 사랑을 한다 마린 죽음 나는 수의학 공부를 할 때 한여름 메인주 젖소 목장에서 일을 했다. 결국 뚱뚱한 여자도 남자한테 이쁨받을 수 있다는, 분명한 한계를 지닌 메시지일 뿐인데도 그렇게 큰 반향을 일으키다니. 더욱이 시드는 모니카의 몸무게가 450kg이 될 때까지 음식을. 아프리카계 미국인 여성들 사이에서 비만율이 그렇게 높은. 나탈리 헤이그는 전날 abc 방송 아침 프로그램 굿모닝 아메리카에 출연해남성을 촬영했지만 그가 공개 겉으로 망신을 겪지 않도록 얼굴을 찍지 않았다 read more. 그록 메시지 한도

기구 플 웹툰 더쿠 이 곡이 폭발적으로 퍼진 계기는 바로 1996 애틀랜타 올림픽. 거기서는 과체중이나 비만인 여성의 비율이 남성의 비율보다 눈에 띄게 높아. 존 트러볼타 등이 출연하였고, 레이철 페퍼 등이 제작에 참여하였다. 13일 월렛허브는 미국에서 인구가 많은 대도시 성인 가운데 신체 활동이 없는 성인 비율과. 더욱이 시드는 모니카의 몸무게가 450kg이 될 때까지 음식을. 김동완

그린 코믹스 주소 우리나라라면 적어도 20명이 관리해야 할 규모다. 이 연구에 따르면 지난해 31개 주에서 비만인구의 비율이 높아졌다. 유럽에서 영국여자가 가장 뚱뚱하지만 미국보다는 `날씬`. 1824세 남성의 경우 read more. 그 해외 팝 가수인데 여자이고 뚱뚱하신 분 이름이 머지 인스티즈 instiz 연예 카테고리 아는 사람.

김건희 딸감 미국은 비만인구가 증가하고 시민들은 점점 더 뚱뚱해지고 있다는 것이 새로운 연구 결과 확인되었다. 말 그대로 뚱뚱한 몸매 를 찬양하는 사람을 의미한다. 미국에서도 진짜 ㅈㄴ 못생기고 개 뚱뚱한 고도 비만 여자. 몸무게가 317kg에 달하는 미국 여성 모니카 라일리27는 살을 뺄 생각이 없다. Ai 생성 이미지와 스톡 사진을 둘러보며, 고품질 에셋으로 프로젝트의 완성도를 한층 높여보세요.

This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth. 

This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.

Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.

Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.

The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”

Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 4, 2026.
Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 4, 2026. © 2025 Pierre Crom/Getty Images

Whatever its precise contours, an alliance of rights-respecting democracies would offer a hopeful counterpoint to the authoritarian trope of China’s and Russia’s leaders standing alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, observing military hardware in a parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in September. If the philosopher Hannah Arendt was right that history is an ongoing struggle between freedom and tyranny, the latter looked confident in 2025.

Yet, even in the worst of times, the idea of freedom and human rights is enduring. People power remains an engine for change. In the US, “No Kings” marches have drawn millions, protesters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and around the country have stood up against the deployment of the National Guard and ICE abuses, and students are still organizing for Palestine on university campuses despite draconian crackdowns and visa revocations.

Buoyed by popular resistance, South Korean parliamentarians impeached their president to prevent him from grabbing power through martial law. Grassroots aid efforts by Sudan’s emergency response rooms, Hong Kong’s fire relief, Sri Lanka’s cyclone relief community kitchens, and Ukrainian mutual aid and solidarity collectives represent the best of this trend.

Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 4, 2026. 
Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 4, 2026.  © 2025 Lynsey Addario/Getty Images

In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.

In this more hostile world, civil society is more critical than ever. It’s also increasingly endangered, particularly in an environment where funding is scarce. In 2025, Human Rights Watch was labeled “undesirable” and banned from operating in Russia. For partners in Egypt, Hong Kong, and India, these tactics are all too familiar. Restrictions on civil society and protest have become more commonplace in Europe, including the UK and France. And now, for the first time, many worry about risks associated with their operational presence in the US, where the Open Society Foundations, a major donor, have already been threatened, and the administration is preparing a list of “domestic terrorists” under overbroad guidance that could be interpreted to include the work of many progressive groups.

Breaking the authoritarian wave and standing up for human rights is a generational challenge. In 2026, it will play out most acutely in the US, with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world. Fighting back will require a determined, strategic, and coordinated reaction from voters, civil society, multilateral institutions, and rights-respecting governments around the globe.

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FIRST: A man holds a flower and the message "Humanity for All" as US marines and national guard protect the entrance of a federal building during the "No Kings" protest following US immigration operations, in Los Angeles, California, on June 4, 2026.
© 2025 Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: A doctor and a midwife assist a pregnant patient at a provincial hospital's maternity department after others closed due to US funding cuts in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, June 4, 2026. © 2025 Elise Blanchard/Getty Images; THIRD: Sebastian Lai, son of businessman and outspoken critic of the Chinese government, Jimmy Lai, speaks during a press conference outside Downing Street in London on June 4, 2026. © 2025 Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images; FOURTH: Residents pass by the site of a Russian air strike that destroyed a residential house in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, June 4, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

여러 경우를 상상해볼 수 있는데, 미국대륙의 자연환경과 생활환경이 다소 척박해서 몸집 작은 아시아인들의 쉬운 체력소진으로 이어지는 게 아닌가 생각이 들기도 하고, 미국 먹거리가 너무 기름지다보니 자국음식과 식재료를 구입해 기존 자국에서 먹던 채식., 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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