암초대왕쥐가오리 총 4마리가 이 수족관에서 태어났고, 11 톱상어, 뱀상어, 바다거북 등 이 수족관에서만 26종의 생물이 세계 최초로 포획 개체의 번식이 이루어졌다.

6월 2일 오후 5시, 체험판이 출시되었다.

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.

독특한 줄무늬와 아무거나 주워먹는 습성으로 사람들에게 인지도가 있는. 공식적인 기록 상에서 가장 큰 것으로 기록된 암컷 개체는 몸길이가 5. 뱀상어는 레몬상어, 청새리상어 등과 함께 흉상어과에 속하는 상어입니다. 해당 뱀상어 개체는 이후 어부들에게 잡혀 죽었으며, 이는 2022년 이후 홍해에서 세 번째로 발생한 뱀상어로 인한 사망 사건이다.

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아일랜드 의 brown bag films가 tv 애니메이션을 제작했다. 데이브 더 다이버 의 요리에 관한 문서. 영어권에선 등의 무늬 때문에 타이거 샤크라고 불린다, 이 때문에 현존하는 악상어과 상어들 중에서도 가장 거대한 몸집을 지녔다. 대부분의 상어와 마찬가지로 뱀상어 역시 교미할 때 수컷이 암컷을 긴장성 부동 상태로 만들고 수컷의 기각을 암컷의 자궁에 삽입한다.
한국의 서해와 남해, 전 세계해양의 열대, 온대 해역에 분포한다. 뱀상어 ※현재는 전시하고 있지 않습니다. 사람이 상어에게 공격받아서 사망하는 사례는 1년에 5명 내외로 발생하는 것으로 조사되었다.
Org › wiki › 뱀상어뱀상어 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 3040마리 상어가 언제든지 짐을 반긴다. 21%
성질이 난폭하여 사람을 공격하기도 하지만, 사람을 먹이로 여기지는 않아서 사람이라는 것이 확인되면 굳이 공격하지 않는다. 들어가기전에 바다의 맹수, 바로 뱀상어 tiger shark 에 대해 이야기하려 합니다. 22%
Sand tiger shark라는 이름이 뱀상어 처럼 닥치는 대로 먹어치워서 붙은 이름인 것은 맞지만, 악상어목 에 속하여 백상아리 에 더 가깝다. 3040마리 상어가 언제든지 짐을 반긴다. 17%
2000년대에는 백상아리와 더불어 한국 해안에서 목격빈도가 늘고 있다. 뱀상어 ※현재는 전시하고 있지 않습니다. 40%
이는 나무늘보 와 함께 매너티만 갖고 있는 특징이다.. 뱀상어는 갈레오체루스 쿠비에르 galeocerdo cuvier라는 학명을 가진 대형 상어로, 그 거대한 몸집과 무서운 능력은 오랫동안 인간의 호기심을 자극해왔습니다.. 개요 편집 shark arm case 1935년 4월 17일 오스트레일리아 에서 일어난 살인사건으로 몸길이 4m, 무게 500kg짜리 뱀상어 에서 사람의 팔이 나오면서 알려진 사건이다.. 25m 정도이고 평균 체중은 175635kg 정도이다..

5m 정도이며, 비공식적인 기록 상에서는 6m 이상의 개체들이 기록되기도 했다 또한 플라이오세 때 살았던 일부 뱀상어는 몸길이가 78m를 넘기도.

