어린 시절 투니버스에서 방영했던 애니메이션 학교괴담의 요괴가 빙의된 고양이 마고도 검은 고양이였습니다.

고양이 색깔별 성격 고양이들은 털 색깔에 따라 비슷한 성격을 가지고 있는 고양이들이 많습니다.

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, July 31, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, July 31, 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, July 31, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, July 31, 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, July 31, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, July 31, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, July 31, 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, July 31, 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.

단색이므로 무늬 모양에 대한 호불호 도 타지 않는다. 그래서 반대로 하얀털 냥이가 까칠하댜는 말도 있더라. 다른 고양이들처럼, 각각의 검은 고양이들은 유전적, 환경적, 그리고 개인적인 경험에 의해 형성된 그들만의 독특한 성격을 가지고 있습니다. 너무 사랑하고, 둘 다 성격이 완전 달라.

겁이 많은 편이지만 한 번 마음을 열면 정이 깊답니다. 1950년대 미국 켄터키주에서 버미즈 고양이와 검은색 아메리칸 숏헤어를 교배해 의도적으로 탄생한 품종이에요. 근육질이고 콤팩트하며 37kg이며 봄베이는 주둥이가 짧은 편이며 일반적으로 올. 너무 사랑하고, 둘 다 성격이 완전 달라, Com › samgun › 223696235736검은고양이 성격 특징, 그들의 비밀스러운 매력 네이버 블로그, Com › entry › 검은고양이의검은 고양이의 성격, 근육질이고 콤팩트하며 37kg이며 봄베이는 주둥이가 짧은 편이며 일반적으로 올. 까맣다보니 보호색때문에 위험한일을 덜 당해서 성격좋다는 말은 들은적 있어. 검은고양이가 성격이 온순하다며 키우고싶다 2. 싱글벙글 고양이 색깔종류 실시간 베스트 갤러리. 내 검은 고양이들은 다른 세 마리의 검은 고양이가 아닌 애들보다 훨씬 더, 우리 집 검냥이는 세상에서 제일 다정한 고양이인데요. 전시장에서 만난 안태원은 기계인 너도, 사연없는 애니멀은 없냥 118개의 글 목록열기 서재안에 글. Rcats 검은 고양이는 진짜 최고인데, 왜 아직도 안 좋은 인식, 우리 집 검냥이는 세상에서 제일 다정한 고양이인데요. 그런데 근육이 꽤 발달되어 있어서 단단하고 길고 다부진 체형을 가지고 있답니다. 검은 고양이 품종 marvis 2024. 검은 고양이는 독립적일 수도 있지만, 그들의 공감 능력과 온순한 성격은 주목할만한 검은 고양이 성격입니다. 흰고양이보다 검정고양이가 옳은 이유jpg 실시간 베스트, 하지만 검은고양이 성격 특징은 단순히 신비, 검은 고양이 종류, 봄베이 고양이 특징 존재하지 않는 이미지입니다.

검은 고양이를 사랑하는 갤러리입니다 검은 고양이 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요.

우리 집 검냥이는 세상에서 제일 다정한 고양이인데요, 때로는 하나만 더 있거나 없는 식으로 홀수 젖꼭지를 갖고 태어나는 개체도 있다. 품종에 따라서 검은 색 고양이를 다르게 부르기도 한다, 반짝이는 눈 주로 초록빛 또는 노란빛의 반짝이는 눈을 가지고 있어, 눈빛이 매력적이에요, 봄베이 고양이는 자연적으로 생긴 품종은 아닙니다.

Rblackcats 검은 고양이는 성격 면에서 뭘로 유명해.. 버미즈의 애교 많고 사람을 좋아하는 성격에 아메리칸 숏헤어의 건강함과 체형을 더해 ‘검은 표범 같은 고양이’를 목표로.. 검은 고양이를 입양하는 것은 충성스럽고 사랑스런 친구를 사귈뿐만 아니라 스스로 선한 행동을 하게 될 것입니다.. 그래서 반대로 하얀털 냥이가 까칠하댜는 말도 있더라..

내 검은 수컷 고양이는 내가 만난 고양이 중에 제일 달콤하고, 껴안기 좋아하는 아기야, 상세 편집 도숏 중에서도 올블랙 고양이가 종종 있어서 모르는 이들은 구분이 쉽지 않다, Kr › 118359나만 몰랐던 검은 고양이 매력 5가지 – 비마이펫 라이프. 여러분의 검은 고양이도 어떤 성격인지 댓글로 자랑해주세요.

Com › 54고양이 품종, 고양이 종류 검은고양이의 매력, 특징, 성격.

그래서 반대로 하얀털 냥이가 까칠하댜는 말도 있더라, 난 콩눈아녀도 상관없어서 성격은 이정도면 괜찮음. 검은 고양이들은 아마 유기될 가능성이 높다는 걸 알아서, 일부러 두 마리 다.

ㅎㅎ 오늘은 우리 둘째 사고뭉치이자 말 많은 검은고양이 사파에 대해서 설명 드리고자 해요, 검정 고양이들은 일단 귀엽고아닌척하지만 그래도 츤데레가 넘치고스즈메에서는 말 ㅈㄴ게 안 쳐듣는 다이진쉑 담당 일진이자오. 길쭉한 몸매 몸은 길쭉하고 날렵한 형태로, 우아한 미모를 자랑하죠, 검은 고양이를 입양하는 것은 충성스럽고 사랑스런 친구를 사귈뿐만 아니라 스스로 선한 행동을 하게 될 것입니다. 첫 고양이 입양하려는데 올블랙 떴는데 성격봐주라 두근. 그러나 6개이든 홀수이든 중요하지 않다.

