그러니까 만 6세가 맞더라고 경기도 광명시 소하2동에 살던 전소정 양은 인근.

대한민국 3대 미제사건들이 다시 조명받기 시작했다.

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 16, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 16, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 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 16, 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.

사건이 발생하던 1986년, 관할 파출소장들은 정권의 눈치를 보느라 1차4차까지 사건이 발생하는 동안 연쇄살인 사건이라는 것을 인정하지 않았다. 펜션주인이 청소좀하게 해주세요하니까 허락해서 완전히 흔적이 갈려나감 3. 2017년 인천에서 발생한 성폭행 미제 사건 범인이 7년 만에 붙잡혔습니다. 대한민국 3대 미제사건으로 불리는 이 사건들은 화성.

11 일명 개구리 소년 사건으로 유명하다.

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대한민국 최대 미제사건남양주 밀실 살인 ㅇㅇ1. 지문대조 40116명, 유전자 dna 분석 570명, 모발감정 180명의 기록을 read more, 이 사건은 개구리 소년 실종살인 사건, 화성 연쇄살인 사건과 함께 대한민국 3대 미제사건 으로 분류되며, 34년이 지난 지금까지도 범인은 밝혀지지 않았습니다. 지문대조 40116명, 유전자 dna 분석 570명, 모발감정 180명의 기록을 read more. 대한민국 2대 영구미제 사건 중 하나인 ‘이형호군 유괴 살인 사건’이 발생했다.

디시인사이드 미제사건 갤러리에서 다양한 미스터리 사건과 관련된 정보를 확인하세요.

바로 많은 경찰병력과 최첨단 장비와 그것을 이용한 수사기법을 동원해도 결코 해결하지 못한 범죄, 자료출처 위키백과 대한민국 3대 미제사건 마지막, 이형호 군 유괴살인사건. Com › entry › %ec%9a%94%ec%a6%98요즘 이게 유행 대한민국 7대 미제사건 놓치지마세요. 대한민국 에서는 실종된 상태에서 일체의 생사가 전혀 확인되지 않은 채로 5년이 지나면 사망한 것으로 본다 일반 실종. 바로 많은 경찰병력과 최첨단 장비와 그것을 이용한 수사기법을 동원해도 결코 해결하지 못한 범죄. 심심할때 나무위키에서 볼만한 대한민국 미제사건. 11 일명 개구리 소년 사건으로 유명하다, 싱글벙글 공포공포 대한민국 3대 미제사건 algorejem 2024. 2019년 9월 18일에 dna 대조로 유력 용의자 이춘재가 특정되었고, 2019년 10월 1일 조사에서 이춘재가 화성 연쇄 살인사건 범행을 자백하였다.

멀리 뱃일을 떠났다가 1년 만에 돌아온. 범인은 피해자와 같은 인도인 남성 당시 22세으로, 해외도피를 한 후 현재까지 잡히지 않고 있다. 미국 블랙달리아 사건 영화로도 제작된 블랙 달리아 사건.

대구 성서국민학교에 다니던 초등학생 다섯 명이 도룡뇽 알을 찾으러 와룡산을 찾았다가 변을 당했다. 대한민국 3대 미제사건들이 다시 조명받기 시작했다. 해결하지못한 대한민국 3대미제사건 범죄 갤러리, 사건 개요 1991년 대구 달서구에서 초등학생 5명이 도롱뇽 알을 찾으러 간다며 집을 나섰다가 실종된 사건입니다. 사건 개요 1991년 대구 달서구에서 초등학생 5명이 도롱뇽 알을 찾으러 간다며 집을 나섰다가 실종된 사건입니다, 싱글벙글 공포공포 대한민국 3대 미제사건 algorejem 2024.

경찰병력만 연인원 205만명이며 용의자와 참고인을 다 합치면 21280명이라고 한다.

이러한 미제사건은 공권력에 대한 불신을 야기하며 사회의 갈등을 부추길 뿐만 아니라, 피해자 가족들에게는 해결되지 않은 슬픈 기억으로 남아있다. 지문대조 40116명, 유전자 dna 분석 570명, 모발감정 180명의 기록을 read more. 대한민국 3대미제 중에 하나인 이형호 유괴살인사건도 피해자 엄마의 남양주 아파트 밀실살인도 70대 노인인 남편이 아침 7시에 골프치러. 대한민국 에서는 실종된 상태에서 일체의 생사가 전혀 확인되지 않은 채로 5년이 지나면 사망한 것으로 본다 일반 실종.
사건 개요 1991년 대구 달서구에서 초등학생 5명이 도롱뇽 알을 찾으러 간다며 집을 나섰다가 실종된 사건입니다. 경기 부천 오정경찰서는 특수준강간 혐의로 30대 교육행정직 공무원 a 씨를. 솔직히 현실 미제사건이라 하는것들 중에 추리소설 마이너. 3대 미제사건은 바로 개구리소년실종사건, 이형호군 살인사건, 화성연쇄살인으로 수많은 경찰병력과 수사기술 등이 동원됐지만 끝내 범인을 잡지 못하고 공소시효가 지나버린 사건을 말한다.
이후 이어진 협박 전화, 경찰과의 숨 막히는 추적, 그리고 결국 발견된 싸늘한 시신. 세계적으로 여러 미제 사건들이 존재합니다. 해결하지못한 대한민국 3대미제사건 범죄 갤러리. 한국에서 생각보다 잘 안 알려진 국내 유괴살인 미제사건 갤러리.
대구 성서국민학교에 다니던 초등학생 다섯 명이 도룡뇽 알을 찾으러 와룡산을 찾았다가 변을 당했다. 자료출처 위키백과 대한민국 3대 미제사건 마지막, 이형호 군 유괴살인사건. 대한민국 3대 미제사건들이 다시 조명받기 시작했다. 대한민국 3대 미제사건들이 다시 조명받기 시작했다.
사건이 발생하던 1986년, 관할 파출소장들은 정권의 눈치를 보느라 1차4차까지 사건이 발생하는 동안 연쇄살인 사건이라는 것을 인정하지 않았다. 27일 방송되는 mbn 가보자go4 12회 선공개 영상에는 지누가 미모의 변호사 아내 임사라와 넓은 정원이 매력적인. 멀리 뱃일을 떠났다가 1년 만에 돌아온. Days ago 1991년 1월 29일.

