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.
그 다음부터는 잠들기 전 까지 자동으로. 그쪽이 자극이 세서 최대한 요도입구쪽에서 놀려고 했지만, 자연스럽게 소대쪽도 자극이 되더군요. 그쪽이 자극이 세서 최대한 요도입구쪽에서 놀려고 했지만, 자연스럽게 소대쪽도 자극이 되더군요. 쪽에 안좋은거같기도함 기억력이 안좋아진거같기도하고 오르가즘느낄때 뇌에 자극이 강하면 뇌세포가 줄어들수잇는데 이건 사정감은 1회만 느끼도록한 자연법칙 무시하고 여러번 사정감느끼는거라 할땐 개좋은데 하고나면 지끈지끈하다.
Com › cheremimaka_ › 222905569278전립선을 알아보자 자극, 드라이 오르가즘, 준비 등 네이버 블로.. 금단의영역 그 지점 지나면 발바닥 뜨거운거 없어지고 귀두테두리 쓸을때마다 오르가즘 팍팍 분출됨.. 기구나 손을 사용하지 않았다는 뜻 회음부 주변이 뻐근해지면서 맥박과 같이 쥐어 짜여지는 느낌을 받고 전립선액으로 보여지는 액체가 나왔는데요.. 이때 멈추지 말고 계속 자극하게 되면 시오후키를 경험할 수 있다..즉, 전립선 자극을 통해 오르가슴을 느낀다고 꼭 드라이 오르가슴이라고 할 수는 없으며. 쪽에 안좋은거같기도함 기억력이 안좋아진거같기도하고 오르가즘느낄때 뇌에 자극이 강하면 뇌세포가 줄어들수잇는데 이건 사정감은 1회만 느끼도록한 자연법칙 무시하고 여러번 사정감느끼는거라 할땐 개좋은데 하고나면 지끈지끈하다. 즉, 전립선 자극을 통해 오르가슴을 느낀다고 꼭 드라이 오르가슴이라고 할 수는 없으며. 그 다음부터는 잠들기 전 까지 자동으로.
| 대체로 마감이 조악하고 내구성이 취약하다는 단점이 있다. | 엉덩이 정말 좋아하는 쇼타군의 야한 장난 하스미 쿠레아. | 엉덩이 정말 좋아하는 쇼타군의 야한 장난 하스미 쿠레아. | 기구나 손을 사용하지 않았다는 뜻 회음부 주변이 뻐근해지면서 맥박과 같이 쥐어 짜여지는 느낌을 받고 전립선액으로 보여지는 액체가 나왔는데요. |
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| 이 드라이 오르가즘은 사정을 동반하지 않는 절정을 의미하며, 그 대명사로 습식 오르가즘이라는 단어가 있습니다. | 드라이 오르가즘이란 사정없는 오르가즘으로 사정을 해서 축축해지는 웻 오르가즘wet orgasm과 전혀 다른 차원의. | A 전립선 자극, 드라이 오르가즘 이런 게 궁금하다면 추천해요. | 기존 방법기존에는 귀두밑 소대 쪽을 공략했습니다. |
| Com › cheremimaka_ › 222905569278전립선을 알아보자 자극, 드라이 오르가즘, 준비 등 네이버 블로. | 귀두만을 죽을기세로 자극하면진짜 몸이 허 해지면서 발부터시작해서 다리부분에 특히 진짜 쥐난느낌 비슷하게 찌릿찌릿 발 존나간지럽고 다리 후들거리고오르가즘 진짜많이느겨질거임. | 물론 드라이 오르가즘을 느낀다고 해서 무조건 전립선액이 나오는 것은 아니다. | 기존 방법기존에는 귀두밑 소대 쪽을 공략했습니다. |
| 국내에서는 오히려 진품보다 가품이 많을 정도. | 귀두는 여성의 클리토리스와 같은 부분이야. | 다만 사정 전까지 느끼는 오르가즘들은 뭔가 사정감이 몰려오는게 아니라 그냥 뇌가 망가지는 것 처럼 온몸에 황홀하다고 느끼는거 같아. | 귀두를 자극할때 귀두전체를 자극하거나 천으로 문지르는건 시오후키를 위함이다. |
| 미약 섹스에 대체 이미지 gvg059. | 원래 유두 드라이 시도했었는데 30일차에 거울 보니까 젖이 너무 커져있어서 큰맘먹고 포기했네요ㅠㅠ 그래서 귀두 드라이를 시도해보고 있는데 정보가 많지 않아서요 우선 저는. | Com › cheremimaka_ › 222905569278전립선을 알아보자 자극, 드라이 오르가즘, 준비 등 네이버 블로. | Com › cheremimaka_ › 222905569278전립선을 알아보자 자극, 드라이 오르가즘, 준비 등 네이버 블로. |
한 손으로는 기둥을 잡고 손바닥을 오목하게 해서 귀두를 전체적으로 돌려문지르듯이 자위하는법2, 귀드를 하고싶다면 귀두전체가 아니라 입구만 자극해야한다. 귀드를 하고싶다면 귀두전체가 아니라 입구만 자극해야한다, 간단한 시오후키 방법으로 샤워하면서 하는 방법이 있다. 물론 드라이 오르가즘을 느낀다고 해서 무조건 전립선액이 나오는 것은 아니다.
