US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 6, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
또한 특정 시간대에 메소를 2배로 지급하는 피버타임 시스템이 있으며 이 때 우르스를 플레이하면 평소 획득하는 메소의 2배를 획득할 수 있다. 챔피언의 능력을 사용하여 맵을 탐색하고 영혼으로 다른 사람들을 느리게하십시오. 10만명까지 9만명 개학하면서 시간이 방학과는 달리 많이 없어졌네요 시간 분배를 철저히 해야할것같아 앞으로 정규 업로드 일정에 대해서. The parkour champions에 오신 것을 환영합니다.
찰리 파커charlie parker는 재즈 역사에서 빼놓을 수 없는 혁신적인 인물로, 특히 비밥bebop 장르의 창시자로 널리 알려져 있습니다. 은행 강도와 탈옥, 살인을 일삼은 보니 파커와 클라이드 배로의 실화는 1967년 영화로 먼저 소비됐고, 2011년 브로드웨이에서 뮤지컬로 재탄생했다. Bonnie와 clyde의 이 희귀한 사진은 미국의 상징적인 범죄 커플. 드디어 머더파커 건대점을 졸업하는 날이 오다니ㅎㅎ 악명높은 파커4 탈출 가보자고🔥 파커4. 28일 방송되는 jtbc 세계 다크투어에서는 보니 파커와 클라이드 배로를 잡기 위한 텍사스 경찰들의 치밀한 검거 작전이 소개된다. 보니와 클라이드 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. Redirecting to w%ec%82%ac%eb%9d%bc%20%ec%a0%9c%ec%8b%9c%ec%b9%b4%20%ed%8c%8c%ec%bb%a4. 찰스 버드 파커 주니어 charles bird parker, jr. 보니와 클라이드 영어 bonnie and clyde는 1930년대 전반에 미국 중서부에서 은행 강도와 살인을 반복한 보니 파커 bonnie parker, 1910년 10월 1일 1934년 5월 23일와 클라이드 배로 clyde barrow, 1909년 3월 24일 1934년 5월 23일로 이루어진 커플이다. 배리 파커 작가의 작품을 지금 바로 리디에서. 낭만 초과한 범죄 커플의 끝은뮤지컬 보니 앤 클라이드. 보니 파커bonnie parker와 클라이드 배로clyde barrow 로 이루어진 커플이다. 보니 파커bonnie parker와 클라이드 배로clyde barrow는 유명세를 타긴 했습니다만, 엄밀히 따져 흉악한 범죄자였을 뿐이죠. 이야기는 보니가 클라이드를 만나 사랑. ⚠️ 베타 릴리스 parkour champions는 아직 개발 중입니다. 시신은 루이지애나주 아카디아 시내로 옮겨졌고, 소문이 퍼지자.Bonnie parker와 clyde barrow의 추악한 끝은 1933년에 가족 이름이 된 밝은 1934년 5월 23일 루이지애나에서 파커와 배로가 총에 맞았을 때, 그들에 대한.. 찰스는 이 소식을 서인도제도를 향하는 배에서 들었다..
낭만 초과한 범죄 커플의 끝은뮤지컬 보니 앤 클라이드, 1934년 5월 23일, 클라이드 배로우와 보니 파커의 시신 주변에 사람들이 모여들었어. 1930년대 미국 대공황 시기에 실존했던 범죄자인 보니 파커와 클라이드 배로우의 실화를 바탕으로 한 뮤지컬.
8 9 카밀라와 앤드루의 결혼 소식은 찰스에게 큰 충격을 줬다고 한다. 322 followers, 792 following, 158 posts 파커 클래식면도기 한국 단독 공식수입처 바르베로 그, 남자가되다, 이런 말장난과 입담도 피터 파커의 큰 매력이다, 찰리 파커charlie parker는 재즈 역사에서 빼놓을 수 없는 혁신적인 인물로, 특히 비밥bebop 장르의 창시자로 널리 알려져 있습니다. 세기의 강도 커플에겐 추종자들도 있었다.
232번째 방탈출은 머더파커 건대1호점 파커4 맛있는 밥먹고 바로 다음테마로 달려온 머더파커. 찰스는 이 소식을 서인도제도를 향하는 배에서 들었다. 이야기는 보니가 클라이드를 만나 사랑.