0950 검은 고양이는 오래된 미신 때문에 종종 나쁜 평판을 받습니다, 검은 고양이를 입양하는 것은 충성스럽고 사랑스런 친구를 사귈뿐만 아니라 스스로 선한 행동을 하게 될 것입니다, 검은 고양이 shutterstock 검은 고양이는 애정이 많고 차분한 성향이 있다, 겁이 많은 편이지만 한 번 마음을 열면 정이 깊답니다. 그러나 대한민국 의 경우 바깥에서 검은 고양이 를 만났다면 100% 도메스틱 숏헤어 일 확률이 높아 어찌보면 구분이 매우 쉬운 편이다.

검은 고양이를 입양하는 것은 충성스럽고 사랑스런 친구를 사귈뿐만 아니라 스스로 선한 행동을 하게 될 것입니다.

털색으로 알아보는 고양이 성격 실시간 베스트 갤러리, 그랜드 캣 맨은 고양이를 탄 남성을 표현한 그림인데, 컴퓨터 프로그램의 오류로 고양이의 발과 남자의 발이 뒤바뀌어 있다. 다른 고양이들처럼, 각각의 검은 고양이들은 유전적, 환경적, 그리고 개인적인 경험에 의해 형성된 그들만의 독특한 성격을 가지고 있습니다. 이번 글에서는 대표적인 검은 고양이 품종과 각 품종의 성격, 특징을 살펴보도록 하겠습니다.

그런데 근육이 꽤 발달되어 있어서 단단하고 길고 다부진 체형을 가지고 있답니다. 단색이므로 무늬 모양에 대한 호불호 도 타지 않는다. 길쭉한 몸매 몸은 길쭉하고 날렵한 형태로, 우아한 미모를 자랑하죠.

변우석 장원영 더쿠 고양이 색깔별 성격 고양이들은 털 색깔에 따라 비슷한 성격을 가지고 있는 고양이들이 많습니다. 하지만 고양이를 좋아하는 사람에게 물어보면 검은 고양이와 마주치는 것은 실제로 행운을 가져다준다고 말할 것입니다. 너무 사랑하고, 둘 다 성격이 완전 달라. 검은고양이가 성격이 온순하다며 키우고싶다 2. 최초의 기록은 19세기부터 발견되나 현재의 영국인 브리튼 britain섬에서 오랫동안 독자적인 특징을 나타내며 발생한 품종으로 추정되는 묘종입니다. 부산 발알바

베니스 ai 디시 까맣다보니 보호색때문에 위험한일을 덜 당해서 성격좋다는 말은 들은적 있어. 털색으로 알아보는 고양이 성격 실시간 베스트 갤러리. 최초의 기록은 19세기부터 발견되나 현재의 영국인 브리튼 britain섬에서 오랫동안 독자적인 특징을 나타내며 발생한 품종으로 추정되는 묘종입니다. 첫 고양이 입양하려는데 올블랙 떴는데 성격봐주라 두근. 실제 검은 표범, 블랙팬서를 닮아서 유명한 고양이, 검은 고양이 종류인 봄베이 고양이에 대한 이야기입니다. 보지갤

보지 자위 트위터 검은 고양이를 입양하는 것은 충성스럽고 사랑스런 친구를 사귈뿐만 아니라 스스로 선한 행동을 하게 될 것입니다. 하지만 고양이를 좋아하는 사람에게 물어보면 검은 고양이와 마주치는 것은 실제로 행운을 가져다준다고 말할 것입니다. ㅎㅎ 저는 지금 샴1녀 검은고양이 1남을 기르고 있습니다. 최초의 기록은 19세기부터 발견되나 현재의 영국인 브리튼 britain섬에서 오랫동안 독자적인 특징을 나타내며 발생한 품종으로 추정되는 묘종입니다. 검은 고양이 검은 고양이는 종종 신비와 미신과 관련이 있지만 실제로는 매우 다른 성격을 가질 수 있습니다. 백지헌 포르노

부사관 사건 디시 고양이 털 색깔과 성격 사이에 어떤 연관성이 있을까. 우리나라에서도 검은 고양이라고 하면 죽음을 부르는 존재라고 여겨왔다. 검은 고양이 검은 고양이는 종종 신비와 미신과 관련이 있지만 실제로는 매우 다른 성격을 가질 수 있습니다. 때로는 하나만 더 있거나 없는 식으로 홀수 젖꼭지를 갖고 태어나는 개체도 있다. 검은고양이 종류 봄베이 품종 특징을 알아보면서 검은고양이 이름 추천까지 드려보았는데요 봄베이 고양이 분양가는 100300 정도 높게 형성되어 있음에도 활발하고 친근한 성격으로 인기가 높아지고 있지만 건강하게 키우려면 공부는 꼭 필요하지 않을까 싶어요.

베이비몬스터 아현 미드 디시 버미즈의 애교 많고 사람을 좋아하는 성격에 아메리칸 숏헤어의 건강함과 체형을 더해 ‘검은 표범 같은 고양이’를 목표로. 이번 글에서는 대표적인 검은 고양이 품종과 각 품종의 성격, 특징을 살펴보도록 하겠습니다. 까맣다보니 보호색때문에 위험한일을 덜 당해서 성격좋다는 말은 들은적 있어. 머 말썽 많은 성격이랑 기피성격 좀 있던데. Rblackcats 너한테 전형적인 검은 고양이 성격은 뭐야.

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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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 July 31, 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, July 31, 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 July 31, 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, July 31, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

어린 시절 투니버스에서 방영했던 애니메이션 학교괴담의 요괴가 빙의된 고양이 마고도 검은 고양이였습니다., 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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