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영화 ‘닥터 스트레인지’의 에인션트 원 왼쪽ㆍ틸다 스윈튼은 원작에선 티베트족이었지만 켈트족으로 수정됐다.

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 4, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 4, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 4, 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 4, 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.

사회주의 핵심 가치관을 실천하라는 의미다. 인민망 한국어판 6월 18일 코스모 브라이드와 세 번째 촬영을 가진 징텐景甜의 화보가 공개되었다. 선검, 선검4, 기금조 네이버 블로그 중화권관련 47개의 글 목록열기. 화보 속 징텐은 이미 사랑스럽고 우아한 여인.

화보 속 징텐은 이미 사랑스럽고 우아한 여인으로 변신해 있었다. 최근 웨이보 등 소셜미디어에는 중국 여배우 징톈의 모습이 담긴 유흥업소 전단지가 올라왔다. 으이구 전 여자친구 동영상 유출이나 시키고 짜란다.

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쉬카이징텐 주연, 로맨스와 무협이 어우러진 중국 드라마 《낙유원》 줄거리와 명장면, 감동 포인트를 정리했습니다. 화보 속 징텐은 이미 사랑스럽고 우아한 여인. 상온임에도 찝질한 맛이 가장 덜했고 엄마도 가장 만족해 했던 물이었다. 이번 드라마는 동한 시대 여자인 반숙징톈 분의 성장기를 그렸다.
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사진을 공유한 누리꾼은 중국 여배우 사진들을 도용한 유흥업소 사진들이. 드라마 반숙전기班淑传奇 징텐의 고전의상 스틸컷 공개 아름답다. 선검, 선검4, 기금조 네이버 블로그 중화권관련 47개의 글 목록열기. 본명도 경첨으로, 중국어로는 징티안이라고 발음해요.
경첨 景甜 jing tian, 징텐 1988년 7월 21일 고향 중국 산시성 시안시 키 165cm 학력 베이징 전영화학원 연기학과. 중국 베이징무도학원 출신의 30대 여배우 징톈의 얼굴이 홍보 전단지 전면에 담겼는데 전단지에는 ‘24시. 그녀는 어린 시절부터 예능에 관심이 많았고, 산시성 어린이. 으이구 전 여자친구 동영상 유출이나 시키고 짜란다.
분류중국 景甛 jing tian 징텐 중국의 가수, 배우. 화보 속 징텐은 이미 사랑스럽고 우아한 여인. 드라마 반숙전기班淑传奇 징텐의 고전의상 스틸컷 공개. 선검, 선검4, 기금조 네이버 블로그 중화권관련 47개의 글 목록열기.
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배우경첨 景甜, jing tian,aaa888000, Com › specialtork › 223875776478경첨 프로필 성형 장지커 결혼 성형전 천샤오 진효 네이버 블로그, 2017년 cosmo시상성전 올해의 제일 아름다운 인물 2018년 2017국극성전 청춘인기여배우 2018년 2017웨이보의 밤 올해의 인기연예인 2018년 cosmo시상성전 올해의 빛나는 아름다운 우상 2019년 cosmo시상미려성전 올해의 인물 2022년 에스콰이어25주년 선생지야 올해의 돌파연예인 2023년 웨이보, 출처 인민망 한국어판 20150503 084741 편집 서위. 드라마 반숙전기班淑传奇 징텐의 고전의상 스틸컷 공개 아름답다. 인민망 한국어판 6월 18일 코스모 브라이드와 세 번째 촬영을 가진 징텐景甜의 화보가 공개되었다, Com › news › read中 입김 세질수록 할리우드 영화는 ‘산으로’. 뇌횡 ai cover limbus company, 영화 ‘닥터 스트레인지’의 에인션트 원 왼쪽ㆍ틸다 스윈튼은 원작에선 티베트족이었지만 켈트족으로 수정됐다, Com › news › read中 입김 세질수록 할리우드 영화는 ‘산으로’. 중국 탁구 영웅 전여친 경첨 프로필 ⭕️.

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중드관련 선검기협전 드라마 제작은 어디까지. 햇살이 따갑게 내리쬐는 정오를 배경으로 징텐은 체크무늬 티셔츠에. 화보 속 징텐은 이미 사랑스럽고 우아한 여인으로 변신해 있었다.

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Png 四海重明 loves rebellion 사해중명 소개 2024년 7월. 배우경첨 景甜, jing tian,aaa888000. 수상 내역 2014년 제18회 헐리우드 필름 어워즈 인터내셔널 어워드 2017년 cosmo시상성전 올해의 제일 아름다운 인물 2018년 2017국극성전 청춘인기여배우 2018년 2017웨이보의.

배우경첨 景甜, jing tian, 징텐&장완이 张晚意, zhang wanyi ‘믿보배’로 성장중인 장완이 장만의배우. Kr › news › articleview한국 유흥업소 전단지에 중국 여배우 사진 법조계 초상권 침해는, 같은 이름을 가진 다른 사람에 대해서는 징톈 동음이의 문서를 참고하십시오.

Com › dasomju91 › 223895107658중국배우 경첨 징톈 프로필 활동 남자친구 논란 차기작 네이버 블로, 이번 드라마는 동한 시대 여자인 반숙징톈 분의 성장기를 그렸다, 그녀는 어린 시절부터 예능에 관심이 많았고, 산시성 어린이.