232번째 방탈출은 머더파커 건대1호점 파커4 맛있는 밥먹고 바로 다음테마로 달려온 머더파커. 1920년 8월 29일 1955년 3월 12일는 미국의 재즈 음악가이다, 1930년대 미국 대공황 당시 연쇄 강도살인을 벌인 보니 엘리자베스 파커bonnie elizabeth parker1와 클라이드 체스넛 배로clyde chestnut barrow2. 28일 방송되는 jtbc 세계 다크투어에서는 보니 파커와 클라이드 배로를 잡기 위한 텍사스 경찰들의, 보니와 클라이드는 1930년데 전반에 미국 중서부에서 은행강도와 살인을 반복한 보니 파커 bonnie parker 와 클라이드 배로 clyde barrow로 이루어진 커플이다, Redirecting to w%ec%82%ac%eb%9d%bc%20%ec%a0%9c%ec%8b%9c%ec%b9%b4%20%ed%8c%8c%ec%bb%a4.
개요 편집 마블 시네마틱 유니버스 의 메이 파커, 재즈 팬들에게는 거대한 상징적인 존재로 군림하고 있는 찰리 파커는 그가 비밥을 창시했다는 이분법적인 사고가 아니더라도 비밥의 태동에 깊이 관여하며 모던 재즈의 새로운 길을 제시하였다고 볼 수 있다. 1934년 5월 23일, 클라이드 배로우와 보니 파커의 시신 주변에 사람들이 모여들었어, 색소폰 연주자 및 작곡가 로 유명하다, 1930년대 미국 대공황기를 떠들썩하게 했던 범죄자 커플 보니 파커와 클라이드 배로의 실화를 바탕으로 한 뮤지컬 보니 앤 클라이드가 내년 3월 2일까지.
을 반복한 연인 보니 파커bonnie parker와 클라이드 배로clyde barrow.. 세기의 강도 커플에겐 추종자들도 있었다..
| 챔피언의 능력을 사용하여 맵을 탐색하고 영혼으로 다른 사람들을 느리게하십시오. | 1934년 5월 23일, 클라이드 배로우와 보니 파커의 시신 주변. |
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| Com › barbero_store파커 클래식면도기 한국 단독 공식수입처 바르베로 그, 남자가되다. | 1930년대, 미국 중서부에서 은행 강도와 살인을 반복한 연인 보니 파커bonnie parker와 클라이드 배로clyde barrow. |
| 보니와 클라이드는 1930년데 전반에 미국 중서부에서 은행강도와 살인을 반복한 보니 파커 bonnie parker 와 클라이드 배로 clyde barrow로 이루어진. | 스펙이 충분하다면 솔플로도 도전이 가능하다. |
| 스파이더맨 활동 초기를 다룬 어메이징 스파이더맨 1. | Com › magicpink30 › 222625156328보니와 클라이드 bonnie & clyde신화와 베로우 갱단 네이버 블로. |
⚠️ 베타 릴리스 parkour champions는 아직 개발 중입니다. 파커는 색소폰 연주자로서, 그의 독창적인 연주 스타일과 음악적 감각은 20세기 재즈를 새로운 차원으로 끌어올렸습니다. 재즈 팬들에게는 거대한 상징적인 존재로 군림하고 있는 찰리 파커는 그가 비밥을 창시했다는 이분법적인 사고가 아니더라도 비밥의 태동에 깊이 관여하며 모던 재즈의 새로운 길을 제시하였다고 볼 수 있다. 이야기는 보니가 클라이드를 만나 사랑.
오늘 배운 건데, 1932년에 감옥에 있던 클라이드 배로우보니 앤 클라이드가 들판에서 고된 노동을 피하려고 발가락 두 개를 잘랐대, 배로 갱은 경찰관이건, 민간인이던 그들을 가로 막는 누군가를 쏘는 것을 주저하지 않았다. 보니와 클라이드영어 bonnie and clyde는 1930년대 전반에 미국 중서부에서 은행 강도와 살인을 반복한 보니 파커bonnie parker, 1910년 10월 1일 1934년 5월 23일와 클라이드 배로clyde barrow, 1909년 3월 24일 1934년, 보니 앤 클라이드로 익숙한 보니 파커 bonnie parker와 클라이드 배로 clyde barrow, 이들은 영화 내일은 없다. 찰스가 군대에 가고, 그와 헤어진 이후 카밀라는 전 연인인 앤드루 파커 보울스와 결혼했다, 1015 92 무덤 순례자 ‘문예 중독자 파라다이스’ 클라이드 배로우 clyde chestnut barrow, 1909.
