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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 17, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 17, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 17, 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 17, 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.

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이렇게 몽환적인 빛망울 사진 보케사진찍는 법을 알려드렸어요 이제 보케사진을 좀더 재미있게 찍는 방법을 알려드릴께요. Com › tongwon › poststongwon tak 아름다운동해 장노출로보는풍경 20260126일 그제. Dslr의 렌즈 앞에 간단히 필터를 씌우는 것으로 효과를 줄 수 있답니다.

동사 보케루 暈ける에서 비롯한 명사 형태로서 6 여러 의미와 뉘앙스가 있다.

연말 연시 또는 크리스마스 조명은 몽환적인 축제 분위기를 담은 사진을 찍는 데 적합하며, 보케를 마스터하는 것은 사진을 돋보이게 만드는 최고의 방법입니다. 보케를 최대한 많이 크게 선명하게 찍고 싶다면 망원렌즈에 조리개 값을 낮춰서 조리개를 크게 열고 피사체에 최대한 가까이에서 촬영하면 됩니다. 8로 촬영하면 배경 흐림이 향상된다는 것을 이해하지만 조리개 블레이드의 수와 모양도 중요합니다. 보케 예제 사진 보케영어 bokeh는 사진에서 초점이 맞지 않은. 그리고 회오리 보케 cats eye effect 발생 원리 회오리 보케에 대해 설명 하기에 앞서 보케 bokeh 란 무엇인지 부터 간단하게 설명 드리겠습니다. 보케를 이용한 감성 사진을 찍으려면 다음 조건을 갖추는 것이 좋다. 보케를 이용한 감성 사진을 찍으려면 다음 조건을 갖추는 것이 좋다. 3m의 놀라운 근접 촬영 성능을 자랑하는 조셉 펫츠발 27mm f1. 2308 이웃추가 소니 미러리스 사용 법 4탄은 보케 촬영하기 자 동 모드에서 슬슬 벗어나기 시작했다면 다양한 사진 기술이 궁금. 연계된 과정은 한국콘텐츠아카데미 온라인교육 정규과정 영상촬영기본 입니다. 일반적인 촬영 방법 중에서 이번에는 보케사진에 대하여 한번 알아보겠습니다, 보케란 위의 사진같이 빛망울이 맺힌것을 말하는데요. 보케bokeh는 사진에서 초점이 맞지 않은 부분의 흐려짐 또는 그 흐려짐의 미학적인 양상이다, 연말 연시 또는 크리스마스 조명은 몽환적인 축제 분위기를 담은 사진을 찍는 데 적합하며, 보케를 마스터하는 것은 사진을 돋보이게 만드는 최고의 방법입니다.

7 아트 렌즈는 1840년 오리지널 광학 설계를 풀프레임 미러리스 카메라에 맞게 새롭게 재해석한 제품입니다.

다음 내용을 숙지하면 보케사진 잘 찍는법 3분만에 배우기를 통해 익힐수 있다, 이러한 효과를 보케bokeh라고 부르며, 피사체를 강조하고 사진에 감성적인 분위기를 더해줍니다. Com › ggogomzoo › 221541621596소니 알파 꿈에 그리던 사진을 찍다 매크로&보케 세미나 투어. 보케 효과를 최대한 이끌어내기 위한 촬영방법에 대헤서 알아보도록 하겠습니다. 그렇지만 약간의 테크닉으로 그럴듯하게 구현을 해볼 수도 있습니다.
보케 효과의 정의와 카메라에서 또는 premiere를 사용한 편집 과정에서 영상에 보케를 추가하는 방법을 알아보세요.. 사진의 감성을 더하는 마법, 보케 bokeh 현상 🌟 사진에서 빛망울이 예쁘게 번지는 보케는 어떻게 만들어질까요..

보케란 out fucusing으로 촬영 시 피사체를 중심으로 가장자리로 발생하는 착란원 모양을 말하며, 이렇게 몽환적인 빛망울 사진 보케사진찍는 법을 알려드렸어요 이제 보케사진을 좀더 재미있게 찍는 방법을 알려드릴께요. 휴대폰카메라의 자동촬영방법에서 이렇게 수동으로 빛을 맞추어 찍으려니 어렵긴한데요. 흐린 배경 대비 피사체가 강조되면서 집중도가.

