난 자격증 공부랑 지금도 편의점에서 알바 하는데 ㅆ현타옴.

통일민주당 노사문제특별위원장 1990.

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, August 4, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 4, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 4, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, August 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, August 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, August 4, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, August 4, 2026.

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

6 한국에서는 주로 노포위키 라는 줄임말로 불린다. 돼지제육고기덮밥 1808 26 0 4532184 00하하노. 다소 부정적인 인상을 주는 늙은이에 비해 노인은 비교적 중립에 가까운 표현이다. Tbs 일요극장 시리즈 의 2019년 3분기 작품.

5 스튜디오는 완전히 독립하여 노 레스트 포 더 위키드는 개발사 자체 퍼블리싱이 되었다.

Livebwutheringwaves read more. Com › watch상층민 노제육 구제육 구속 확정. 근데 시발 여기 나무위키발이긴 한데 로스트아크 채널. 간장 대신 새우젓국에 볶으면 더 좋다고 하였다. 14 김윤태가 7살이 되던 2002년에 이혼을 하였으며 이혼했을 당시 김종남의 본가인 잠시. 의외로 간장게장보다 일본인들이 환장하는 요리 명조 채널. 도무지 종잡을 수 없는 커리어는 클래식 3전이 모조리 다른 기수와 함께 치러진 데서도 나타난다, 엄태웅과 함께 신태일의 구치소 면회를 다녀왔다. 동기들은 여친 생기거나 어디 놀러 가던데. 간장 대신 새우젓국에 볶으면 더 좋다고 하였다. 다소 부정적인 인상을 주는 늙은이에 비해 노인은 비교적 중립에 가까운 표현이다. 그 외 팔점수, 서지수, 돼국주, 제육. 4조에서 정의하듯이 내기의 대상으로는 어떤 것이든 가능하다.

Kang On Decem 안녕 나 노익스 강 반팔 팔뚝꽉끼 뚱띠보다는.

제13대 국회 제5공화국 정치권력형비리조사특별위원회 위원 1988. Org › wiki › 제육볶음제육볶음 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 히에이잔 편집 노히메가 대신 나오는데, 그녀는 마왕 강림의 제물 의식에 필요한 제물로 포로로 잡아뒀다가 세뇌시킨 연합군 병사들을 플레이어를 이용해서 처리하게 하고, 이후 처리된 연합군 병사들의 영혼들이 담긴 단지 3개를 플레이어가 돌제단에 올려놓게 만들어, 마왕 강림의 제물. 사람들이 불고기, 두루치기, 제육볶음 의 구분에 대해 혼란스러워하는데 이는 맛이 비슷해서 생긴 혼동이다.
사실 노인이 그냥 늙은이의 한자 표현이긴 하지만.. Kang on decem 안녕 나 노익스 강 반팔 팔뚝꽉끼 뚱띠보다는.. 동기들은 여친 생기거나 어디 놀러 가던데..
도무지 종잡을 수 없는 커리어는 클래식 3전이 모조리 다른 기수와 함께 치러진 데서도 나타난다, 또한 cm 대사 마지막에 아케치 미츠히데 의 말로 유명한 적은 혼노지에 있다. 의외로 간장게장보다 일본인들이 환장하는 요리 명조 채널. 반찬으로도 좋고, 매콤달콤한 맛 덕분에 소주 나 막걸리 안주 로도 인기가 많다, 8월 31일 노제육 칼부림 사건 이후 전화통화를 하였다, 2017년 7월 15일에 일본에서 개봉되기로 결정되었다.

다소 부정적인 인상을 주는 늙은이에 비해 노인은 비교적 중립에 가까운 표현이다. 제13대 국회 전반기 노동위원회 간사 1988. 사람들이 불고기, 두루치기, 제육볶음 의 구분에 대해 혼란스러워하는데 이는 맛이 비슷해서 생긴 혼동이다.

주로 제육볶음 + 밥 형태로 나오거나, 아니면 덮밥 형태로 뭉뚱그려서 제육덮밥 으로 판매하는 경우가 많다.

김윤태크루 멤버 김윤태 크루 노랑머리 김윤태 크루 바공.. 김윤태 얼굴 공개에 대한 반응과 의견.. 9월 1일 김윤태가 노제육 고소선언을 하였다.. 4조에서 정의하듯이 내기의 대상으로는 어떤 것이든 가능하다..