최은서 라방 보니와 클라이드는 1930년데 전반에 미국 중서부에서 은행강도와 살인을 반복한 보니 파커 bonnie parker 와 클라이드 배로 clyde barrow로 이루어진 커플이다. 보통 메이 숙모라 알려져 있지만 사실 메이의 남편 벤 파커는 피터 아버지의 형이다. 마지막에는 선한 인격의 파커 소년가 엘리스의 설득으로 방 안에 들어가게 하여 자기 어머니를 무찌를 수 있게 도와주었다. 28일 방송되는 jtbc 세계 다크투어에서는 보니 파커와 클라이드 배로를 잡기 위한 텍사스 경찰들의 치밀한 검거 작전이 소개된다. 보니앤클라이드 실화 bonnie and clyde 네이버 블로그. 체인소맨 일일툰
츄 잠옷 보니와 클라이드영어 bonnie and clyde는 1930년대 전반에 미국 중서부에서 은행 강도와 살인을 반복한 보니 파커bonnie parker, 1910년 10월 1일 1934년 5월 23일와 클라이드 배로clyde barrow, 1909년 3월 24일 1934년. 세계 다크투어 보니 파커x클라이드 배로의 마지막 순간. 찰리 파커charlie parker는 재즈 역사에서 빼놓을 수 없는 혁신적인 인물로, 특히 비밥bebop 장르의 창시자로 널리 알려져 있습니다. Kr › articles › 182303범죄자라도 좋아 보니와 클라이드 신드롬 위키트리. 시리즈 주인공인 마일스 모랄레스 의 세계인 지구1610b의 피터 파. 찬미 리액션
최 솜이 노출 사실 30대 가장이 되었다는 차이점만 제외하면 초창기의 피터 파커와도 가장 유사하다. 재즈 팬들에게는 거대한 상징적인 존재로 군림하고 있는 찰리 파커는 그가 비밥을 창시했다는 이분법적인 사고가 아니더라도 비밥의 태동에 깊이 관여하며 모던 재즈의 새로운 길을 제시하였다고 볼 수 있다. 보니와 클라이드영어 bonnie and clyde는 1930년대 전반에 미국 중서부에서 은행 강도와 살인을 반복한 보니 파커bonnie parker, 1910년 10월 1일 1934년 5월 23일와 클라이드 배로clyde barrow, 1909년 3월 24일 1934년. 세기의 강도 커플에겐 추종자들도 있었다. 세기의 강도 커플에겐 추종자들도 있었다. 창작 일식 장르
쵸비 갤러리 파커는 색소폰 연주자로서, 그의 독창적인 연주 스타일과 음악적 감각은 20세기 재즈를 새로운 차원으로 끌어올렸습니다. 미주 1등 정상의 신문 미주한국일보가 생생한 미국 관련 뉴스를 전달해 드립니다. Com › magicpink30 › 222625156328보니와 클라이드 bonnie & clyde신화와 베로우 갱단 네이버 블로. 그래도 피터 파커 아니랄까봐 결국에는 이것저것 알려주기도 하고 신경 써주고 상황이 위험해지자 자기가 희생하겠다고 나설 정도로 근본적으로는 선량한 인물이다. 파커 배로우즈는 원래 거액의 유산을 상속받아야 했으나, 교활한 동생에 의해서 빼앗겨 버렸다.
최 솜이 라이 키 후기 디시 시리즈 주인공인 마일스 모랄레스 의 세계인 지구1610b의 피터 파. 하지만 아이러니컬 하게도 이 들의 범죄에. 스펙이 충분하다면 솔플로도 도전이 가능하다. 사실 추모비에 새겨진 이름들은 이스터 에그가 아닌 저스티스 리그 쵤영에 참가한 제작팀 인원들의 이름을 새긴 것으로 하필이면 벤 파커와 동명이인인 이름이 저 구도에. 보니와 클라이드 영어 bonnie and clyde는 1930년대 전반에 미국 중서부에서 은행 강도와 살인을 반복한 보니 파커 bonnie parker, 1910년 10월 1일 1934년 5월 23일와 클라이드 배로 clyde barrow, 1909년 3월 24일 1934년 5월 23일로 이루어진 커플이다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 6, 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.
Kr › news › articleview세계다크투어 보니 파커클라이즈 배로 검거 작전서 경악한 사연., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.