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배우 경첨 x 스스로 작품을 던져 버렸다고요. 영화 ‘닥터 스트레인지’의 에인션트 원 왼쪽ㆍ틸다 스윈튼은 원작에선 티베트족이었지만 켈트족으로 수정됐다. 출처 인민망 한국어판 20150503 084741 편집 서위. 중화권 인기 여배우 징톈이 과거 허위 광고의 모델로 나섰다가 13억원이 넘는 벌금과 추징금을 물게 됐다, 경첨景甜은 1988년 7월 21일, 중국 시안에서 태어났어요.

드라마 반숙전기班淑传奇 징텐의 고전의상 스틸컷 공개.. 영화수다 더그레이트월 퍼시픽림 콩 출연했던 중국여배우 징텐 허위과장광고모델로 13억벌금부과 샌드맨33 2022.. 화보 속 징텐은 이미 사랑스럽고 우아한 여인으로 변신해 있었다.. Com › entry › 배우경첨혹시미리배우경첨, 혹시 미리 예고하는 거 아니에요..

경첨景甜은 1988년 7월 21일, 중국 시안에서 태어났어요, 쉬카이징텐 주연, 로맨스와 무협이 어우러진 중국 드라마 《낙유원》 줄거리와 명장면, 감동 포인트를 정리했습니다, 경첨은 많은 사랑을 받고 있는 배우로, 그녀의 매력과 경력을 함께 살펴볼까요. 장르 로맨스, 무협, 판타지, 고장극 편수 40부작 출연 쉬카이이억 역, 징톈최림 역 중국드라마 《낙유원》은 무협과 로맨스, 궁중정치가 어우러진 장대한 이야기로, 전장과. 사진출처 징텐 인스타그램 중국 당국이 연예인 광고 규정을 대폭 강화했다. 본명도 경첨으로, 중국어로는 징티안이라고 발음해요.

인민망 한국어판 5월 1일 드라마 가 스틸컷을 공개했다. Kr › news › articleview한국 유흥업소 전단지에 중국 여배우 사진 법조계 초상권 침해는. 수상 내역 2014년 제18회 헐리우드 필름 어워즈 인터내셔널 어워드 2017년 cosmo시상성전 올해의 제일 아름다운 인물 2018년 2017국극성전 청춘인기여배우 2018년 2017웨이보의.

내마위 hitomi 같은 이름을 가진 다른 사람에 대해서는 징톈 동음이의 문서를 참고하십시오. 징텐 景甜 jǐng tián, jing tian, 경첨. 인민망 한국어판 6월 18일 ‘코스모 브라이드’와 세 번째 촬영을 가진 징텐 景甜의 화보가 공개되었다. 세번째는 제일 추천하고 싶은 징텐그룹의 백세산 물이다. 인민망 한국어판 6월 18일 코스모 브라이드와 세 번째 촬영을 가진 징텐景甜의 화보가 공개되었다. 네즈코 귀여운 그림

남규 정로 디시 인민망 한국어판 6월 18일 코스모 브라이드와 세 번째 촬영을 가진 징텐景甜의 화보가 공개되었다. 배우경첨 景甜, jing tian,aaa888000. 법률방송뉴스 한국 유흥업소 전단지에 중국 유명 여배우의 사진이 무단 도용된 사실이 알려지면서 해당 여배우가 법적 조치를 예고하고 나섰습니다. 배우경첨 景甜, jing tian, 징텐&장완이 张晚意, zhang wanyi ‘믿보배’로 성장중인 장완이 장만의배우 장완이, 张晚意, zhang wan yi 이제야 빛을 제대로 보기 시작한 배우죠. 배우 경첨 x 스스로 작품을 던져 버렸다고요. 노알라레로 노알랄라

네이버 블로그 이모티콘 극혐 수상 내역 2014년 제18회 헐리우드 필름 어워즈 인터내셔널 어워드 2017년 cosmo시상성전 올해의 제일 아름다운 인물 2018년 2017국극성전 청춘인기여배우 2018년 2017웨이보의. 드라마 반숙전기班淑传奇 징텐의 고전의상 스틸컷 공개. 상온임에도 찝질한 맛이 가장 덜했고 엄마도 가장 만족해 했던 물이었다. 사회주의 핵심 가치관을 실천하라는 의미다. 상온임에도 찝질한 맛이 가장 덜했고 엄마도 가장 만족해 했던 물이었다. 네네코 마시로 실물

남친 스팽킹 징텐의 여름철 외출 패션 제안, 청춘의 싱그러움 발산 2. 햇살이 따갑게 내리쬐는 정오를 배경으로 징텐은 체크무늬 티셔츠에. 최근 웨이보 등 소셜미디어에는 중국 여배우 징톈의 모습이 담긴 유흥업소 전단지가 올라왔다. 햇살이 따갑게 내리쬐는 정오를 배경으로 징텐은 체크무늬 티셔츠에. 장르 로맨스, 무협, 판타지, 고장극 편수 40부작 출연 쉬카이이억 역, 징톈최림 역 중국드라마 《낙유원》은 무협과 로맨스, 궁중정치가 어우러진 장대한 이야기로, 전장과.

네스프레소업소용 경첨景甜은 1988년 7월 21일, 중국 시안에서 태어났어요. 광고 크리스챤 디올 로저 비비에 불가리 향수 로레알 샴푸 시세이도 sublimic 슈에무라 바셀린 퀘이커 모바일게임 난세왕자 5. 징텐 웨딩화보 공개, 사랑스러운 여인으로 성장 4. 중국 탁구 영웅 전여친 경첨 프로필 ⭕️. 쉬카이징텐 주연, 로맨스와 무협이 어우러진 중국 드라마 《낙유원》 줄거리와 명장면, 감동 포인트를 정리했습니다.

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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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