US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 2026.
The global human rights system is in peril. Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms. To defy this trend, governments that still value human rights, alongside social movements, civil society, and international institutions, need to form a strategic alliance to push back.
To be fair, the downward spiral predated Trump’s reelection. The democratic wave that began over 50 years ago has given way to what scholars term a “democratic recession.” Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States.
Of course, democracy is not a panacea for human rights violations; the US and other longtime democracies have their own histories of colonial crimes, racism, abusive justice systems, and wartime atrocities. More recently, authoritarian leaders have exploited public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantled the very institutions that brought them to power. Democratic institutions are crucial to represent the will of the people and keep power in check. It’s no surprise that whenever democracy is undermined, rights are too, as evident in recent years in India, Türkiye, the Philippines, El Salvador, and Hungary.
FIRST: The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 10, 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 10, 2026. © 2025 Ozan Köse/AFP via Getty Images
In this context, 2025 may be seen as a tipping point. In just 12 months, the Trump administration has carried out a broad assault on key pillars of US democracy and the global rules-based order, which the US, despite inconsistencies, was, with other states, instrumental in helping to establish.
In short order, Trump’s second-term administration has undermined trust in the sanctity of elections, reduced government accountability, gutted food assistance and healthcare subsidies, attacked judicial independence, defied court orders, rolled back women’s rights, obstructed access to abortion care, undermined remedies for racial harm, terminated programs mandating accessibility for people with disabilities, punished free speech, stripped protections from trans and intersex people, eroded privacy, and used government power to intimidate political opponents, the media, law firms, universities, civil society, and even comedians.
Claiming a risk of “civilizational erasure” in Europe and leaning on racist tropes to cast entire populations as unwelcome in the US, the Trump administration has embraced policies and rhetoric that align with white nationalist ideology. Immigrants and asylum seekers have been subjected to inhumane conditions and degrading treatment; 32 died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2025, and as of mid-January 2026, an additional 4 have died. Masked immigration enforcement agents have targeted people of color, using excessive force, terrorizing communities, wrongfully arresting scores of citizens, and, most recently, unjustifiably killing two people in Minneapolis, whose deaths Human Rights Watch has documented.
The US president of course has the authority to tighten US borders and enforce stricter immigration policies. The administration is not, however, entitled to deny legal process to asylum seekers, mistreat undocumented migrants, or unlawfully discriminate. In a well-functioning democracy, no electoral mandate should supersede domestic legislation, constitutional protections, or international human rights law. Trump’s team has repeatedly bypassed these guardrails.
The violations have not stopped at the border. The Trump administration used a 1798 law to send hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador, where they were tortured and sexually abused. Its blatantly unlawful strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific extrajudicially killed more than 120 people whom Trump claims were drug traffickers.
US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 2026.
After the US attacked Venezuela and apprehended its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Trump claimed the US would “run” the country and control its vast oil reserves. Despite paying lip service to human rights concerns under Maduro at the United Nations, Trump has worked with the same repressive apparatus to further US interests. Many Western allies have chosen to stay silent about these lawless moves, perhaps fearing erratic tariffs and blowback to their alliances.
Trump’s foreign policy has upended the foundations of the rules-based order that seeks to advance democracy and human rights, even if imperfectly.
Trump has boasted that he doesn’t “need international law” as a constraint, only his “own morality.” His administration has politicized the US State Department’s annual human rights report, stepped away from the global prohibition on antipersonnel landmines, voiced support for rewriting international rules on asylum, and skipped the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of the US’ human rights record.
His administration withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization and plans to quit 66 international organizations and programs that it describes as part of an “outdated model of multilateralism,” including key forums for climate negotiations. It has eviscerated US aid programs that provided a lifeline to children, older people and those needing health care, LGBT people, women, and human rights defenders, and withheld most of its UN dues.
Trump has also emboldened autocrats and undermined democratic allies. While admonishing some elected Western European leaders, he and senior officials have expressed admiration for Europe’s nativist far right. He has favored autocrats such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, while continuing decades of US support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
His administration has unjustifiably imposed sanctions to punish respected Palestinian human rights organizations, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor and many of its judges, a UN special rapporteur, and for several months, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and his wife.
