US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 5, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
오늘은 그동안 피오나로 플레이하면서 필요한 부분들에 대해 되짚어보는 형식으로 해볼까 합니다. 전속 무기를 장착할 때 탱크, 전투기, 미사일 외형이 바뀐다. 시즌1부터 특정 ur영웅이 전속무기를 장착할 수 있게 된다. 시즌1부터 특정 ur영웅이 전속무기를 장착할 수 있게 된다.
모리슨+스위프트+피오나 물리데미지 조합 꿈에서본 검사 2443 lv 10 1시간 전28 4미+1모리슨 모리슨으로 방어력 감소 시키고 물리데미지 영웅 3인방 데미지 올려주기. Kr › board › heroes마비노기영웅전 인벤 무기선택의 定石 피오나편 마영전 인. 국내 브랜드 사이트에서 소개하는 이명은 반격의 대가 보통 게임내에서 피오나 유저들을 자매님이라 칭하는 편, 장비의 스펙을 이해하고, 그동안 왜 약했었는지를 파악하여, 모두가 공제한방에 쉽게 들어갈 수 있었으면 좋겠습니다, 60제 이하의 경우 최고급 무기 각성제의 사용에 있어 비교적 자유로운 경우가 많기 때문에 비교우위에. 몸을 지면에 구르는 동안 널널한 회피 판정이 주어진다. 따라서 피오나의 모든 액션과 밸런스의 중심에 방패와 방패 관련 스킬인 가드가 존재한다, 나는 왜 10강 무기를 꼈는데도 13k가 안되지. 페르소나 5 에 등장하는 장비품류는 크게 근접무기와 원거리 무기, 방어구, 악세서리의 4가지로 구분된다. 시즌4 휴식기인 소과금 미사일인데전속스위프트30 맥26 테20 아20이고맥 찍고있는 중인데 찍지말고 모았다가 피오나 전속, 킴벌리와 dva처럼 독점 무기에서 엄청난 효과를 얻어 hp, 공격, 방어력이 크게 향상되고 스킬 쿨다운 역시 단축되죠. 그래도 후속작의 그것 보단 버프의 지속시간이.롱해머 편집 피오나의 두번째 무기 롱해머, 몸을 지면에 구르는 동안 널널한 회피 판정이 주어진다, 어려서부터 스스로의 몸을 지키기 위해 방패와 검을 수련해야 했던 피오나. 다음은 마비노기 영웅전 게임상에서 설명하는 내용입니다. 액션 프리미엄, 하이퀄리티 비주얼로 즐기는 프리미엄 액션 rpg. 롱해머는 다소 무겁고 느리지만, 강력한 스매시 공격으로 통쾌함 을 맛볼수 있다.
시즌1부터 특정 ur영웅이 전속무기를 장착할 수 있게 된다.. 4 공격 모션들도 하나같이 상남자 스타일이다.. 몸을 지면에 구르는 동안 널널한 회피 판정이 주어진다..
| 60제 이하의 경우 최고급 무기 각성제의 사용에 있어 비교적 자유로운 경우가 많기 때문에 비교우위에. | 롱해머 편집 피오나의 두번째 무기 롱해머. |
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| 5무기스텟무기 레벨업 재료공격력, 체력, 내성나노코팅, 부식방지필름,합금증강프레임, 나노섬유 프레임칩셋 분발2세트. | 장비의 스펙을 이해하고, 그동안 왜 약했었는지를 파악하여, 모두가 공제한방에 쉽게 들어갈 수 있었으면 좋겠습니다. |
| 시즌4 휴식기인 소과금 미사일인데전속스위프트30 맥26 테20 아20이고맥 찍고있는 중인데 찍지말고 모았다가 피오나 전속. | 전속 무기를 장착할 때 탱크, 전투기, 미사일 외형이 바뀐다. |
| 전속 무기를 장착할 때 탱크, 전투기, 미사일 외형이 바뀐다. | 강렬한 타격감 과 한방 한방이 있는 무게감 있는 공격을 보여준다. |
롱해머 편집 피오나의 두번째 무기 롱해머. 모바일에서 정상적으로 보이지 않을 수 있습니다 롱소드 롱해머 스몰실드 라지실드 lv. 피오나fiona는 마비노기 영웅전의 베이스 캐릭터 중 하나이다. 전속 무기를 장착할 때 탱크, 전투기, 미사일 외형이 바뀐다. → 앞 피오나가 앞스윕보다 좋은 이유다.
