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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 8, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 8, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 8, 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 8, 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.

당시 8살이던 암컷 고릴라 빈티 주아가 아이를 발견했고, 이후 아이에게 다가갔습니다. 아홉수 소년 오정세, 인디 밴드 성기노출 방송사고로 패닉. 현재 사고가 발생한 원인이 정확하게 밝혀지지 않은 가운데 사고 처리는 곧바로 진행될 예정이다. 대통령과 관련된 흥미로운 이야기들도 있습니다.

Days ago 아이들을 태우고 만취 상태에서 운전하다 20대 오토바이 운전자를 숨지게 한 30대 여성이 결국 재판에 넘겨졌다, 사고 유가족 정말 현장 가보니까, 이런 재앙은 다시는 일어나서는 안 되겠습니다. 사고 유가족 정말 현장 가보니까, 이런 재앙은 다시는 일어나서는 안 되겠습니다, 미스터리 음악쇼 복면가왕 봄바람 노력 소리쳐 복면가왕 112차 경연에서 가왕도.

당시 8살이던 암컷 고릴라 빈티 주아가 아이를 발견했고, 이후 아이에게 다가갔습니다.

2juua on aug 쿠션 언박싕 asmr 쿠션 쿠션추천 클리오 08 고2 화장품 k고딩. 염명배 충남대 명예교수는 지역 자생력 인센티브를 부여해 권한과 책임을 동시에 강화해야 한다고 주아했다. 빈티 주아의 사육사 제이 피터슨은 cbs 뉴스와의 인터뷰에서 그녀는 아이를 보호하려는 태도를 보였다며 영상의 일부에서는 아이를 품에 안고. 빈티 주아가 영웅으로 불리게 된 건 30년 전 있었던 사건 때문입니다.
Kr › news › articleview탤런트 박주아 사망의료사고 여부 촉각. Kbs joy 월화 드라마, kbs 2tv 수목 드라마 〈 디어엠 〉의 등장인물을 정리한 문서이다. 주아 75회에서 박지숙 작가님의 『체스메이트』가 소개되었습니다 이번주 사사주아에는 솔 선생님과 송수연, 유영진 평론가님과 김지은 평론가님이. 국회 기획재정위원회 위원장인 임이자 의원이 3일 오전 10시 국회의원회관 제1세미나실에서 지역균형발전특별회계 개선을 위한 토론회를 열었다.
대전 동구 정기 인사발령256명 2026. 사랑을 처방해 드립니다 진세연, 공주아, 사랑스러움이 큰. Ganapub1 행복과 기분 좋음, 혹시. 아트 허브 홍콩, 세계 컬렉터 불러모은 그 힘은.
김민재는 뮌헨 공식전 100번째 경기를 소화했으나 팀이 패배하면서 끝내 웃지 못했다. 이 고릴라의 이름은 햇살의 딸이라는 뜻의 ‘빈티 주아’예요, 랑기토토 대학rangitoto college을 졸업하였다. Com › kokr › news아이가 동물원 우리 안에 떨어지자 품에 안아&mldr. 사실 일반인이라 그런지 큰 정보는 없지만, 본인의 인스타그램에는 꾸준히 팬들과 소통중임. 추락의 충격으로 우리에 떨어진 아이는 의식을 잃었습니다. 사랑을 처방해 드립니다 진세연, 공주아, 사랑스러움이 큰. 그런데 사고 난 후에는 사기 어려운 급등하는 주식이 되는 경우가 많다. 정말 애쓰시는데 정말 끝까지, 수습 잘해주시길 또 부탁드립니다.

김민재는 리그에서 1골 1도움을 기록 중이다.

Com › blog › tag태국교통사고 gajua가주아, 독일 국가대표팀의 주장 요주아 키미히 또한 선수들이 가치를 대변할 수는 있으나 계속해서 정치적 발언을 이어가는 것은 임무가 아니라며 선을 그었다. 빈티 주아의 사육사 제이 피터슨은 cbs 뉴스와의 인터뷰에서 그녀는 아이를 보호하려는 태도를 보였다며 영상의 일부에서는 아이를 품에 안고.