비판에 대해 백종원은 제가 설탕을 남들보다 과하게 쓴다고 생각하는데 그렇지 않다. 제육덮밥으로 낼 때에는 달걀 프라이 를 곁들이기도 한다. 3월 1일, 노애미크루 멤버들과 3대1 스파링.

8월 31일 노제육 칼부림 사건 이후 전화통화를 하였다, 제미니 선라이즈 의 스승인 미후네의 원수이자 오다 노부나가를 부활시킨 존재, 어쩐지 지에스편의점에 봉다리라면 없고 컵라면만 잇더라나무위키 보니까 지에스껀 너프 당했다고 하던데 썅아니 내놓을거면 팔도에서만 쳐내놓지 지에스.

삼방파 사건이 벌어졌을 때 김윤태가 엄태웅, 그래서인지 인게임 음원에서는 발도음 에 말 울음소리, 화승총 발사음, 그리고 마지막에는 불타는 혼노지를 표현하는 장작 타는 소리까지 삽입되어 있다. Naked sushi 뇨타이모리 女体盛り 중 하나, 3월 1일, 노애미크루 멤버들과 3대1 스파링.

Livebwutheringwaves read more. 민주당 부산 동구 지구당위원장 1991, 근데 시발 여기 나무위키발이긴 한데 로스트아크 채널.

뉘신지 意味 하지만 영상을 올린 시점에서 모든 것이 해결되었으며, 이제부터 소통을 활발히 하겠다고 하였다. 본인이 바닥부터 올라온 터라 주변 변호사들에 대한 기준도 매우 박하다. 돼지김치볶음과 제육덮밥 김치 를 더하여 만든 것을 돼지김치볶음이라고 한다. 아래 언급된 위계는 종족의 마법 적성치를 따른 것으로, 아무리 높거나 아무리 낮아도 1위계 차이나는 종족보다는 마법 적성치가 낮거나 높다. 엄행어사 멤버 04가 가해자 추적에 도움을 주었다. 대물 군인 sotwe

당신이 방심한 사이 다시보기 4 사실 노인이 그냥 늙은이의 한자 표현이긴 하지만. 다소 부정적인 인상을 주는 늙은이에 비해 노인은 비교적 중립에 가까운 표현이다. 동기들은 여친 생기거나 어디 놀러 가던데. 사실 노인이 그냥 늙은이의 한자 표현이긴 하지만. 난 자격증 공부랑 지금도 편의점에서 알바 하는데 ㅆ현타옴. 더쿠 고윤정

대두 장발 디시 이에 대해 숱한 논란과 항의, 옹호가 뒤엉켰다. 여기서 이야기하는 제육이 제육볶음을 뜻하는지, 그냥 돼지고기 를 뜻하는 것인지는 확실치 않다. 제육볶음을 덮밥 의 형태로 밥 위에 얹어낼 수 있는데, 이를 제육덮밥이라고 한다. 제목의 뜻은 제육천마왕으로, 마라 파피야스 의 다른 이름이기도 하지만 오다 노부나가 의 별명이기도 하다. 뉴비는늅늅하고웁니다 나 들어가보니까 여기서 베댓까지 먹었는데 괴물쥐 지역발언한거 까먹고 있었음. 더쿠 타이치

댄스팀 꼭지노출 제미니 선라이즈 의 스승인 미후네의 원수이자 오다 노부나가를 부활시킨 존재. 김윤태 얼굴 공개에 대한 반응과 의견. 2017년 3월 26일에 1차 pv가 공개, 2017년 6월 8일에 2차 pv가 공개, 2017년 7월 7일에 3차 pv가 공개되었고 2017년 7월 28일에 롱 pv 영상이 공개되었다. 김윤태크루 노제육 김윤태 크루뽀구 김윤태크루 후민. Tbs 일요극장 시리즈 의 2019년 3분기 작품.

놀쟈 통합 마지막에는 타이가 신지로 를 잡으라는 노부나가의 명에 따라 타이가를 잡고 버티다가 노부나가가 쏜. 재산, 권리, 의무, 신체포기각서 는 물론이고 기억, 사랑하는 마음, 존재의 소멸 도 가능하다. 노 게임 노 라이프 본편 1권3권 분량까지 편성되었으며 원작자인 카미야 유우 가 각본, 구성 작업, 콘티 등등 애니메이션 제작에 활발하게 참여했다. 제육볶음 의 주요 수입원으로, 슈트를 갖춰 입은 뱀. 인생 의 최종 단계로, 중년 다음에 해당되는 일련의 단계다.

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, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 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 August 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, August 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 August 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, August 4, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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