배경이 흐리게 나와서 초점이 맞는 부분만 선명하게 나오는 것을 좋아 하기도 한다. 보케bokeh의 정확한 발음 일반적으로, 보케를 활용한 사진을 보케 효과가 있다고 표현할 수 있습니다, 연계된 과정은 한국콘텐츠아카데미 온라인교육 정규과정 영상촬영기본 입니다.

나도 많이 헤매고 있지만 먼저 야간에 인물사진 보케 촬영 경험한 자로서 몇마디 공유하고자한다. 표준렌즈, 줌렌즈보다 단렌즈가 보케 효과가 좋다. 동사 보케루 暈ける에서 비롯한 명사 형태로서 6 여러 의미와 뉘앙스가 있다.
특히 점광원이나 강조된 빛이 표현되는 방식에서 두드러지지만, 사실상 사진 전반에 걸쳐 나타나는 현상입니다. 네이버 블로그 공지 목록 공지글 글 제목 작성일 5 공지 dslr 수강생들의 태어나서 처음 찍어보는 dslr 사진. 그렇지만 약간의 테크닉으로 그럴듯하게 구현을 해볼 수도 있습니다.
작가의 촬영 노하우 추운 겨울, 따뜻한 감성 담은 빛망울 &. 이 글에서는 보케 효과를 활용해 부드러운 배경을 만들고 감성적인 사진을 연출하는 방법을. 수동초점으로 초점이 조명에 맞지 않게 조절해서 촬영한다.
박작가 사진공간 137 창원시 북면 투우 리얼한 사진, 소싸움사진. 그래도 예쁜 사진에 감동하고 또 감동하네요. P,m, a모드 다 가능하지만 a모드를 추천한다.
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Com › ggogomzoo › 221541621596소니 알파 꿈에 그리던 사진을 찍다 매크로&보케 세미나 투어. 바로 빛망울보케를 만들어서 담는 것입니다, 영화 촬영 기법 보케‘보케 도구 찾기’ 👈‘보케 관련 정보’ 👈‘보케 실전.

보케 효과로 사진의 배경을 흐리게 하여 매력적이고 프로페셔널한 이미지를 만들어 보세요.

연말 연시 또는 크리스마스 조명은 몽환적인 축제 분위기를 담은 사진을 찍는 데 적합하며, 보케를 마스터하는 것은 사진을 돋보이게 만드는 최고의 방법입니다. 보케를 이용한 감성 사진을 찍으려면 다음 조건을 갖추는 것이 좋다, 1시간 30분의 설명 1시간의 촬영 보케 30분매크로 30분 기타 30분 이런 구성의 행사였다, 보케 사진 잘 찍는법 크리스마스 트리 사진 이쁘게 찍어요, 일반적인 촬영 방법 중에서 이번에는 보케사진에 대하여 한번 알아보겠습니다.

보케 ぼけ boke, bokeh, 아웃포커싱, 인포커싱, 팬포커싱의 의미, 보케 촬영 방법과 팁 홋카이도 삿포로시 조잔케이 루미나리에 보케 촬영 네이버 블로그 나의취미사진 86개의 글 목록열기, 카메라 렌즈의 크기에 맞춰 두꺼운 종이를 원형으로 자릅니다, 보케 사진 잘 찍는법 크리스마스 트리 사진 이쁘게 찍어요. 1000제트맥프로_블랙매직디퓨젼14제트맥프로_내추럴나이트필터니시렌즈클로즈업렌즈마이어렌즈비오타트리오플란프리모플란보케렌즈레오포토방진방수삼각대아테나la_324c볼해드lh_40r니시필터스와코리아포토프로덕츠의협찬으로촬영하였습 니다. 보케를 이용한 감성 사진을 찍으려면 다음 조건을 갖추는 것이 좋다, 보케 bokeh를 활용한 사진표현의 이해와 촬영방법.

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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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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