남들처럼 학원에 다니지는 못해도 항상 공부를 열심히 하며 부족함이 없어 보일 정도로 잘 자라오던 유미는 고등학교 3학년 때 젊은 선생님을 좋아했고, 그 선생님과 교제한 사실이 학교에 알려지면서 수능을 몇 달 남기고 서울로 강제 전학을 가게 된다.

줄거리보다는, 감독 버전의 선형적인 전개가 시청자에게 여주인공의 도덕성에 대해 추측할 기회를 빼앗는 것 같아.

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 14, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 14, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 14, 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 14, 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.

믿는 순간, 거짓도 진실이 된다 이름, 가족, 학력, 과거까지 사소한 거짓말을 시작으로 완전히 다른 사람의 인생을 살게 된 여자의 이야기. 올해 6월 24일, 쿠팡플레이에서 오리지널을 선보인 안나가 다시 재개봉함에 있어서 전해드릴 정보가 있기에 포스팅을 시작하였습니다. 유미와 지훈의 관계는 점차 악화되고, 지훈의 사생활을 들춘 스캔들이 터진다. 특히 이 작품은 과거 대한민국을 떠들썩하게 만들었던 신정아 학력 위조 사건을 모티브로 하고 있으며, 국민 첫사랑 배우 수지가 파격적인 연기.

요즘 숏츠에 자주 뜨기도 했고, 엄마가 그렇게 보라고 해서 본 드라마 안나.

출납기에 있는 돈 정도를 챙겨서 마레를 나옵니다, 드라마 3,4부 줄거리와 몇몇 짚어볼 점. 2253 지난 6월 24일에 공개됐던 쿠팡 플레이 를 감상하셨나요. 안나 드라마 줄거리 1999년 고등학생인 이유미는 모범생이었지만 불미스러운 사건으로 강제 전학을 가게 되고 학업에 집중하지 못해서 원하던 대학 입학에 실패하게 되었습니다, 쿠팡플레이가 8부작 의 13부, 그리고 4부 초반까지의 이야기를 12부 안에 다 욱여넣었다. Com › › ko프라임 비디오 안나. 3 요약하자면 감독의 편집 방향이 사전에 협의된 방향과는 많이 달랐고 이에 수개월 간 수정 요청을 전달했으나 거절당했기에 제작사의 동의를 얻어 계약에 명시된 권리를 행사해 원래의 제작의도에 맞도록. 장편소설 친밀한 이방인을 기반으로 한 이 작품은 거짓말과 진실 사이에서 갇힌 주인공의 인생을 그리며 시청자들을 매료시켰습니다. 기존 버전을 봤을 때에도 살짝 애매하긴 하지만 그래도 괜찮네, 싶었는데, 는 쿠팡 플레이의 오리지널 시리즈로, 수지가 주연을 맡고 이주영 감독이 연출을 맡아 화제를 불러일으킨 작품이었다. 드라마 안나 감독판 줄거리, 결말, 후기, 쿠팡 플레이 네이버 블로그 영화가 좋다 146개의 글 목록열기, 하지만 3일 연출자 이주영 감독이 쿠팡플레이가 동의 없이 8부작이었던 드라마를 6부작으로 편집해 공개해 작품을 훼손했다고 주장했고 쿠팡, 모든 ott 드라마가 그렇듯, 사전제작된 드라마로, 공개 당시에 이주영 감독과 쿠팡플레이 측이 편집을 두고 대립이 있었다. 유미와 지훈의 관계는 점차 악화되고, 지훈의 사생활을 들춘 스캔들이 터진다.

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하지만 수능 시험을 망치게 되고, 수치스러운 마음에 대학에 합격했다는 read more, 썩 내키지는 않지만 그의 돈과 명성에 굴해 결혼을 결심한다. 거기서도 갖은 노력과 인간미로 학생들의 사랑을 독차지한다.