ㅇㄷ가 사실 예민한 곳인데, 남자같은경우엔 발달 개발이 안돼 있어서 둔감하다가 계속 개발하면 예민해지고 해서 ㅇㄷ개발하는거 아님.. 한 손으로는 기둥을 잡고 손바닥을 오목하게 해서 귀두를 전체적으로 돌려문지르듯이 자위하는법2..
엉덩이 정말 좋아하는 쇼타군의 야한 장난 하스미 쿠레아, 전립선을 자극 마사지하면 정말 흥분하나요. 정상이라면 전립선액이라던가 드라이오르가즘이 와야하는데 전립선액을 뱉었음 헤헤 미친놈.
귀드를 하고싶다면 귀두전체가 아니라 입구만 자극해야한다, 4 사실 짝퉁이라고 할지라도, 혹은 길이가 충분한 어떠한 기구라도 위치만 알고 있으면 가능하긴 하다, ㅇㄷ가 사실 예민한 곳인데, 남자같은경우엔 발달 개발이 안돼 있어서 둔감하다가 계속 개발하면 예민해지고 해서 ㅇㄷ개발하는거 아님, 그럼 비슷하게 남자 ㅅㄱ도 예민한 곳이니까 ㅇㄷ개발처럼 ㄱㄷ개발이나, ㅅㄱ개발 같은거 없나요.
드라이 오르가즘이란 사정없는 오르가즘으로 사정을 해서 축축해지는 웻 오르가즘wet orgasm과 전혀 다른 차원의. 한 다섯 여섯번 느끼면 녹초되서 그냥 사정하고 싶어서 사정하게되더라 추천, 더 민감해지고 잘 느낄수 있게 하는방법, 그러나 절정은 휴식기가 너무 긴 전립선보다 매일 가능한 유두로 쾌감쌓기를 확실하게 익힌 바가. 그담부턴 오르가즘같은 쾌감이 계속 느껴지더라구. 그럼 비슷하게 남자 ㅅㄱ도 예민한 곳이니까 ㅇㄷ개발처럼 ㄱㄷ개발이나, ㅅㄱ개발 같은거 없나요.
기존 방법기존에는 귀두밑 소대 쪽을 공략했습니다, 귀두만을 죽을기세로 자극하면 발부터시작해서 다리부분에 특히 진짜 쥐난느낌 비슷하게 찌릿찌릿 발 존나간지럽고 다리 후들거리고 오르가즘 진짜. Com › watch드라이오르가즘은 어떻게 만들어지는가. ㅇㄷ가 사실 예민한 곳인데, 남자같은경우엔 발달개발이 안돼 있어서 둔감하다가 계속 개발하면, 국내에서는 오히려 진품보다 가품이 많을 정도.
그쪽이 자극이 세서 최대한 요도입구쪽에서 놀려고 했지만, 자연스럽게 소대쪽도 자극이 되더군요. 다만 사정 전까지 느끼는 오르가즘들은 뭔가 사정감이 몰려오는게 아니라 그냥 뇌가 망가지는 것 처럼 온몸에 황홀하다고 느끼는거 같아, 너무 크면 부담스러워서 작은 사이즈를 삿었는데그거 사서 한 5회정도 하니까느낌이 나더라1년정도까지는 드라이 오르가즘.
쪽에 안좋은거같기도함 기억력이 안좋아진거같기도하고 오르가즘느낄때 뇌에 자극이 강하면 뇌세포가 줄어들수잇는데 이건 사정감은 1회만 느끼도록한 자연법칙 무시하고 여러번 사정감느끼는거라 할땐 개좋은데 하고나면 지끈지끈하다. 중국에서 아네로스의 짝퉁을 찍어내는 듯하다. 그럼 비슷하게 남자 ㅅㄱ도 예민한 곳이니까 ㅇㄷ개발처럼 ㄱㄷ개발이나, ㅅㄱ개발 같은거 없나요. 즉, 전립선 자극을 통해 오르가슴을 느낀다고 꼭 드라이 오르가슴이라고 할 수는 없으며. 중국에서 아네로스의 짝퉁을 찍어내는 듯하다.
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us.xhamster 쪽에 안좋은거같기도함 기억력이 안좋아진거같기도하고 오르가즘느낄때 뇌에 자극이 강하면 뇌세포가 줄어들수잇는데 이건 사정감은 1회만 느끼도록한 자연법칙 무시하고 여러번 사정감느끼는거라 할땐 개좋은데 하고나면 지끈지끈하다. 전립선을 자극 마사지하면 정말 흥분하나요. 국내에서는 오히려 진품보다 가품이 많을 정도. 전립선 자극을 통한 드라이 오르가슴에 부작용이 있나요. 유두개발 응용해서 다른거 질문귀두개발. twitter peg730
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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.
귀두 팁은 남성 클리토리스라고 불리는 대로 민감하고 드라이., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.