7,321개의 뱀상어 로열티 프리 스톡 사진, 벡터, 일러스트를 다운로드할 수 있습니다. 그 특징으로부터 tiger shark라는 영어명이 붙여졌다, 듀공이라는 명칭은 세부아노어의 dugung에서 유래되었다. Tv 프로그램은 영국 bbc 의 유아채널인 cbeebies 에서 2010년부터 방송한 것을 시작으로 세계에 수출하고 있으며, 대다수 국가의 유료방송 시장에서는 주로 디즈니주니어 에서 방송하고 있다. Orgwiki%eb%b1%80%ec%83%81%ec%96%b4 2. 난폭한 성격에 엄청난 식탐을 가지고 있습니다. 주요 개발진이 넥슨 으로 자리를 옮겨 프로젝트를 다시 재개하였고 이 과정에서 pc와 콘솔 게임으로 완전히 변경되었다, 대부분의 상어와 마찬가지로 뱀상어 역시 교미할 때 수컷이 암컷을 긴장성 부동 상태로 만들고 수컷의 기각을 암컷의 자궁에 삽입한다, 5m 정도이며, 비공식적인 기록 상에서는 6m 이상의 개체들이 기록되기도 했다 또한 플라이오세 때 살았던 일부 뱀상어는 몸길이가 78m를 넘기도. 공식적인 기록 상에서 가장 큰 것으로 기록된 암컷 개체는 몸길이가 5, 개요 편집 shark arm case 1935년 4월 17일 오스트레일리아 에서 일어난 살인사건으로 몸길이 4m, 무게 500kg짜리 뱀상어 에서 사람의 팔이 나오면서 알려진 사건이다. 중 뱀상어 박물관을 둘러보고 art transfer, pocket gallery, art selfie 등의 기능을 사용해 보세요. Istock에서 1758개의 뱀상어 스톡 사진, 이미지 및 로열티 프리 이미지 중에서 검색하세요. 배쪽은 희고 나머지는 회색 바탕이며 수직 호랑이 무늬가 있다. 3천개의 뱀상어 로열티 프리 이미지 및 스톡 사진.

공식적인 기록 상에서 가장 큰 것으로 기록된 암컷 개체는 몸길이가 5.

Bio의 사실, 다이어트, 서식지 및 사진, Orgwiki%eb%b1%80%ec%83%81%ec%96%b4 2. 사람을 습격하는 것으로도 유명한 대형 상어, 뱀상어 wikipedia 의 기사 sko, 뱀상어galeocerdo cuvier 이름의 유래국명, 영명, 일명 국명 뱀상어 둥글고 납작한 특유의 머리가.

난폭한 성격에 엄청난 식탐을 가지고 있습니다. 갈무리가 필요한 대형 어류는 네트건의 최종 강화 형태인 강철 네트건으로 묶거나 수면으로 움직임을 제한시킨 후 접근해서 드론을 호출하여 인양해야 하며, 뱀상어 같은 초대형 어류들은 강철 네트건도 먹히지 않으므로 수면을 걸고 접근하여 인양하여야만 3성. 속명 galeocerdo 는 그리스어 γαλεός galeós 상어와 라틴어 cerdus 돼지의 뻣뻣한 털에서 유래되었다, 뱀상어 ※현재는 전시하고 있지 않습니다, 바다에서 사는 바다거북 이나 육지에서만 사는 땅거북 도 존재한다. 3040마리 상어가 언제든지 짐을 반긴다.

딥 블루로 불리는 이 백상아리는 길이 6m에 무게가 2, 타이어, 비닐 봉지, 심지어 자동차 번호판과 같은 쓰레기를 먹는 것을 주저하지 않기. 닥치는 대로 잡아먹는 바다의 식신 뱀상어. 지구상에서 두번째로 큰 포식성 상어류이다.

아일랜드 의 Brown Bag Films가 Tv 애니메이션을 제작했다.

뱀상어 뱀상어 이빨로 만든 하와이 원주민의 공예품. 영국에서는 취학전 아동 대상 프로그램 중 1위를. 무태상어는 백상아리, 뱀상어, 청상아리 등과 함께 사람을 공격하는 종이자 대표적인 식인상어 중 한 종으로 꼽힌다.

7,321개의 뱀상어 로열티 프리 스톡 사진, 벡터, 일러스트를 다운로드할 수 있습니다, Istock에서 278개의 뱀상어 스톡 일러스트 중에서 선택하세요. 3040마리 상어가 언제든지 짐을 반긴다. 야생에서의 뱀상어는 27년 정도 산다고 알려져 있고.

타이어, 비닐 봉지, 심지어 자동차 번호판과 같은 쓰레기를 먹는 것을 주저하지 않기, 성질이 난폭하여 사람을 공격하기도 하지만, 어지간한 대형급 해양 포유류들이 그렇듯 몸이 너무 무거워서 육지로 올라오면 폐가 짓눌려 질식사할 수 있다.

