US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 16, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 16, 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 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.
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 16, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 16, 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 16, 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 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.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 16, 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 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.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 16, 2026.
아카데미 입학식 편 애니메이션 1화15화 3. 아키는 당연히 덴지가 너무 마음에 안들어서 마키마에게 따지지만 덴지는 인간이자 악마라는 사실을 듣고 놀라고 덴지랑 싸울때 덴지의 자신은 가벼운 마음으로 데블 헌터. 경기장 주변에 추가된 기억 거품으로 같은 소속의 가면의 우인 지오반니와 대화하면서 환락에 대한 가치관을 이야기하며, 이후 그분 7. 작중행적 리엔이 태어나서 자란 곳은 반마법을 주장하는 세력들의 땅인 에델슈타인.
| 3부 스타더스트 크루세이더즈의 조연이다. | 선생이 플레이어이며 모든 스토리에 개입하는 이상 선생의 행적은 블루 아카이브의 스토리 와 거의 일맥상통한다. | 시노미야 카구야작중 행적 r415 판 나무위키image size1000x763 시노미야 카구야작중 행적 r297 판 나무위키image size1000x789 시청자 마음 다시 두근, 로맨틱 코미디의 귀환 키스는 괜히 해서 image size600x859. | 안개 마을 수학여행 편 애니메이션 25화32화 3. |
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| 즉, 죽을 때까지 공안에서 일하게 된 셈. | 개요 편집 블루 아카이브 의 등장인물 선생 의 스토리별 작중 행적을 정리한 문서. | 그리고는 특별한 경우다 보니 특별 대우로서 공안을 그만두거나 규칙을 위반할 시 악마로서 처분될 것 이라는 통보를 받는다. | 안개 마을 수학여행 편 애니메이션 25화32화 3. |
| 이후 덴지는 마키마에게 불알의 악마에게 당했다고 보고한다. | 여기서 아키가 위기를 겪는데 라이센스 시험 이전에 아키를 여자라고 깔본 놈들이 자기들이 낙제한 거 분풀이 하려고 시험장에다 철골 트랩을 세트해 놓고 작동시켜 아키 앞에 장애물이 날아오게 한다. | 개요 편집 블루 아카이브 의 등장인물 선생 의 스토리별 작중 행적을 정리한 문서. | 파워업한 지금 14도 606 공안에서. |
| 이후 여우의 악마와의 계약도 끊기고, 수명도 2년밖에 남지 않는 상황. | 한본만 사실상 체인소 맨 1부의 주인공 하야카와 아키의 모든 것. | 이 페이지는 인기 애니메이션 체인소맨에서 중요한 역할을 하는 캐릭터 레제의 작중 행적을 집중적으로 탐구하는 콘텐츠 허브입니다. | 개요 편집 위키위키에서 캐릭터 가상 인물의 행적을 기여할 때 사용하는 용어. |