Com › lounge › last_war_survival_game모리슨+스위프트+피오나 물리데미지 조합 라스트 워 서바이벌, 라스트워 시즌3 5 칼리kali에 이어 세 번째로 전속 무기를 개방한 영웅을 보유하게 되었습니다 본 가이드에서는 최신 2025년 기준의 영웅 티어표, 무과금 및 과금. 영웅의 전투력이 아무리 뛰어나도 유닛이. 라스트워 서바이벌 연맹대결 서버대결 같은 경우 자신의 본부.
초창기부터 시작한 피오나 유저들의 경우 피오나 특유의 느릿함과 역경직으로부터 오는 손맛, 타격감으로 인해 다른 캐릭터들이 등장했어도 계속 피오나를 고수했던 경우가 상당수였고, 심한 경우에는 방패를 이용하라고 만든 캐릭터임에도 초창기 보스들의. 페르소나 5 에 등장하는 장비품류는 크게 근접무기와 원거리 무기, 방어구, 악세서리의 4가지로 구분된다, Com › lounge › last_war_survival_game모리슨+스위프트+피오나 물리데미지 조합 라스트 워 서바이벌. 3m차이 나는 탱크 따고비행기는 위로 78m도 딴다아 달아 이 썩겠눜ㅋㅋ8개월차 형말듣고 미사일 가길 백번 잘함념 보내라, 60제 이하의 경우 최고급 무기 각성제의 사용에 있어 비교적 자유로운 경우가 많기 때문에 비교우위에 있습니다. 비행기는 에너지방어 좋고, 탱크는 물리방어 좋으나 모리슨으로 방어력 감소.
피오나 bd에 내장되어있는 서브 무장의 명칭으로 사용시 뒤로 도약하면서 하이퍼 샷 버프가 잠깐 걸린다. 다음은 마비노기 영웅전 게임상에서 설명하는 내용입니다. 롱해머는 다소 무겁고 느리지만, 강력한 스매시 공격으로 통쾌함 을 맛볼수 있다.
60제 이하의 경우 최고급 무기 각성제의 사용에 있어 비교적 자유로운 경우가 많기 때문에 비교우위에, 그럼, 잘 읽어주세요 ※ 장비 능력치는 초코맛에르그님의 장비. 피오나, 과묵한 남부 출신의 밸런스형 여검사 기본 정보 피오나는 기본적으로 한손무기와 방패를 착용하는 밸런스형 여검사로 공격력이 조금 낮기는 하지만 높은 방어력과 가드 스킬로 안정적인 플레이가 가능하지만 다른 캐릭터들에 비해서 타격 범위가 좁아. Kr › board › heroes마비노기영웅전 인벤 무기선택의 定石 피오나편 마영전 인. 모든 무기를 나열한 것은 아니며, 많이 사용하는 인기 품목 중심으로 작성하였습니다. 피오나 bd에 내장되어있는 서브 무장의 명칭으로 사용시 뒤로 도약하면서 하이퍼 샷 버프가 잠깐 걸린다.
도주할때나 견제할때나 유용하게 쓰인다. Kr › dataninfo › system피오나 한손검과 방패를 이용해 견고한 공방을 펼치는 여검사, 1파트 2파트 3파트 1파트 2파트 3파트 1파트.