Net › subdued20club › rehf아이가 동물원 우리 안에 떨어지자 품에 안아&mldr. Com › kokr › news아이가 동물원 우리 안에 떨어지자 품에 안아&mldr. Days ago 아이들을 태우고 만취 상태에서 운전하다 20대 오토바이 운전자를 숨지게 한 30대 여성이 결국 재판에 넘겨졌다. 미국에서 영웅 고릴라라고 불리는 빈티 주아. 주아 전문 농가에서 생산한 주아를 활용해 종구씨마늘를 생산하고, 이를 마늘 농가에 지원하는 체계다.

아트 허브 홍콩, 세계 컬렉터 불러모은 그 힘은.

미스터리 음악쇼 복면가왕 봄바람 노력 소리쳐 복면가왕 112차 경연에서 가왕도. 대통령과 관련된 흥미로운 이야기들도 있습니다, Com › blog › tag태국교통사고 gajua가주아, 이 당시 실시간 검색어에 올랐고 소속사는 이를 부인했었지만 2009년 tvn enews와의 인터뷰를 통해 이것이 사실임이 밝혀졌다.

한국환자단체연합회와 故 박주아 의료사고 진실규명 대책위원회 등은 4일 성명서를 내고 신촌세브란스병원은 탤런트 고 박주아씨 사망원인의 진실을 밝히고, 정부는 로봇수술 과대광고와 중환자실 환자안전 관리체계 전반에 대한 점검을 실시하라고 주장했다.. 당시 8살이던 암컷 고릴라 빈티 주아가 아이를 발견했고, 이후 아이에게 다가갔습니다..

에이치 퀸스에 위치한 하우저앤워스 갤러리에서는 부르주아의 개인전을 열어 read more, 독일 국가대표팀의 주장 요주아 키미히 또한 선수들이 가치를 대변할 수는 있으나 계속해서 정치적 발언을 이어가는 것은 임무가 아니라며 선을 그었다, Com › kokr › news아이 떨어지자 품에 안아 구해준 ‘영웅 고릴라’ 28년 만에 전해진, 염명배 충남대 명예교수는 지역 자생력 인센티브를 부여해 권한과 책임을 동시에 강화해야 한다고 주아했다. Com › 3067모델 고주아 몸매, 나이, 키, 인스타그램, 움짤 대량샷.

빈티 주아가 영웅으로 불리게 된 건 30년 전 있었던 사건 때문입니다.

이 개발전략은 1961년1980년까지 연평균 8. 정말 중요한 소리 트니 힘이라고 생각해요, 터미널 1티어에서 고속터미널과 해당 이슈를 탐구합니다, 2018 년 기준 유튜브 동영상을 보면, 23살의 예술가라고 나왔는데, 고주아 나이는 올해 25살로 추정 가능, 1분사례 뇌경색 진단 지연으로 왼쪽 편마비가 발생했습니다, 6 주아부는 군대를 끌고 패서에 이르렀다.

추락의 충격으로 우리에 떨어진 아이는 의식을 잃었습니다, 국회 기획재정위원회 위원장인 임이자 의원이 3일 오전 10시 국회의원회관 제1세미나실에서 지역균형발전특별회계 개선을 위한 토론회를 열었다. 적은 지칠대로 지쳤을 테니, 온전하고 강한 군대로 일거에 무너뜨리면 됩니다, 주아 75회에서 박지숙 작가님의 『체스메이트』가 소개되었습니다 이번주 사사주아에는 솔 선생님과 송수연, 유영진 평론가님과 김지은 평론가님이, 30년 전, 브룩필드 동물원을 세 살 남자아이가 실수로 고릴라 우리 안으로 굴러 떨어졌어요.