갈등 속 공개된 안나 감독판, 어떻게 달라졌나.. 거기서도 갖은 노력과 인간미로 학생들의 사랑을 독차지한다..

하지만 3일 연출자 이주영 감독이 쿠팡플레이가 동의 없이 8부작이었던 드라마를 6부작으로 편집해 공개해 작품을 훼손했다고 주장했고 쿠팡플레이는 당초 제작 의도와 달라진 작품에 대해 이 감독에게 수정 요청을 했으나 거부당했고 제작사의 동의를.

기왕 본다면 두어시간 더 투자해 감독판으로 보는 것을 추천한다. 예전부터 정말 보고 싶었는데 쿠팡 멤버십 이용하지 않아서 계속 고민하다가 시원하게 와우 1달 질러버린, 현주를 만나면서 그녀의 인생은 다시 한번 몰락하기 시작해요.

《안나》 12화 찢어지게 가난한 현대판 노예 수지가 금수저로 인생을 탈바꿈할 수 있었던 이유 쿠팡플레이 수지 주연. 요즘 숏츠에 자주 뜨기도 했고, 엄마가 그렇게 보라고 해서 본 드라마 안나. 드라마 안나 줄거리 감독판 결말 출연진 후기 네이버 블로그 국내 드라마 471개의 글 목록열기.

드라마 안나 줄거리 감독판 결말 출연진 후기 네이버 블로그 국내 드라마 471개의 글 목록열기. 안나 드라마 정보 안나는 2021년 10월 15일부터 2022년 3월 23일에 촬영한 미스터리, 스릴러, 피카레스크 드라마에요. 장편소설 친밀한 이방인을 기반으로 한 이 작품은 거짓말과 진실 사이에서 갇힌 주인공의 인생을 그리며 시청자들을 매료시켰습니다, 사회교육원에서 미술사를 가르치게 된 안나.

회사 측은 지난달 종영된 6편의 안나에 이어 감독의 편집 방향성을 존중, 시청자들에게 이미 약속한 감독판 8부. 모든 ott 드라마가 그렇듯, 사전제작된 드라마로, 공개 당시에 이주영 감독과 쿠팡플레이 측이 편집을 두고 대립이 있었다.
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드라마 안나 감독판 줄거리, 결말, 후기, 쿠팡 플레이 네이버 블로그 영화가 좋다 146개의 글 목록열기. Com › entry › 드라마안나드라마 3,4부 줄거리와 몇몇 짚어볼 점. 드라마 기본 정보제목 안나방영 플랫폼 쿠팡플레이방영 기간 2022년 6월 24일 2022년 7월 9일감독판 방영 기간 2022년 8부작으로 재편집감독극본 이주영 영화 감독원작 정한아 작가의 소설 친밀한 이방인장르 미스터리, 스릴러, 피카레스크출연진수지 유미. 사회교육원에서 미술사를 가르치게 된 안나. 기존 드라마 는 6부작, 감독판 는 8부작.

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유미와 지훈의 관계는 점차 악화되고, 지훈의 사생활을 들춘 스캔들이 터진다. 재미있게 보았지만 드라마 전개가 너무 빨라서 6회 만에 마무리가 되니 다소 아쉬운 점이 있었습니다. 쿠팡플레이 안나 감독판 정보 출연진,등장인물,평점 몇부작 들어가기 전 안녕하세요, 하지만 3일 연출자 이주영 감독이 쿠팡플레이가 동의 없이 8부작이었던 드라마를 6부작으로 편집해 공개해 작품을 훼손했다고 주장했고 쿠팡. 재미있게 보았지만 드라마 전개가 너무 빨라서 6회 만에 마무리가 되니 다소 아쉬운 점이 있었습니다.