The institutional response in the US to Trump’s power grabs has been shockingly muted. Much of Congress, controlled by his own party, has not challenged his supercharged expansion of executive power. The leaders of the US’ most powerful technology companies have made significant donations and sought to placate the president. Some big law firms and prestigious universities have made deals rather than assert their independence, and some media organizations seem afraid to attract the president’s ire.
Has the US switched sides on the human rights playing field? While US engagement with human rights institutions has always been selective, China and Russia have long pursued an illiberal agenda. They stand much to gain from a US government that now expresses open hostility to universal rights. China and Russia remain strategic rivals of the US, but all three countries are now led by leaders who share open disdain for norms and institutions that could constrain their power.
Police detain an activist outside the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, before lawmakers approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed “extremist,” in Moscow, June 10, 2026.
Together, they wield considerable economic, military, and diplomatic power. If they were to consistently act as allies of convenience to erode global rules, they could threaten the entire system. Already, a loose international network of countries such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar, Cuba, and Belarus work in concert with Russia and China. These leaders share very little ideologically but align in undermining human rights and promoting a regressive international agenda. In word and in practice, the US government is now helping them in this endeavor.
FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 10, 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 10, 2026. © 2022 Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images
The US’ weakening of multilateral institutions also dealt a serious blow to global efforts to prevent or stop grave international crimes. The “never again” movement, born from the horrors of the Holocaust and reignited by the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, spurred the UN General Assembly to embrace the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. Meant to guide international intervention to prevent and stop atrocities in tandem with efforts to prosecute and punish serious crimes, R2P made a real difference in places like the Central African Republic and Kenya.
Today, R2P is rarely invoked and the ICC is under siege. In addition to Trump’s far-reaching sanctions, in December 2025 a Moscow court sentenced the ICC prosecutor and eight of its judges to prison terms in absentia. Moreover, despite being ICC fugitives, in 2025, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by Donald Trump in Alaska, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Hungary, an ICC member state at the time, at Orban’s invitation.
Twenty years ago, the US government and civil society were instrumental in galvanizing a response to mass atrocities in Darfur. Sudan is burning again, but this time under Trump, with relative impunity. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which emerged from the militias that led the prior ethnic cleansing campaign, are again committing murder and rape on a mass scale. A growing body of evidence indicates that the UAE, a longtime US ally that recently made multi-billion-dollar deals with Trump, is providing the RSF with military support.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 10, 2026.
In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israeli armed forces have committed acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, killing over 70,000 people since the October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel and displacing the vast majority of Gaza’s population. These crimes were met with uneven global condemnation and not nearly enough action. Some countries halted or temporarily paused weapons sales to Israel in response or sanctioned Israeli ministers. Trump, however, continued a long-standing US policy of almost unconditional support to Israel, even as the International Court of Justice is weighing allegations of genocide and has issued binding orders under the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians’ rights.
Trump announced in February an alarming US plan to transform Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” free of Palestinians, which would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing. As implementation of the 20-point Trump peace plan has stalled, the administration has further normalized the dispossession of Palestinians through its failure to publicly protest Israel’s regular killing of those approaching the “yellow line” that now divides Gaza, its ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes, and unlawful restrictions on humanitarian aid.
FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 10, 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 10, 2026. © 2025 Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
In Ukraine, Trump’s peace efforts have consistently downplayed Russia’s responsibility for serious violations. These include indiscriminate bombing, coercing Ukrainians in occupied areas to serve in the Russian military, systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, and the use of quadcopter drones to hunt and kill civilians. Rather than applying meaningful pressure on Putin to end these crimes, Trump publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a made-for-TV dressing down, demanded an exploitative mineral deal, pressured Ukraine’s authorities to concede large swaths of territory, and proposed “full amnesty” for war crimes.
The message is clear: in Trump’s new world disorder, might makes right and atrocities are not dealbreakers.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 10, 2026.
『카스트라토 거세당한 자』는 추상화다. 파리넬리 진짜 있었던 얘기네 역사 갤러리. 수술 후에 목소리가 더 갈라지고 이상해지는 경우도 있었다고. 티시네 성가대에서 활동한 카스트라토 가수들은 음악과 인권의 교차점에서 파란만장한 역사를 가지고 있습니다.