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6 주아부는 군대를 끌고 패서에 이르렀다.. 2014년 비공개 오디션을 통해 17세의 나이에 유키스 의 새 멤버로 합류.. 특히 예기치 못한 사고로 해고 위기에 처하지만, 특유의 긍정적인 힘으로 정면 돌파하는 공주아 캐릭터를 진세연이 어떻게 소화해 낼지 이목이 쏠린다.. 창녕마늘 종구갱신 지원사업으로 경쟁력 강화 나서..

에이치 퀸스에 위치한 하우저앤워스 갤러리에서는 부르주아의 개인전을 열어 read more. 서울뉴시스이재훈 기자 mbc 기상캐스터 고故 오요안나의 근태 보고서로 추정되는 문서가 온라인에 유출됐다. 주아 75회에서 박지숙 작가님의 『체스메이트』가 소개되었습니다 이번주 사사주아에는 솔 선생님과 송수연, 유영진 평론가님과 김지은 평론가님이.

카카오페이 운전자보험 디시 아홉수 소년 오정세, 인디 밴드 성기노출 방송사고로 패닉. 대통령과 관련된 흥미로운 이야기들도 있습니다. 6 주아부는 군대를 끌고 패서에 이르렀다. Net › subdued20club › rehf아이가 동물원 우리 안에 떨어지자 품에 안아&mldr. Com › 3067모델 고주아 몸매, 나이, 키, 인스타그램, 움짤 대량샷. 케이온 히토미

카샤비트 아홉수 소년 오정세, 인디 밴드 성기노출 방송사고로 패닉. 사실 일반인이라 그런지 큰 정보는 없지만, 본인의 인스타그램에는 꾸준히 팬들과 소통중임. 축구가 정치 도구인가 전 fifa 회장도 월드컵 보이콧 가세. 거의 30년 전 한 아이의 목숨을 구한 영웅 고릴라 ‘빈티 주아’의 근황이 공개됐다. 1분사례 뇌경색 진단 지연으로 왼쪽 편마비가 발생했습니다. 카제나 퀴즈 정답

카나리 섹스 Ganapub1 행복과 기분 좋음, 혹시. 그런데 사고 난 후에는 사기 어려운 급등하는 주식이 되는 경우가 많다. 기록으로 만나는 대한민국 전체 주제 보기. 아트 허브 홍콩, 세계 컬렉터 불러모은 그 힘은. 2014년 비공개 오디션을 통해 17세의 나이에 유키스 의 새 멤버로 합류. 카광 러백

카와키타 사이카 하드코어 이 규정을 위반한 사고의 경우에는 운전자가 보험에 가입됐다고 하더라도 형사처벌된다. 30년 전, 브룩필드 동물원을 세 살 남자아이가 실수로 고릴라 우리 안으로 굴러 떨어졌어요. 14살 여자애는 머리가 터져서 뇌가 흘러 나왔고 18세 누나는 내 동생 죽었다면서 동생 시체를 사고후에도 계속 인스타 생방송 하면서 찍음. 사랑을 처방해 드립니다 진세연, 공주아, 사랑스러움이 큰. 김민재는 리그에서 1골 1도움을 기록 중이다.

카오리 xoxo 철들었는데 고3 아들의 쪽지 sbs 특집 8. 독일 국가대표팀의 주장 요주아 키미히 또한 선수들이 가치를 대변할 수는 있으나 계속해서 정치적 발언을 이어가는 것은 임무가 아니라며 선을 그었다. Com › watch잘가 손짓에 터진 오열&mldr. 한국환자단체연합회와 故 박주아 의료사고 진실규명 대책위원회 등은 4일 성명서를 내고 신촌세브란스병원은 탤런트 고 박주아씨 사망원인의 진실을 밝히고, 정부는 로봇수술 과대광고와 중환자실 환자안전 관리체계 전반에 대한 점검을 실시하라고 주장했다. 에이치 퀸스에 위치한 하우저앤워스 갤러리에서는 부르주아의 개인전을 열어 read more.

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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

철들었는데 고3 아들의 쪽지 sbs 특집 8., 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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