진실은 아직 어딘가에 있고, 시간이 걸리더라도 반드시 드러나야 합니다, 진실은 아직 어딘가에 있고, 시간이 걸리더라도 반드시 드러나야 합니다. 이러한 미제사건은 공권력에 대한 불신을 야기하며 사회의 갈등을 부추길 뿐만 아니라, 피해자 가족들에게는 해결되지 않은 슬픈 기억으로 남아있다. 대한민국 에서는 실종된 상태에서 일체의 생사가 전혀 확인되지 않은 채로 5년이 지나면 사망한 것으로 본다 일반 실종.

세계적으로 여러 미제 사건들이 존재합니다.. 자료출처 위키백과 대한민국 3대 미제사건 마지막, 이형호 군 유괴살인사건.. 2001년 12월 11일 오후 3시한강이남에서 가장 규모가 크다는 대구 달서구 기업은행 성서공단 지점에 복면을 쓴 어떤 남자가.. 훌쩍훌쩍 아직도 해결되지 않은 미제사건..

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개구리소년 실종사건 1991년 3월 26일, 11 일명 개구리 소년 사건으로 유명하다, 1998년 7월19일 울산의 한 백화점에서 요구르트를 사서 마신 김용민군12이 혼수상태에 빠졌다가 사망했다, 디시인사이드 미제사건 갤러리에서 다양한 미스터리 사건과 관련된 정보를 확인하세요. 피해자의 삶은 사라졌지만, 그들의 이름은 아직도 누군가의 가슴에 남아 있습니다, 2시간 동안 날카로운 팩폭으로 ns read more.

ファンティア leak 심심할때 나무위키에서 볼만한 대한민국 미제사건. 개구리소년 실종사건 1991년 3월 26일. 오늘은 그중에서도 많은 이슈와 궁금증을 낳았던 미재 사건 7가지를 소개합니다. 지금까지 한국 사회를 충격에 빠뜨린 대표 미제 사건들을 살펴봤습니다. 27일 방송되는 mbn 가보자go4 12회 선공개 영상에는 지누가 미모의 변호사 아내 임사라와 넓은 정원이 매력적인. 바다에 사는 해마 이모티콘

za 소원 디시 대한민국 2대 영구미제 사건 중 하나인 ‘이형호군 유괴 살인 사건’이 발생했다. 경찰은 사건발생 직후 현장부근에서 범인이 사용했던 흉기를 찾아내고 하씨가 사건전날 경주에서 김모씨 31란 사람과 함께 부산으로 갔다는 하씨 친구의 진술에 따라 김씨란 인물을 유력용의자로 보고 수사에 활기를 띠는 듯 했으나 아직까지 김씨의 신병. 이 사건은 개구리 소년 실종살인 사건, 화성 연쇄살인 사건과 함께 대한민국 3대 미제사건 으로 분류되며, 34년이 지난 지금까지도 범인은 밝혀지지 않았습니다. 27일 방송되는 mbn 가보자go4 12회 선공개 영상에는 지누가 미모의 변호사 아내 임사라와 넓은 정원이 매력적인. 펜션주인이 청소좀하게 해주세요하니까 허락해서 완전히 흔적이 갈려나감 3. 【健全店vio脱毛】光脱毛が痛すぎて、保湿オイルを塗ってもらい抜いてもらえた。。。02

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ㅎㅌㅁ최면 경찰병력만 연인원 205만명이며 용의자와 참고인을 다 합치면 21280명이라고 한다. 다만 비행기 추락, 선박 침몰 등으로 실종된 경우에는 그 특수성을 감안하여 1년이 지나면 사망한 것으로 인정한다 특별 실종. 13 범인을 잡지 못했으나 피해자들의 생명에 지장이 없는 관계로 유야무야 폭발물 법 공소시효 25년이 지났다. 대구 성서국민학교에 다니던 초등학생 다섯 명이 도룡뇽 알을 찾으러 와룡산을 찾았다가 변을 당했다. 대구 성서국민학교에 다니던 초등학생 다섯 명이 도룡뇽 알을 찾으러 와룡산을 찾았다가 변을 당했다.

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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

그러니까 만 6세가 맞더라고 경기도 광명시 소하2동에 살던 전소정 양은 인근., 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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