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드플2갤 그렇게 학원에 취직을 한 유미는 이 정도만 되면 괜찮을 것같다는 소박했던 바람과는 다르게 더 괜찮은 기회가 오자 그 기회를 놓치지 않고 현주의 학력 뿐 아니라 현주의 삶까지. 그녀의 비참한 처지는 유미가 계단을 올라가는 read more. 시리즈 안나를 연출한 이주영 감독과 쿠팡플레이 간 갈등이 수면 위로 떠오른 가운데, 감독판이 공개됐다. 기왕 본다면 두어시간 더 투자해 감독판으로 보는 것을 추천한다. 드라마 안나 감독판 줄거리, 결말, 후기, 쿠팡 플레이 네이버 블로그 영화가 좋다 146개의 글 목록열기. 두타갤

디시 로리 기존 드라마 는 6부작, 감독판 는 8부작. 장편소설 친밀한 이방인을 기반으로 한 이 작품은 거짓말과 진실 사이에서 갇힌 주인공의 인생을 그리며 시청자들을 매료시켰습니다. 수능을 4달 앞두고 간 전학이고, 성적은. 드라마 안나 줄거리 결말 해석 감독판 드라마 안나 줄거리와 결말 해석 한눈에 보기 쿠팡플레이 오리지널 드라마 ‘안나 anna’는 배수지 주연의 심리 스릴러로, 거짓말 하나가 한 여자의 인생 전체를 어떻게 뒤바꿔놓는지 그려내 큰 화제를 모았습니다. 드라마 안나 감독판 수지 주연 출연진 줄거리 결말 네이버 블로그 영화, 드라마 454개의 글 목록열기. 덕코프 레이더 수리

도현 치지 직 정지 이유 안나 드라마 정보 안나는 2021년 10월 15일부터 2022년 3월 23일에 촬영한 미스터리, 스릴러, 피카레스크 드라마에요. 쿠팡플레이 안나 감독판 정보 출연진,등장인물,평점 몇부작 들어가기 전 안녕하세요. 장편소설 친밀한 이방인을 기반으로 한 이 작품은 거짓말과 진실 사이에서 갇힌 주인공의 인생을 그리며 시청자들을 매료시켰습니다. 거기서도 갖은 노력과 인간미로 학생들의 사랑을 독차지한다. 그렇게 학원에 취직을 한 유미는 이 정도만 되면 괜찮을 것같다는 소박했던 바람과는 다르게 더 괜찮은 기회가 오자 그 기회를 놓치지 않고 현주의 학력 뿐 아니라 현주의 삶까지. 동그란 팬트리 디시

동갑 결혼 디시 기존 드라마 는 6부작, 감독판 는 8부작. 사회교육원에서 미술사를 가르치게 된 안나. 드라마 안나 감독판 3화 줄거리 by 서쪽하늘에 2023. Com › › ko프라임 비디오 안나 감독판 시즌 1 prime video. 안나 드라마 줄거리 1999년 고등학생인 이유미는 모범생이었지만 불미스러운 사건으로 강제 전학을 가게 되고 학업에 집중하지 못해서 원하던 대학 입학에 실패하게 되었습니다.

덕르코프 근접무기 드라마 안나 감독판 수지 주연 출연진 줄거리 결말 블로그. 안나 감독 쿠팡플레이, 8부작→6부작으로 편집해 작품 훼손. 극본과 연출을 맡은 이주영 감독과 쿠팡플레이 측이 8부작과 6부작 편집을 두고 이슈의 중심에 선 가운데 ‘안나’는 다시 뜨거운 감자가. 안나 감독 쿠팡플레이, 동의 없이 편집해 작품 훼손 연합뉴스. 드라마 안나 줄거리 감독판 결말 출연진 후기 네이버 블로그 국내 드라마 471개의 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

남들처럼 학원에 다니지는 못해도 항상 공부를 열심히 하며 부족함이 없어 보일 정도로 잘 자라오던 유미는 고등학교 3학년 때 젊은 선생님을 좋아했고, 그 선생님과 교제한 사실이 학교에 알려지면서 수능을 몇 달 남기고 서울로 강제 전학을 가게 된다., 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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