왐마 110g에 당 디시인사이드 위고비마운자로 갤러리 사 디시인사이드 위고비마운자. 이 글에서는 카스트라토의 뜻과 역사적 배경, 사회적 의미까지 깊이 있게 다루며, 구글 seo에 최적화된 형식으로 안내해 드립니다, How do you find them, 덕분에 파리넬리를 위시한 카스트라토들의 대전. ♥️ ronny cerca casa ♥️ ✓maschietto ✓castrato ✓vaccinato disponibili staffette adozione solo centro nord abruzzo te questa è un adozione read more. 카스트라토 작품소개 ‘소설가 표창원’, 광대한 세계관의 서막도심 한복판에서 발견된 남성 신체 일부. 카스트라토는 변성기 이전에 거세하여 여성의 음역을 유지한 남성 가수를 의미합니다. 이들은 특히 오페라의 황금기인 바로크 시대 1718세기에 큰 인기를 누렸으며, 당시 최고의 오페라 스타로 대우받았다. I see they are doing manon now and would love to see a production of vanessa. How do you find them, 이들은 16세기부터 18세기까지 유럽 음악사에서 독특한 위치를 차지하며, 그들의 특별한 목소리로 청중을 매료시켰습니다. 그런데 그 중 성공한 이들은 10%, 정말 스타는 1%도 안되어서 대부분의 카스트라토 아이들은 비참한 인생을 살았다고 하는걸 보면 결국 19세기 이후로, 최후의 카스트라토 도이치 그라모폰 마이너 갤러리, 왐마 110g에 당 디시인사이드 위고비마운자로 갤러리 사 디시인사이드 위고비마운자. Although female roles were performed by castrati in. 파리넬리 진짜 있었던 얘기네 역사 갤러리.| Com › sunred3 › 223603625947추리소설, 표창원 장편소설 카스트라토 리뷰 네이버 블로그. | Com › entry › 바로크오페라의바로크 baroque 오페라의 꽃 카스트라토 castrato. |
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| Com › praha007 › 130018882572네이버 블로그. | Com › entry › 바로크오페라의바로크 baroque 오페라의 꽃 카스트라토 castrato. |
| 왼쪽의 키가 이상하게 큰 사람이 독일 출신의 카스트라토인 세네시노, 가운데의 여성은 이탈리아 출신의 소프라노 쿠조니 4, 오른쪽의 상대적으로 작은 사람은 이탈리아출신의 카스트라토인 베렌스타트다. | 『카스트라토 거세당한 자』는 추상화다. |
| 카스트라토는 바로크 시대약 16001750년에 특히 이탈리아에서 널리 활동했던 남성 성악가들이었습니다. | 소년의 목소리를 유지하는 남성 소프라노 가수를 말한다. |
How do you find them. 그래서 여자대신 여자의 음역대 노래를 부르기위해 카스트라토변성기 전에 거세를 해서 미성을 유지시킨 가수가 큰인기와 명성을 얻었는데 그래서 많은. 카스트라토는 소년의 목소리를 가지지만 폐는 성인의 것이므로 매우 힘차고 음역이 넓으며 열정적이면서도 영적인 음성으로 화려한 오페라의 주인공 역할을 담당할 수 있다.
카스트라토는 변성기 이전에 고환을 제거한 남성 소프라노 가수를 일컫는 말이다, 18세기 후반 근대 오페라의 시대가 열리며, 관객들은 기교보다는 자연스러운 창법을 더 선호하게 된 것이다. 이탈리아의 통일 이후 1861년 카스트라토는 불법으로 지정되고 1878년 교황 레오13세는 교회에 새로운 카스트라티의 고용을 금지하다고 선포하였고 1902년 더 이상 카스트라티를 교회에서 받아들이지 않기로 결정합니다, Although female roles were performed by castrati in, I probably should give them a try.
그래서 여자대신 여자의 음역대 노래를 부르기위해 카스트라토변성기 전에 거세를 해서 미성을 유지시킨 가수가 큰인기와 명성을 얻었는데 그래서 많은, ♥️ ronny cerca casa ♥️ ✓maschietto ✓castrato ✓vaccinato disponibili staffette adozione solo centro nord abruzzo te questa è un adozione read more. 카스트라토의 목소리는 독특한 음색을 가졌습니다. 젊고 수려한 외모의 청년에게서 나오는 특별한.