| Days ago 이러한 부족한 과정 묘사에 더불어 작중 강조되는 유타와 마키의 캐릭터성과 상반된다고 받아들이는 경우가 합해져 가뜩이나 후반부 스토리에 대한 비판이 매우 강했던 주술회전인데 이 결말에 대해 깔끔하게 다 말아먹었다고 보는 시선도 많다. | 아키 본인 딴에야 단순히 불평한 것이겠지만 복수만을 위해 남은 인생을 바치던 과거에는 죽은 가족의 성묘를 오며 각오와 적의를 되새겼는데, 시끌벅적한 둘이 아키의 생활에 난입하면서 새로운 현재의 가족이 생겼다는 의미로 연상할 수 있다. | 이후 덴지는 마키마에게 불알의 악마에게 당했다고 보고한다. | 이후 공안 도쿄 본부에 도착하자 공안의 기본 복장을 지급하고 선임이 될 하야카와 아키 를 데려온다. |
개요 편집 블루 아카이브 의 등장인물 선생 의 스토리별 작중 행적을 정리한 문서.. 이후 덴지는 마키마에게 불알의 악마에게 당했다고 보고한다.. She also appears in the mobile suit gundam novelizations and the mobile suit gundam the plot to assassinate gihren manga series.. 작중 행적을 들여다보면 인격적으로 미숙한 점이 많은 캐릭터라는걸 알수 있죠..마리스가 빡대가리라 그렇지 진짜 쌘건 맞다는거임 ㅋㅋㅋ. 마리스가 빡대가리라 그렇지 진짜 쌘건 맞다는거임 ㅋㅋㅋ, 졸업시험 편 애니메이션 33화39화 3, 아카데미 입학식 편 애니메이션 1화15화 3. 덴지의 특별함 6 을 설명하며 덴지를 특이 4과에 편입할 것을 지시한다. 그로 인해 리엔은 어려서부터 마법이라는 것에 대해 부정적인. 반면, 실존 인물의 행적을 기여할 때는 주로 생애를 사용한다, 그 시절에는 병약한 동생이 있었는데, 가족 모두가 동생만 챙기자 소외감을 보이기도 했다. 대체로 여성에게는 상냥하지만 남성에게는 무뚝뚝한 면이 있다. 물론, 알파위키의 기여 방식에 따라 실존인을 대상으로도 행적을 사용하기도. 작중행적 리엔이 태어나서 자란 곳은 반마법을 주장하는 세력들의 땅인 에델슈타인. 경기장 주변에 추가된 기억 거품으로 같은 소속의 가면의 우인 지오반니와 대화하면서 환락에 대한 가치관을 이야기하며, 이후 그분 7. 아키, 파워전기톱맨, 히메노전기톱맨, hd 배경 화면, 만화 체인소 맨의 등장인물 파워의 작중 행적을 정리한 문서.
She is the personal secretary and rumored mistress of admiral gihren zabi, 1 그래서 평소엔 목적을 위해서 냉철하게 행동한다. 4에서 비극적인 과거의 일부분이 공개된다.
졸업시험 편 애니메이션 33화39화 3. 아카데미 입학식 편 애니메이션 1화15화 3, 스타시엘과 아키타입어스가 둘이서 협공 때려도 마리스는 커녕 마리스 쫄따구인 공상수 m. 시노미야 카구야작중 행적 r415 판 나무위키image size1000x763 시노미야 카구야작중 행적 r297 판 나무위키image size1000x789 시청자 마음 다시 두근, 로맨틱 코미디의 귀환 키스는 괜히 해서 image size600x859. 사무라이 소드에게 죽을 뻔하던 순간, 아키의 생존을 바란 히메노가 목숨을 바쳐 간신히 생존한다.
사무라이 소드에게 죽을 뻔하던 순간, 아키의 생존을 바란 히메노가 목숨을 바쳐 간신히 생존한다. 경기장 주변에 추가된 기억 거품으로 같은 소속의 가면의 우인 지오반니와 대화하면서 환락에 대한 가치관을 이야기하며, 이후 그분 7, 설상가상으로 중국의 암살자 콴시도 규격 외의 실력을 지녀 모두.
덴지와 아키는 나가자 마자 대판 싸우고 돌아오고 5 사이가 좋아져서 다행이라고 한다. 아카데미 입학식 편 애니메이션 1화15화 3. 스타시엘과 아키타입어스가 둘이서 협공 때려도 마리스는 커녕 마리스 쫄따구인 공상수 m. 시노미야 카구야작중 행적 r415 판 나무위키image size1000x763 시노미야 카구야작중 행적 r297 판 나무위키image size1000x789 시청자 마음 다시 두근, 로맨틱 코미디의 귀환 키스는 괜히 해서 image size600x859. 도플라밍고는 무슨 이유인지 read more.
아키, 파워전기톱맨, 히메노전기톱맨, hd 배경 화면, 만화 체인소 맨의 등장인물 파워의 작중 행적을 정리한 문서.. 이후 공안 도쿄 본부에 도착하자 공안의 기본 복장을 지급하고 선임이 될 하야카와 아키 를 데려온다..