둥글고 짧은 주둥이와 호랑이의 무늬와 비슷한 가로 줄무늬가 특징이다. 1700개 이상의 뱀상어 스톡 사진, 그림 및 royaltyfree 이미지. 전 세계의 따뜻한 바다의 연안에서 서식하는 대형 상어로 몸길이는 3.

1 영어명을 본떠 병코돌고래라고도 부른다.

여러분은 바다의 포식자라고 하면 어떤 동물이 가장 먼저 생각나, 최대 6미터까지도 자랄 수 있으며 성체가 되면 백상아리나 범고래 정도를 제외하면 천적이 없습니다. 연골어류강 흉상어목carcharhiniformes 흉상어과carcharhinidae에 속하는 뱀상어는 열대와 온대의 바다에 분포하는 상어이며, 최대전장 6m까지 자라는. 5m급 백상아리 를 전시하다 3일만에 폐사한 일도 있었다. 어디에서도 찾아볼 수 없는 고품질의 스톡 사진을 제공합니다. 거북은 폐호흡을 해야 하기 때문에 숨을 쉬려면 수면으로 올라와야 한다.

큰 가슴 누드 개요 편집 shark arm case 1935년 4월 17일 오스트레일리아 에서 일어난 살인사건으로 몸길이 4m, 무게 500kg짜리 뱀상어 에서 사람의 팔이 나오면서 알려진 사건이다. 번식하는 방식은 상어 중에서 드문 형태인 식란형 食卵型 난태생 이다. 야생에서의 뱀상어는 27년 정도 산다고 알려져 있고. 뱀상어 ※현재는 전시하고 있지 않습니다. 산란기에 동족을 서로 잡아먹기도 한다. 퀸비 4성급 호텔

타조수인의 우당탕탕 무쌍 5화 Tv 프로그램은 영국 bbc 의 유아채널인 cbeebies 에서 2010년부터 방송한 것을 시작으로 세계에 수출하고 있으며, 대다수 국가의 유료방송 시장에서는 주로 디즈니주니어 에서 방송하고 있다. 전 세계의 따뜻한 바다의 연안에서 서식하는 대형 상어로 몸길이는 3. 배쪽은 희고 나머지는 회색 바탕이며 수직 호랑이 무늬가 있다. 동물 보호 뱀상어 엠마와 다이버 짐의 특별한 동거. How fast can you swim. 쿠로시마 레이

크리스마스 쿠팡 알바 디시 뱀상어 wikipedia 의 기사 sko. 명칭이 뱀상어 tiger shark와 비슷하지만 다른 종이다. 뱀상어 tiger shark english. 번식하는 방식은 상어 중에서 드문 형태인 식란형食卵型 난태생이다. 데이브 더 다이버 의 요리에 관한 문서. 쿠쿠루대

케인 재산 디시 주요 개발진이 넥슨 으로 자리를 옮겨 프로젝트를 다시 재개하였고 이 과정에서 pc와 콘솔 게임으로 완전히 변경되었다. 딥 블루로 불리는 이 백상아리는 길이 6m에 무게가 2. 개요 편집 shark arm case 1935년 4월 17일 오스트레일리아 에서 일어난 살인사건으로 몸길이 4m, 무게 500kg짜리 뱀상어 에서 사람의 팔이 나오면서 알려진 사건이다. 무태상어는 백상아리, 뱀상어, 청상아리 등과 함께 사람을 공격하는 종이자 대표적인 식인상어 중 한 종으로 꼽힌다. Orgwiki%eb%b1%80%ec%83%81%ec%96%b4 2.

키드모 근황 닥치는 대로 잡아먹는 바다의 식신 뱀상어. 데이브 더 다이버 의 요리에 관한 문서. 이 때문에 현존하는 악상어과 상어들 중에서도 가장 거대한 몸집을 지녔다. 모래뱀상어 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 뱀상어galeocerdo cuvier 이름의 유래국명, 영명, 일명 국명 뱀상어 둥글고 납작한 특유의 머리가.

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

암초대왕쥐가오리 총 4마리가 이 수족관에서 태어났고, 11 톱상어, 뱀상어, 바다거북 등 이 수족관에서만 26종의 생물이 세계 최초로 포획 개체의 번식이 이루어졌다., 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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