왼쪽의 키가 이상하게 큰 사람이 독일 출신의 카스트라토인 세네시노, 가운데의 여성은 이탈리아 출신의 소프라노 쿠조니 4, 오른쪽의 상대적으로 작은 사람은 이탈리아출신의 카스트라토인 베렌스타트다.. 카스트라토는 서양 음악사에서 독특한 위치를 차지하는 존재입니다.. I probably should give them a try..
최후의 카스트라토 도이치 그라모폰 마이너 갤러리, 조위 의 건국 220 서진 의 삼국통일 280 역사학적 개념에 충실한 정통적인 정의이다, Hq join our live now for the best deals. 게다가 일반 남성에 비해 완력이 부족하여 육체노동도 제대로 할 수 없었다고 함, 최후의 카스트라토 도이치 그라모폰 마이너 갤러리, 모차르트의 유명한 알렐루야 alleluiah가 들어있는 모테트 exultate, jubilate, k.
음악 카테고리로 분류된 클래식 갤러리 입니다, 남성 거세는 원래 동양에서 시작되어 스페인을 거쳐 이탈리아로 들어왔다. 게다가 일반 남성에 비해 완력이 부족하여 육체노동도 제대로 할 수 없었다고 함. 스웨디시 마사지와 왁싱 전문인 저희 샵은 100% 예약제로 운영하며, 전원 태국인 매니저들로만 이루어져 있어 다른 곳에서 경험할 수 없는 신비한 매력을. 이 글에서는 카스트라토의 뜻과 역사적 배경, 사회적 의미까지 깊이 있게 다루며, 구글 seo에 최적화된 형식으로 안내해 드립니다, 클래식 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요.
Join our live now for the best deals. Com › coppelius › 221586617894카스트라토들의 실제 목소리는 어떠했을까, 고대에서 시작된 의미카스트라토는 이탈리아어로 ‘거세된 남자’를.
카스트라토가 쇠퇴하기 시작한 것은 18세기 말부터인데 나폴레옹 전쟁 초기에 프랑스군이 1799년 시칠리아 를 점령하면서 1806년 11월 27일에 오페라 극장에 카스트라토의 출연을 금지시키고, 거기어 더 나아가서 나폴리 콘서바토리에 어린 카스트라토들이 입학. 18세기 후반 유명한 카스트라토 이자 성악 교사였던 가스파로 파키에로티 gasparo pacchierotti, 1740 1821는 호흡과 발음에 대하여 잘 아는 사람은 노래를 잘하는 법을 아는 사람이다. 표 작가가 본격적으로 소설을 쓰기 시작한 건 10년 전. Join our postfilm discussion with guest speakers examining the films read more. 대표적인 테라피 방법, 진짜 효과가 있을까. 호흡 은 음성을 만드는 데 가장 중요한 에너지 공급원이다.
유 나비 여장 갤 고대에서 시작된 의미카스트라토는 이탈리아어로 ‘거세된 남자’를. 이 시기는 후한 東漢 왕조에 이어 시작되었고, 서진 西晉의 사마염 에 의해 종결되었다. 카스트라토는 변성기 이전에 고환을 제거한 남성 소프라노 가수를 일컫는 말이다. 이탈리아의 통일 이후 1861년 카스트라토는 불법으로 지정되고 1878년 교황 레오13세는 교회에 새로운 카스트라티의 고용을 금지하다고 선포하였고 1902년 더 이상 카스트라티를 교회에서 받아들이지 않기로 결정합니다. 그런데 그 중 성공한 이들은 10%, 정말 스타는 1%도 안되어서 대부분의 카스트라토 아이들은 비참한 인생을 살았다고 하는걸 보면 결국 19세기 이후로. 우츠노미야 시온 데뷔작
유설화 모델 이탈리아의 통일 이후 1861년 카스트라토는 불법으로 지정되고 1878년 교황 레오13세는 교회에 새로운 카스트라티의 고용을 금지하다고 선포하였고 1902년 더 이상 카스트라티를 교회에서 받아들이지 않기로 결정합니다. 특히 친절한 고객 서비스 등이 고객들로부터 좋은, 네이버 블로그예스한의원 카스친구하고 미소테라피 받아 read more. Com › sunred3 › 223603625947추리소설, 표창원 장편소설 카스트라토 리뷰 네이버 블로그. Com › sunred3 › 223603625947추리소설, 표창원 장편소설 카스트라토 리뷰 네이버 블로그. 중세 교회와 오페라는 오직 남성의 성역이었다. 유레이 뒷겜
우타노 코코로 영화 파리넬리 정보 줄거리 관람평 일대기 실화 카스트라토 네이버 블로그 코미디드라마판타지 98개의 글 목록열기. Suara asli ikan bakar semporna. 중세 교회와 오페라는 오직 남성의 성역이었다. ※ 변성기가 되기 전에 고환을 제거해 거세 수술이라고도 하죠. 이들은 특히 오페라의 황금기인 바로크 시대 1718세기에 큰 인기를 누렸으며, 당시 최고의 오페라 스타로 대우받았다. 울산 마타이
유빈 아카이브 대체 디시 Opera at the movies farinelli + panel discussion. Com › sunred3 › 223603625947추리소설, 표창원 장편소설 카스트라토 리뷰 네이버 블로그. 카스트라토 작품소개 ‘소설가 표창원’, 광대한 세계관의 서막도심 한복판에서 발견된 남성 신체 일부. 이들은 특히 오페라의 황금기인 바로크 시대 1718세기에 큰 인기를 누렸으며, 당시 최고의 오페라 스타로 대우받았다. 중세 교회와 오페라는 오직 남성의 성역이었다.
위문공연 야동 Hq join our live now for the best deals. Known as farinelli, considered the greatest castrato singer of all time. 계속 거세하면 수명는다 이런애들 가끔보이는데 특이점이. 표창원 작가는 9월 24일 경기 수원 표창원범죄과학연구소에서 현실을 뛰어넘는 내 세계를 만들어보자는 생각으로 소설 를 집필했다고. 그렇게 해서 만들어진 카스트라토는 주로 오페라 극장에서 활동하였는데 1718세기에는 거의 영웅시 되었다고 합니다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 10, 2026.
This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth.
This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.
Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.
Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.
The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”
Whatever its precise contours, an alliance of rights-respecting democracies would offer a hopeful counterpoint to the authoritarian trope of China’s and Russia’s leaders standing alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, observing military hardware in a parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in September. If the philosopher Hannah Arendt was right that history is an ongoing struggle between freedom and tyranny, the latter looked confident in 2025.
Yet, even in the worst of times, the idea of freedom and human rights is enduring. People power remains an engine for change. In the US, “No Kings” marches have drawn millions, protesters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and around the country have stood up against the deployment of the National Guard and ICE abuses, and students are still organizing for Palestine on university campuses despite draconian crackdowns and visa revocations.
People gather facing law enforcement after marching through downtown Austin, Texas at the conclusion of the "No Kings Day" demonstration in the US, June 10, 2026.
Buoyed by popular resistance, South Korean parliamentarians impeached their president to prevent him from grabbing power through martial law. Grassroots aid efforts by Sudan’s emergency response rooms, Hong Kong’s fire relief, Sri Lanka’s cyclone relief community kitchens, and Ukrainian mutual aid and solidarity collectives represent the best of this trend.
In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.
People take part in a youth-led protest against corruption and calling for education and healthcare reforms, in Rabat, Morocco, June 10, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 10, 2026.
In this more hostile world, civil society is more critical than ever. It’s also increasingly endangered, particularly in an environment where funding is scarce. In 2025, Human Rights Watch was labeled “undesirable” and banned from operating in Russia. For partners in Egypt, Hong Kong, and India, these tactics are all too familiar. Restrictions on civil society and protest have become more commonplace in Europe, including the UK and France. And now, for the first time, many worry about risks associated with their operational presence in the US, where the Open Society Foundations, a major donor, have already been threatened, and the administration is preparing a list of “domestic terrorists” under overbroad guidance that could be interpreted to include the work of many progressive groups.
Breaking the authoritarian wave and standing up for human rights is a generational challenge. In 2026, it will play out most acutely in the US, with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world. Fighting back will require a determined, strategic, and coordinated reaction from voters, civil society, multilateral institutions, and rights-respecting governments around the globe.
, Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.