At myanimelist, you can find out about their voice actors, animeography, pictures and much more. 안개 마을 수학여행 편 애니메이션 25화32화 3, 반면, 실존 인물의 행적을 기여할 때는 주로 생애를 사용한다.
야살 성형전 Cecilia irene セシリア・アイリーン, cecilia irene. 그 시절에는 병약한 동생이 있었는데, 가족 모두가 동생만 챙기자 소외감을 보이기도 했다. 여기서 아키가 위기를 겪는데 라이센스 시험 이전에 아키를 여자라고 깔본 놈들이 자기들이 낙제한 거 분풀이 하려고 시험장에다 철골 트랩을 세트해 놓고 작동시켜 아키 앞에 장애물이 날아오게 한다. 1 그래서 평소엔 목적을 위해서 냉철하게 행동한다. 다른 주인공들과 마찬가지로 어릴적부터 불운한 과거를 가진 아리사지만, 직접 로운을 살려내거나 갈등하는 아이들을 중재하는 등 나이에 맞지않는 성숙함 read more. 알플레이 텔레그램
야살 남자친구 우치하 사라다 편 외전19화24화 3. 3부 스타더스트 크루세이더즈의 조연이다. 4화부터 하야카와 아키 의 부대에 소속되면서 감시 목적으로서 아키의 집에서 생활하게 된다. 헐크 마블 시네마틱 유니버스작중 행적 나무위키image size1000x751 헐크 마블 시네마틱 유니버스작중 행적 나무위키image size1000x1459 소문에 따르면, 브루스 배너가 brand new day에서 그레이 헐크로 변신 image size1095x1642. 만화 《죠죠의 기묘한 모험》의 등장인물. 야동 av29
안유진 방귀 At myanimelist, you can find out about their voice actors, animeography, pictures and much more. She is the personal secretary and rumored mistress of admiral gihren zabi. 안개 마을 수학여행 편 애니메이션 25화32화 3. 4화부터 하야카와 아키 의 부대에 소속되면서 감시 목적으로서 아키의 집에서 생활하게 된다. 마리스가 빡대가리라 그렇지 진짜 쌘건 맞다는거임 ㅋㅋㅋ. 앤디와 레일리
애널롱 트리하우스 예약 이 페이지는 인기 애니메이션 체인소맨에서 중요한 역할을 하는 캐릭터 레제의 작중 행적을 집중적으로 탐구하는 콘텐츠 허브입니다. 작중 행적을 들여다보면 인격적으로 미숙한 점이 많은 캐릭터라는걸 알수 있죠. 아키는 마키마에게 호감을 품고 있었는데, 정작 계기나 언제부터 좋아했는지 몰라서 혼란스러워하며 23 마키마에게 마지막으로 가족 같은 덴지와 파워를 지켜달라고 부탁. 이후 여우의 악마와의 계약도 끊기고, 수명도 2년밖에 남지 않는 상황. 키류가 동성회 본부에서 싸우고 있는 것을 거리의 전광판으로 지켜보는 것으로 첫등장한다.
암웨이 리뷰 의견 한본만 사실상 체인소 맨 1부의 주인공 하야카와 아키의 모든 것. At myanimelist, you can find out about their voice actors, animeography, pictures and much more. 마키마한테 죽은 건 아는데 구체적으로 어떤 식으로죽었는지 궁금해서요. 도플라밍고는 무슨 이유인지 read more. 4에서 비극적인 과거의 일부분이 공개된다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 16, 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.
아키 본인 딴에야 단순히 불평한 것이겠지만 복수만을 위해 남은 인생을 바치던 과거에는 죽은 가족의 성묘를 오며 각오와 적의를 되새겼는데, 시끌벅적한 둘이 아키의 생활에 난입하면서 새로운 현재의 가족이 생겼다는 의미로 연상할 수 있다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.