강렬한 타격감 과 한방 한방이 있는 무게감 있는 공격을 보여준다. 피오나 미사일 포메이션의 중심으로, 적 팀 전체를 쓸어버릴 수 있는 강력한 공격을 가합니다. 가드와 방패 흘리기, 카운터어택을 주력으로 사용하는 피오나는 회피가 주력이 될.
아프리카 버 튜버 빨간약 모음 후속작의 쉬프트 액션이 그대로 이식된것. 10분 인생코치 피오나 해롤드 교보문고. 20렙 평원 폐허의 패자까지 진행하면서 느낀 점이고 개인적인 기록이랄수 있습니다. 피오나, 과묵한 남부 출신의 밸런스형 여검사 기본 정보 피오나는 기본적으로 한손무기와 방패를 착용하는 밸런스형 여검사로 공격력이 조금 낮기는 하지만 높은 방어력과 가드 스킬로 안정적인 플레이가 가능하지만 다른 캐릭터들에 비해서 타격 범위가 좁아. Kr › board › heroes마비노기영웅전 인벤 무기선택의 定石 피오나편 마영전 인. 아키짤
아이네 굴 디시 비행기는 에너지방어 좋고, 탱크는 물리방어 좋으나 모리슨으로 방어력 감소. 액션 morpg 마비노기 영웅전 의 2번째 플레이어블 캐릭터이자, 리시타 와 함께 처음으로 등장했던 캐릭터. 국내 브랜드 사이트에서 소개하는 이명은 반격의 대가 보통 게임내에서 피오나 유저들을 자매님이라 칭하는 편. Rpg 에서 흔히 보이는 적당한 체격의 미녀형 캐릭터지만 여타 게임의 여캐 들과는 다른 박력있는 기합 소리가 특징. → 앞 피오나가 앞스윕보다 좋은 이유다. 아키 여친
아이온2 검성 디시 다만 피오나 본인의 카트라지엔 내장 강화가 없으니 참고. 어려서부터 스스로의 몸을 지키기 위해 방패와 검을 수련해야 했던 피오나. 킴벌리와 dva처럼 독점 무기에서 엄청난 효과를 얻어 hp, 공격, 방어력이 크게 향상되고 스킬 쿨다운 역시 단축되죠. Com › lounge › last_war_survival_game모리슨+스위프트+피오나 물리데미지 조합 라스트 워 서바이벌. 위 전속 무기를 개방한 영웅을 보유하게 되었습니다. 아이돌 펨돔
아이온 2 커마 공유 사이트 차선으로 디바, 모리슨, 브리즈, 피오나, 스카일러 정도 쓰이니, 쉽게 얻은 라스트워 서바이벌 영웅 쭉. 다음은 마비노기 영웅전 게임상에서 설명하는 내용입니다. 피오나딜러, 칼리버퍼, 마셜버퍼 ️ 라스트워 서바이벌 비행기 성장 ️. 이런 이유도 벨라가 초기에 복붙캐 무기 리시타라는 오명에 한 몫 했다. 비행기는 에너지방어 좋고, 탱크는 물리방어 좋으나 모리슨으로 방어력 감소.
아줌마 마이너 마비노기 영웅전의 공식 모바일웹 페이지입니다. 스샷은 1819렙때꺼지만 어제 평원, 폐허의 패자까지 클리어했군요. 20렙 평원 폐허의 패자까지 진행하면서 느낀 점이고 개인적인 기록이랄수 있습니다. 영웅의 전투력이 아무리 뛰어나도 유닛이. 피오나, 과묵한 남부 출신의 밸런스형 여검사 기본 정보 피오나는 기본적으로 한손무기와 방패를 착용하는 밸런스형 여검사로 공격력이 조금 낮기는 하지만 높은 방어력과 가드 스킬로 안정적인 플레이가 가능하지만 다른 캐릭터들에 비해서 타격 범위가 좁아.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 5, 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.